Sniper in Washington state woods shoots man, opens fire on SWAT team
By Craig Welch, The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — A sniper in the woods outside Arlington, Wash., shot a man in the leg and then apparently opened fire on a SWAT team
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By Craig Welch, The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — A sniper in the woods outside Arlington, Wash., shot a man in the leg and then apparently opened fire on a SWAT team
By Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A wildfire in California’s Angeles National Forest scorched more than 3,600 acres by late Sunday and forced the evacuation of campgrounds known
By Saeed Shah, McClatchy Newspapers – ISLAMABAD — A bomb injured two Americans employed at U.S. consulate in Peshawar Monday when a suicide attacker rammed their vehicle, officials said. Two local staff
By Jeff Abramowitz – JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Monday on the world to lay down a red line for Iran, saying the clearer the line, the less the chance
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — American special operations forces have suspended the training of new recruits to an Afghan village militia until the entire 16,000-member force can
By Batsheva Sobelman, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — The six-year legal battle over Migron came to an end Sunday as residents left the flagship Jewish outpost in the West Bank, leaving
By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times – The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed Messiah from South Korea who led the Unification Church, one of the most controversial religious movements to sweep
By Karen Rouse and Erinn Connor, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – HACKENSACK, N.J. — Party bus operator Designer Limousines is conducting its own investigation into the death of a 16-year-old Queens, N.Y.,
By Neela Banerjee, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday said that it would grant Royal Dutch Shell a one-year air pollution permit for an Arctic drilling rig, further
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — Not long ago, Bamiyan province was considered one of the most peaceful corners of Afghanistan, a remote and scenic enclave that was largely
By Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers – BEIJING — As uniformed maids bustled about the yard of the villa, Zhu Xinxin ushered a guest across black and tan Italian marble floors to an elevator
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL — Two suicide bombings Saturday in a restive province near Kabul killed 12 Afghans and injured a small number of U.S. troops, military and local
By Curtis Tate, McClatchy Newspapers – SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A year ago, a dingy, cramped and aging terminal greeted travelers to Sacramento International Airport. The utilitarian, 44-year-old building was designed for another era
By Mitch Mitchell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram – FORT WORTH, Texas — Claire McCall says that a mosquito bite changed her life. On Aug. 8, 2008, she entered a Dallas emergency room with a
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Saturday said it wants to first see Western intelligence reports before allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect the Parchin military complex southeast of the
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Rima Marrouch, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Thwarted by aerial attacks, Syrian rebels appear to have begun systemically targeting government air bases and aircraft, while trying to
Nelson Daranciang, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser – The son of British rocker Jim McCarty, drummer of the 1960s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group the Yardbirds, was sentenced to 30 years in prison
By Katherine Skiba, Chicago Tribune – WASHINGTON — A senior official in the Homeland Security Department resigned Saturday while denying allegations that she made inappropriate sexual advances to several male employees in Immigration
By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — A long-ago burglary in Stockton, Calif., set Matthew R. Descamps down a tumultuous road that has now led him, improbably, to the U.S. Supreme Court.
William Smith, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – MOUNT PLEASANT – Just past the dining area in the Wright Family Events Pavilion at McMillan Park sits a 53-foot-long trailer with the words “America’s
By Tina Susman and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – NEW ORLEANS — Isaac pushed north and out of Louisiana on Friday, leaving behind swaths of misery here — flooded neighborhoods, power outages
By Sajjad Malik – ISLAMABAD — At least four people were killed Saturday in a suspected U.S. drone attack at a compound in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, officials
By Kate Mather, Los Angeles Times – YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — The brass padlocks on the “signature tent cabins” at Curry Village are the first sign that something is amiss on the
By David S. Cloud, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON—The former Navy SEAL who wrote a first-person account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden launched another attack Friday as his lawyer disputed
By Kathleen Haughney, Sun Sentinel – TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— It was one of Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s headline-grabbing campaign vows: Welfare recipients would have to pass a drug test to make sure addicts
MCT FORUM – By Shannon P. Meehan, Los Angeles Times – July saw a record number of suicides in the Army and among recent veterans. I was nearly one of them. I suffer from
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — As Isaac made its way into Arkansas on Friday, Gulf Coast communities struggled with high water left by the storm. One couple was found
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — More NATO troops, and more Americans, were killed in Afghanistan in August than in any other month this year. Fifty-three Western troops had
By Dawson Bell, Detroit Free Press – LANSING, Mich. —A self-described hillbilly bred in Arkansas and living for the last 10 years in Lapeer, Mich., claimed the largest lottery prize in Michigan history
By Emily Kaplan, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA—Slowly, Jerry Sandusky’s name is getting erased by the Penn State community. On Thursday, it was done by two small tools, a miniature hammer with a
By Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times – TEHRAN — Egypt’s new president likely caused deep unease among his hosts here Thursday when he assailed Syria, a close ally of Iran, as “an
Vanessa Miller, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – At least four people were arrested early Thursday morning – including one man charged with felony assault with a weapon on a peace officer
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — He flashed a smile and seemed at ease. He vowed victory even though it wouldn’t happen any time soon. Syrian President Bashar
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL — A gunman in an Afghan army uniform killed three Western troops, the NATO force said Thursday. That brought the number of “insider” shooting
By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times – TAMPA, Fla. — A gun was left unattended on Mitt Romney’s charter plane by a member of the U.S. Secret Service on Wednesday as the
By David S. Cloud, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The Pentagon and CIA are reviewing a forthcoming book by a retired Navy SEAL who was on the May 2011 raid that
By Tina Susman, Matthew Teague and David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times – NEW ORLEANS — On the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, this city absorbed a rough reminder of the
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times – The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has created a special task force to monitor Iran’s compliance with prohibitions against developing nuclear weapons, the International Atomic
By Hector Becerra, Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — George Perez started at the bottom of Cudahy city government, cleaning toilets as a $6.50-an-hour a janitor.
By Ruben Vives and Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A 100-year-old driver backed up and struck nine children and two adults Wednesday afternoon near a South Los