| US airstrikes targeting northern Iraq Posted: 21 Aug 2014 09:21 AM PDT  MIlitary's Central Command said focus is on Islamic militants in area of Mosul and area of key dam.
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| ISIL asked $132.5 million for James Foley, says official Posted: 21 Aug 2014 09:28 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says the Islamic State militants who beheaded American journalist James Foley in Syria had demanded $132.5 million — or 100 million Euros— in ransom for his release.
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| Hostess to close bakery where Twinkie was born Posted: 21 Aug 2014 09:45 AM PDT  Hostess Brands plans to close the suburban Chicago bakery where the Twinkie was invented in 1930, cutting 400 jobs and shuttering a piece of American baking history. The company said Wednesday it plans ...
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| Hostess to close bakery where Twinkie was born Posted: 21 Aug 2014 07:20 AM PDT  ·Hostess to close Schiller Park Twinkie plant ·Status update: buildings old and new ·No casino for Wabash and no walkway for you ·Grant DePorter buys $1.5 million River North condo ·Chicago ranks highest in distressed property sales ·Why sell...
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| First Malaysian bodies headed home from Ukraine crash Posted: 21 Aug 2014 08:54 AM PDT  A plane carrying the bodies of 20 Malaysian victims of flight MH17, which crashed in Ukraine in July, took off from Amsterdam for Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, Dutch media reported. There was no ceremony for the departure from Schiphol airport, local news agency ANP reported, with the plane to land in Malaysia on Friday, which has been declared a day of national mourning. The plane will be met by Malaysia's king, prime minister and other dignitaries accompanied by a minute of silence at Kuala Lumpur's main international airport, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said last week. The Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine on July 17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, killing all 298 on board.
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| State Department: No ice bucket challenges for diplomats Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:18 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The charity stunt has lured athletes, celebrities, politicians and rock stars and gone viral on the Internet, but don't look for U.S. diplomats to get in on the fun.
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| Woman said to try framing husband by downloading child porn Posted: 21 Aug 2014 08:22 AM PDT  INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman has been found guilty of downloading child pornography in a failed attempt to frame her estranged husband.
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| 2 aid workers treated for Ebola released Posted: 21 Aug 2014 08:46 AM PDT  Doctors at Emory hospital say Dr. Kent Brantly, missionary Nancy Writebol clear of virus.
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| 9 detainees from former US-run Afghan prison return home Posted: 21 Aug 2014 08:27 AM PDT  Nine Pakistani detainees have returned home from Afghanistan's Bagram prison, a group representing them said Thursday, as US-led international forces prepare to withdraw from the country by the end of the year. Afghan authorities took over the detention facility for militants in 2013, renaming it Parwan, but the US remains in charge of foreigners and there are believed to be around 15 Pakistanis still in custody. "The families of the detainees have been informed by the International Red Cross (ICRC) that their loved ones have been handed over to the Pakistani authorities," a statement by the Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), which has been pursuing Islamabad to secure their release, said. It described one of the nine men as a 39-year-old businessman from the northwestern city of Abbottabad, who disappeared on a visit to Afghanistan in 2008.
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| To lure flyers back, United goes for the gut Posted: 21 Aug 2014 07:18 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — To win the hearts of frequent business travelers, United Airlines is going through their stomachs.
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| UK Muslims condemn Foley murder, offer ID help Posted: 21 Aug 2014 08:22 AM PDT  By Kate Holton and William James LONDON (Reuters) - British Muslim leaders urged people to contact police if they knew the identity of the man with an English accent who appeared in a video showing the beheading of an American journalist. The Muslim Council of Britain, the largest Muslim umbrella group in the country, condemned the "abhorrent murder" of James Foley in Syria and called for united action by Muslims to stop the "poison of extremism" infiltrating their communities. Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday it looked increasingly likely that the man in the Islamic State video was British, one of hundreds who have traveled to Syria to fight. "We are horrified at the abhorrent murder of James Foley, a reporter who initially went to the region to expose the human rights abuses of the Syrian regime." Iqbal Sacranie, an adviser to the council, told London's Evening Standard newspaper that anyone who recognized the man had a duty to contact police.
