Marines: Hanukkah stabbing suspect kicked out of boot camp

The man charged with stabbing five people during a Hanukkah celebration in New York began boot camp to enter the U.S. Marine Corps but was separated from the service a month later for “fraudulent enlistment,” military officials said Tuesday. A Marine Corps spokeswoman would not provide details on why Grafton Thomas left the Marines as a recruit in late 2002, about a month after he started training. Federal prosecutors filed hate crime charges against Thomas on Monday, accusing the 37