[WeaselZippers] ILLINOIS -- At least two inmates at the Cook County Jail in Chicago have taken a fellow inmate now, there's value, right there!
hostage inside the facility.
From NBC Chicago: "According to the Cook County Sheriff's office, the two detainees covered the floor of Division 10 Not to be confused with Division Mensa.
with soapy water well, it was white, kind of.
and obscured the fixed cameras within the tier before ripping the cameras down entirely." How, exactly, did they do this unobserved? You think anyone actually watches the camera output?
The hostage takers are reportedly armed with some type of shank. I was totally unaware there were different varieties of shanks! Shivs, otoh... I think it's a "number 7" shank...
There are multiple other inmates in the pod. Division 10 is the maximum security area of the jail. Why do I sense the oncoming cry from Madigan, et al to raise taxes for a "Super-Duper Maximum Security Wing" of the crowbar motel? Naming rights TBD.
Officials said they are working to resolve the incident ’peacefully.’ Hey, O'Shaunessy - send a coupla guys over 'dere and make sure dey bring 'dere "peacekeepers"
No injuries have been reported. Yet...
The situation is ongoing. Now resolved, and even peacefully it seems.
[USATODAY] A judge dismissed the indictment Thursday against the man charged with killing intern Chandra Levy, after prosecutors asked to drop the case that drew national interest and embroiled a politician in scandal.
Ingmar Guandique, who lived in Washington, was found guilty in 2010 of killing Levy, who disappeared in 2001. Guandique, who has protested his innocence from the start, was granted a new trial last year based on questions about the credibility of a jailhouse informant. Prosecutors now say he will be deported.
Superior Court Judge Robert Morin ordered the case dismissed, based on the request from U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips.
"Mr. Guandique has maintained since the beginning, when he passed an FBI administered lie detector test, that he did not kill Ms. Levy. This dismissal vindicates Mr. Guandique," Lauren Hankins, general counsel for the public defender service that represented him, said in a statement. "Finally, the government has had to concede the flaws in its ill-gotten conviction."
The disappearance of Levy, 24, of Modesto, Calif., while she worked as an intern at the federal Bureau of Prisons, made headlines after she was linked romantically to then-Rep. Gary My wife has no thumbs Condit ... lover but not murderer of Chandra Levy ... , D-Calif. Condit was later ruled out as a suspect.
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Obama finally found a criminal he could deport?
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[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Mikaela Kellner was working on her tan in the Rålambshov park in Stockholm when a suspicious man, claiming to be selling magazines for charity, approached them.
When they said they weren’t interested but he wouldn’t leave them alone, Ms Kellner suspected something was wrong, but eventually he took the hint and walked away.
She said: “As soon as he left one of my friends said 'where did my mobile phone go?’
“There was no time, so I ran after him, maybe 15 metres or so. One of my friends is also a police officer, so we got hold of him. He tried to get away so we held onto him harder.
“I just acted on instinct and didn't think about it so much until after we had pinned him down. When I sat there I looked over at our other two friends who are not police officers and realised that it probably looked pretty funny.
“But I would have stepped in no matter my outfit.”
The man had cleverly grabbed the phone by covering his hands with the magazine covers.
Ms Kellner now wants to use her newfound fame to warn others about the threat of such brazen thieves. I like the cut of Mikaela's jib.
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Ooh,ooh. Arrest me!
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[SOUTHAFRICATODAY.NET] A grand jury has ruled Mississippi coppers were justified in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man whose weapon turned out to be a BB gun.
Biloxi Police Chief John Miller says Wesley Sheppard of Biloxi had shot out a window in a vehicle with children and refused police orders to drop his weapon March 10.
Miller tells The Sun Herald Wednesday that Sheppard was hit by two bullets from about 50 yards as three officers fired.
Miller released details of the shooting after a Harrison County grand jury ruled Monday the officers’ actions were justifiable.
Miller said Sherlocks learned the weapon was a BB gun, though it looked like a long gun to witnesses and responding officers.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation was called in for an independent probe, a standard police procedure.
[Mercury Sports News] A former De La Salle High School quarterback pursuing the same elite level on the military field as his team did on the gridiron fell ill during training and died at a Fort Benning, Georgia, hospital earlier this week, officials said Thursday.
U.S. Army Second Lt. Michael Parros, 21, died at Midtown Medical Center on Wednesday after becoming sick during his first day of training to become a U.S. Army Ranger, Army spokesman John Tongret said.
