Five soldiers are accused of killing unarmed Afghan citizens for sport. They're charged with premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder. A hearing is taking place this week in Tacoma, Washington in the case of Corporal Jeremy Morlock.
What if someone offered you $500,000 with no strings attached? Too good to be true? The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation doesn't think so. And they've been doing it since 1981.
Novelist Matthew Sharpe is an unlikely optimist and a witty satirist. He stops by to talk about his latest novel “You Were Wrong,” which has been hailed as “a work of hectic brilliance and immense sadness,” by Salon.com.
Thousands of water snakes are showing up in South Bay Lake Machado. The snakes, which can grow up to four feet long, are not poisonous, but bite and are eating fish, frogs, birds and other creatures which call the lake home. An estimated 3,000 of them are living in the lake and surrounding Harbor Regional Park.
