WASHINGTON — A key House panel voted Wednesday to cut off almost $4 billion in aid to the government of Afghanistan pending an investigation into charges that Afghan officials are blocking corruption probes and huge amounts of foreign aid is being stolen. The bipartisan move by the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee comes after The Washington [...]
REDLANDS — It wasn’t snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night that stopped Chester Arthur Reed from his appointed round. The mail handler just felt it was time to call it quits at age 95. The fork lift operator retired Wednesday as the nation’s oldest postal worker, ending a career without taking a [...]
WASHINGTON — For the third time in as many weeks, Senate Republicans on Wednesday successfully filibustered a bill to continue providing unemployment checks to millions of people. But this time, since the slimmed-down measure attracted two Republican votes, its passage seems assured next month once a replacement is in place for Sen. Robert C. Byrd, [...]
WASHINGTON — Republican Scott Brown owes his election in part to the public furor over the so-called Cornhusker Kickback, the backroom deal that Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska struck for his vote to pass the health care bill. Now he is following Nelson’s example, winning concessions in the financial overhaul bill on behalf of Massachusetts [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. — Police said Wednesday they are reopening an investigation into a Portland massage therapist’s allegations that former Vice President Al Gore groped her at an upscale hotel in 2006. In a brief statement, the Portland Police Bureau did not say why it was reopening the investigation. Police earlier said they considered the case [...]
SACRAMENTO — Convicted drunken drivers in four California counties will have to prove they haven’t had a drink before they can start their vehicles, under one of several laws taking effect Thursday. The law requires first-time and repeat offenders to install ignition interlock devices in their vehicles. If the device detects alcohol on the driver’s [...]
LOS ANGELES — The California Department of Social Services is in the process of deactivating state-issued debit cards in strip clubs following a report that welfare recipients used their cards to withdraw cash at the clubs. The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that more than $12,000 from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was [...]
LOS ANGELES — The French national railway promised Wednesday to disclose its role in transporting Nazi victims to World War II death camps if California passes a bill that requires companies seeking state business to reveal any involvement in the camps. “It’s our intention to fully comply with the bill,†said Peter Kelly, an attorney [...]
Daily Republic staff FAIRFIELD — Jesse Scholtens got back to his no-hit ways Wednesday night, blanking Chugiak Alaska over five innings as the Fairfield Expos got off to a strong start in the Western Amateru Baseball Federation Championships at Laurel Creek Park’s Yarbrough Field. The Expos won 8-0 in a game shortened by the eight-run [...]
AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — Fears that the economic recovery is fizzling grew today after the government and private sector issued weak reports on a number of fronts. Unemployment claims are up, home sales are plunging without government incentives and manufacturing growth is slowing. Meanwhile, 1.3 million people are without federal jobless benefits now that [...]
Associated Press Writer MIAMI — A federal program designed to help impoverished families heat and cool their homes wasted more than $100 million paying the electric bills of thousands of applicants who were dead, in prison or living in million-dollar mansions, according to a government investigation. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spent [...]
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