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Nation & World

Published
July 2, 2012

Nation/World Dispatches

NEW YORK Utility, union talks collapse amid wave of hot weather Consolidated Edison closed walk-in centers, suspended meter readings and limited work on major construction projects in New York on Sunday after contract talks between the utility and its unionized workers broke down in the middle of a wave of extremely hot weather. Talks stopped […]
Published
July 2, 2012

Changed by the climate: Colorado conditions ripe for monster fire

It's part of a 10-year trend in the West that has seen warmer, drier weather lead to record-setting blazes.
Published
July 2, 2012

Dispatches for 07/02/2012

– NEW YORK Utility, union talks collapse amid wave of hot weather Consolidated Edison closed walk-in centers, suspended meter readings and limited work on major construction projects in New York on Sunday after contract talks between the utility and its unionized workers broke down in the middle of a wave of extremely hot weather. Talks […]
Published
July 1, 2012

Rodney King remembered at funeral as forgiving man

Rodney King was remembered in Los Angeles on Saturday as a forgiving man who bore the scars of his infamous beating with dignity.
Published
July 1, 2012

Penn State ex-president agreed not to report abuse, emails show

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Emails show Penn State’s former president Graham Spanier agreed not to take allegations of sex abuse against ex-assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky to authorities but worried university officials would be “vulnerable” for failing to report it, a news organization has reported. CNN says the emails, first obtained by and reported on […]

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Published
July 1, 2012

Yitzhak Shamir, ex-leader, ‘true lover of Israel,’ dies at 96

JERUSALEM — Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who clung throughout his life to the belief that Israel should hang on to territory and never trust an Arab regime, has died. He was 96. Israeli media said Shamir died Saturday at a nursing home in the town of Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv. Shamir served […]
Published
July 1, 2012

Peace plan for Syria brokered

The U.N. agreement stops short of requiring Assad to step down, something the opposition insists on.
Published
July 1, 2012

Chimp attack baffles expert

Eugene Cussons says he is at a loss to explain why chimpanzees turned on a U.S. graduate student.
Published
July 1, 2012

After deadly storms, killer heat smothers mid-Atlantic

Utility officials say it could take days to restore power to millions as temperatures spike.
Published
July 1, 2012

Swimmer past halfway mark in record attempt

Penny Palfrey is trying to become the first woman to swim unassisted from Cuba to Florida.