Marine Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Wilson, 28, Bay Area; killed in an explosion (Los Angeles Times)
Playing soccer and hockey and riding astride 1,500-pound snorting, raging bulls helped prepare Stephen J. Wilson for the Marine Corps. So when he came to his mother in his senior year of high school and asked her to sign the papers allowing him to join the Marines at age 17, she wasn't surprised. She signed.
Port plans for expansion (San Diego Union-Tribune)
SAN DIEGO, July 16 (UNION-TRIBUNE): Major changes to the San Diego Bay marine and cargo terminals are on the horizon, as port officials try to boost the region's already robust maritime business through 2030.
Virginia Aquarium vet tells creatures to say 'Ahh' (The Virginian-Pilot)
An odd growth on Timor's neck meant a little bit of plastic surgery was in order. Dr. Bob George - an expert when it comes to providing health care to cranky turtles - was poised to handle the situation. . . .
Novelist William Styron Dies At 81 (CBS News)
William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose explorations of the darkest corners of the human mind and experience were charged by his own near-suicidal demons, died Wednesday on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He was 81.
Event pays tribute to those who sacrificed (The Register-Herald)
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” — John 15:13
Robert Duvall: The Cowboy Tango (CBS News)
With "Broken Trail," Robert Duvall continues his support of the Western as an American genre. But as CBS News Sunday Morning correspondent Rita Braver discovered, he has other passions, too.
Music, Machines: Station Marine shines in local rock band (United States Marines)
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. (July 13, 2007) -- The song was "Master of Puppets" by Metallica.
Even as loved ones fight on, war doubts arise in U.S. (International Herald Tribune)
Faced with longer deployments and growing death tolls, morale is eroding among military families. Pentagon officials say resistance from families is a major recruiting obstacle, as memberships grow in anti-war groups that represent the active military and veterans.
July 2007 (Watertown Daily Times)
Debra L. Linke, 40, of Watertown, died Saturday, July 14, 2007, at Watertown Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Pederson Funeral Home in Watertown with the Rev. Stephen P. Savides officiating. Burial will be in Glenview Memorial Gardens, Ixonia.
White House Blocks Ship Speed Limits Meant to Protect Whales (Environment News Service)
WASHINGTON, DC , July 16, 2007 (ENS) - A government plan for ship speed limits to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales is being held up by White House officials due to opposition by foreign shipping interests, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER, a national organization of workers in natural resource agencies.
Playing soccer and hockey and riding astride 1,500-pound snorting, raging bulls helped prepare Stephen J. Wilson for the Marine Corps. So when he came to his mother in his senior year of high school and asked her to sign the papers allowing him to join the Marines at age 17, she wasn't surprised. She signed.
Port plans for expansion (San Diego Union-Tribune)
SAN DIEGO, July 16 (UNION-TRIBUNE): Major changes to the San Diego Bay marine and cargo terminals are on the horizon, as port officials try to boost the region's already robust maritime business through 2030.
Virginia Aquarium vet tells creatures to say 'Ahh' (The Virginian-Pilot)
An odd growth on Timor's neck meant a little bit of plastic surgery was in order. Dr. Bob George - an expert when it comes to providing health care to cranky turtles - was poised to handle the situation. . . .
Novelist William Styron Dies At 81 (CBS News)
William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose explorations of the darkest corners of the human mind and experience were charged by his own near-suicidal demons, died Wednesday on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He was 81.
Event pays tribute to those who sacrificed (The Register-Herald)
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” — John 15:13
Robert Duvall: The Cowboy Tango (CBS News)
With "Broken Trail," Robert Duvall continues his support of the Western as an American genre. But as CBS News Sunday Morning correspondent Rita Braver discovered, he has other passions, too.
Music, Machines: Station Marine shines in local rock band (United States Marines)
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. (July 13, 2007) -- The song was "Master of Puppets" by Metallica.
Even as loved ones fight on, war doubts arise in U.S. (International Herald Tribune)
Faced with longer deployments and growing death tolls, morale is eroding among military families. Pentagon officials say resistance from families is a major recruiting obstacle, as memberships grow in anti-war groups that represent the active military and veterans.
July 2007 (Watertown Daily Times)
Debra L. Linke, 40, of Watertown, died Saturday, July 14, 2007, at Watertown Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Pederson Funeral Home in Watertown with the Rev. Stephen P. Savides officiating. Burial will be in Glenview Memorial Gardens, Ixonia.
White House Blocks Ship Speed Limits Meant to Protect Whales (Environment News Service)
WASHINGTON, DC , July 16, 2007 (ENS) - A government plan for ship speed limits to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales is being held up by White House officials due to opposition by foreign shipping interests, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER, a national organization of workers in natural resource agencies.