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Dec 3, 2007

A B-1B Lancer takes off. A B-1B employed guided bomb unit-31s Dec. 3 against enemy mortar positions located in Asadabad, Afghanistan. A joint terminal attack controller in the area declared the mission as successful as the bombs impacted on the…

Dec 3, 2007

On 140 acres of unused land, 70,000 solar panels await activation as the first third of the solar photovoltaic array gets commissioned Oct. 12 with the other 66 percent of the panels scheduled for activation in the next two months…

Nov 27, 2007

"Free" Gifts Weren't Free; Settlement Calls for $650,000 Civil Penalty A large online advertiser that drove traffic to its Web sites using spam e-mails with misleading subject lines has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to…

Nov 20, 2007

On November 16, 2007, a U.S. District Court judge found Kevin Trudeau in contempt of court for violating a 2004 permanent injunction. The Court found that Trudeau violated the permanent injunction when he misrepresented the contents of his book, The…

Nov 20, 2007

WASHINGTON The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 115,478 taxpayers who are due refund checks worth about $110 million after the checks were returned as undeliverable. The refund checks, averaging about $953, can be claimed as soon as taxpayers update…

Nov 20, 2007

WASHINGTON, DC The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finalized a new rule designed to mitigate conditions that put airliners at risk for wire failures, smoke and fire. The final rule greatly enhances the safety requirements for design, installation and maintenance…

Nov 20, 2007

Securing the Border · DHS has completed more than 76 miles of pedestrian fence for a total of more than 150 miles of pedestrian fence and 115 miles of vehicle fence on the Southwest border. · DHS plans to build…

Nov 20, 2007

In the first prosecution of its kind in the nation, a well-known member of the botnet underground was charged with using botnets armies of compromised computers to steal the identities of victims across the country by extracting information from their…