Fla.
Urged To Retire Electric Chair - "The Florida
Corrections Commission is recommending that the state phase out the
electric chair in favor of lethal injection. It first recommended
the switch two years ago after flames shot from the electric chair
headpiece during an execution. The Legislature instead passed a law
confirming the electric chair as Florida's sole method of
execution..."
Decorated
pilot returns home after 28 years - On Dec. 5, 1967, Col.
Donald Russell, from the 33rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Eglin AFB,
Fla., was shot down and killed while leading a strike mission in
hostile territory over Laos in his F-105 Thunderchief. After more
than 28 years, Colonel Russell's remains were returned home to
Albuquerque July 25. He is pictured here in 1967, in front of his
F-105 Thunderchief, at Takhli Royal Thai Air Base, Thailand...
Readiness
Challenge winners announced - Air Force announced winners of
its elite engineering and services competition, Readiness Challenge
V, April 13 during an awards ceremony here...
Eglin
AFB hosts live-fire demo for Air University students - Eglin
AFB will confirm its ability to meet two of the Air Force's six core
competencies, air and space superiority and precision engagement,
with a live-fire demonstration Nov. 21...
Truck
explodes at Dhahran, Local Airman killed - At approximately
2:55 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 25, a fuel truck exploded outside the
northern fence of the Khobar Towers on King Abdul Aziz Air Base near
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Several buildings have been damaged and there
are numerous U.S. casualties...
Tyndall
NCOA class helps recruiting effort - A group of
Noncommissioned Officer Academy students took recruiting to the
baseball field Oct. 23, 'pitching' the Air Force image during the
local Third Annual Fall Classic Baseball Tournament...
55th
inactivation marks end of Pave Hawk era in AFSOC - A series
of campaign streamers camouflage the 55th Special Operations
Squadron's guidon. Each ribbon marks a moment in history -- a
conflict, a contingency, a mission executed...
President
signs $8.4 billion construction act - President Bill
Clinton's signature Aug. 17 on the fiscal 2000 Military Construction
Appropriation Act green lights $8.4 billion in new barracks, homes,
medical facilities and other projects...
Construction
plan targets quality of life, mission - The Air Force's
fiscal 2000 military construction plan lays a foundation for
quality-of-life initiatives and projects geared toward mission
enhancement...
Air
Force continues Y2K operational assessments - The Air Force
is continuing its major operational assessments to ensure it can
fly, fight and win in 2000 at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., and Eglin
AFB, Fla., Aug. 9-12...
Space
gets greater role in Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment '99
- Looking at ways space systems can help in "Forging a Decisive
Edge" in future conflicts is one of the prime objectives during
the upcoming Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 1999...
Air
Combat Command to conduct Y2K Flag - The Air Force is
turning its attention to ensuring it can fly, fight and win in 2000,
now that it has proven during recent testing at Keesler Air Force
Base, Miss., that its bases will operate business as usual when the
new year arrives...
Lenny
threatens Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico -
"Benjamin Pena watched as his children scooped out buckets of
the filthy water flooding the living room of his ramshackle home and
uttered a prayer that Hurricane Lenny's center would pass him by.
Pena, a 55-year-old retired police lieutenant, pointed out homes
already soiled by a week of rain, even as the first dark rain bands
from Lenny loomed..."
Tourism
debate goes to voters - "After three months of
arguing over tourism in the Florida Keys, the Monroe County
Commission and Florida Keys Tourist Development Council have decided
to try a new tactic: asking the voters what they think..."
Scarborough
returns to Congress after back surgery - U.S. Rep. Joe
Scarborough said he has returned to Washington, D.C. after a
seven-week absence to recuperate from back surgery with a new
appreciation for life back home in the Florida Panhandle...
Voters
like Bush as governor, but often disagree with him on - Voters
generally approve of Gov. Jeb Bush's job performance, but often
disagree with him on several key issues, according to a new poll.
For instance, the statewide survey, commissioned by The Miami Herald
and St. Petersburg Times, and released last week, found Floridians
strongly favor trigger locks on guns - with 71 percent backing their
use...
Man
awarded nearly $900,000 for 1996 jail beating - A
federal court jury awarded a mentally impaired man nearly $900,000
after finding that a former Polk County jailer used excessive force
to subdue him in 1996. After three hours of deliberations, jurors
returned the verdict against Ed Otte, who worked for the Polk County
Sheriff's Office as a corrections officer at the Polk County Jail in
Bartow when the February 1996 incident took place...
Sen.
Jones disagrees with governor's plan on affirmative action
- State Sen. Daryl Jones will not serve as chair of a state
education task force because he disagrees with Gov. Jeb Bush's
executive order eliminating components of affirmative action in
state programs. ``The governor's proposed `One Florida' plan is to
deny 14 million people the right to vote on whether or not
affirmative action should be ended in the state of Florida by
issuing the executive order,'' Jones said Tuesday...
Gov.
Bush concludes Israeli trade mission - Gov. Jeb Bush
wrapped up a four-day trade mission to Israel on Tuesday with a
visit to state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries and appealed to the
company to expand its business in Florida. IAI owns the Miami-based
Commodore Aviation - the largest Israeli business presence in
Florida with approximately 500 employees. IAI is looking to expand
the Commodore operation and Bush wants it to be in his state...
