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Sex crimes spike at Air Force Academy

Last updated Monday, January 23, 2012 - 3:32pm

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Nine years after a sexual assault scandal at the Air Force Academy sent shock waves across the military, the Defense Department last month announced a spike in reported assaults at the school - and days later the Air Force filed sex-crime charges against three cadets.

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Obama: Hill 'mayor' worthy to be one-star brigadier general

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 10:44pm

HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- The "mayor" of Hill Air Force Base is up for a promotion.

Col. Sarah Zabel, current commander of the base's 75th Air Base Wing, has been nominated by President Barack Obama for promotion to a one-star brigadier general.

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Air Force Academy critic puts religious respect memo on billboard

Tom Roeder The Gazette

Last updated Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 3:40pm

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Air Force Academy critic Mikey Weinstein, miffed that a four-star's memo on religious respect wasn't e-mailed to cadets at the Air Force Academy, published the 200-word memo himself Tuesday on a Colorado Springs billboard.

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