Langley (Virginia, US), Feb. 20 : Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Thursday that the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies "gave Al Qaeda a powerful recruiting tool."
Langley (Virginia, US), Feb. 3: Outgoing Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Michael Hayden has said that the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba will be among the top ten security challenges for the agency in 2009.
Iran, North Korea and Al Qaeda are the others that he and his successor Leon Panetta will have to deal with, Hayden added.
Virginia (US), Dec. 6 : A Virginia businessman, Earl Stafford, has reserved a million dollars worth of rooms at Washington''s JW Marriott Hotel and plans to give the rooms away to the underprivileged during Inauguration week.
Stafford, who is black, said the swearing-in of America''s first black president makes the occasion that much more special, but added that he pursued his plans without knowing who would be elected.
He plans to offer the rooms, at no charge and has had hundreds of responses so far.
"Our telephones are off the hook. Our e-mails are going crazy," Fox News quoted him, as saying.
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 1 -- Police in Richmond, Va., say employees of a KB Toys store inside a shopping mall arrived for work to find a 300-pound safe had been stolen.
RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 27 -- Virginia says it plans to refuse crab license renewals for 800 fishermen who did not catch any crabs between 2004 and 2007.
The watermen would be unable to renew their licenses from 2009 through at least 2012, The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot reports. The Virginia Marine Resources Commission approved the freeze late Tuesday.
The state wants to prevent a rapid return of fishing for blue crabs in Chesapeake Bay if the species makes a comeback. Frozen licenses could only be renewed if crab numbers have been at sustainable levels for at least three years after 2009.
Langley (Virginia, US), Feb. 20 : Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Thursday that the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies "gave Al Qaeda a powerful recruiting tool."
Williamsburg (Virginia, US), Feb. 6 : President Barack Obama has appealed to Democrats to take action to get the US economy back on track.
Langley (Virginia, US), Feb. 3: Outgoing Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Michael Hayden has said that the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba will be among the top ten security challenges for the agency in 2009.
RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 27 -- Virginia says it plans to refuse crab license renewals for 800 fishermen who did not catch any crabs between 2004 and 2007.
