Here are your top stories for this Monday, January 16, 2012: – 2 American passengers are among the missing in cruise ship accident – Rick Perry: Marines in video are “kids,” not criminals – Obamas celebrate MLK’s birthday at worship service – Boxing great Ali celebrates 70th birthday bhj

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Here are your top stories for this Friday, January 13, 2012: – U.S. calls Marine video “deplorable” – Mitt Romney campaigns in S.C. – Judge to declare Natalee Holloway legally dead – Rare hummingbird sighting in Chicago winter

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In a story that Blippitt was the first to break yesterday, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has condemned that video showing U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of members of the Taliban, promising to punish those involved. “I have seen the footage, and I find the behavior depicted in it utterly deplorable,” Panetta said in [...]

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Well, this has to be a proud moment for our men in uniform. The United States Marine Corps is launching a full-blown investigation into a video that has surfaced on YouTube showing U.S. Marines in combat gear urinating on several corpses. UPDATE: Leon Panetta calls the video “deplorable.” In the disturbing video below, at least [...]

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Iran’s Revolutionary Court has handed down a death sentence to an American for spying for the CIA, according to the Fars news agency. “Amir Mirza Hekmati was sentenced to death … for cooperating with the hostile country (the United States) and spying for the CIA,” Fars said. “The court found him Corrupt on Earth and [...]

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It was a New Year’s Day tragedy in California after a Navy pilot shot himself in the head after fatally shooting another pilot and two others in a murder-suicide in Coronado, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. Yesterday, the Marine Corps identified the man as Lt. j.g. John Reeves. The Prince Frederick, Maryland [...]

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Here are your top stories for this Saturday, December 31, 2011: – Ron Paul and Mitt Romney: neck-and-neck in Iowa – Arsonist on the loose in Hollywood – Death penalty being considered for girl’s murder – Shot Marine released from hospital

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Talk about a Craigslist deal from hell. Lt. Col. Karl Trenker, a U.S. Marine, is lucky to be alive after being shot four times in an offline transaction gone bad. Using his military training, Trenker plugged his wounds with his own fingers until help arrived. “Thank God that I’m here,” Trenker said from his hospital [...]

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The U.S. Marines have been left with egg on their face after the families of approximately 1,150 fallen soldiers received a Purple Heart Christmas tree ornament in the mail addressed to their deceased loved one. It seems the Marine’s Wounded Warrior Regiment mailed about 9,000 Christmas ornaments last week that had been donated by the [...]

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Today, November 10, 2010, the United States Marine Corps celebrates its 235th birthday, having been born before the U.S. itself was back in 1775. “The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. [...]

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Former U.S. Marine Dashawn Longfellow is dead, having been stabbed in the chest several times by a British kickboxer. Longfellow was on vacation Thailand studying Muay Thai, a form of Thai boxing. Police are now looking for kickboxer Lee Aldhouse, whom they believe tailed the Purple Heart recipient to his hotel and ambushed him. According [...]

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More here: Funny Lists 1. Slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what’s left of your unit.” – Army’s magazine of preventive maintenance 2. “Aim towards the Enemy.” – Instruction printed on U.S. Rocket Launcher 3. “When the pin is pulled, [...]

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