NEW AMBULANCES, PARAMEDICS FOR STRUGGLING DC DEPT.
By BEN NUCKOLS New Fire and Emergency Medical Services recruit, cadet Antonio Freeman, left, and others, attend a news conference where District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray, not in picture,…
Government and politics
HEARING BEGINS FOR NAVAL ACADEMY FOOTBALL PLAYERS
By BRIAN WITTE In this July, 24, 2013 photo released by the U.S. Navy Football team, Midshipmen Josh Tate is shown. A hearing has begun to determine whether Tate and…
UN REFUGEE HEAD: SYRIA ON ‘VERGE OF THE ABYSS’
By ADAM SCHRECK AP10ThingsToSee – FILE – Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 20,…
MUHAMMAD ALI AWARDS TO HONOR HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS
By BRUCE SCHREINER FILE – In this Jan. 14, 2012 file photo, boxing great Muhammad Ali, with his wife, Lonnie, right, waves to friends attending a celebration for his 70th…
STUDY: WAIVERS LEAVE BEHIND AT-RISK STUDENTS
By PHILIP ELLIOTT FILE – In this April 30, 2013, file photo, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, left, reads to preschool children at the Cross Cultural Family Center in San Francisco.…
VERMONT YANKEE NUKE PLANT TO CLOSE BY END OF 2014
By DAVE GRAM In this June 19, 2013 photo, the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station sits along the banks of the Connecticut River in Vernon, Vt. Entergy Corp., announced Tuesday,…
NETANYAHU: ISRAEL WOULD RESPOND TO A SYRIAN ATTACK
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Netanyahu called reports of a chemical attack in Syria a “terrible crime,” and…
TUNISIA CALLS CONSERVATIVE ISLAMIC GROUP TERRORIST
By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh addresses reporters during a press conference held in Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday Aug. 27, 2013. Ali Larayedh said that the salafist group…