Russia denies entering Ukraine
Aid mission remains mired in drama
DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
Grand jury indicts Perry in abuse-of-power case
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been indicted for abuse of power after carrying out a threat to veto funding for state p...
DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
45 years later, Woodstock continues to signify freedom
BETHEL, N.Y. – The artist Jan Sawka in August 1969 was in a military punishment camp in his native Poland. A leader in the nation’s student protest movement against the communist government,...
DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Supervalu becomes latest to suffer data breach
NEW YORK – A data breach at Supervalu may have impacted as many as 200 of its grocery and liquor stores and potentially affected retail chains recently sold by the company in two dozen state...
DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Texas’ Perry indicted for coercion for veto threat
AUSTIN, Texas – A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public...
DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Indian senior community part of a growing niche
TAVARES, Fla. – When Arun and Usha Pancholi were deciding where to spend their retirement years, they wanted a place that combined the culture and camaraderie of life in India with the comfo...
DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Richard Nixon’s back! (At least on Twitter)
NEW YORK – If you believe the media reports, Richard Nixon suffered a stroke in 1994 and died days later at age 81. He is buried in his native Yorba Linda, California, silent as the country ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
New safety words rule the pool
Words have power, and a new drowning-prevention effort says that doing away with misleading terminology such as “water safe” and “waterproofing” in swimming and water-safety programs is need...
DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Police: Teen shot by cop suspect in recent robbery
FERGUSON, Mo. – The police in Ferguson broke their weeklong silence Friday and identified the officer involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager, as demanded by p...
DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Report: CDC scientist kept quiet about flu blunder
NEW YORK – An investigation into a potentially dangerous blunder at a government lab found that a scientist kept silent about the accident and revealed it only after other employees noticed ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Obama appeals for ‘peace and calm’ in Ferguson
EDGARTOWN, Mass. – Appealing for “peace and calm,” President Barack Obama on Thursday said there is no excuse for excessive use of force by police in a St. Louis suburb against crowds protes...
DATE: Aug 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Study blames humans for most of melting glaciers
WASHINGTON – More than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world’s glaciers can be blamed on humans, a new study finds.
Scientists looking at glacier melt since 1851 di...
DATE: Aug 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
