Ferguson fallout continues
City manager leaves in wake of federal report
DATE: Mar 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
Obama offers help with student debt
ATLANTA – President Barack Obama says college affordability isn’t just important for students, but for the nation as well.
Obama t...
DATE: Mar 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
New fossil find may reset human timeline
A lower jaw found in Africa could mean that the Homo genus – the one that we ourselves belong to – evolved some 400,000 years earlier than previously assumed. The 2.8 million-year-old fossil...
DATE: Mar 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Astronomers get rare peek at space
Multiple views of supernova seen
DATE: Mar 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Paul joins Democrats in bid to boost medical marijuana
WASHINGTON – Two Democratic senators and a possible Republican presidential candidate joined forces Tuesday to push a bill to remove federal prohibitions on medical marijuana in 23 states wh...
DATE: Mar 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Clinton denies violating rules
UNITED NATIONS – Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that she regretted using only a private email server for work-related correspondence as secretary of state, saying that she sent more tha...
DATE: Mar 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
Chad, Niger troops attack Boko Haram
N’DJAMENA, Chad – Soldiers from Chad and Niger launched the largest international push to defeat Nigeria’s Islamic extremists whose war has sp...
DATE: Mar 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Time for the Apple Watch
SAN FRANCISCO – Apple made a play for the truly affluent on Monday with a watch – priced as high as $17,000 – that is aimed at shaking up not Samsung or Microsoft, but some of the most iconi...
DATE: Mar 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Disputing credit report could get easier under new rules
NEW YORK – Disputing a mistake on your credit report could get easier and the effects of medical debt less severe under changes being made by the three largest credit-reporting agencies. ...
DATE: Mar 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
GOP senators warning over U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations
WASHINGTON – Forty-seven Republican senators warned Monday that any agreement the Obama administration strikes with Iran to limit Tehran’s nuclear program may be short-lived unless Congress ...
DATE: Mar 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
World Briefs
Iraqis gain ground on Islamic State
BAGHDAD – Iraqi forces and pro-government militias have routed Islamic State fighters from two key areas near the city of Tikrit, officials sai...
DATE: Mar 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Fed report on Ferguson resonates across country
SEATTLE – Felix Vargas read the Justice Department’s report on Ferguson, Missouri, and thought some of it sounded awfully familiar – a mostly white police department overseeing a mostly mino...
DATE: Mar 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
