Author: Danny Robbins
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Obama consoles families, survivors of Texas blast
WACO, Texas — President Barack Obama consoled a rural Texas community rocked by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion, telling mourners Thursday they are not alone in their grief and they will have the nation’s support to rebuild from the devastation. “This small town’s family is bigger now,” Obama said during a memorial service at Baylor…
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Texas police: Man in Santa suit killed 6 relatives
GRAPEVINE, Texas — Police in a quiet Fort Worth suburb worked Monday to piece together a family history after a man dressed in a Santa Claus suit apparently shot six relatives and himself on Christmas. Grapevine police spokesman Sgt. Robert Eberling said the shooter showed up in the Santa outfit shortly before gunfire erupted…
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Army changes enlistment procedure
DALLAS — The Army is instituting a new procedure for checking the backgrounds of enlistees who claim to have a military record after a report that a reservist apparently faked a background as a Marine to enter the service. Recruiters can no longer simply accept discharge papers as proof of service, Douglas Smith, public…
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Coffman wants Gates to answer for Texas reservist
DALLAS — A Colorado congressman has written Defense Secretary Robert Gates seeking answers in the case of a Texas man who apparently tricked the Army into allowing him to enter the reserves as a noncommissioned officer. The letter from Republican Mike Coffman on Monday follows an Associated Press story detailing how Jesse Bernard Johnston gained…
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Texas man faked way into Army
FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas man with no military experience tricked the Army into letting him enter a reserve unit as a noncommissioned officer earlier this year, a deception that placed an untrained soldier in a leadership position in a time of war, an Associated Press investigation has found. The revelation comes just months…