AP Sports Writer Call it training camp with a twist: plenty of old faces in new places this summer, all looking for fresh starts. It’s making for some strange sights around the NFL, starting with — it’s still weird to see in print — Washington Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb. “Obviously, this is a different change [...]
PALMDALE — A wildfire smoldered in the high desert north of Los Angeles today, spewing plumes of thick smoke into a nearby town as hundreds of firefighters worked to contain the 2-day-old blaze. The fire has charred nearly 22 square miles of brush in the Antelope Valley. It was 62 percent contained this afternoon and [...]
Associated Press Writer BERKELEY — BP’s catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is fueling opposition to the University of California, Berkeley’s research partnership with the British company, with activists and professors on the famously liberal campus calling for a severing of ties. The oil giant gave UC Berkeley a $500 million grant in [...]
Associated Press Writer HAGERSTOWN, Md. — An Army private charged with leaking classified material to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks had civilian help, a key figure in the case said today. The development, first reported in the New York Times, suggests an expansion of the government’s investigation into leaks including more than 76,900 secret Afghanistan war [...]
Associated Press Writers NEW ORLEANS — On shore, BP, Halliburton and Transocean are engaging in a billion-dollar blame game over the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. At sea, they’re depending on each other to finally plug up the environmental disaster. Workers say the companies’ adversarial relationship before Congress, in public statements and [...]
Associated Press Writer SAO PAULO — Two years back, Dimas Aliprandi and Elton Plaster didn’t know of each other’s existence. Then they learned they had been accidentally switched at birth more than 20 years ago. The discovery didn’t bring bitterness or recrimination. Rather, it led to the creation of a bigger family. Today, the two [...]
Associated Press Writer KABUL, Afghanistan — A former militia commander who supported the Afghan government and two others were killed today by a suicide bomber who blew himself up at a football game in northern Afghanistan, officials said. Ministry of Interior spokesman Zemeri Bashary said 19 other people, including children, were injured in the attack [...]
Associated Press Writer MEXICO CITY — Federal police rescued two kidnapped cameramen in northern Mexico today, five days after they were nabbed by drug traffickers. Javier Canales of Multimedios Television and Alejandro Hernandez of Televisa were freed before dawn in the city of Gomez Palacio, the Public Safety Department said in a statement. The agency [...]
Associated Press Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — As the U.S. military prepares for the first war crimes trial under President Barack Obama, its most high-profile case against the planners of the Sept. 11 attacks is stuck in political and legal limbo. Canadian prisoner Omar Khadr, accused of killing an American soldier during a raid [...]
With three of my four little birds out of the nest, so to speak — at various summer camps and activities — I’m enjoying a change from my usual teen and pre-teen world. Having just one little girl at home for a few days, Olivia, 9, means I get to do just “little girl†things [...]
Associated Press Writer MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s biggest television network canceled a popular news show to protest the kidnapping of four reporters, abductions that media advocates called an escalation of a campaign by drug gangs to control information. One of the journalists — a reporter for Televisa — was released Thursday, hours before journalist Denise [...]
Associated Press Writer BEIJING — An overnight blast near a workers’ dormitory killed at least 17 people today at a coal mine in a city in northern China notorious for mining disasters. The state-run Xinhua News Agency said another seven people were seriously injured in the 2 a.m. blast at the Liugou mine in Linfen [...]
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