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"Andre Visagie, a top AWB member, said Terreblanche's face had been bludgeoned beyond recognition. He said his group would avenge Terreblanche's death, but he gave no details." "The death of Mr. Terreblanche is a declaration of war by the black community of South Africa to the white community that has been killed for 10 years on end," Visagie said."

November 18, 2009 Marine Corps News|by Sgt. Randall A. Clinton NEW YORK — The oldest living female Marine died on Veterans Day and was buried in the Cypress Hills National Cemetery. Miriam Cohen was one of the oldest females to enlist in 1943, at 35 years old, said Debra Allee, the 101-year-old's niece. Cohen answered her nations calling twice, serving during World War II and the Korean War. Cohen, a graduate of the Girls High School in Brooklyn (since renamed to Boys & Girls High School), moved to Tuscan, Ariz., when she was 92.

SOUTHPORT, England — The last time a golfer did what Greg Norman has a chance to do in the British Open, this name was Old Tom and the American Civil War had recently ended. So it is fitting that here in the land where 100-year-old golf courses are regarded as new, Norman is one step from rewriting his own history, and one of golf’s oldest records.

NAIROBI, Kenya — At a time of drought, skyrocketing food prices, crippling inflation and intensifying street fighting, many of the aid workers whom millions of Somalis depend on for survival are fleeing their posts — or in some cases the country.

Alarmed by the growing financial stress at the nation’s two largest mortgage finance companies, senior Bush administration officials are considering a plan to have the government take over one or both of the companies and place them in a conservatorship if their problems worsen, people briefed about the plan said on Thursday.

GREENVILLE, S.C. --A newspaper in the heart of South Carolina's conservative Upstate region has endorsed John McCain in the Jan. 19 GOP primary. In an editorial published Sunday, The Greenville News cited the Arizona senator's experience with foreign affairs and willingness to work with Democrats to get things. "He understands military strategy and has personal characteristics that would earn him automatic respect from the men and women who wear this country's uniform," the newspaper said in its endorsement. The newspaper said former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney "is an attractive choice for his accomplishments in the business world," but that McCain...

The I-man and the Eye net have finally ironed out their differences. The settlement short-circuits the $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit Don Imus has been threatening in the wake of his April firing for controversial racial and sexual remarks.

Audie Murphy was killed on May 28th, 1971, along with six others, when the private plane he was a passenger in crashed in fog and rain into a mountain near Roanoke, Virginia. He was only forty six years old at the time of his death. Fittingly, he died on Memorial Day weekend. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, near the Amphitheatre, with full military honors. His gravesite is the second most visited one in Arlington, behind only the resting place of John F. Kennedy. Congressional Medal of Honor winners traditionally have their tombstones decorated with gold leaf, but Murphy...

"More than half of the Hurricane Katrina evacuees airlifted into South Carolina have criminal backgrounds, with convictions ranging from petty theft to rape," authorities said."What we don't know about are(evacuees)who have come into the state on their own or who had some church or civic group bring them in" said SLED Chief Robert Stewart.

"NEW YORK: New York Times Co yesterday said it would cut about 4 per cent of its work force, or 500 jobs, and warned that weaker newspaper advertising and rising costs could reduce earnings to less than half of Wall Street forecasts this quarter."

"A bomb has been defused at a police station in County Tyrone. Army technical officers carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious object in Coalisland. Police later said it had been a "viable device"."

"Senator John Kerry, a decorated battle veteran, was courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War. But he was not so courageous more than two decades later, when he covered up voluminous evidence that a significant number of live American prisoners—perhaps hundreds—were never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed in January 1973. In the end, the fact that Senator Kerry covered up crucial evidence as committee chairman didn't seem to bother too many Massachusetts voters when he came up for re-election—or the recent voters in primary states. So I wouldn't predict it will be much of...

‘We must not, out of anger and vengeance, indiscriminately retaliate in ways that bring on even more loss of innocent life.’ — NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES AS PART OF the budding peace offensive, over 1,200 members of the National Council of Churches and a diverse coalition — organized by Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover and Rosa Parks — issued strong statements yesterday noting that, while the attacks’ perpetrators should be brought to justice, wholesale military action would incite more terrorism, not end it. Demonstrations and teach-ins are planned on scores of campuses today, and some of the groups that had ...

Article http://www.msnbc.com/news/606592.asp?0dm=C21VN has Poll asking why active Scout enrollment is down.Query seeks to identify low enrollment is a result of SCUSA decision that allows BSA to establish membership standards.Poll is 3/4 - 4/5 down the article on left side.