Brian Walker

Ballet Theatre explores new 'Frontier' and taps traditional 'Coppelia'

Tags: War of 1812, Entertainment Events, Washington, DC, Music, Fort McHenry

Remains of American ambassador, three others killed in Libya bombing arrive in U.S.

The remains of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans landed on U.S. soil Friday afternoon in flag-draped caskets. The four men were killed in an attack this week on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Teams of seven Marines...

Tags: Christopher Stevens, International Criminal Court, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief

Protests turn violent outside U.S. Embassies in Egypt, Yemen

Riot police fired warning shots and tear gas early Thursday outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to keep hundreds of protesters, while demonstrators in the Yemeni capital city of Sana'a breached a wall at the American mission, witnesses and government...

Tags: White House, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Religion and Belief, Injuries and Wounds

Protesters attack U.S. diplomatic compounds in Egypt, Libya

Angry protesters attacked U.S. diplomatic compounds in Libya and Egypt on Tuesday, citing in both instances an online film considered offensive to Islam. In Cairo, several men scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy and tore down its American flag,...

Tags: News Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Religion and Belief, Jihad

The Latest, and Least Worthy, Comic Strip Controversy at the Hartford Courant

There’s been a spirited debate in the letters section of the Hartford Courant this past week. Elaine Kaufmann from West Hartford started it off in Independence Day with this shot across the bow: “Perhaps I do not have the necessary sense of...

Tags: White House, Newspaper and Magazine, Periodicals, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), World War II (1939-1945)

JBER Honors Three Fallen Soldiers

Channel 2 News

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hosted a memorial service Thursday for three of its soldiers who were killed last month in two separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Thomas Fogarty was from California. He died when his Mine-Resistant Ambush-...

Tags: Emergency Incidents, Bombings, Explosions

Army Sgt. Brian L. Walker, Lucerne Valley; killed in Afghanistan

Ashley Caswell had never been a believer in love at first sight. Then she met Army Sgt. Brian L. Walker, a fellow military policeman at Ft. Bragg, N.C., who hailed from Lucerne Valley, Calif. "He had me at 'hello,'" she said. Like her, he had blond hair...

Tags: Armed Conflicts, Deere and Company, Foursquare, Emergency Incidents, Afghanistan

Obituary: S.C. Reed

MORELAND — S.C. Reed, 85, of Casey County, died Wednesday, May 23, 2012.    Born Dec. 19, 1926, he was the son of the late Roscoe and Dillie Peyton Reed. He was a farmer, and had owned and operated a saw mill. He loved gardening and playing music,...

Soldier from California killed in Afghanistan

Largest one-day effort to "Stamp Out Hunger"

Letter carriers across Wichita and surrounding communities will collect non-perishable food donations this Saturday, May 12, as they deliver mail along their postal routes in the nation’s largest one-day effort to “Stamp Out Hunger”....

Tags: Charity, Human Interest

Flour donation to help hungry Kansans

KWCH 12 Eyewitness News

The Kansas Foodbank is handing out bags of flour to those in need because of a major donation.  Horizon Milling and Kroger donated more than 180,000 two-pound bags of flour to Feeding America agencies in six states. The wheat used to produce the flour...

Tags: Charity, Human Interest

Recording Shows Captain Ignored Orders To Return To Doomed Ship

An Italian port official swore in frustration at the captain of the stricken Costa Concordia after the ship hit rocks Friday night, ordering him at least 10 times to return to the cruise liner and coordinate rescue efforts, transcripts of the...

Tags: Human Mishaps, Cruise Line Ports, Barbie (fictional character), Prosecution, Facebook