Biological and Chemical Weapons

MOSCOW (AP) - With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains region Friday and exploded with the force of an atomic bomb, injuring more than 1,000 people as it blasted out windows and spread...

For most people, the Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond is known mainly for its chemical weapons storage facility. But the 15,000-acre military installation is much more than that, and depot commander Col. Brian Rogers is trying to get the word out to...

City and county first responders and local officials participated Wednesday in a mock disaster drill for a possible nerve gas leak at Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison County. Fire departments, law enforcement and governmental agencies met at the...

At the height of the depression, 17,000 Great War veterans and their families, dubbed the Bonus  Army, encamped near Washington, DC to demand that the government make good on its promise to allow WWI servicemen to borrow on their Certificates of Service,...

On Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi troops invaded neighboring Kuwait, beginning the Persian Gulf War. A ground assault on the Iraqis, led by British and American forces, began Feb. 23, 1991. On Feb. 26, Iraqi troops began retreating from Kuwait, and on Feb. 28,...

LANCASTER — The Garrard County Ambulance Service headquarters on Stanford Road recently got a little roomier, thanks to a $210,000 expansion. The expansion, which was completed a few weeks ago, doubles the size of the ambulance service’s...

KANSAS-TAXES Kan. tax negotiators agree on 6 percent sales tax TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislative negotiators have agreed on a proposal for cutting income taxes further and setting the state sales tax at 6 percent. The deal emerged Friday...

WASHINGTON — As an example of the ease with which terrorists could produce anthrax, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig has repeatedly cited the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo. The cult gained infamy in 1995 by unleashing the nerve agent sarin in...

WASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...

WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...

WASHINGTON--President Obama on Thursday ruled out any unilateral U.S action in response to the alleged Syrian use of chemical weapons, further reducing the chance of any forceful response to the crossing of what Obama had described as a “red line.&...

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thursday ruled out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria even if proof emerges that Syrian forces have used lethal chemical weapons. "This is … an international problem," Obama said at a White House news...