Fire Rages At Wyoming Natural Gas Plant; Town’s Evacuation Lifted
By Paresh Dave, Los Angeles Times Soaring flames kept a major natural gas plant in southwestern Wyoming closed Thursday, affecting fuel supplies across the West. The fire followed ...
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Jewish Centers Murder Suspect Was Once Caught With Black Male Prostitute, Former Prosecutor Says
By Judy L. Thomas, The Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police in Raleigh, N.C., wrote an incident report after finding F. Glenn Miller Jr. in the car, said Douglas McCullough, ...
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Adrianne Wadewitz, Scholar Who Helped Diversify Wikipedia, Dies At 37
By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — When Adrianne Wadewitz became a Wikipedia contributor 10 years ago she decided to use a pseudonym, certain that fellow scholars at I ...
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Fresno ranks No. 1 on California pollution list
By Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times FRESNO, Calif. — California’s new effort to map the areas most at risk from pollution features hot spots up and down California. But nowhere are ...
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Holder Cancels Speech In Oklahoma City Amid Conservative Protests
By Timothy M. Phelps, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Eric H. Holder Jr. is a traveling attorney general, with a penchant for trips around the country and the world to give ...
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Proposed U.S. Rules Leave Open Internet Fast Lanes
San Francisco (AFP) - Internet fast lanes that defy the ideal of "net neutrality" would be allowed under rules proposed by U.S. regulators eager to keep broadband service provider ...
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Abducted U.S. Journalist Freed In East Ukraine, He Tells AFP
Kiev (AFP) - A U.S. journalist abducted and held by pro-Kremlin rebels in east Ukraine this week told AFP he was freed Thursday. Simon Ostrovsky, who works for the online outlet V ...
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Obama In Tokyo Backs Japan In China Island Row
Tokyo (AFP) - U.S. President Barack Obama vowed Thursday to defend Japan if China attacks over a tense territorial dispute, but also urged Beijing to step in to thwart North Korea ...
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‘Our Hearts Are Broken,’ Friend Says Of Chicago Doctor Shot In Afghanistan
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times For 16 years, Dr. Jerry Umanos worked as a pediatrician at a Christian health center in Chicago, then decided in 2005 to travel to Afghanistan ...
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Cliven Bundy’s ‘Better Off As Slaves’ Remark About Blacks Draws Fire
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times LAS VEGAS — Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s battle against the federal government over land rights took an unexpected detour after a newspaper ...
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