Land dispute leads to killing of 52 in Kenya
By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times – JOHANNESBURG — Men armed with machetes, bows and arrows, spears and guns attacked a rival village in southeast Kenya in a dispute over land on
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By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times – JOHANNESBURG — Men armed with machetes, bows and arrows, spears and guns attacked a rival village in southeast Kenya in a dispute over land on
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Syrian opposition activists reported heavy shelling Wednesday in Damascus, the capital, as authorities in neighboring Lebanon said a cease-fire had taken hold
Rick Smith, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – CEDAR RAPIDS — The Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency is at it again, preparing to turn methane generated by decaying landfill trash into
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – HOUSTON—There’s been an alarming increase in the number of West Nile cases nationwide, with more than 1,100 reported, according to officials from the Centers for
By Anna Tomforde – LONDON — Prince Harry has been caught in tricky situations before — but never quite like this. The website images showing the 27-year-old prince — naked in a
By Curtis Tate, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — A string of derailments of trains carrying coal has galvanized opponents of new coal export terminals in the Pacific Northwest, who are concerned that more
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — Mortars or missiles fired by insurgents hit the plane being used by the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff while it
By Ken Kaye, Sun Sentinel – FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Tropical Storm Isaac emerged in the Atlantic on Tuesday afternoon, and it’s one Florida needs to keep an eye on. Over the next
The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) will highlight rural health and safety issues at the 2012 Farm Progress Show in Boone, August 28th through 30th. More than 11,000 square feet of
By Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times – A coal train derailed and tumbled from a bridge in Maryland early Tuesday morning, crushing cars in a nearby parking lot and killing two women
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday condemned the brutal beating of a Palestinian teenager by a gang of Jewish youths shouting anti-Arab slurs.
By Monique Garcia and Hal Dardick, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Tuesday said former President Ronald Reagan deserves “a special place in hell” for his role
By Mitch Smith, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Three cases of Legionnaires’ disease — a severe form of pneumonia — have been linked to a downtown Chicago hotel where 8,500 guests might have
By Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald – GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — A train derailment in Maryland cut Internet service between the war court compound here and the Pentagon on Tuesday, forcing
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Declining rates of circumcision among infants will translate into billions of dollars’ worth of unnecessary medical costs in the United States as
By Jonathan S. Landay and Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday for the first time threatened U.S. military intervention in Syria’s civil war, warning the beleaguered
Mike Menenhall, Newton Daily News, Iowa – In the past decade, the City of Newton has been a heavy proponent of Tax Increment Financing to fund revitalization projects and spur economic growth.
By David Enders, McClatchy Newspapers – NEAR FAYSH KHABUR, Iraq — The 20 refugees who walked across the border from Syria refused to go back. “We have to ask our captain,” said
By Matt O’Brien, Contra Costa Times – WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — The California Department of Motor Vehicles is waffling on whether it will issue driver’s licenses to young illegal immigrants who qualify
By David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Jolted by the possibility of a syphilis outbreak among its ranks, a Los Angeles-based trade group that represents the adult film industry
By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Two weeks after landing the Curiosity rover on Mars without a hitch, scientists and engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory learned that
By Steve Hummer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – ATLANTA — For the last decade it has been a Masters tradition, as much a part of tournament week as the odes to Amen Corner
By T. Keung Hui and Thomas Goldsmith, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) – RALEIGH, N.C. — An Apex, N.C., teenager’s ejection for cheating from the National Scrabble Championship has sparked international
Duane Nollen, The Oskaloosa Herald, Iowa – OSKALOOSA — Scientists have found more mammoth remains at a dig site in eastern Mahaska County that are creating a stir. Researchers recently uncovered the
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times – A decade after former Augusta National Golf Club chairman Hootie Johnson swore that the home of the Masters golf tournament would not admit women “at
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, as part of his We Can’t Wait initiative, President Obama announced that four nationally and regionally significant surface transportation projects will be expedited to put Americans to work replacing aging
By Patricia Alex, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – NEW YORK — Some families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, opposing a plan to have unidentified
By Sajjad Malik – ISLAMABAD — At least 10 suspected militants were killed Sunday in two U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region along the Afghan border, security officials said. The
By Farzad Mashhood, Austin American-Statesman – AUSTIN, Texas — Cedar Park, Texas, police said the suspect in an early Sunday morning shooting outside a Wal-Mart is Soloman Onwukaife, 18, who they say
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — They’ve been cut down while working out in makeshift gyms, as they bedded down for the night in remote combat outposts, after
Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — In the Syrian town of Talbieseh on Sunday, residents celebrated the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan on a tank as they cried out anti-government
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — With the tempo of “insider” shootings accelerating, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff arrived in Kabul for talks on the
By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times – MOGADISHU, Somalia — As Somalia approaches its umpteenth attempt to forge a government that will stick, there’s a deadening familiarity here: bloodstained warlords re-emerging, clan
By Taylor Luck – AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan charged Sunday that four Syrian missiles had landed in the country’s northern region, injuring a child and several others. The government summoned the top
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times – SEATTLE — Washington’s annual Hempfest — a three-day celebration of pot, bongs and hemp bead necklaces that is typically one of Seattle’s largest festivals —
By Nika Soon-Shiong, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — After two years of collecting global data and developing models, scientists have a new, comprehensive way to measure the health of the
The Yomiuri Shimbun – TOKYO — The Japanese and U.S. governments are concerned about a large amount of Pacific Ocean debris, set afloat by last year’s tsunami caused by the Great East
By Katy Read, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – We’d all love to age gracefully, but it might be easier if we knew what the heck that meant. Does aging gracefully mean cheerfully accepting gray
Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria denied Saturday that Vice President Farouk Shara had defected as opposition reports continued to provide conflicting accounts of whether he had fled to neighboring
By Tetsuya Ito, The Yomiuri Shimbun – TOKYO — The Japanese government deported 14 Chinese activists just two days after seven of them landed on the Senkaku Islands, apparently to prevent Japan-China