WASHINGTON (AP) - A spokesman says Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a retired Marine Corps officer who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has died. He was 77.
He had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery.
In 1974, Murtha became the first combat veteran of the Vietnam War elected to Congress. He wielded
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut fire official says at
least 95 percent of the nearly 100 workers who were at a power
plant that exploded are accounted for.
Middletown Deputy Fire Marshal Al Santostefano said Monday that
most of the workers are accounted for, judging by conversations
with contractors and labor union officials. But he says a section
of the
