Monroe Cty 911 :.Chuck Simmins | October 31, 2008
The project serves two purposes: to provide better visibility for Marines who occupy an observation post on the road and to make the area look more normal for the local Iraqis, said Staff Sgt. Bryan Spencer, platoon sergeant, Operations Platoon, Engineer Company, CLB-5.
“We’re going all the way down this road to get rid of all the berms and get it looking nice again,” said Spencer, from Texarkana, Texas.
Chuck Simmins | October 31, 2008
Australian Maj. David Bergman, Mine Action Center officer in charge, and U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Jayson Blunck, MAC operations non-commissioned officer, stand with village elders over a tunnel that allows Coyote Creek to run under the flightline at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2008. The elders were invited to the base to examine the status of the creek, which causes simultaneous floods and droughts in nearby villages.
Chuck Simmins | October 31, 2008
The folks in Dallas got an early Halloween treat today when two earthquakes rattled the city.
Chuck Simmins | October 31, 2008
Insurgents began using the region as a transit area and the community could do little to prosper, but coalition forces and Iraqi security forces have recently had success in rooting them out.
“The security provided by the Iraqi army battalion and Iraqi police in the Tri-Cities has laid the foundation for real progress,” said Gunnery Sgt. Jayson Franco, 4th Platoon commander with Mobile Assault Company, Task Force 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 1, and security adviser to Iraqi security forces in the area.
Chuck Simmins | October 30, 2008
I think — well, one of the things that I was able to do was to go in and to talk with some of the — some of the rebel leaders.
Chuck Simmins | October 30, 2008
“I’m so pleased; our kids aren’t able to go many places because of the security situation. I am so pleased that we have such a park in our neighborhood,” said Aum Achmed, who was there with her daughter and a niece. “It’s important for every kid to have a place to go to.”
Chuck Simmins | October 30, 2008
Renovations to a government office building to improve services offered to residents of Muhallahbiyah, a village outside of Mosul, are scheduled to be completed Oct. 31.
Chuck Simmins | October 30, 2008
A former nurse in Vietnam has been recalling the time she treated one of the men now running for the White House, John McCain, after his plane was shot down during the Vietnam war.
Chuck Simmins | October 30, 2008
Residents in a southern Iraqi city will soon receive more drinking water thanks to the efforts of three women with remarkable stories.
In Fadiliya, the community of 10,000 people currently receives only 60 percent of its water needs from existing infrastructure. A new 200-cubic-meter-per-hour treatment facility is under construction and expected to be complete by the end of the year.
Chuck Simmins | October 29, 2008
Carol Anne Burger killed her former lover by stabbing her 222 times with a Phillips-head screwdriver and then took pains to hide her crime, police said Wednesday.
Chuck Simmins | October 29, 2008
The humanitarian catastrophe in the eastern Congo seems to be reaching a climax, one of the many over the last fifty years.
The Congolese Army has fled from a rebel advance. The UN is using what forces it has, including helicopter gunships, to slow the rebels, Tutsis.
Chuck Simmins | October 29, 2008
Here is a list of poll closing times for 2008, by time and state. All times are Eastern Standard. Some states have multiple closing times based on time zone or local option.
