PRINCESS ANNE, MD. Utility regulators and police are trying to determine what could have been done to prevent the deaths of a man and his seven children who died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator installed after their home’s power had been disconnected. Officials from Maryland’s public utility regulator say they are looking into […]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s state news agency says a drive-by shooting near the kingdom’s capital, Riyadh, killed two policemen. The Saudi Press Agency says gunmen opened fire from a car at a police patrol east of Riyadh in the early hours on Wednesday. The shooting resulted in the deaths of the two […]

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The leaders of three Estonian political parties have signed a deal to form a center right coalition government, with Prime Minister Taavi Roivas remaining in his post. Roivas, of the pro-market Reform Party, was forced to seek a new coalition partner after his alliance with the Social Democrats lost its parliamentary […]

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — International humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders says the first boat carrying medical aid to Yemen since a Saudi-led bombing campaign against rebels began last month has arrived in the southern port city of Aden. Its head of mission in Yemen, Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, says the ship carried some 2.5 tons of supplies […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A lawyer for the son of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says his client has appealed a court verdict that sentenced him to 15 years in prison over security and corruption charges. Mahmoud Alizadeh is quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying Mahdi Hashemi Rafsanjani had initially refused […]

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities say two policemen were injured and nine people were arrested during a night of clashes between rioting youths and police in central Athens after a demonstration by hundreds of anarchists calling for the closure of a maximum-security prison. Police said Wednesday the arrests were made on charges including attempted grievous […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says a Palestinian stabbed two Israelis outside a West Bank settlement before being shot dead. Wednesday morning’s attack took place near the settlement of Shilo. One Israeli was in serious condition and the other was lightly hurt. It was not immediately clear who shot the attacker. Israel saw a […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, who successfully fought for the release of President Richard Nixon’s secret tapes, died Tuesday in Wisconsin. He was 80. Kutler, who had been in declining health, died in hospice care in the Madison suburb of Fitchburg, according to his son, Andy Kutler. Andy Kutler said his father […]