Category: World

By Hector Becerra and Sam Allen, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Japan has one. So do Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey and Romania. But California has struggled to develop and deploy an earthquake

By Becky Schlikerman, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — For 60 years, Army Cpl. Chester Roper’s family wondered what happened to the young man who went to fight in the Korean War. All they

Diane Heldt, CR Gazette – Some graduates and supporters of the Iowa School for the Deaf say it is not acceptable for the school to have a superintendent who is not fluent

By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court strengthened the rights of property owners who are confronted by federal environmental regulators, ruling Wednesday that they are entitled to

By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — With a population of about 4,600 people and located just east of the middle of Wisconsin, Clintonville is small enough and far enough

DUBUQUE – The Dubuque Telegraph Herald is reporting that the Dubuque City Council on Monday approved the first reading of an ordinance that would require businesses to report the number of plastic bags

Ben Jacobson, Clinton Herald, Iowa – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The process has changed in recent years as legislators from both parties have agreed to move away from spending earmarks, but U.S. Sen. Charles

Rick Smith, CR Gazette – CEDAR RAPIDS — City Manager Jeff Pomeranz told a City Council committee on Tuesday he didn’t want to embark on a quarter-million-dollar traffic study that would propose

Arlington, Texas ~ Tuesday, March 20, 2012 As prepared for delivery Thank you, Dr. [Alejandro] del Carmen, for your kind words – and for welcoming me to this beautiful campus.   I also want to thank

By Anthony R. Wood, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — Usually they post warnings of floods, tornados and assorted mayhem, but now government meteorologists are issuing warnings of another kind. They say that

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Syria’s armed rebels have committed “serious human rights abuses,” including kidnappings, torture and alleged executions of security personnel and civilians, Human Rights Watch

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that the Civil Rights Division will monitor elections on March 20, 2012, in Cook and Lake Counties, Ill.  The monitoring will ensure compliance with the

By Ken Dilanian, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The American war effort in Afghanistan is making progress despite recent setbacks, the top U.S. commander there told Congress on Tuesday. “We remain on

By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — They are the two bad boys of the American diet, linked to a variety of ailments including obesity, diabetes and tooth decay.

By Sanjay Bhatt, The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — When Alex McInerney graduated from a four-year private nursing school in the spring of 2010, she was $50,000 in debt and ready to be

Gitte Laasby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – A 4-year-old girl was killed Sunday when a television fell on her, the Milwaukee County medical examiner’s office said Monday. The accident happened around 11 a.m. on

By Barbara Williams, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – HACKENSACK, N.J. — Dan Schiavello shouldn’t be alive. His doctors expected his Stage 4 cancer to kill him long ago. He’s survived because of a

By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — Drone crews protect U.S. ground troops by watching over them 24 hours a day from high above. Sitting before video screens thousands of miles

By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Air Force will modify the handle that engages the emergency oxygen system in its entire fleet of F-22 Raptor fighter jets after

By Sammy Fretwell, McClatchy Newspapers – COLUMBIA, S.C. — Backyard cookouts, springtime gardening — even the sight of a colorful rainbow — are being ruined by the nauseating odor of rotten garbage in

Henry County, IOWA — On March 17, 2012, at approximately 5:10 PM, the Henry County Sheriff’s Office received a report of possible human remains being found along Old Hwy 34, near the

By Megha Satyanarayana, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — A rainbow appeared over Dexter, Mich., on Sunday morning, three days after a tornado ripped parts of the town to shreds. At the Dexter

By Jon Hilkevitch, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Automation in the cockpit of commercial airliners has flown full circle over the last half century, leading experts to raise concerns about the erosion of

By David Heinzmann, Chicago Tribune – ST. LOUIS — After a long weekend of protesting aimed at reinvigorating their movement, Occupy leaders from around the country set their sights on their biggest target

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — The raging conflict in Syria that has left thousands dead and stymied all international peace entreaties is not just about the fate of

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — A car bomb explosion killed at least two people and injured 30 in the northern city of Aleppo, Syrian authorities said Sunday, raising

By Jerry Fallstrom and Richard Burnett, The Orlando Sentinel – TAVARES, Fla. — The second straight day of death on the waters of Lake Dora stunned thousands who watched Sunday as a retired

By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun – Some leading AIDS experts have issued the first guidelines aimed exclusively at getting those newly diagnosed with HIV into treatment and keeping them in it. Thirty

The Yomiuri Shimbun – TOKYO — Believing that North Korea is highly likely to launch a “satellite” as previously announced, the Japanese government has started considering intercepting the rocket if it flies

By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News – WASHINGTON — When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, he insisted the nation could fix its health care system without requiring everyone to carry insurance.

By David Enders and Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers – AMMAN, Jordan — After weeks of punishing defeats in rebellious Syrian cities, anti-government insurgents struck at the heart of President Bashar Assad’s regime Saturday

By David Jesse, Megha Satyanarayana, Tammy Stables Battaglia and Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — It could have been worse — much worse. But a day after three tornadoes touched down

BEIRUT — Two explosions rocked the Syrian capital of Damascus Saturday, state media reported. One explosion occurred near the Syrian Air Force intelligence headquarters, Syrian television said. The other took place near

By Mary Ellen Podmolik, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Since moving into a home eight weeks ago, Tene Smith has hung one of her paintings on a wall, a reminder of her youthful

By Christi Parsons, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden in his final days schemed over an effort to kill President Barack Obama as well as other top U.S. officials, documents

By Laura King, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in a fresh outburst of angry rhetoric against the United States, declared Friday he was at the “end of

By Barbara Demick and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — Two weeks after agreeing to freeze its weapons programs in return for food aid, North Korea announced Friday it is preparing

By David Jesse, Tina Lam and Robin Erb, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — Sandy Pollard was driving to her Dexter, Mich., home about 5:50 p.m. Thursday when she met up with an

By Ian Duncan, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The Washington Monument, the iconic marble tribute to the first U.S. president that strikes into the District of Columbia skyline, is sinking. There’s no

By Laura King and David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — In twin blows to American efforts to wage war and negotiate peace in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai on Thursday