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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. – A federal prosecutor says a former chief executive of the nation’s leading supplier of body armor to the military spent more than $350,000 on pens, some made of gold or silver. David H. Brooks founded DHB Industries Inc. and is being tried on accusations of falsely …

TOKYO – Japan’s coast guard says it has arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand for illegally boarding a whaling ship. Coast guard spokesman Tomonobu Higashi says Peter Bethune, a member of the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd activist group, was arrested Friday. Bethune jumped aboard the whaling vessel from a Jet …

Sean Swarmer knows what it is like to overcome obstacles. A two-time cancer survivor, he was told as a child that he had just weeks to live. Now he has become the first cancer survivor to summit Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, MyFoxDC.com reported. “The chances of …