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Apr 24, 2011

Pentagon estimates operating F-35 fleet may cost $1 trillion

It may cost as much as $1 trillion to operate the military‘s fleet of Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 aircraft for several decades, according to a preliminary Pentagon estimate sent to […]

Jan 12, 2011

Of wells and hot tubs at the Exxon trial

Two notes from observing testimony the last few days in Jacksonville residents’ mass-action lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp. stemming from a 25,000-plus-gallon gas station leak in 2006. – One argument […]

Nov 17, 2010

Man enters insanity plea in ax slaying of brother

CUMBERLAND — An Allegany County man has pleaded not criminally responsible to charges he killed his brother with an ax. Forty-two-year-old Mark Collins of Cumberland is charged with first-degree murder […]

Nov 14, 2010

Defense counsel’s duty to warn about … everything?

WASHINGTON — Last term’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Padilla v. Kentucky placed a constitutional duty upon defense attorneys to advise clients if a plea carries a risk of deportation. […]