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Two sentenced in drug deal that led to servicemember’s death

By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, September 9, 2009

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — Two U.S. soldiers who were involved in a drug deal in which a third soldier later died of an overdose were sentenced to prison and discharged from the military in separate trials at Camp Humphreys, the Army said Tuesday.

Retired Colonel Eyed in Iraq Fraud Case

September 09, 2009, as reported on Military.com, from the Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are searching for suspicious transactions in the personal bank records of a retired Army colonel who ran the contracting office in Baghdad during the early stages of Iraq’s $125 billion reconstruction.

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Can deadly ‘Trust’ game be stopped?

By Trista Talton – Staff writer, Air Force Times, Monday Sep 7, 2009 11:05:41 EDT

It wasn’t so different from other nights. Outside it was cold and wet. Inside, quarters were close, but they were comfortable enough. The half dozen or so Marines sharing the small wooden hooch at Combat Outpost Viking in Saqlaweiyah, Iraq, were killing time, watching movies and cracking jokes shortly before midnight March 9.

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Sailor sentenced to 10 years in shooting

By Andrew Tilghman – Staff writer, Navy Times.
Posted : Friday Sep 4, 2009 17:02:14 EDT

A Virginia sailor who claimed he didn’t know his gun was loaded when he fatally shot his girlfriend in the head was sentenced to 10 years in prison Aug. 31.

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Darren Mackie, 22, was sentenced in a Newport News courtroom.

Sanford to head to Fla. for reserve duty

Associated Press, as reported in the Post & Courier, Friday, August 14, 2009

COLUMBIA — Gov. Mark Sanford is going to Florida this weekend, but not on vacation. He’s slated to don his Air Force uniform for a stint in the Air Force Reserves.

Camp Lejeune Marine pleads guilty to taking funds from contractor, September 04, 2009 11:58 AM, AMANDA HICKEY

A 26-year Camp Lejeune Marine master gunnery sergeant pleaded guilty during court-martial proceedings to taking money from three contractors while deployed to Iraq in 2005, according to Marine officials.

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Ex-soldier gets 5 life sentences Iraqi deaths

September 17, 2009
The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue A Look at 2008 and October 2009 Terms
10:30 am – 7:00 pm, Cato Conference

To celebrate Constitution Day and the publication of the eighth volume of the annual Cato Supreme Court Review.

DC Conference on the SCOTUS certiorari process

The Yale Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic and The Yale Law Journal Online, the forthcoming online platform of The Yale Law Journal, will host a half-day conference, "Important Questions of Federal Law": Assessing the Supreme Court’s Case Selection Process, on September 18, 2009, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The conference will consider the nature and causes of changes in the Supreme Court’s docket in recent years, as well as suggestions for reform of the certiorari process. The conference is made possible by the generous support of the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund.

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