An ambulance took him there with hyponatremia, a condition that occurs when the body's level of sodium becomes abnormally low. The condition can be caused by factors ranging from an underlying health condition to drinking too much water during an activity, according to the Mayo Clinic.
"This is a tragic loss," said Lt. Col. Matthew Weber, Commander of the 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment. "He showed so much potential and was the epitome of the kind of soldier you want to serve with."
Parros' unit, 199th Infantry Brigade, had wrapped up a session of combat training. He began showing symptoms of hyponatremia shortly after eating, and his condition "escalated very quickly," Tongret said.
"When he was admitted, that's what he was suffering from," he said. "It hasn't been determined at this point if that was his cause of death. Unfortunately, there are a lot of questions right now that we just don't have answered, yet."
His family was notified and made the trip from Walnut Creek to be with Parros at his bedside, Tongret said. They were not available for comment.
#1 In the Sonora Desert in summer, with water consumption about 5 gallons per man per day, we got into the habit of carrying around ampules with a mix of 1 teaspoon each of sugar, salt and baking soda.
When added to 1 quart or canteen of water, it would instantly absorb through the stomach, while keeping your blood salts balanced, though it tasted like crap.
It could get bizarre. Constant thirst, even when your stomach was full of water, and because the humidity was 3%, you never felt sweat, but your t-shirt would get covered with salt stains.
And even drinking 5 gallons of water a day, you still had to force yourself to urinate, because otherwise you wouldn't. And your urine would be dark yellow to light brown. Not good.
Heat exhaustion feels a lot like sea sickness.
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I miss Anonymoose. But I saved his comment for personal reference, and this mixture got trailing daughter through a fwo week, 500 mile bike ride from Cincinnati to Niagara Falls, Canada without any ill effects. The other members of her youth group, who relied on water and Gatorade, were not so lucky.
I'm reminded of the problems with the uniforms at the last Olympics. We can't do anything right, it seems.
Russian representation may be thin in Rio next month thanks to the country's doping scandal, but those back in Moscow will be able to see the Russian flag on another big delegation.
Ralph Lauren and the United States Olympic Committee unveiled the outfits American athletes will wear in next week's Opening Ceremony on Friday morning and it didn't take long for some to notice they might be better suited for athletes representing another country.
As sports fashion maven Paul Lukas and others pointed out on Twitter, the pattern of the striped t-shirt follows the order of the white, blue and red bars of the Russian flag. When paired with a buttoned-up navy blazer, only three bars are visible and it looks like the Russian flag.
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What, like this was an accident? It's meant to remind everyone of Russia, and the DNC breach. They'll talk about anything but the disgusting contents of the hack, and doing something like this is very helpful. This is what Kulturkampf looks like.
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It won't look so obvious after a dip in the sewage.
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Ugh. It looks like something put together by an intern. Off-the-rack pieces that they didn't bother tailoring to properly fit the athlete models, RL jeans are not designed for muscular glutes and quads, and the group was carefully turned to display the Ralph Lauren logo instead of the American flag.
[SANDIEGOUNIONTRIBUNE] Two San Diego police gang-detail officers making a traffic stop in Southcrest late Thursday night were shot several times, one mortally maimed, triggering a massive police search into the daylight hours. One suspect is in jug.
The names and service history of the male officers, both part of the department’s gang suppression unit, were not released.
The slain officer was shot several times, rushed to a hospital in a patrol car but died at a hospital despite life-saving efforts, San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said early Friday. The maimed officer underwent surgery early Friday and was expected to survive.
The suspect, who had been shot, was being treated at a hospital, Zimmerman said. His name was not released.
It's not yet clear how the shooting unfolded.
The two officers had pulled over a vehicle about 11 p.m. in the area of Acacia Grove Way and 38th Street, a neighborhood of houses that abuts the Chollas Creek Ravine. Immediately after, they called for emergency cover ‐ more help from all available officers.
Other officers were nearby and arrived swiftly. They found the two officers suffering from gunshot wounds to the upper torso and rushed the critically injured officer to a hospital in a police vehicle.
"Despite heroic efforts by officers on scene and heroic efforts by doctors to save his life, I’m heartbroken to report they were unable to save him, and he is deceased," Zimmerman said outside Scripps Mercy Hospital, where the mood was tense and somber.
At the main entrance, some officers could be seen hugging one another. Others stood stoically, guarding the hospital doors. Zimmerman escorted several people into the hospital.
