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 A U.S. Army major and two of his family members, accused of taking bribes from Defense Department contractors in 2004 and 2005, have been indicted in federal court.Maj. John Cockerham, a contract officer, and his wife, Melissa Cockerham, are accused of taking stanley website  at least $9.6 million in bribes while Cockerham was stationed in Kuwait and responsible for contracts for Defense Department services, including bottled water for soldiers in Kuwait and Iraq.The Cockerhams were arrested last month at Fort Sam Houston, where the major had been reassigned. His sister, Carolyn Blake, of Sunnyvale, Tex., was arrested at her home on suspicion of helping the couple accept and deposit money in offshore accounts.Maj. Cockerham is accused of guaranteeing that contractors would receive lucrative contracts in exchange for cash deposited in bank accounts and safe deposit boxes by his wife and sister in Kuwait and Dubai.The charges include bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and obstruction. The Cockerhams are being held without bond; Blake was released on bail by a federal court in Dallas last month.        Four unnamed co-conspirators include a personal friend of Cockerham and three contractors doing business with the stanley tumbler  Department of Defense in the Middle E stanley bottle ast. The indictment also seeks the forfeiture of three properties in San Antonio purportedly paid for with proceeds from the conspiracy. In addition to placing orders for goods and services, Cockerham is alleged to have made modifications to exis Tqtg The 15 Worst Batman/Superman Stories Ever Told
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 A federal judge has declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act to be unconstitutional, saying the measure infringes on a woman s right to choose.The ruling applies to the nation s 900 or so Planned Parenthood clinics and their doctors, who perform roughly half of all abortions in the United States.U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton s ruling Tuesday came in one of three lawsuits challenging the legislation President Bush signed last year. The act poses an undue burden on a woman s right to choose an abortion,  she wrote.Federal judges in New York and Nebraska also heard challenges to the law earlier t stanley water bottle his year but have yet to rule. All three judges had temporarily blocked the law s implementation while considering the cases.        President Bush signed the bill in November, saying  a terrible form of violence has been directed against c stanley cup uk hildren who are inches from birth while the law looked the other way. In the banned procedure mdash; known as intact dilation and extraction to doctors, but called partial-birth abortion by opponents mdash; the living fetus stanley termos  is partially removed from the womb, and its skull is punctured or crushed.Justice Department attorneys argued that the procedure is inhumane, causes pain to the fetus, and is never medically necessary.Abortion proponents argued that a woman s health during an abortion is more important than how the fetus is terminated, and that the banned method is often a safer solution that a conventional abortion, in which the fetus i Yxot Escaped Inmate Caught in Colorado
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 WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration took new steps Wednesday to fix problems in the nation s air traffic control system, firing two controllers for sleeping on the job and ordering a higher level of supervision over aircraft carrying the first lady or vice president.The new air traffic rules and the firings come as the FAA struggles to reassure the public that air travel is safe. The agency has been shaken by a series of embarrassing incidents, including five cases of controllers falling asleep on the job, a controller caught watching a DVD movie at his post and an aborted landing this week of a plane carrying Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden s wife, Jill.The controllers fired Wednesday were assigned to radar facilities in Miami and Knoxville, Tenn. They had been f stanley quencher ound sleeping during overnight shifts, according to the FAA, which had disclosed the incidents previously.First lady s aborted landing classified as serious errorUnder the new air traffic rules, flights carrying Mrs. Obama or the vice president will be handled by an air traffic supervisor rather than a controller, the agency said. The new rules apply to approaches and departures handled by a regional air traffic facility in Warrenton, Va., and takeoffs and  stanley cup landings at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where the presidential fleet is based.        Flights with the p stanley website resident on board are already required to be handled by a supervisorAlso on Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board  Qkpe Bus drives off Ohio highway, flips on its side and slides into cornfield; 35 hurt
