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Brothers build clinic for village in Kenya
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – When residents of a tiny Kenyan village sold their chickens and cattle to buy Milton Ochieng' a $900 plane ticket to Dartmouth College, they told him they wanted something in return.
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When Web sites shut down, upset users search for answers
SAN FRANCISCO – Internet engineer Alex Payne has devised a way to answer a commonly asked question of the digital age: Is my favorite Web site working today? In March, Payne, 24, created downforeveryoneorjustme.com, as in, “Down for everyone, or just me?
- NATION
Expensive drug for cancer raises hopes, questions
It took an instant for 58-year-old Gailanne Reeh to go from the picture of health to death's door.
- Fireworks accident hurts 37 in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa – A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectators and injuring 37 people, officials said yesterday.
- College inherits everything alumnus owned
HUNTINGDON, Penn. – A Northern California radiologist left everything to his alma mater in western Pennsylvania. Absolutely everything.
- NATION UPDATE
Woman, 91, freed from under her car
GREENDALE, Wis. – A 91-year-old woman who had crawled under her car to look for her keys ended up stuck beneath an axle for two days until her mail carrier noticed letters piling up, police said.
- Jersey shore party town relaxes rules
BELMAR, N.J. – After battling rowdy renters and out-of-control keggers for decades, this Jersey shore party town has finally decided to lighten up a little.
- Cockfighters carry on despite ban in N.M.
CHAPARRAL, N.M. – After two weeks of preparation, 150 officers slipped into this sleepy desert town. Their focus wasn't illegal immigration or drug smuggling, but a less pressing crime: cockfighting.
- Data link foreign detainees to arrests in U.S.
WASHINGTON – In the 6½ years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the United States.
- Statue of Liberty's crown could reopen to visitors
NEW YORK – The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to documents that a congressman released this July Fourth holiday weekend.
- Salmonella cases climb as inquiry is expanded
WASHINGTON – The government yesterday increased the number of people reported sickened in a record salmonella outbreak in which tomatoes are the leading suspect, though investigators are testing other types of fresh produce.
- Servant's mementos from British royalty fetch $881,750
LONDON – Collectors paid thousands of dollars yesterday for letters from British royalty to a trusted servant, including a note from the late Queen Mother Elizabeth requesting that the aide pack bottles of gin and Dubonnet for an outing, “in case it is needed.”
- 9 inmates are killed, hostages being held in Syrian prison riot
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Syrian military police officers fired on Islamist inmates early yesterday during a riot at a prison outside Damascus, the Syrian capital, leaving at least nine inmates dead, human rights officials here said.
- The week in Mexico
Training video: The U.S. Embassy on Wednesday distanced itself from police training videos showing Mexican officers applying apparent torture methods on other officers as an American instructor barks orders.
- WORLD UPDATE
Man posing as priest caught at St. Peter's
ROME – A man wearing clerical garb and pretending to be a priest was caught trying to hear confessions in St. Peter's Basilica and was tried by a Vatican tribunal, a Vatican judge said yesterday.
- Convention costs, delays worry Democrats
For all Sen. Barack Obama's success raising money and generating excitement among voters, he faces a daunting challenge as he prepares to claim the nomination in August: a Democratic convention effort marred by costly setbacks and embarrassing delays.
- Dry Nigerian oil well a source of strife
OIL WELL NO. 1, Nigeria – Three decades after pumping its last drop, the first oil well in Nigeria is marked by a decrepit signboard bearing what would seem an uncontroversial statement.
- Hitler figure damaged at Berlin wax museum
BERLIN – A man tore the head off an Adolf Hitler wax figure at Madame Tussauds' new branch in Berlin in what appeared to be a symbolic protest on the museum's opening day yesterday, police said.
- Government conquered terrorism, Iraqi PM says
BAGHDAD – Iraq's prime minister said yesterday that the government has defeated terrorism in the country, a sign of growing confidence after recent crackdowns against Sunni extremists and Shiite militias.
- With violence waning, Baghdad residents take a dip
BAGHDAD – Muntadhar al-Sharify stood shivering yesterday in Baghdad's searing heat, a smile on his young face.
- Secret operation moves uranium from nuclear program out of Iraq
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program – a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium – reached a Canadian port yesterday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a voyage crossing two oceans.
- Daily developments
Iraqi special forces killed one militant and detained eight others in an operation against al-Qaeda in Iraq yesterday in the northern city of Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.
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