Fort Drum

Pentagon Orders 16,000 Troops To Start Afghanistan Surge

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The first wave of President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan surge will add about 16,000 U.S. troops who got their orders over the pa...

Joshua Hunter, Alleged Fort Drum Killer, Was Driving Victim's Car When Arrested

AP | BEN DOBBIN | Posted 12.07.2009 | New York


WATERTOWN, N.Y. — A Fort Drum military policeman accused of stabbing to death two Army buddies at their apartment fled to Ohio in a car belongin...

Was U.S. Soldier Who Killed Two Army Buddies Shattered by Iraq Tragedy?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

Joshua Hunter has been arrested in the killing of two servicemen near the army base at Fort Drum, N.Y. It's not known what sparked the murders, but he had returned from 15 months in Iraq.

Joshua Hunter, Alleged Fort Drum Killer, 'Snapped'

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 12.04.2009 | New York


ALBANY, N.Y. — Relatives of a Fort Drum soldier accused of stabbing his two Army buddies to death said Thursday that he told them he saw his bes...

Joshua Hunter, Fort Drum Soldier, Arrested For Stabbing Deaths Of Waide James, Diego Valbuena

AP | BEN DOBBIN | Posted 12.03.2009 | New York


ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Fort Drum soldier was arrested at a hotel in southern Ohio early Wednesday on a warrant charging him in the stabbing deaths ...

Frank Rich On Scozzafava Fallout: The GOP Stalinists Invade Upstate New York

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics


Barack Obama's most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the ...