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Four U.S. by militants in Green Zone
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BAGHDAD (AP) - Bombardments by suspected militants killed four U.S. soldiers Monday as troops tried to push Shiite fighters farther from the U.S.-protected Green Zone and out of range of their rockets and mortars. At least 44 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq in April, making it the deadliest month for U.
Prenancy common among polygamist compound teens
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) - More than half the teen girls taken from a polygamist compound in west Texas have children or are pregnant, state officials said Monday. A total of 53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 are in state custody after a raid 31?2 weeks ago at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado.
Wildfire burns near L.A. homes
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Wildfire burns close to houses near LA; 1,000 people flee By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press Writer SIERRA MADRE, Calif. (AP) _ Crews overcame a threatening flare-up during the night and worked Monday to halt a wildfire northeast of Los Angeles that has sent 1,000 people fleeing their homes.
Wright defends sermons
Chicago reverend says criticisms are attacks on Black church
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ In a defiant appearance before the Washington media, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said Monday that criticism surrounding his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church and he rejected those who have labeled him unpatriotic. "I served six years in the military," Barack Obama's longtime pastor said.
A Dirty job ... but somebody's got to do it
Custodians find friendship in late-night maintenance
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No one takes the day-to-day upkeep of campus more seriously than Roy Pundt and "a.m. team three." "We're on the front line," the CSU building services manager says as he unlocks a few buildings for his custodian team. "We provide health and safety of the buildings.
Editor confronts low media attention to Gaza crisis
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Former Al-Jazeera producer and current Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle, Ramzy Baroud spoke Monday over the fast developing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and media negligence of the ongoing suffering of the Palestinian population. Baroud, a published Palestinian-American journalist and author of its latest book, "The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle", shared his beliefs regarding what he called the biased portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the media.
