Category: World

By Anne Danahy, Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.) – STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State trustees will be holding an on-campus retreat next weekend that will include public sessions Saturday and

By Daniel C. Vock, Stateline.org – CHICAGO — Every time it seems Illinois might be pulling out of its budgetary tailspin, a new crisis hits. The latest one, which Democratic Governor Pat Quinn

Mike Mendenhall, Newton Daily News, Iowa – SULLY — Highway T22 was closed to traffic for an hour-and-a-half Thursday as the Iowa State Patrol and emergency and clean-up crews responded to a semi-truck

Duane Nollen, The Oskaloosa Herald, Iowa – OSKALOOSA — Both Oskaloosa Police Chief John “Jake” McGee and Mahaska County Sheriff Paul DeGeest agree that President Barack Obama’s visit to Oskaloosa Tuesday was an

By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — Whether serious or a bluff, Israel’s public threats to attack Iran’s nuclear development program are widely credited for bringing U.S. pressure and international sanctions

By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan policeman fatally shot two American troops Friday, bringing the number of U.S. forces killed in such “insider” shootings to nine in

(DES MOINES, Iowa)  Two Iowa excavators have agreed to maximum civil penalties for violating Iowa’s One Call law, in separate cases that led to natural gas explosions in two counties in April.

Vanessa Miller, CR Gazette – IOWA CITY — A man was shot east of Iowa City on Thursday during a state investigation in Johnson County, according to authorities. Officials would not confirm

By Sandy Kleffman, Contra Costa Times – WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — All baby boomers should be tested for hepatitis C to help avoid serious liver disease and death, the national Centers for

By Kate Mather and Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A second day of searching showed no sign of the 6-year-old boy swept down the Merced River in Yosemite

By David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Faced with a new law requiring that actors wear condoms during porn shoots, Los Angeles officials have recommended that the City Council

By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times – MEXICO CITY — With rare speed, authorities in the violence-plagued coastal state of Veracruz say they have solved the killings of five journalists and news

By Theodoric Meyer, The Seattle Times – ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Four days into the worst wildfire to hit Kittitas County, Wash., in years, residents are settling into a new reality: The Taylor

By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times – ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A militant raid early Thursday on a northern Pakistan air force base with suspected links to the country’s nuclear weapons program has

By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashed in restive Kandahar province on Thursday, killing seven American troops and four Afghans, U.S. and Afghan

By Alex Rodriguez and Zulfiqar Ali, Los Angeles Times – ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militants flagged down a bus in northern Pakistan on Thursday and shot to death at least 19 passengers, local

By Alexis Stevens, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – ATLANTA — The editor in chief of the student newspaper covering the University of Georgia resigned Wednesday during a walkout involving several staff members. “The

Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Air attacks by the Syrian government killed at least 30 people Wednesday in the rebel-controlled town of Azaz in one of the bloodiest days in the

By Guy Cipriano, Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.) – STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno couldn’t hold back tears the day after his firing, according to

By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A closely watched test flight of an experimental aircraft designed to travel up to 3,600 mph ended in disappointment when a part failed,

By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Wednesday’s 67th anniversary of the end of World War II collided with election-year politics in the Asia Pacific, spurring South Korea’s president, Japanese

By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times – SEATTLE — Slightly cooler temperatures and decreasing winds have made firefighters “cautiously optimistic” they can begin to make gains on a wildfire that is now covering

By Mimi Whitefield, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — With the five-ringed Olympic flag now planted in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro — host of the 2016 Summer Games — is on the

The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has announced the first confirmed human case of West Nile virus disease in Iowa of 2012. The case is a female older adult (61 to

By Phil Willon and Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times – RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A fast-moving wildfire stoked by triple-digit temperatures burned more than 1,800 acres Tuesday in the foothills of the San

By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Just as you were ready to tuck into a nice three-egg omelet again, comforted by the reassuring news that eggs are not so

By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — The prospect of more debris from last year’s Japanese tsunami washing up on the Pacific Coast has triggered a move on Capitol Hill

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – HOUSTON — Dallas County officials have declared a state of emergency after the West Nile virus infected at least 190 people, killing 10, as the

By Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times – Fire crews battled a blaze in central Washington state that had destroyed more than 43 square miles of dry forest and brush and continued

By Girlie Linao – MANILA, Philippines — Tropical Storm Kai-Tak slammed the northern Philippines Wednesday, triggering flash floods and landslides and killing at least three people, one week after deadly monsoon rains

By Laura King and Hashmat Baktash, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — In one of the year’s deadliest days for Afghan civilians, at least 39 people were killed and more than

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Potentially good news for the 45 percent of Americans who have Type O blood: Researchers said Tuesday that those people appear to

Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — The regime of President Bashar Assad is near collapse and now controls only 30 percent of Syria, the country’s former prime minister said Tuesday in his

By Jennifer Delgado, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Chicago rowing coach and charity founder Jenn Gibbons anticipated obstacles during her 1,500-mile trek around Lake Michigan, but not the personal challenges that came

By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times –   DURHAM, N.C. — Evangelist Billy Graham was released from a North Carolina hospital Tuesday after a two-day stay for treatment of bronchitis, his doctors

At the 56th annual Iowa Federation of Labor Convention, Charlie Wishman was elected to the position of Secretary/Treasurer. Wishman (32) is the youngest person to be elected to this position. He was

By Roy Gutman, McClatchy Newspapers – STARE KIEJKUTY, Poland — On an idyllic lake surrounded by woods and a double row of mesh-and-razor-wire fences about 100 miles north of Warsaw, there stands

By Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers – CAIRO — For the first time since the toppling of then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak 18 months ago, Egypt is being governed by a person with

By Alex Kane Rudansky, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Mahdis Keshavarz has the means and the motivation to help her friends and family in Iran who have been affected by the recent