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...Walla Walla, Washington, is so young that he called 29-year-old Sergeant Kyle Childress "Grandpa." "He always took care of me," says Salter, who lost two fingers when his platoon burst into a bombmaker's house near Samarra one night and was met with a torrent of machine-gun fire. As Childress fell, Salter emptied his M-4 rifle into the dark. The return fire raked his chest; his life was saved by his bulletproof vest. "For 48 hours after that, I was a train wreck, dumbfounded," he says, weeping softly in his four-bed hospital room. In many...
...went out for cigarettes. That's my favorite detail of the story told by Ashley Smith. It was not a noble calling; it wasn't even a noble errand. But the craving for nicotine at 2 o'clock in the morning apparently led Smith into the loaded gun of one Brian Nichols, a man who was wanted for raping one woman and murdering another woman and three men. According to Smith, Nichols forced her into her apartment, tied her up, put her in the bathtub and told her, "I'm not going to hurt you if you just do what...
cross between an Old Irish drinking hall and the inside of a ship (The Asgard was a boat used by Irish nationalist gun runners). The bartenders are friendly, the lighting is comfortable, and there’s a performance space that will be taken up by Celtic rock band One Side on the 17th. But be warned: The Asgard feels like a chain restaurant, with Irish accessories that might fool a Yank but would...
...resident of Belmont stated that two black suspects robbed him while armed with a gun and also beat him with the gun. Taken from the resident were $800 cash, a cell phone, and a black jacket...
...mayoral candidates to logging magnates to crime bosses-are often eager to win over the local press or silence it. "When you are a journalist living practically on starvation level," Espina-Varona explains, "and you are faced with a fat envelope of cash on the one hand, or a gun on the other, you're going to take the easy way out." Says Sheila Coronel, executive director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism: "There is a lot of corruption, so much so that the public suspects that when a journalist attacks someone, it is because he is being paid...