The main runway at Reagan National Airport has reopened after a vintage aircraft flipped when it landed.
Film producer Pietro Serapiglia says the aircraft was part of a group of vintage biplanes flying in Tuesday morning to promote the opening of 3-D film "Legends of Flight." Serapiglia says the plane landed, but then flipped over.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority says no commercial …
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The Metro Emergency Operations Center's new facility underconstruction near Southridge Center will be better equipped becauseof a $211,155 homeland security grant.
"What that means is we're going to do security enhancements,cameras and things we wouldn't be able to afford to do otherwise,"Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper said.
Carper gives Charleston Mayor Danny Jones credit for getting thegrant. Jones gives credit to Carper and Mark Wolford, the city'semergency services director.
"It's just another example of us working together," Jones said.
No matter who is responsible, the West Virginia Department ofMilitary Affairs and …
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top commander in Iraq shortly after the fall of Baghdad, says he supports Democratic legislation that calls for most American troops to come home from Iraq within a year.
His comments are welcome ammunition for the Democratic-controlled Congress in its standoff with the White House on war spending. This month, the House of Representatives passed a $50 billion (euro33.75 billion) bill that would pay for combat operations but set the goal that combat end by Dec. 15, 2008. The White House threatened to veto the measure, and President George W. Bush's Republican colleagues in the Senate blocked its passage.
The Defense …
But what will be as important is his ability to recruit high-caliber players to the program. Recruiting the Chicago area is a major part of that goal, but Purnell said he thinks the building blocks are already in place.
''I know some of the [area] AAU coaches, like Larry Butler and Mac Irvin,'' Purnell said during his introductory news conference Tuesday. ''But those kids are interested in the here and now and what DePaul will be about. Kids are interested in national exposure, playing time. I …
City, suburban and nationwide law enforcement agencies arehoping that tomorrow night starts without a bang.
A gunshot bang, that is.
The fourth annual symbolic anti-crime effort, National NightOut, will be held across the nation tomorrow, when more than 17million people are expected to turn on their porch lights and gooutside to meet their neighbors.
Chicago War Against Crime Week started Sunday to coincide withNational Night Out.
Events here tomorrow night will range from a bonfire to "burnout crime" at North Park Village, 5801 N. Pulaski, to a puppet showin the Rogers Park police district beat representative office at 7064N. Clark.
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WASHINGTON - The Senate, ignoring a veto threat from the White House, authorized $23 billion in water projects Monday, including work to restore the hurricane-ravaged Louisiana coast and Florida's Everglades.
The measure, passed by the House earlier this year, was approved 81-12. It now goes to President Bush, who threatened a veto after the bill's anticipated cost ballooned by $9 billion as projects were added in negotiations between the House and Senate.
The Senate vote was approved by a veto-proof margin and the bill's supporters said they are optimistic that if the president rejects the measure, his veto will be overridden by two-thirds vote.
"He knows it's …
The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a challenge to the Defense Department policy forbidding gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military, granting a request by the Obama administration.
The court said it will not hear an appeal from former Army Capt. James Pietrangelo II, who was dismissed under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
The federal appeals court in Boston earlier threw out a lawsuit filed by Pietrangelo and 11 other veterans. He was the only member of that group who asked the high court to rule that the Clinton-era policy is unconstitutional.
In court papers, the administration said the appeals …
