As of Nov. 16, 140 soldiers on active duty and 71 soldiers not on active duty were suspected to have committed suicide. "We are almost certainly going to end the year higher than last year," which was also a record for Army suicides, Chiarelli said at a P

"Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has never made any bones, if you will, about her culinary preferences. She's a carnivore, a hunter and proud of both. . ."

Mahnke told the Daily Register in August that she hopes an outcome of the case is a set of uniform laws and responses by law enforcement involving animal welfare issues. "I don't want to see this type of thing happen again," she said in August.

Rapidly melting sea ice due to global warming is opening the Arctic Ocean - for the first time ever - to new shipping routes, industrial fishing and energy exploration, putting the region's already vulnerable resources at an even greater risk of exploitat

A little of this, a little of that. Some points of interest regarding the latest in the health reform blogosphere-- and the wildcard

A new bill with 105 sponsors in Congress would ban Alaska's "wildlife management" policy of shooting wolves from the air, a policy vocally defended by ex-Gov. Sarah Palin. "It's time to ground this air assault on wolves," said Rep. George Miller, D-CA.

WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain says he sees Sarah Palin continuing to play a major role in the future of the Republican Party. McCain says he respects the decision that his 2008 vice presidential running mate made to resign as Alaska governor. The Arizona

The cat was lit on fire and suffered burns over its entire body. Animal control officer Dave Schlott rescued the cat, which is believed to be a stray, from the parking lot of the Darby Borough Library after someone called police.

Since John McCain revealed his total cynicism and contempt for America's national security by selecting running-mate Sarah Palin, we have learned that every single ghastly attribute we discovered in the campaign is worse than we thought at the time.

Gov. Schwarzenegger went out of his way to disparage an anti-cruelty bill that has nothing to do with his budget. It simply stops the painful practice of tail-docking of dairy cows, an archaic mutilation procedure. He's acting like a demagogue and a bully