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Lewiston Maine Police Department released the photo of the mass shooter, Robert Card, late last night. Shooter Robert Card is still at large. There are now reports that Card crossed the Maine state line into Massachusetts. Via Cheryl Fiandaco at CBS Boston. VIDEO AT LINK............ There are also reports that Card could have escaped on a jet ski. Maine police updated their bulletin on Thursday morning – Robert Card is no longer thought to be a firearms instructor. Earlier reporting… The Maine State Police identified Robert Card as a person of interest in a horrifying mass shooting that occurred at...

-At least 22 people have been shot dead in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, and 50-60 people injured at three different locations -Robert Card, a 40-year-old Army reservist and firearms instructor from Bowdoin, is named by police as 'a person of interest': his empty car has been found -They have issued a photo of the suspect entering Sparetime bowling alley at 7:15pm; they were also called to a bar and a Walmart distribution center A massive manhunt is underway in Maine for an Army reserve firearms instructor who was sectioned this summer for mental health reasons, and is suspected...

A military reservist who returned from service in Afghanistan last year was injured along with his family when a bullet from the war exploded. A 25-year-old soldier in Lindenhurst, north of Chicago, was attempting to light a tracer round in his backyard with a blow torch when the ammunition exploded and alarmed residents on his street.

A National Guard reservist has been arrested at the Canadian border in Washington for allegedly trying to aid al-Qaida in a plot to attack a Southland subway. Nicholas Teausant, 20, of Acampo, Calif., was charged Monday with attempting to provide material to support a foregoing terrorist organization, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office said. He made his first appearance in a federal courtroom in Seattle Monday afternoon.

The National Guard reservist charged on Monday with attempting to blow up the Los Angeles subway allegedly possessed terrorist manuals on how to be a “lone wolf” terrorist and was a frequent reader of al Qaeda’s Inspire magazine, which provides tips on how to make and detonate various bombs, according to FBI court documents. The FBI charged Nicholas Teausant, a 20-year-old National Guard reservist, with attempting to help al Qaeda carry out a plot to attack the subway system in Los Angeles. Teausant was a frequent Internet contributor to forums for would-be terrorists and is said to have owned a...

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing a Mountain View company for allegedly firing an Army reservist who had given notice that his unit would be deployed for more than a year. The suit, filed Monday in federal district court, alleges Titan Laboratories Inc. violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994. The act prohibits employers from discriminating against U.S. service members because of their military obligations. It says those who leave their civilian jobs to serve in the military must be re-employed promptly upon their return, subject to certain limitations. According to the Department of Justice's...

SOUTHWEST ASIA, Dec. 1, 2009 – Air Force Master Sgt. Linda Adams has been an elementary school teacher for the past four years. Air Force Master Sgt. Linda Adams, 746th Aircraft Maintenance Unit support section noncommissioned officer in charge, as well as an elementary school teacher, uses a blog to communicate with students in Mississippi during her deployment in Southwest Asia, Nov. 24, 2009. In addition to being an Air Force reservist, Adams is a teacher at Kate Shepard Elementary in Mobile, Ala. She is deployed from Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jason...

TAMPA - A U.S. Marine reservist attacked a visiting Greek Orthodox priest he believed to be a terrorist, Tampa police say. When the priest tried seeking directions from Jasen D. Bruce, 28, of Tampa, on Monday, Bruce struck the priest with a tire iron and chased him. Police say he attacked the Rev. Alexios Marakis, 29, of Crete, Greece, who was visiting St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Tarpon Springs and wound up lost in Tampa. Marakis had performed a blessing of another retired Greek priest in the West Shore area and then accidentally exited Interstate 275 north into downtown...

CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti, July 28, 2009 – Richard Nixon became the 37th president of the United States, gas cost 35 cents per gallon, the New York Mets won the World Series in five games over the Baltimore Orioles, and Catharine Zeta-Jones, Brett Favre, Renee Zellweger and Jennifer Aniston were born. The year was 1969. Army Brig. Gen. Chris Leins, Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa deputy commander, presents Army Sgt. Maj. Samuel Stoner with the Legion of Merit Medal for exceptionally meritorious service during his 40-year career of service, July 21, 2009. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, July 27, 2009 – Tech Sgt. Alyson Angeles-Kimbrell has found in the Air Force Reserve a way to make a big difference in her life and that of many others. Air Force Tech Sgt. Alyson Angeles-Kimbrell spoke at the 2009 League of United Latin American Citizens convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 20, 2009. Angeles-Kimbrell has helped herself and many others through the Air Force Reserve. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Angeles-Kimbrell was here earlier this month to attend the 2009 League of United Latin American Citizens convention on a quest to...

