When Army Sgt. Jeffrey Reed found that Iraqi children were playing soccer with deflated balls or resorting to kicking around soda bottles, the lifelong soccer fan wrote home to organize a big shipment of balls....

Teen’s trial in school bomb case again delayed: The trial for 18-year-old Ryan Schallenberger has been delayed once again. If you’ll recall Schallenberger was the teen who was allegedly plotting an attack on Chesterfield High School in South Carolina. The plot unraveled when his parents disc...

Sounds like Chesterfield County (just south of Richmond, VA) screwed things up badly enough in the February 12th presidential primary to draw a complaint at the Department of Justice: The civil-rights complaint says hundreds of Chesterfield residents were deprived of the right to vote, primarily in ...

Djvaselaar sends along an article from The New Atlantis that summarizes recent inquisition indicating that multitasking may be detrimental to work and learning.. It begins, "In one of the many letters he wrote to his son in the 1740s, Lord Chesterfield offered the coming advice: 'There is time enoug...

Psychiatrist says S.C. teen accused in plot is competent: The bizarro world proceedings of the Ryan Schallenberger case continue. Yesterday a psychiatrist for the defense says that Schallenberger is indeed competent to stand trial. That's right, the kid who wanted to blow up his school so he could k...

Agent: S.C. teen wanted to kill Jesus: South Carolina's own Timothy McVeigh wannabe, Ryan Schallenberger, told police he wanted to die so he could go to heaven and kill Jesus. I don't think he thought his cunning plan all the way through. Let's just take this from a religious stand point for a secon...

Sheriff: Parents saw son's anger grow: This is just another local news article about Ryan Schallenberger that is actually a couple of days old so there's no new information in it. However the article provides us with a quote that sounds eerily familiar. I know I've brought this point up before but I...

A South Carolina teen appeared in court today, after being arrested Saturday when his parents opened a package that had been delivered for him and found 10 pounds of ammonium nitrate, then contacted authorities. Ammonium nitrate is a substance that can be used as an explosive when combined with dies...

Tomorrow’s Chesterfield Observer officially kicks off the 2007 campaign for Chesterfield County with official word that embattled Matoaca District Supervisor Renny Humphrey is stepping aside at the end of next year. An open secret for over a year, definitive word of Humphrey’s decision w...