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• Lung ailments emerge after service in Iraq

  For Dina McKenna, Christmas 2009 was a happy time. Her husband, who had twice been deployed in Iraq during earlier holiday seasons, was at home for the holidays. But the good times didn't last."Christmas Day, 2009, we were walking together by the river i 2/13/12 Read more »

• Taliban announce death of ex-defense minister

  (AP) -- The Taliban's former defense minister died in a Pakistani jail in 2010, a spokesman for the insurgent group said Monday.Little had been heard of Obaidullah Akhund since he was arrested by Pakistani authorities in 2007.Taliban spokesman Zabiullah 2/13/12 Read more »

• AP IMPACT: USAID contractor work in Cuba detailed

  (AP) -- Piece by piece, in backpacks and carry-on bags, American aid contractor Alan Gross made sure laptops, smartphones, hard drives and networking equipment were secreted into Cuba. The most sensitive item, according to official trip reports, was the   Read more »

• Teenage girl from Afghanistan to box at Olympics

  (AP) -- Besides going after a medal in the boxing ring at the London Olympics , Sadaf Rahimi will be taking a few punches in the fight for equal rights for Afghan women.There are female Afghan success stories, yet most women in Afghanistan remain second-   Read more »

• Suffolk audit planned on double dipping

  Suffolk Comptroller Joseph Sawicki has ordered "a very serious audit" of county agencies because of evidence that police and other employees who took military leave kept their public and military pay in violation of county policy.Sawicki said preliminary   Read more »

Around the web

• Raydon trims workforce

  the company has made some staff reductions since September as a direct result of the U.S. military's drawdown of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. A year ago, the Port Orange-based defense contractor employed 312 workers with plans to add more. Today, Raydon, 12:08 AM from Daytona Beach News-Journal Read more »

• Maj. Gen. Robert Brown says Fort Benning is in 'pretty darn good shape'

  news comes as the military has pulled out of Iraq and is preparing to reduce the size of the force fighting in Afghanistan. But Brown, who was speaking to the Phenix City Rotary Club, issued caution about the process. “It is too early to tell,” he said. “But 12:05 AM from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (Georgia) Read more »

• Afghanistan arrests preteen would-be bombers months after pardon

  one of the boys was from Pakistan's Baluchistan province, across the border from southern Afghanistan, and the other was from Afghanistan’s Paktia province, which borders Pakistan's tribal areas. During the televised pardon of the would-be bombers back in 2/13/12 from Los Angeles Times Read more »

• Open Thread for Night Owls: Legacy Afghanistan

  way out of Afghanistan for the U.S. depends on Afghan soldiers and cops’ ability to secure their own country. Yet the Pentagon is cutting funding for those Afghan forces by nearly half. Ten years. 2886 American and Allied fatalities. Many times that many maimed. 2/13/12 from Daily Kos Read more »

• Stats Pack: Cook, Finn star for England

  ended Pakistan's seven-game ODI winning streak. Pakistan had won three games each against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and one against Afghanistan between November 18, 2011 and February 10, 2012. - Alastair Cook (137 off 142) has registered his career-best innings 2/13/12 from ESPN STAR Sports Read more »