By MARK THIESSEN (ANCHORAGE, Alaska, AP) — All 10 people aboard an air taxi were killed as the aircraft crashed and was engulfed in flames at a small Alaska airport…. Read more »
Category: National News
Defense seeks dismissal of charges against Manning
By DAVID DISHNEAU and PAULINE JELINEK (FORT MEADE, Md., AP) — Lawyers for an Army private who gave reams of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks asked a court-martial… Read more »
Dempsey: Snowden has hurt US ties with others
(WASHINGTON, AP) — The Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman says NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s disclosures about U.S. surveillance programs have undermined U.S. relationships with other countries and affected what he… Read more »
AP IMPACT: MIA work ‘acutely dysfunctional’
By ROBERT BURNS (WASHINGTON, AP) — The Pentagon’s effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that… Read more »
Immigration, student loan top congressional agenda
By DONNA CASSATA (WASHINGTON, AP) — Republicans and Democrats will put good will to the test when Congress returns this week to potentially incendiary fights over nominations, unresolved disputes over… Read more »
At tail end of trans-Pacific flight, terror
By JOAN LOWY and TERRY COLLINS (SAN FRANCISCO, AP) — After nearly 11 hours in the air, the passengers and crew aboard a jumbo jetliner traveling from Seoul to San… Read more »
Official: 1 unaccounted for from S.F. plane crash
By TERRY COLLINS (SAN FRANCISCO, AP) — An Asiana Airlines flight crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens of others… Read more »
Counselor killed, children OK in camp accident
By JASON DEAREN (SAN FRANCISCO, AP) — An art counselor at a Jewish summer camp popular with San Francisco Bay Area families was killed when a large oak tree fell… Read more »
Obama climate change push draws industry criticism
By STEVE PEOPLES (BOW, N.H., AP) — President Barack Obama’s push to fight global warming has triggered condemnation from the coal industry across the industrial Midwest, where state and local… Read more »
State winding down in George Zimmerman trial
By KYLE HIGHTOWER and MIKE SCHNEIDER (SANFORD, Fla., AP) — Prosecutors are winding down their case in George Zimmerman’s murder trial after presenting forensics evidence and testimony aimed at refuting… Read more »