• TUESDAY, May 22
    1 Samuel 16:1-13a. How long will you grieve? Grief and trauma leave scars, but when they are unresolved it is as if they had just happened. White Bison, a Native American non-profit organization, has partnered with Native Ministry in the Episcopal Church. The goal is to address the historic grief and trauma in our Native communities so that healthy communiti […]

North Korea frees South Korean worker after official’s visit

The chairwoman of Hyundai Group went to Pyongyang to seek the man’s release after President Clinton’s successful trip gained the freedom of two U.S. TV reporters. [...]

Stocks rise modestly after jobs, retail data

NEW YORK — The stock market is trying to reconcile some disappointing retail sales and jobs data with the Federal Reserve’s more upbeat view of the economy. [...]

Les Paul, guitarist whose innovations paved the way for rock ‘n’ roll, dies at 94

The virtuoso picker influenced a generation of guitarists and had a series of hits in the ’50s with wife Mary Ford. He invented an early solid-body electric guitar and pioneered new recording [...]

Residents on edge as 9 women vanish from N.C. city (AP)

A billboard shows information about 9 women who are missing or dead in Rocky Mount, N.C., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. Since 2005, nine women who lived at the frayed edges of the poor community here have fallen victim to what some consider a serial killer. Six of their bodies were found decomposing along rural roads just a few miles outside town; three women are still missing. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP – They spent their nights jumping in and out of strange cars, trolling otherwise empty streets lined with decaying storefronts and boarded-up homes. Many sold sex to support drug habits or children left in the care of worried, hardworking [...]

States shelving US Capitol statues for new models (AP)

FILE -- In a July 20, 2007 file photo tour groups walk through Statuary Hall in the Capitol in Washington. There's been no shortage of states looking to substitute their statues with newer models they feel better represent their history. Nine years ago, Congress changed a law that had prevented statue switching. Each state gets two statues of notable historic figures who are deceased. Most are in bronze or marble and stand in National Statuary Hall, south of the rotunda.(AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)AP – Lawmakers looking for a famous Ohioan who best represents their state have a diverse group to choose from: a Rat Pack crooner, brothers who were first in flight, or maybe a great [...]

Obituaries in the news (AP)

AP – Rashied [...]

Tyson Gay heads to the starting blocks against Usain Bolt

The American is the world champion at 100 and 200 meters, but his Jamaican competitor wowed Olympic crowds and set world records in those events. This weekend, they race in Berlin. [...]

World briefing

Israel: Report says civilians shot in Gaza war / Sudan: Reprieve for U.S. diplomat’s killers / Pakistan: Low opinions of U.S., Taliban / Taiwan: Effort to rescue stranded residents [...]

National Briefing

New York: FAA suspends 2 in air collision / New York: No criminal charges in friendly fire / Nationwide: Drug targets, kills cancer stem cells, study says / Missouri: Nuns help capture burglary [...]

Facing up to Hitler

Germany’s leading Jewish group is backing a proposal to lift the country’s ban on publishing ‘Mein Kampf,’ a courageous stand that reflects the need to confront evil head-on. [...]

Have school officials closed the door to community input on 50 new schools?

Locking opponents out of a meeting to discuss how to manage the schools suggests an innovative education proposal is falling victim to the same old politics. [...]

A patchwork history of hate

A rare KKK quilt becomes emblematic of how, over time, generations have left racial divisions behind. The [...]

President Barack Obama could learn from Franklin D. Roosevelt

The arguments against healthcare reform — It’s socialism. It will hurt private business and create a huge bureaucracy — echo the ones made against Social Security, but FDR took control of that [...]

Video game industry sees U.S. sales fall 29% in July

Several titles due out over the next several months could provide a boost. Some firms are holding off on releasing certain games amid the economy’s woes. [...]

Top video games for July 2009

Top video games [...]

Telecom companies reject stimulus money

Government grants to help expand Internet broadband service apparently make the big carriers nervous. The [...]

Christian Ramirez is eligible to help Bruins

After sitting out a season because of academic problems, the junior tailback can’t wait to get back in the game. [...]

Michael Vick signs two-year deal with the Eagles

He is allowed to participate in practices and play in the final two exhibitions but might not be eligible for games until Oct. 18. [...]

Can they catch Tiger Woods?

He has only a one-shot edge after a 67, but his record as a front-runner is tough to beat. Tiger Woods and [...]

Bottled water sales see a drought

Amid the recession, thrifty consumers have rediscovered another source for their third-favorite drink: the tap. [...]

Deputies’ sweep fails to net suspect in postgame violence near Staples Center

Three are arrested, but not the man seen on videotape vandalizing a bus after the Lakers won the NBA championship. [...]

Mich. prison assessed for possible Gitmo transfers (AP)

FILE - In this Friday, June 12, 2009 photo, Faith Bowerson, behind the sign, and her siblings Spencer, and Desiree, hold signs in support of the Standish prison in Standish, Mich. and their father Ray who has worked there for 20 years. Obama administration officials plan on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009  to tour the soon-to-be-shuttered Michigan state prison considered an option to hold terrorism suspects now detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. (AP Photo/The Bay City Times, Michael Randolph)AP – Federal and state officials visited a maximum-security prison in rural Michigan on Thursday to begin assessing its suitability to house Guantanamo Bay [...]

Rashied Ali, free-jazz drummer, dies in NYC at 76 (AP)

AP – Rashied Ali, a free-jazz drummer who backed John Coltrane and accompanied him in a duet album in the final months of the jazz master’s life, has died. He was [...]

Police standoff ends at LA federal building (AP)

Los Angeles Police officers remove a handcuffed suspect from his vehicle after a more than 7 hour standoff outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles, Thursday August 13,  2009. The man suspected of making threats against the White House has been extracted from his car after police shot out the window with a bean bag in the parking lot of the Federal Building. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP – A man suspected of making threats against the White House was pulled from his car Thursday after an hours-long standoff in the parking lot of the Federal Building in West Los [...]

San Francisco area rail union sets Monday strike (AP)

AP – The union representing train operators and station agents for the San Francisco Bay area’s commuter rail system said Thursday it would go on strike [...]

Busy New York skies have history of close calls (AP)

Investigators examine the wreckage of an airplane, right, that sits on a pier next to the the wreckage of a helicopter Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, in Hoboken, N.J. The two aircraft collided and fell into the Hudson River on Saturday killing nine people including three members of a Pennsylvania family in the private plane. Five Italian tourists and a pilot from New Jersey were in the helicopter. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP – When a small plane collided with a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River last week, it was only the second time in decades that crowded skies near Manhattan led to a midair [...]

Long-lost pilot’s remains returned to Florida (AP)

FILE - This a photo of Michael Scott Speicher made aboard the carrier USS Saratoga in June 18, 1990 when he was promoted to Lt. Commander. The remains of Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher were headed back to his Florida home Thursday, 18 years after his FA-18 Hornet was shot down on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991. (AP Photo/Barry Hull, File)     NO SALESAP – The remains of Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher returned to his Florida home on Thursday, 18 years after his FA-18 Hornet was shot down on the first night of the 1991 Gulf [...]

Fla. doc fired over ‘doughnuts equal death’ sign (AP)

Tim Hortons' doughnuts are lined up in a box in New York, Wednesday, July 22, 2009. The Canadian doughnut chain moved into 12 former Dunkin Donut locations earlier in the month, bringing new blood to the doughnut war in America's most competitive market. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP – Dr. Jason Newsom railed against burgers, french fries, fried chicken and sweet tea in his campaign to promote better eating in a part of the country known as the Redneck Riviera. He might still be leading the charge if he had only left the doughnuts [...]