Shh! VA's obfuscation on veterans' suicides continues a disgraceful pattern of disservice

Legislators are justifiably irate at what they see as yet another area in which the Department of Veterans Affairs is not only failing to provide care to veterans, but also withholding information on their needs from Congress and the public.

Last November, CBS, after a five-month investigation, described a "hidden epidemic" of suicides among military veterans, significantly above national averages, with rates three times higher among the youngest veterans. VA officials challenged the validity of the report, but internal agency e-mails gave weight to CBS's claims.

Murder in Savvanah: Convicted killer contests death sentence

Three decades ago, Jack Alderman and John Arthur Brown both stood condemned to die for the grisly murder of Alderman's wife in an apartment complex just outside of Savannah.

The murder described in court testimony was as crude as it was vicious. Brown bludgeoned Barbara Jean Alderman with a foot-long crescent wrench. Both men then choked her and, to make sure she was dead, placed her underwater in a bathtub. Then they took her body to a creek to make it appear as if she died in a car accident.

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Rheta Earlene Blase is shown with a photo of her murdered daughter Barbara Jean Alderman in Savannah in 1987.

U.S. mulls Guantanamo closure as Bush term nears end

The Bush administration could announce plans by the end of its term in January to close Guantanamo prison and an upcoming Supreme Court ruling might be the impetus for this, senior U.S. officials and experts say.

The government is under international and domestic pressure to close the prison, which opened at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba in January 2002 to house terrorism suspects caught after the invasion of Afghanistan.

Houston police: 5 People Found Shot to Death

Officers and homicide investigators find the bodies of five people, including three young children, with gunshot wounds inside a northeast Houston home.

The bodies were found at approximately 3:30 p.m. Saturday in a rural home located at the 10,200 block of Stonewood at Madera.

Plame seeks to resurrect lawsuit against Bush administration in CIA leak case

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame is trying to resurrect a lawsuit against those in the Bush administration she says illegally disclosed her identity.

A federal judge dismissed Plame's lawsuit last year, saying there was no basis to bring a case. Plame's lawyers asked a federal appeals court Friday to send the case back before the judge and force him to consider its merits.