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<p>Air Force Unveils Name of Future Stealth Bomber as B-21 'Raider'.</p> <p>AFA 2016 B-21 Naming Ceremony Raider was selected as the name of the Long Range Strike-Bomber, or LRS-B, by leaders after the service launched a survey of service members.</p>

A Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that California can take $2 billion from local redevelopment agencies for state budget relief, avoiding for now a pitfall that had threatened to exacerbate the state deficit. California redevelopment agencies are likely to appeal the decision. But state leaders breathed a sigh of relief after Judge Lloyd G. Connelly, a former assemblyman, upheld their 2009 budget plan to reduce the state's burden by using redevelopment funds to pay for local education obligations.

BAQUBA, Iraq (Army News Service, Dec. 28, 2007) -- Tribal leaders of Khalis and Hibhib in Diyala province held a reconciliation meeting at the Governance Center here Dec. 27. The meeting marked the end of Operation Raider Reaper, a month-long campaign conducted by the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division and several companies of the Iraqi Army 5th Division. The focus of the operation was to clear al-Qaida and insurgents from Diyala province. The meeting focused on keeping the peace post-Raider Reaper, ending sectarian violence and finding a means to bring displaced families back to their homes. Every...

U.S. soldiers at Camp Taji, Iraq, move excess vehicles, or stay-behinds, to a commercial transportation company, which will transport them to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. The vehicles will be repaired, refitted and redistributed to Reserve and National Guard units in the United States. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Brent Hunt Raider Brigade Turns In Excess Equipment Because the equipment is no longer used, maintaining the equipment toArmy standards requires valuable resources that could be used in the fight. By U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brent Hunt 1st Brigade Combat Team 4th Infantry Division CAMP TAJI, Iraq, April 4, 2006 —...

MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT SAN DIEGO, Calif. (May 20, 2005) -- Four depot sergeants in dress blues came to the bedside of a dying Marine Raider Monday afternoon at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, Chula Vista, Calif. Color guard members Sgts. Machel M. Messias, Edgar I. Villa, Koami Fedy and Alejandro F. Galvez went to the center to fulfill the dying wish of Wallace Reid. Reid, who now has several life-threatening medical issues, has lived at the Veterans Home of California, near the center since 2001. Known as paratroopers of the sea, the Raiders were an elite World War II...

Corporate shareholders meetings are often quiet, tame events. But the battle for control of the biggest player in home video rental has turned into a real blockbuster. And the outcome could shape how you watch the latest Hollywood movies at home -- and how much it costs you.

Oakland -- Testimony in the Bill Romanowski beating trial concluded here Wednesday after the linebacker's former teammate, Jerry Rice, told jurors that he did not approve of Romanowski smashing the face and ending the career of Marcus Williams during a practice drill. "No, I wouldn't condone that at all. That's not what I would do," said Rice, a 20-year NFL veteran and former Raider wide receiver. But on cross examination, Romanowski's attorney, Jeffrey Springer, asked Rice whether he saw the incident that left Williams' left eye socket crushed, ending the 27-year-old's bid to make the Raiders as a special teams...

<p>Tastes Great!! Less Filling!!</p> <p>Raiders fan Steven Smith, left, and Chargers fan Earl Woods get into an argument Wednesday afternoon before parting with a handshake.</p> <p>SAN DIEGO -- This city is welcoming everyone with money to Super Bowl XXXVII -- except Oakland Raiders fans.</p>

A Credit to the Corporate Raider Stuart K. Hayashi The media's exploitation of the 2001 corporate scandals in its hysterical (and popular) campaign to defame businesspeople in general harkens back to another anti-capitalist witch hunt they conducted in the 1980s. That era is now pejoratively dubbed "the Decade of Greed," as it saw the proliferation of honest but controversial characters known as "corporate raiders." "Corporate raiders" are the mavericks who launch "hostile takeovers," trying to take over failing mega-corporations for themselves. (Successful companies have higher stock prices and are thus harder to buy out.) To do this in the...