BAGHDAD, May 11, 2009 – Army Sgt. Anne M. Mitchell misses her children in Montana while she’s deployed here, but those her serve with her say she brings her mothering instincts to their unit, 143rd Military Police Detachment. Army Sgt. Anne M. Mitchell misses her children in Montana while she’s deployed in Iraq, but those her serve with her say she brings her mothering instincts to their unit, the 143rd Military Police Detachment, Baghdad, 2009. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Mitchell admits it’s hard being a mother and deployed soldier, but she says it doesn’t...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2008 – Army Sgt. Gregory S. Ruske is quick to call himself an ordinary soldier, but later this month the Army Reserve will single him out for extraordinary heroism in Afghanistan that earned him the Silver Star medal. Army Sgt. Gregory S. Ruske will become the fourth Army Reservist to receive the Silver Star for heroism demonstrated after he and his fellow soldiers were ambushed in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province April 21, 2008. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The 28-year-old Colorado Springs, Colo., native will become the fourth Army reservist to receive the...

Lt. Burke Jensen was called five months ago to serve his country in Kuwait. Now he is being told to get an irrigation system and landscaping on his property as soon as possible or face legal action from the Oak Hill Country Estates Homeowners' Association.KENNEWICK — Burke Jensen moved to Kennewick about a year ago, bought a nice house in the country south of the city and began to settle into a new job at Energy Northwest. Then came the call five months ago to serve his country in Kuwait. So Jensen, who says he is an involuntarily mobilized reservist,...

/begin my translation N. Korea: A Reservist Goes Postal With an Anti-aircraft Gun 01/28/08 People, who heard the story, are snickering at the dead officials who took bribes, saying, "They were killed while gorging on bribe. Must have no regrets." A firearm accident broke out at the firing range for reserve units near Yonpo-ri, Hamju County, S. Hwang-hae Province, N. Korea, putting its military on alert. According to internal sources from N. Korea, on Jan. 18, at the peak of N. Korea's winter training, at a firing range of 7th Corps, a reservist in training for firing an four-barreled...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2007 – When Army Staff Sgt. Jason Fetty put himself between a suicide bomber and the bomber’s intended targets at the grand opening of a new medical facility in Khost, Afghanistan, he wasn’t thinking of the strategic, or even tactical, importance of his actions. Army Staff Sgt. Jason Fetty (center) is the first Army reservist to earn the Silver Star for actions in Afghanistan. With him are Army Command Sgt. Maj. Leon Caffie (left), senior enlisted advisor for the Army Reserve, and Navy Cmdr. John F.G. Wade, commander of Joint Provincial Reconstruction Team Khost, Afghanistan, when...

SIERRA VISTA — At a time when many are wondering when the war will end, a man from this city is headed to what could be considered the front line of Iraq. U.S. Army Reserve Capt. Rob Biron is a nurse with trauma background and 14 months experience handling battlefield casualties in Landstuhl, Germany. In December he will begin a year of providing his services to ordinary people in Iraq. “I’m going to be going into the neighborhoods,” the 46-year-old Biron said. Biron calmly patted the head of his black Labrador retriever, Silky, as he relaxed Tuesday in his home...

A classmate of mine (Marine Reservist) just got his deployment orders, he leave the first week of May.Those of us in class with him want to load him up with a care package but we're kind of worried about over doing it. Since he is a history major like the rest of us in that class we are tempted to load him up with a bunch of historical biographies, etc. but we're afraid that a bunch of books that might come in handy during down time are going to be heavy and a pain to have to drag around, especially...

When they were called up for military service in the wake of 9/11, hundreds of uniformed city workers in the Reserves faced the suspension of their city health and pension benefits. The city offered them an option: it would keep paying their salaries and continue their benefits, but when they returned they would have to repay the city their city salary or their military pay, whichever was less. On its face, the offer made sense. And many reservists had only a few days to get their affairs together before shipping out — hardly enough time to consult accountants. Nearly all...

WASHINGTON--A former U.S. Army Reserve officer from Spotsylvania County admitted yesterday that he steered millions of dollars in Iraq-reconstruction contracts in trade for jewelry, computers, cigars and sexual favors. Bruce D. Hopfengardner, 46, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud. Hopfengardner served as a special adviser to the U.S.-led occupation, recommending funding for projects on law-enforcement facilities in Iraq. He admitted conspiring with Philip H. Bloom, a U.S. citizen with businesses in Romania, Robert J. Stein Jr., a former Defense Department contract official, and others to create a corrupt bidding process that included the theft of...

7/9/2006 - MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. (AFPN) -- A head-on collision on Washington's State Route 101 between Sequim and Port Angeles July 3 brought out the heroism in 12 strangers who stopped to help. One of those heroes was Tech. Sgt. Phillip White, a reservist with the 446th Airlift Wing here. Sergeant White was with his family when a Ford Explorer carrying a family of four crossed the center line of the road and hit a Toyota 4Runner carrying another family of four. "There was no thinking involved, it was just instantaneous -- kids, burning car, get them out,"...