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On a mild spring evening in northern Iraq, Staff Sgt. Martin K. Richburg sat in a flatbed truck parked outside the Internet cafe on base and called his wife back in Baltimore. As Richburg, 44, spoke on his cell phone, he saw an Iraqi civilian place a blue bag atop the cafe's air conditioner and take off running. Richburg drew his 9 mm pistol, chased down the man and prodded the truth from him: The bag contained a bomb. Richburg cleared the cafe where soldiers checked their e-mail, and a few minutes later a blast destroyed the building.

Family home of J.W. Booth too pricey for preservationists Lincoln assassin's early residence available for about $1 million By Justin Fenton Sun reporter Originally published March 2, 2006 When the family home of Abraham Lincoln's assassin was put up for auction in 1999, preservationists and prospective buyers found that the Gothic home had an appearance to match its ill-fated past: The porch was falling apart. The paint was peeling from the cracking walls. The property was in disarray. The fate of the home, many feared, was also in danger. Historians, actors and local officials teamed up to make a play...

It was exactly one week ago today that police in the nation's capital arrested Cindy Sheehan, the diva of the anti-war movement, and carted her off with scores of other protesters demonstrating in front of the White House. About a week earlier, the peripatetic Sheehan was in Baltimore, speaking to a group of anti-war protesters at the Johns Hopkins University. Before that, she spent nearly a month ensconced in front of President Bush's Texas home, demanding that he see her and give her an explanation for the war in Iraq.