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Looking for a place to grow marijuana and live, rent-free, in a cave with all the creature comforts of home? Why not a canyon, tucked away within the 40 square miles of the nation's top-secret nuclear weapons research facility in Los Alamos? That's where Roy Michael Moore, 56, was recently discovered living in a cave equipped with a glass front door, a wood stove, a bed, electricity-generating solar panels with batteries to store the power, and lights. "From the campsite that I saw, he had been there quite a long time," said Los Alamos deputy fire chief Doug Tucker. "He...

The Phonak cycling team has revealed that a 'B' sample from Olympic gold medal cycling champion Tyler Hamilton had tested positive.Phonak confirmed the second sample of a test taken during the Tour of Spain had failed doping regulations.The team said it was still waiting for the B sample results from the Olympic Games in Athens, and believed it would be negative. Phonak said it was setting up a scientific panel to investigate the tests and said they would not sack Hamilton until 'clarity' was achieved.Hamilton is the first person to be found to have tested positive for blood doping-when athletes...

NORTH PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - A police chase ended when a Long Island motorist drove into a backyard pond and tried to smoke a crack pipe just before his car sank, police said. Officers tried to stop Yasyn Abdul-Mattin, 32, after seeing him driving erratically at about 12:16 a.m. Friday, Suffolk County Police said. Instead of pulling over, Abdul-Mattin took off and went up a private driveway, continuing into a backyard pond, police said in a news release. Police said Abdul-Mattin refused to get out of the car and tried to light a crack pipe instead. Just before the car sank,...

Standoff in Texas Town Ends With Two Dead, One Officer Critically Injured Angela K. Brown/Associated Press Jun 18, 2004 GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) - A gunman in a van in a Wal-Mart parking lot killed one police officer and critically wounded another Friday, prompting an hours-long standoff that trapped customers in the store for hours before the attacker was found dead. Sgt. Gregory Hunter, 54, was fatally shot Friday morning as he and another officer, Bruce Seix, checked on a blue camper-style van that had been parked all night with its engine running, said police spokesman John Brimmer. Hunter went...

Breaking on Fox news right now; Blue van found & thought to have been abandoned in lot. 2 officers approached it & were shot. Both survived, with one being airlifted to a nearby hospital. Other officers & the SWAT team have surrounded the vehicle.

In recent days administration officials have warned the nation about possible terrorist attacks, subjecting us once again to color-coded threat charts and puzzling admonitions to go about our lives as usual. The message is clear: grave danger surrounds us, but ordinary citizens should do nothing and trust the government take care of it. But the obvious lesson of September 11th is that government cannot protect us. Even with trillions of tax dollars spent on “defense,” hijacked planes flew unchallenged over our skies and attacked national symbols of business and government. Yet now we’re told to put even more faith into...

I caught this on ESPN News while channel surfing. Lewis is charged with Federal Drug crimes. Don't know what exactly.