Contractors News

News : contractors : posted : Jul 5, 2008

• Effect of illegals policy is debated - Nearly a year after Anne Arundel Executive John R. Leopold announced that the county would no longer hire contractors that employ illegal immigrants, no ties have been severed with any firm the county does business with. The order Leopold issued in
  1 hour ago : Baltimore Sun
• A life of faith, a new home - Moments before Mildred Bogier walked into the East Baltimore rowhouse, she stretched her arms toward the sky in thanks. At 71, Bogier is a homeowner for the first time, through a program called Compassion Commission run by the Rock City Church in
  1 hour ago : Baltimore Sun
• Freed US Hostages, Families Reuniting in Texas - Back on U.S. soil, three American hostages rescued from Colombia rebels are now in the process of reintegrating into a society they've been absent from for more than five years. In this image released by the U.S. embassy in Colombia, U.S. contractors
  1 day ago : ABC News
• Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot - TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq
  8 hours ago : Guardian Unlimited
• Betancourt tastes freedom, orange juice - Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, left, embraces her daughter Melaine Delloye after Melanie arrived from France to a military base in Bogota, Thursday, July 3, 2008. Betancourt, three U.S.military contractors and 11 other hostages were rescued by the
  7/3/2008 : Washington Post
• Military Freed American hostages in good shape - In this image released by the U.S. embassy in Colombia, U.S. contractors Keith Stansell, left, Marc Gonsalves, center, and Thomas Howes sit in an aircraft in an unknown location in Colombia after being rescued by Colombia's military from the
  7/2/2008 : Washington Post
• Freed hostage describes ordeal - Ingrid Betancourt addresses a crowd in Paris with Mayor Bertrand Delanoe on Friday. Rescued two days earlier from the hands of Colombian guerrillas, who had held her hostage six years, she was warmly greeted earlier by French President Nicolas
  11 hours ago : Seattle Times
• Baghdad to give once deadly airport road a facelift - BAGHDAD, July 6 Reuters - If Baghdad Mayor Sabir al-Isawi gets his way, visitors driving out of the city's international airport will notice more than just concrete blast walls, razor wire and checkpoints. He wants to resurface the multi-lane
  1 hour ago : Reuters AlertNet