Topic: Robert Burke

Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, who earlier this week pleaded with Navy officials to provide more resources for sailors amid a coronavirus outbreak on the USS Theodore Rooosevelt, has been relieved of his position.

The Navy is jettisoning plans to add 10 years to the expected service lives of its Arleigh Burke-class destroyer fleet, which would result in a loss of 27 hulls between 2026 and 2034.

A lack of funding will prevent the U.S. Navy from maintaining a planned fleet of 355 ships, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Robert Burke said.

Police: Man stole on way out of jail ... Cremated ashes left at car wash ... Two claims filed for backyard $150,000 ... Woman claims $100K lotto prize via mail ... Watercooler stories from UPI.

An Illinois man says the $150,000 in cash he found in his garden last year generated two competing claims for the money.

A former Iowa elementary school principal has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for secretly videotaping students in a boys' bathroom.

Canada's new theme song for the "Hockey Night in Canada" TV show, which opens with bagpipes, won its schoolteacher-composer $100,000.

A disgruntled former air traffic controller pleaded guilty in federal court in Denver to trying to bomb homes of former co-workers who helped get him fired. Robert Burke faces five to 20 years in prison and could be ordered to pay a fine of up to $250,000

A fired air traffic controller in Colorado was being held Thursday on suspicion of carrying out a bombing campaign directed at his former employer.

European and U.S. designers have decreed that the dominant look for women this fall will be an extremely fitted suit, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

Editors at Spin magazine will name the Strokes, Eminem and the Detroit duo the White Stripes as the best of 2002 in the January "Year in Music" issue, on newsstands Dec. 10.