Jul 13, 2008 | Courier News Online
Today's Birthdays and Today in History: July 7
Today is Monday, July 7, the 189th day of 2008. There are 177 days left in the year.
How Captain Cook Changed the World
Captain James Cook's second voyage to Hawaii would be his last. He was killed at Kealakekua Bay while trying to take a Hawaiian chief hostage.
Two Hearts That Help Make up the Union Movement
What makes the union movement go and grow? It's the rank-and-file men and women who not only go to work every day, where they use their first-rate skills to perform top-flight, quality work, but who also go ...
Corrections and clarifications
In an article about donations to the Conservative party listed in the MPs' register of interests, we said that the shadow Treasury team was receiving financial support from PricewaterhouseCoopers and four other ...
Navy sailors get a star-spangled salute
The men and women stationed on the USS Bataan couldn't celebrate Independence Day with their own families yesterday, but the volunteers of the United Service Organizations New England wanted them to feel at ...
Age really doesn't mean much nowadays
There has been a lot of talk this election year about age, as in young versus old.
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It is important to remember freedom is not free. While these words may sound cliche, we need only think of the thousands of brave men and women who have fought and died to protect our way of life and spread the ...
USS Enterprise should have been saved
I'm saddened thinking that America's most decorated World War II warship, the USS Enterprise, was destroyed by America, not by the 30 Pacific campaigns that earned her 30 Battle Stars, three more than any ...
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US election: Poker player Barack Obama has better odds than dice man John McCain
Barack Obama is winning support for his White House campaign from an unlikely quarter America's poker players.
A soldier has been killed in a firefight in Iraq
A 7.1 billion programme to equip the armed forces with a new computer system is running 18 months behind schedule and 182 million over budget, the Whitehall spending watchdog has warned.
Ten years ago Russia started to dismantle nuclear-powered submarines withdrawn from combat duty.
Sailor delivers aid to storm-ravaged hometown
The supplies of water and rice delivered to residents of the typhoon-ravaged Philippines weren't just a humanitarian gesture but a personal delivery of hope for one sailor aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald ...
To complete nuclear triad, (Indian) navy to lease Russian sub
NEW DELHI: India's long-standing quest to have a viable nuclear weapon triad - the capability to fire nukes from the air, land and sea - will finally take a big leap towards completion when it takes a Russian ...
William C. Gill, 84, of Iselin died Friday, July 4, 2008, at Clark Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Clark.
Kirkland patriot served in three wars
To his nine kids, 22 grandkids and nine great-grandchildren, he's known as Grandpa Bob.
Sporting the reds, whites and blues
To do her fiance? proud, Michelle Trout donned her red, white and blue feathered hat, face paint and patriotic socks.
Nilda Medina-Diaz - Puerto Rico
Linked with the Restoration Advisory Board RAB. Nilda Medina Diaz has dedicated her life to the demilitarization of Vieques.
Sullivan faults Navy secretary
Republican congressional hopeful Sean Sullivan said Thursday he thinks the Secretary of the Navy should resign because he has allowed the price of surface ships to balloon, leaving less money for submarine ...
Nuclear Naval Sub Aids North Sea Hunt For Famous Wreck
A nonprofit group that's using software to scour the ocean floor off Britain for the wreck of a ship commanded by Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones is getting help from another technological marvel: a ...