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By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News – SAN JOSE, Calif. — Setting the stage for a battle to control one of the Web’s pioneering companies, Yahoo late Sunday appointed three new directors
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times – SAN DIEGO — El Cajon, Calif., police are asking for the public’s help in its investigation into the fatal beating of an Iraqi immigrant and have
By John Frank, McClatchy Newspapers – RALEIGH, N.C. — Earlier this month, in the days after the Georgia presidential primary, Chuck Campbell drove five hours to Augusta, Ga., to collect leftover Rick Santorum
By Kathy Bergen, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Hundreds of NATO staffers are visiting Chicago this week to scope out the city in advance of the May 20-21 meetings for the security alliance,
By Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times – The 2012 Republican presidential campaign has provided a bounty of infelicitous phrasings, wrongheaded assertions and embarrassing gaffes. There was Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s memory lapse on
By David G. Savage and Noam N. Levey, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Ever since the Democratic Congress passed President Barack Obama’s health care law, critics have focused their ire on the
By Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers – MEXICO CITY — Pope Benedict XVI donned a sombrero Sunday and stayed away from politics in his first open-air Mass in Latin America, urging Roman Catholics in
The Yomiuri Shimbun – TOKYO — A Japanese government order to shoot down a North Korean missile scheduled to be launched next month could come as soon as Friday, government sources said,
By Jon Stephenson, McClatchy Newspapers – KABUL, Afghanistan — A prominent international think tank has warned that U.S.-led talks with the Taliban are going nowhere and has called for the United Nations to
By Mike Berardino, Sun Sentinel – FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Found myself making an emergency run to the Coral Square Mall on Friday afternoon. Seems Marina, my pre-teen daughter, just had to have
By Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — Lions great Lem Barney wasn’t diagnosed with his first concussion until years after his Hall of Fame career ended, when an ophthalmologist looked into
By David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times – California cracked down this week on online dating sites — and it’s about time. Now federal authorities should recognize that running a website doesn’t entitle you
By G. Chambers Williams III, McClatchy Newspapers – ALTON, Va. — On the track or on twisty country roads surrounding the Virginia International Raceway, the all-new 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 coupe feels right
By Jim Peltz, Los Angeles Times – FONTANA, Calif. — Ninety minutes before Sunday’s NASCAR race, with sunshine still peeking through the growing clouds, Auto Club Speedway President Gillian Zucker was asked about
MCT FORUM, By Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang – The drill babies are back, touting Exxon-Mobil’s wish list under the guise of cutting the price of gas. But the truth is we’re already
By Greg Cote, McClatchy Newspapers – KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — The American flag in tennis is at half-mast, as if mourning its own decline and malaise. It might be closer to dragging on