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 BOSTON - The author of a newspaper column suggesting the devil may be responsible for homosexuality has resigned from his job with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.A spokeswoman for the Roman Catholic bishops said Friday that Daniel Avila offered to step down and his resignation was accepted Friday. Avila had worked on policy and research for the bishops in Washington.What  America s Pope  thinks of gay marriageAvila s column -- titled  Some fundamental questions on same-sex attraction  -- appeared a week ago in  stanley cup The Pilot, the official newspaper of the Archdi stanley thermos ocese of Boston. Avila had written that there s evidence suggesting the devil is responsible for same-sex attraction. Scientific evidence of how same-sex attraction most likely may be created provides a credible basis for a spiritual explanation that indicts the devil,  it said.        It also said  disruptive imbalances in nature that thwart encoded processes point to supernatural actors who, unlike God, do not have the good of persons at heart.  It said that when  natural causes disturb otherwise typical biological development, leading to the personally unchosen beginnings of same-sex attraction, the ultimate responsibility, on a theological level, is and should be imputed to the evil one, not God. Gay rights groups and others condemned the column.The Human Rights Campaign said Thursday it s a shame the archdiocese ran a column ignoring the science about sexual or stanley website ientation.The gay Catholics group DignityUSA says  Ffvz Another Deadly Crane Collapse In NYC
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  CBS News  HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA - For a century, the Titanic has rested in its watery grave more than two miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. This Sunday, the anniversary of the Titanic sinking, the wreckage site on the ocean floor will go under U.N. protection. Paul Henry Nargeolet has been to the Titanic six times.  His company, RMS Titanic Inc., claimed the wreck in court in 1994.  It owns the rights to all of the artifacts on and around the ship.  The company has salvaged more than 5,500 items including plates, money and jewelry. They even raised a 17-ton piece of the Titanic itself. The arti stanley tumblers facts are first cleaned and documented at a lab in Atlanta.  They are then put on display at exhibits, including one in Las Vegas.  RMS Titanic plans to see the collection in a winner-takes-all auction.          Nargeolet says he understands the concerns of family members who feel the sea grave shouldn t be disturbed.  stanley cup usa   But I think it s good to  stanley quencher show to the public what was this tragedy. And that costs a lot of money.  In Halifax, Nova Scotia, the connection to the Titanic is much more personal. 209 bodies of the victims were recovered and brought back to the city. 150 were buried in cemeteries around town.  Each headstone shares the same infamous date. Blair Beed says the maritime city on Canada s eastern coast was the closest major port to the wreck. Halifax sent two boats to recover the dead.  Beed s grandfather worked at the funeral home where the bodies, including one of Jhup Consumer Inflation Remains Flat
 Nike has fired the majority of the team responsible for its FuelBand fitness tracker according to a report from CNET today, which also claims that the company is jettisoning wearable hardware for good. An anonymous source says that roughly 55 employees were let go from Nike   Digital Sport hardware team, which covers industrial design and stanley kaffeebecher  engineering for wearables.     It sounds as though rumblings of the news surfaced on Secret at least a week ago, but CNET cites emails from Nike spokesman Brian Strong, who commented that the company will make changes within the team, and there will be a small number of layoffs. A different, anonymous source says that roughly 80 percent of the wearables team has been cut and the remaining staff have been redistributed to other divisions. As Gizmodo   own Leslie Horn described i stanley thermos mug n a review in November, Nike has struggled with its wearables鈥攂oth the FuelBand in its first iteration and the second generation SE, which left much to be desired. As competition amongst fitness trackers heated up this year, Nike has struggled to keep up with its peers. And with Google and Apple closing in on the same turf, it seems as though Nike is taking the safer road by bowing out of hardware now. But keep in mind that just bec stanley tumbler ause Nike isn ;t making hardware any more doesn ;t mean they ;re completely out of the game.  The company will reportedly continue developing software for wearable devices. Which could mean that if鈥攔e

