Navy investigating own cheating scandal
WASHINGTON – The Navy said Tuesday it is investigating about 30 senior sailors linked to alleged cheating on tests meant to qualify them to train others to operate naval nuclear power reactors.
Sidelining 30 may put a pinch on the Navy’s training program, senior officials said.
It is the second exam-cheating scandal to hit the military this year, on top of a series of disclosures in recent months of ethical lapses at all ranks in the military.
Additive not found in heroin, police say
NEW YORK – Heroin recovered at Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s apartment after he was found there dead with a syringe in his arm has tested negative for the powerful additive fentanyl, a police official said Tuesday.
Samples taken from Hoffman’s Manhattan apartment didn’t contain the potent synthetic morphine, which has been linked to 22 suspected overdose deaths in western Pennsylvania.
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