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Sexual assaults are up at Naval Academy – or are they?
Reports of sexual assaults at the Naval Academy doubled last year, the fourth straight year the number has increased, according to the Defense Department.
But do the findings of the Pentagon report on sexual harassment and assaults mean that such...Tags: Sexual Misconduct, United States Naval Academy, Health and Safety at School, Sex Crimes, Sex Crimes
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Airman from Westminster is killed in Afghanistan
A 24-year-old airman from Westminster was killed when an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle in Afghanistan, the Defense Department said Saturday. Airman 1st Class Matthew R. Seidler died Thursday in the attack, which killed two other airmen....Tags: Transportation Accidents, Facebook, Air and Space Accidents, Chris Crawford, Trips and Vacations
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Protesters target Ocean City event over speaker's anti-Muslim remarks
Protesters are pressuring Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan to shun a prayer breakfast that features a former high-ranking Army officer who has made anti-Muslim remarks. Leaders of People for the American Way, a left-leaning advocacy group based in...Tags: Public Officials, Religious Conflicts, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Somalia, Civil Rights
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Naval Academy grad killed in Afghanistan
A 2006 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Thursday, the Marine Corps has confirmed. The 27-year-old was one of six Marines who died in the accident. The Pentagon identified him as Marine Corps Capt....Tags: Bill Clinton, National Security, Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, United States Naval Academy
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'Bugsplat': the civilian toll of war
"The Lakotah had no language for insulting other orders of existence: pest, waste, weed ..."
But what about "bugsplat"?
That's the word for the cop at UC Davis, walking up and down the line of students sitting with their arms locked, zapping them in the...Tags: University of California, Davis, Iraq, Computer Science, Afghanistan, Central Intelligence Agency
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Foreign aid keeps us safe
Now that the so-called supercommittee has failed in its task to find $1.2 trillion in budget cuts over the next decade, if Congress does not manage to reach a deal before 2013, across-the-board cuts will be implemented. These cuts would hit the military...Tags: National Security, World War II (1939-1945), Guerrilla Activity, Al-Qaeda, Iraq
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Wednesday
WEATHER
Today's forecast calls for sunny skies, a high temperature around 45 degrees and west winds between 16 and 25 miles per hour, gusting as high as 39 miles per hour. The low temperature is expected to be around 31 degrees with mostly clear skies...Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, American Football Conference, United States Naval Academy, NFL Pro Bowl, Baltimore Ravens
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Saluting the rapists: America's culture of silence on sex
Remember that awkward silence that fell across the nation back in '94 when Bill Clinton's surgeon general used the M-word?
Jocelyn Elders, speaking at an AIDS conference at the U.N. about reducing the risk of sexually transmitted disease, said that...Tags: AIDS, Rape, Abusive Behavior, Masturbation, Criminals
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Sexual assault reports double at the Naval Academy
The number of sexual assaults reported at the Naval Academy doubled during the 2010-2011 academic year, as did the percentage of female midshipmen reporting unwanted sexual contact, according to a report released Tuesday by the Defense Department. The...Tags: Sexual Misconduct, United States Naval Academy, Sex Crimes, West Point, Leon Panetta
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Team leader says she warned supervisors about Manning
A former team leader of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning testified Tuesday that she told superiors on several occasions that Manning should not be allowed to handle classified information or be sent to Iraq, but her warnings apparently went unheeded. Manning,...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Iraq, Witnesses, Afghanistan, U.S. Department of State
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Manning investigators found huge trove of war reports — and a boast
Army investigators found nearly half a million field reports from Iraq and Afghanistan on a computer memory card among the belongings of Pfc. Bradley Manning, with a note suggesting that an unnamed recipient "sit on this information" while deciding how...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Iraq, Police Investigations, Witnesses, Afghanistan
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Defense bill includes Md. projects
A massive, $662 billion defense measure that authorizes hundreds of millions of dollars in spending on Maryland's military facilities cleared a final vote in the Senate Thursday and now heads to President Barack Obama, who is expected to sign it into law....Tags: National Security, Democratic Party, Benjamin L. Cardin, U.S. Senate, White House
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