Zimmerman later said she had gone to the home of the slain officer to tell his wife, two children and extended family members who were at the home that he had been killed.
"It is extremely difficult, but something you have to do," Zimmerman said, joined by other department leaders.
"There's nothing that prepares you to do that."
The wife of the critically injured officer was beside him at UC San Diego Medical Center as he underwent surgery, Zimmerman said.
Because other family members of the two officers had not yet been notified, their names have not yet been released.
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A short walk from where I grew up. You might say it was the wrong side of the tracks. But I doubt if it was political. Sounds like there were some garden variety bad boys in that car who were probably headed for jail if the police stopped them and figured out who they were.
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dirtbag hispanic gangmembers
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Still it offers even more proof, as if we needed it, that police have a dangerous job.
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2nd suspect apparently holed up nearby. SWAT onsite
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[WASHINGTONPOST] Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... says the gunman’s bullets that killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge also targeted the country and "touched the soul of an entire nation."
During a memorial service Thursday at a Baton Rouge church, Biden spoke directly to relatives of the fallen officers. He promised them that a day will come when the memory of their loved ones will "bring a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye."
An Army veteran from Kansas City, Missouri, killed the officers less than two weeks after protests erupted in Baton Rouge over the death of Alton Sterling, a 29-year-old black man who was shot and killed during a scuffle with two white coppers.
Biden said he heard that Sterling’s aunt embraced the father of one of the slain officers during a chance encounter after the shooting. He said they prayed together because "loss is loss is loss."
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Police have arrested a senior official from Zimbabwe's war veterans' association after it accused President Robert Mugabe of "dictatorial" behaviour in a shock rupture with the 92-year-old leader, lawyers said Thursday.
Veterans of Zimbabwe's 1970s independence war, who had previously been loyal Mugabe supporters, last week issued a statement bitterly denouncing the president, who faces growing signs of opposition.
Douglas Mahiya, spokesman for the War Veterans' Association, was arrested late Wednesday in Harare, according to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) group.A Mahiya family lawyer confirmed the arrest to AFP, but declined to comment further.
The association's secretary-general, Victor Matemadanda, was also taken from his rural home in Gokwe, north west Zimbabwe, after being summoned for police questioning.
"His whereabouts are currently undetermined, as are the charges or allegations against him," ZLHR said.
Police on Thursday declined to comment on the two cases, a day after the president vowed to punish the unnamed authors of the war veterans' criticisms.
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In 2014 the life expectancy in Zimbabwe increased to 57.50 years. The murdering Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF)... "veterans" who helped bring Mugabe to power in the 1970's are mostly 'sky people' (dood kaffirs) by now. Those who've not gone on, are too old to cause much trouble.
The term 'war veteran' is a oxymoron, a mislabeling and continued attempt to legitimize terrorists.
A 48-year-old man was tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in Bloemfontein in connection with the murder of a 86-year-old woman, Free State police said on Thursday. The butler didn't do it.
Captain Chaka Marope said the elderly woman was found murdered at her house in Gardenia Park and the man, her gardener, was arrested on Wednesday after her neighbour found her body.
"When [the neighbour] peeped through the window, she noticed the victim`s body lying in a pool of blood in a supine position on her bedroom floor. She was also half-naked. The police were immediately alerted," Marope said.
"Upon their arrival they [the police] broke open the door to enter the house. The victim was found having head injuries and it is suspected that she was attacked with a blunt object. The blood stains were scattered all over the walls and the bedrooms were ransacked."
Marope said it was not known what household items were stolen. A case of murder was opened for further investigation.
"The possibility of additional charges of robbery and rape cannot be ruled out as the investigating team is still awaiting the autopsy report to determine whether the victim was sexually assaulted or not."
The man was staying at the backroom of the woman’s house. During the preliminary investigation at the scene, the suspect’s cap and blankets were found with blood stains and the suspect failed to provide the police with satisfactory reasons to that effect, Marope said.
He is expected to appear in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Friday, on charge of murder.
The U.S. economy expanded less than forecast in the second quarter after a weaker start to the year than previously estimated as companies slimmed down inventories and remained wary of investing amid shaky global demand.
Gross domestic product rose at a 1.2 percent annualized rate after a 0.8 percent advance the prior quarter, Commerce Department figures showed Friday in Washington. The median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 2.5 percent second-quarter increase.
