As it goes about the complicated task of putting its past behind it, the Moyock, N.C.-based company once known as Blackwater is going through some lean times. Nevertheless, its reach has never been wider. Its workers have deployed to more than a dozen countries around the world, many of them hot spots of civil unrest.

MOYOCK, N.C.
The company once known as Blackwater, then as Xe, renamed itself again Monday. Its new moniker: Academi.
The latest renaming reflects a continuing effort by the company's new management to distance itself from Blackwater's controversial past, which includes allegations of indiscriminate shooting of civilians by its security operatives in Iraq.

CAMDEN, N.C.  Subsidiaries of a company that operates a military training facility will pay Camden County half of the $3 million the county said was owed for property taxes.

The Daily Advance of Elizabeth City reports that subsidiaries of Xe Services will pay more than $1.5 million.

Four American workers for the Blackwater security firm who were accused of massacring civilians in Iraq in 2007 are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstitute a ruling that threw out a criminal case charging the security contractors with manslaughter and weapons violations.

CAMDEN, N.C. Xe Services has paid more than $200,000 in back taxes to Camden County but continues to dispute owing $3 million more for aircraft based at the U.S. Training Center complex.

Last month, the company, formerly known as Blackwater, paid $206,328 in back taxes for equipment stored at the training complex. Xe Services' August payment was made public Monday.

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A federal judge denied a request by a former contractor, convicted of killing an Afghan civilian, for permission to return to Afghanistan for employment, according to a ruling made public Wednesday.
 

By Matthew Barakat

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A jury will continue to hear a civil lawsuit alleging fraud by the security contractor once known as Blackwater, but a judge said Tuesday the case "hangs by a thread."

By Eric Tucker ALEXANDRIA The security firm once known as Blackwater overbilled the federal government for services in Iraq and Afghanistan and submitted phony reimbursements and other bogus expenses, a lawyer said Tuesday in opening statements of a whistleblower lawsuit brought by two former employees.

ARLINGTON The global security company once known as Blackwater is moving its corporate headquarters from North Carolina to Arlington, Va.

Xe Services said today that 20 people will move from Moyock, N.C., to Arlington to foster relationships with customers in and around Washington.

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A second former Blackwater contractor was sentenced to prison for involuntary manslaughter Monday in the 2009 shooting death of a civilian in Afghanistan.
Justin Cannon of Corpus Christi, Texas, was sentenced to 30 months by U.S. District Judge Robert Doumar.