WASHINGTON — Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Army’s flagship hospital where privates to presidents have gone for care, has closed its doors after more than a century. Hundreds of thousands of the nation’s war wounded from World War I ...

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SILVER SPRING — The Army is seeking public comment on the proposed decommissioning of a former nuclear reactor site in Silver Spring. A spokesman at Fort Detrick in Frederick said Friday that the comment period runs through July 29. The ...

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WASHINGTON — The Army says the intelligence analyst suspected of illegally passing government secrets to the WikiLeaks website has been found competent to stand trial. Army spokesman Gary Tallman says a panel of experts completed its evaluation of Pfc. Bradley ...

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WASHINGTON — The Army private suspected of illegally passing U.S. government secrets to the WikiLeaks website was transferred Wednesday to an Army prison in Kansas from the Marine brig in Virginia where he has spent the past nine months. Pfc. ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals panel in Virginia has ordered a judge to consider new evidence in the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, a former Army doctor convicted of killing his wife and young daughters in 1970. MacDonald claims new ...

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HAGERSTOWN — The lawyer for a U.S. Army private suspected of leaking classified material to WikiLeaks says his client does not hold dual U.S.-British citizenship. The statement Wednesday by attorney David Coombs deflates an effort by Amnesty International to get ...

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An Army doctor who disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questioned President Barack Obama’s eligibility to be commander in chief was sentenced by a jury Thursday to six months in a military prison and dismissal from the Army. ...

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FORT MEADE — A military jury is deliberating on a punishment for an Army doctor who disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questioned President Barack Obama’s eligibility to be commander in chief. Proceedings against Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin ...

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FORT MEADE — A military jury has found an Army doctor who disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questions President Barack Obama’s eligibility for office guilty of missing a flight that would have gotten him to his eventual ...

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FORT MEADE — An Army doctor who disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questions President Barack Obama’s citizenship pleaded guilty Tuesday to one of two charges against him. Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin of Greeley, Colo., pleaded guilty in ...

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