The report raises the risk to the outlook at a time Federal Reserve policy makers are looking for sustained improvement. While consumers were resilient last quarter, businesses were cautious -- cutting back on investment and aggressively reducing stockpiles amid weak global markets, heightened uncertainty and the lingering drag from a stronger dollar.
“We’re just muddling through," said Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in New York, who had forecast a 1 percent gain in second-quarter GDP. “Consumer spending looks good, but the problem is that the rest of the economy is soft. The economy remains vulnerable to downside risks. The Fed is right to be cautious."
Private fixed investment, which includes residential and business spending, dropped at a 3.2 percent pace in the second quarter, the most in seven years.
With Friday’s report, the Commerce Department also issued its annual revisions, updating the data back through 2013.
And the revisions always go in one direction...
The first-quarter’s reading was revised from a previously reported 1.1 percent gain. The new breakdown shows a more pronounced slowdown in the economy heading into 2016. The year-over-year growth rate cooled from 3.3 percent in last year’s first quarter to 1.9 percent in the final three months of 2015, rather than the previous downshift from 2.9 percent to 2 percent.
The easing in growth continued into the first half of this year. The year-over-year pace for the first quarter of 2016 was revised down to 1.6 percent from 2.1 percent, the revisions showed. That revised trajectory has implications for Fed officials, as they’re faced with an expansion that has been steadily losing steam.
Economists’ second-quarter estimates for GDP, or the value of all goods and services produced, ranged from 1 percent to 3.2 percent, according to a Bloomberg survey. The growth estimate is the first of three for the quarter, with the other releases scheduled for August and September when more information becomes available.
Inventories were reduced by $8.1 billion in the second quarter, the most since third quarter of 2011 and subtracting 1.16 percentage points from the economy. At the same time, leaner inventories could set the stage for a pickup in production later this year should demand hold up.
Household consumption, which accounts for about 70 percent of the economy, grew at a 4.2 percent annualized rate, the biggest jump since the end of 2014 and adding 2.83 percentage points to growth. That followed a revised 1.6 percent increase from January through March. The Bloomberg survey median forecast for the second quarter was 4.4 percent.
Corporate spending on equipment, structures and intellectual property, decreased an annualized 2.2 percent after a 3.4 percent fall in the first quarter. Outlays for equipment dropped for the fourth time in the past five quarters. Spending on structures -- everything from factories to shops to oil rigs -- have increased in just one quarter since the end of 2014.
To get a better sense of demand in the U.S., economists look at final sales to domestic purchasers, or GDP excluding inventories and net exports. That measure increased 2.1 percent last quarter after a 1.2 percent gain.
Also holding back economic growth in the second quarter was a decrease in residential investment, which fell at a 6.1 percent pace. That was the most since the third quarter of 2010 and marked the first decrease in two years.
Government spending also shrank last quarter, declining 0.9 percent, the most in more than two years as outlays for the military fell. States and municipalities also cut back.
The GDP report also showed price pressures remain limited. A measure of inflation, which is tied to consumer spending and strips out food and energy costs, climbed at a 1.7 percent annualized pace compared with 2.1 percent in the prior quarter.
Fed policy makers, who left interest rates unchanged this week, said risks to the U.S. outlook have “diminished” and the labor market is getting tighter, suggesting conditions are turning more favorable for an increase in borrowing costs.
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Does anybody believe the Fed under Yellen anymore. It was clear that despite all the abra-kadabra, she wasn't going to raise rates until after the election. This kind of silly rhetoric just confirms how phony the whole charade has been. If you know the boss is going to massively raise the debt, you sure as hell want to limit borrowing costs. Now with the debt service as big (or bigger) than the defense budget, and entitlements (with a 20% fraud rate) untouchable, what will follow is very very scary.
Let's see if the liberal press is as quick to pounce on this one as they were when he said Russia should give us their copies of Shrillary's "missing" emails.
Donald Trump said Wednesday that Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who brought charges against six police officers in the death of black man Freddie Gray, "ought to prosecute herself" after all remaining charges were dropped. The problem is that her track record stinks lately.
"I think she ought to prosecute herself," he said during a press conference at his Florida golf club. "That's my reaction."
"I think it was disgraceful what she did and the way she did it and the news conference that she had," he continued. "And they were guilty before anyone even knew the facts."
