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| NEW YORK (AP) — The debate over international adoption, already a bitter one, has intensified in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake and the arrest of 10 Americans for trying to take children out of the devastated country without... more... |
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Editor's note: The Rev. Toby Nelson has been in Haiti since Jan. 15. The Nevada City resident is chaplain and mental health officer for DMAT CA-6 — Disaster Medical Assistance Team, California 6 (the Bay Area). |
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Editor's note: The Rev. Toby Nelson, chaplain for the Grass Valley Police Department and a lead chaplain for the Nevada County Sheriff's Office, has been in Haiti since Friday. The Nevada City resident is part of a 35-member FEMA medical team that... |
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APPOMATTOX, Va. (AP) — A bomb squad discovered a multitude of explosives Wednesday at the home of a man accused of shooting to death eight people, and crews were detonating the devices as more details about the suspected gunman came to... |
| In a major breakthrough, union leaders bowed Thursday to White House demands for a new tax on high-cost insurance plans as part of landmark health care legislation taking final shape in intensive negotiations. “We are on the doorstep” of... | |
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Grim tasks await a small handful of Nevada County residents headed for earthquake-ruined Haiti. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Dazed survivors wandered past dead bodies in rubble-strewn streets Wednesday, crying for loved ones, and rescuers desperately searched collapsed buildings as fear rose that the death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake... |
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MIAMI — Teachers in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood used the simplest terms they could Wednesday to explain the devastating earthquake that rattled the island nation. |
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The Colorado man who admitted orchestrating the balloon boy hoax reported to jail Monday to begin a 90-day jail sentence. |
| WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of communities far from congested highways and belching smokestacks could soon join big cities and industrial corridors in violation of stricter limits on lung-damaging smog proposed Thursday by the Obama... | |
| The Census Bureau today kicked off its $300-million campaign to prod, coax and cajole the nation's more than 300 million residents to fill out their once-a-decade census forms. | |
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FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The number of miners killed on the job in the United States fell for a second straight year to 34, the fewest since officials began keeping records nearly a century ago. That was down from the previous low of 52 in 2008. |
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Paris jazzed up the Eiffel Tower with a multicolored, disco-style light display as the world basked in New Year's festivities with hopes that 2010 and beyond will bring more peace and prosperity. |
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A suicide bomber blew himself up Wednesday inside an Afghan military base used by the CIA, killing at least eight Americans in what is believed to be the deadliest single attack on U.S. intelligence personnel in the eight-year-long war, U.S. officials... |
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Eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks led to the U.S.-led ouster of the Taliban regime, U.S.-led coalition forces are fighting in the wild east of Afghanistan bordering Pakistan, where Taliban and al-Qaida-linked fighters and supporters of renegade... |
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