https://www.pressherald.com/news/nationworld/page/7545

Nation & World

Published
September 9, 2012

Activists report 148 people killed in Syrian violence

BEIRUT – The Syrian regime pounded Aleppo with warplanes and artillery shelling Saturday as ground forces seeking to regain momentum in the country’s largest city advanced on three neighborhoods, activists said. Shelling and air raids against the eastern Helwaniyeh neighborhood caused a large number of casualties, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights […]
Published
September 9, 2012

Russia rejects urging of U.S. to up pressure on Syria, Iran

Russia's foreign minister says that sanctions would hurt Russian commercial interests, especially banks.
Published
September 9, 2012

Quakes’ damage slows rescuers

At least 80 people are dead and more than 200,000 displaced in a remote area of China.
Published
September 9, 2012

Suicide blast kills six in Kabul

The attack follows a U.S. decision to designate the Haqqani network a terrorist organization.
Published
September 9, 2012

Pakistan releases Christian girl

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan – A young Christian girl accused of burning pages of Islam’s holy book was freed Saturday from a jail near the capital where she had been held for three weeks, a Pakistani jail official said. The release a day after a judge granted her bail is another step closer to ending an episode […]

advertisement

Published
September 9, 2012

Tornado hits area of New York City

The twister is part of a line of storms expected to bring damaging wind, hail and rain to the Northeast.
Published
September 9, 2012

Dad accused of abducting kids, stealing sailboat, sailing away

He took his two children while their mother was filing a restraining order against him, police say.
Published
September 9, 2012

Jake Eberts, who produced several Oscar-winning films, dies at 71

Jake Eberts, the Canadian independent producer and founder of Britain’s Goldcrest Films, which revived the British cinema industry in the 1980s with a string of Oscar-winning movies, including “Gandhi” and “Chariots of Fire,” died Thursday in Montreal. He was 71. He was diagnosed in late 2010 with uveal melanoma, a rare cancer of the eye, […]
Published
September 9, 2012

Car dealer thanks employees with surprise checks

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Before retiring, a Michigan car dealership owner wanted to thank his employees in a special way. All 89 employees at the Howard Cooper Import Center in Ann Arbor were given $1,000 for each year of service to the 47-year-old auto dealership. “The lady behind me had tears running down her face,” […]
Published
September 9, 2012

The end of the bar as they know it

LOS ANGELES – Unlike that place in Boston where everybody knows your name, the people who run the King Eddy Saloon like to say that once you walk through the front door of Skid Row’s last great dive bar, “Nobody gives a … about your name.” And that seems to be just fine with the […]