Prosecutors dropped the remaining charges against Baltimore police officers in Gray's death, which brought the case to an end without any conviction. However, Mosby defended her prosecutions, which she initially handed down last May. She said she does not believe Gray, who died last year of a spinal cord injury after he rode unsecured in a police transport van, killed himself. Not intentionally.
The decision to drop charges comes after a judge already acquitted three of the six officers charged in the case, including the van driver and the highest-ranking officer of the group.
"And I give a lot of credit to those police officers, who probably could've made a deal," Trump said. "I give a lot of respect and a lot of credit that they stuck it out. And you had victory after victory after victory, and she had no chance. Don't forget, she prosecuted what she thought was her best case first. She should prosecute herself. She should be held accountable."
Trump later said that some police officers do bad things, but this was clearly not the case to prove so.
Sorry, looong article. You'll have to click the link.
From my non-expert perspective, it seems the fact checker didn't take into account true inflation, in which case Trump's claims seem to be way optimistic.
[US Navy Institute] The Clinton email saga will provide grist for the politicians, pundits, and tabloids for a long time to come. But the immediate impact will be ever-more-shrill charges and countercharges as the election cycle winds down, with pro-Hillary and anti-Hillary camps "spinning" the facts to suit their political beliefs.
From the perspective of some, Mrs. Clinton deliberately set up a private email server to ensure her emails remained private and not a matter of public record and then used this unprotected server to send and receive official messages, some of which were highly classified. Clinton apologists will respond that it was all an innocent mistake and she has admitted that, so let’s move on. There is no proof her computer was hacked, so there is no proof any of the classified emails were compromised. Thus, there is no reason to be concerned over what FBI Director James Comey characterized as Mrs. Clinton's "extremely careless" handling of classified material.
There are, however, a number of reasons to be concerned. Most important, anyone who believes the Russians (and probably others) were not reading the emails of the U.S. Secretary of State is hopelessly naïve. According to the press, some of these emails contained sensitive intelligence, to include identification of sources. If this is true, it is very serious. Lengthy article. Be sure to review the author's credentials.
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Reference Clinton's military aide, this article is well worth reading:
"Is Gen. John Allen in Over His Head?
President Obama’s point man in the fight against the Islamic State faces a ruthless foe. But his detractors at home -- even in the Pentagon -- may be his biggest enemy."
[DAWN] MANSEHRA: A young girl and her alleged paramour were reportedly killed in the name of honour in Ranowali area of Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... district recently, and the girl’s body was buried secretly.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the police said they had registered a murder case of a young boy, and didn’t confirm whether or not a girl was also killed in the incident.
Zahid Shah, a police official at Puttan cop shoppe said that a member of the said family killed the young boy and threw his body in Ranowali area of Kohistan. He said that the body was handed over to family after postmortem at civil hospital in Puttan.
The police official said as there was no mention of any murder of a girl in the name of honour in the FIR they couldn’t confirm the killing. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... he said the police would initiate an inquiry in that regard.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... speaking to media persons, uncle of the victim boy said the alleged murderer first killed his daughter and later rubbed out his (the complainant’s) nephew for having illicit relations.
He made the appeal to the KP inspector general of police to order an inquiry to dig out the facts. He said the killer was still on the lam and should immediately be tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! Kohistan district leads in honour related incidents, involving both men and women, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central....
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Take a look at Pajama Boy's brother, now all butthurt because Wikileaks isn't taking down Bush & Evil Republicans, but go after the sainted Democrats? IT'S AN OUTRAGE!
WikiLeaks has hit rock bottom. Once dedicated to careful vetting and redaction--sometimes too much redaction--the "whistleblower site" is now gleefully basking in its dump of thousands of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee--most of which are full of personal, non-newsworthy information--published with the express intent of harming Hillary Clinton’s political campaign. In this latest release, there is no brave whistleblower in sight, just an anonymous hacker believed by the FBI and U.S. intelligence community to be a front for Russian intelligence services. The WikiLeaks project has fallen far from the lofty heights of its founding a decade ago, when Julian Assange promised to "facilitate safety in the ethical leaking movement." Want some cheese with that whine?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Mikaela Kellner was working on her tan in the Rålambshov park in Stockholm when a suspicious man, claiming to be selling magazines for charity, approached them. 
[Mercury Sports News] A former De La Salle High School quarterback pursuing the same elite level on the military field as his team did on the gridiron fell ill during training and died at a Fort Benning, Georgia, hospital earlier this week, officials said Thursday.
A 48-year-old man was 