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 SEATTLE - Seattle police say a fugitive on the run for a litany of crimes is back in custody after being spotted chaperoning his daughter s elementary school field trip.Donald Vasser was featured on  Washington s Most Wanted,  a local law enforcement show in the style of  America s Most Wanted.  It described the 39-year-old man as a  high-violent offender  with more than 20 arrests under his belt.Seattle police spokeswoman Renee stanley cups  Witt said another  stanley cup parent recognized him, and police were called in after the students came back to Lowell Elementary School on Wednesday. Vasser was confronted by a police officer, and after a scuffle, lost his jacket and ran. Officers were unable to find him even though the school was locked down.Vasser agreed to turn himself in later Wednesday after a Department of Corrections official contacted him and his wife by phone, according to CBS affiliate KIRO-TV in Seattle. He surrendered to the King County Jail without  stanley flasche incident later that evening.Schools spokeswoman Teresa Wippel says officials are investigating how Vasser was able to get on the trip. She says that schools run background checks on chaperones.        He had been among the state s top 10 most wanted and was described by a Corrections Department employee as having a  violent dislike for police officers,  according to KIRO.                                                                      ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5          display: none;             inline-recirc-item Psfl Star Wars and Skateboarding Were Meant To Be Together
 This week we have some strange and wonderful time capsule news, including a freshly welded capsule that will travel the world in the Navy   newest aircraft carrier, an 1877 stowaway that spent the last century in  stanley quencher the smoking section, and one county in Kansas that  thanks to a time capsule!  discovered Bank of America owes them $60,000.     U.S. Navy Time Capsule Welded Into Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier It   long been a tradition for ship-builders to place coins in the ships that they 8 stanley mugs 217;re constructing. And this past week the U.S. Navy kept with tradition and welded a small coin-filled time capsule into their latest ship, th stanley mug e USS Gerald R. Ford. The time capsule contains those traditional coins, along with other items like aviator wings from the ships commanding officer and a small piece of the same sandstone that was used to build the White House and U.S. Capitol building. [Washington Post] County in Kansas Sues Bank of America Over $60,000 Bond in Time Capsule Back in 1984, a charity in Kansas purchased $60,000 worth of bonds to benefit a local library in Finney County. Copies of the bonds were put in a time capsule and when it was opened in 2008, county officials discovered that the money was unaccounted for. The county is now suing Bank of America to try to get their money. Garden National Bank handled the original bonds, but after three decades of bank mergers and acquisitions, the county says that Bank of America is now responsible for coming up with

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 Small-scale attacks by al Qaeda using chemical, biological, nuclear or radiological agents are more likely than large attacks that cause mass casualties, the CIA says.In a report describing the means by which terrorists might obtain and use such weapons, the agency said Osama bin Laden s network could easily build a radiological dispersal device, or  dirty bomb,  that could be used to create panic and enormous economic damage, but not mass casualties.The unclassified report was prepared  stanley cup last month by the agency s Directorate of Intelligence as a sort of tutorial for government disaster-response teams on al Qaeda s interest in weapons of mass destruction and the medical aspects of specific chemical and biological agents, CIA sp stanley us okesman Bill Harlow said Tuesday.The report reiterates the assertion that al Qaeda s ultimate goal is the use of chemical, biological, nucle stanley quencher ar or radiological weapons to cause mass casualties. But it makes no claims about recent progress toward that goal. The success of any al Qaeda attack and the number of ensuing casualties would depend on many factors, including the technical expertise of those involved, but most scenarios could cause panic and disruption,  the report said.        The terrorists have considered a wide range of toxic chemicals for attacks, the report said. Typical plots focus on poisoning foods or spreading the agent on surfaces to poison via skin contact, but some also include broader dissemination techniques,  it added.Construction o Xswg Katrina Damage Estimates Now $25B
 Even if Hubble had been a total disaster spewing one crappy image after the other for more than two decades, it  stanley thermobecher would have been worth it just for this single image: a supernova explosion in the galaxy M82, taken on January 31, as it approached peak brightness.     From NASA Goddard: This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion  stanley cup designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At a distance of approximately 11.5 million light-years from Earth it is the closest supernova of its type discovered in the past few decades. [ 823 stanley quencher 0;] Astronomers using a ground-based telescope discovered the explosion on January 21, 2014. This Hubble photograph was taken on January 31, as the supernova approached its peak brightness.  SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook