Gazprom OAO chief executive Alexei Miller will become the company's acting chairman, replacing Dmitry Medvedev who was inaugurated as the country's president on Wednesday, the company said.
The announcement came several hours after Medevedev was sworn in to replace Vladimir Putin.
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Former Chicago police Officer Joe Sparks wants to take a crack ataccused enemy combatant Jose Padilla.
Sparks arrested Padilla in 1985 after the teenage Maniac LatinDisciples gang member was caught with accomplice Andre Boulrece in arobbery and killing in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Padilla knocked out Miguel Galvino with a baseball bat andBoulrece stole $107 in cash, a Seiko watch and Mexican pesos fromhim.
Galvino's cousin Elio Evangelista chased the attackers andBoulrece stabbed him in the chest with a 5-inch knife, "slicing himright open," Sparks said.
Then Padilla kicked the dying 23-year-old in the head for fun,police records show. Sparks and …
Editor's Note: An article discussing the Army Science Board's contributions to transforming the force appeared in the March-April 2000 issue of Army AL&T.
Introduction
Why does the Army have an Army Science Board (ASB)? What are the ASB's functions? Who are its members? Who do members report to? What contributions have members made to the Army? These may be some of the questions from those unfamiliar with the ASB.
The ASB is one of the Army's most esteemed organizations composed of individuals who continually make significant contributions to the Army. ASB members and consultants are the epitome of one of the Army's core values-selfless service to the Nation. …
Three police officers are dead after a suicide bomber attacked a police chief's convoy in northwestern Pakistan.
Police Chief Akhtar Ali Shah says his convoy was attacked Friday …
The bill passed 42-2 with eight voting present. It now goes to the House. Sen. John Millner (R-Carol Stream), the bill's chief Senate sponsor, said the proposal could have helped mothers such as Dora Larsen, who runs the Illinois group Support for Homicide Survivors. Her daughter Victoria Larsen was murdered in 1979.
"One of our victim family members, Dora Larsen, had her 9-year-old daughter brutally sexually abused …
Two Chicago Democrats are accused in a libel suit of producing abrochure for Republican Cook County Commissioner Carl Hansen thatfalsely called a political challenger a "slumlord," "tax cheat" and"flesh peddler."
The brochure attacking plaintiff Mike Olszewski was drawn up byVictor Santana, a Chicago Democrat who works for the County Tax Boardof Review and is married to the secretary of Hansen, a Mount ProspectRepublican.
Also involved was Gloria Chevere, a Chicago attorney and a hearingofficer for Secretary of State Jesse White. For their work, the twoasked that Hansen's friends donate $2,000 to a political action fundthat aids Democratic Puerto Rican candidates in …
