Army to Focus on Sexual Assault: Responding to Pentagon data indicating that 2.6 soldiers per 1,000 reported a sexual assault last year, the U.S. Army is launching a new effort to prevent the crime. A Wall Street Journal piece by Yochi J. Dreazen reports that some female veterans, including some who are rape victims, believe that the Army's macho culture enables this behavior.

An Habitual Sex Offender who a jury decided should be released into the community after a 2003 conviction, has been found guilty of several new crimes including assaults on two women less than a year later. A story by Jennifer Sullivan of The Seattle Times reports that Curtis Thompson, identified in Washington as a sexually violent predator, followed two young women into a University District apartment elevator and assaulted them, during a crime spree which included burglary, robbery and assault. Next month Thompson will be tried for the rape of another woman in 2004, and in January he faces murder charges for the stabbing death of a Seattle woman. Prior to his 2003 conviction, Thompson had been found guilty of raping four women in 1985.