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Has Rosie O'Donnell gone from being just another vociferous media liberal to a full-blown 9-11 conspiracy theorist? It would appear so. Have a look at Rosie's recent blog entry, wherein she serves up an array of controlled-demolition eccentricity. Turns out, according to O'Donnell, 9-11 was all a big plot to do away with FBI and other investigative files on Smith Barney, WorldCom and . . . Enron. What, no Halliburton? H/t reader M.R. Writes Rosie: For the third time in history fire brought down a steel building reducing it to rubble. Hold on folks here we go. The fires in...

<p>The owner of a Virginia business that supplies bomb-sniffing dogs was fined $708,000 yesterday and sentenced to 6½ years in prison for marketing ill-trained dogs and handlers to government agencies after the September 11 attacks.</p> <p>Russell Lee Ebersole, 43, of Hagerstown, Md., was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria in March after his dogs and their handlers failed to detect more than 100 pounds of explosives hidden during a field test.</p>

<p>ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A dog trainer was convicted Friday of contracting defective bomb-sniffing dogs to the federal government. Russell Lee Ebersole, 43, of Hagerstown, Md., is the owner of a Virginia business that trains dogs to detect drugs and explosives. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he charged various government agencies more than $700,000 for the use of his dogs.</p>