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| 'Today is a miraculous day' Posted: 21 Aug 2014 09:08 AM PDT  Dr. Kent Brantly, aid worker infected with Ebola in Africa, released along with 2nd patient from Atlanta hospital.
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| Muslim extremists Boko Haram take over another Nigeria town Posted: 21 Aug 2014 07:53 AM PDT  Boko Haram has seized control of a town in northeastern Nigeria, the latest to fall into Islamist hands in the crisis-hit region, witnesses and a local official said Thursday. Several residents who fled the Boko Haram assault on Buni Yadi in Yobe state said it began late last month, with the insurgents ultimately taking over the main government building. They have reportedly raised their flag above the building and have carried out summary executions, including of two people who were caught smoking cigarettes. Abdullahi Bego, the spokesman for Yobe's Governor Ibrahim Geidam, could not confirm the executions.
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| Foster brothers and sister reunited, twice Posted:  A family's journey from special summer camp to permanent home.
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| DOJ opens investigation on Foley's death Posted: 21 Aug 2014 07:10 AM PDT US AG Eric Holder takes death of journalist James Foley, beheaded by Islamic State, to criminal realm. |
| Massive Calif. drought kills honey production Posted: 21 Aug 2014 08:30 AM PDT  California's record drought hasn't been sweet to honeybees, and it's creating a sticky situation for beekeepers and honey buyers. The state is traditionally one of the country's largest honey producers, ...
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| US tourist a victim of floods in Nepal Posted: 21 Aug 2014 07:36 AM PDT  KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An American tourist died trying to cross a flooded river in Nepal on Thursday, and two people were missing from a crowded boat that capsized on another river swollen by monsoon rains in the Himalayan country.
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| How German neo-Nazi hunt became complete disaster Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:38 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Police and security services in Germany's eastern state of Thuringia bungled the hunt for three neo-Nazis, who years later turned out to be the main suspects in a far-right murder spree, according to an official report published Thursday.
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| Amy Winehouse to get a statue Posted: 21 Aug 2014 05:33 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Amy Winehouse is to be commemorated with a statue in the London neighborhood where she lived and worked.
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| Matt Bai: We want our politicians to act like LBJ, but not really Posted: 21 Aug 2014 01:38 AM PDT  The problem with Barack Obama is that he just doesn't love the full contact sport of politics. He has no capacity for the inside machinations or tactical brutality we associate with a more sophisticated and celebrated president
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| McDonald's in Russia's crosshairs Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:14 AM PDT  Food safety agency to investigate chain in Urals after 4 Moscow branches shuttered.
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| US doc treated with experimental Ebola drug recovers Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:30 AM PDT  By Rich Mckay ATLANTA, (Reuters) - Two American aid workers who just weeks ago were gravely ill with Ebola they contracted in Liberia now pose no health risk to the public after being cleared of the virus and released from an Atlanta hospital, one of their doctors said on Thursday. Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, who both contracted the deadly virus while working for Christian organizations, were discharged after blood tests showed no evidence of the virus and eased symptoms, said Dr. Bruce Ribner, medical director of the infectious disease unit at Emory University Hospital. "Nancy is free of the virus, but the lingering effects of the battle have left her in a significantly weakened condition," her husband, David Writebol, said in a statement.
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| Senior Hamas official says group abducted Israeli teens Posted: 21 Aug 2014 05:18 AM PDT  By Noah Browning RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) - A top Hamas official said members of his militant group kidnapped three Israeli teenagers whose deaths in June provoked a spiral of violence that led to the war in Gaza, the first acknowledgement of the movement's involvement. Hamas, which controls Gaza, has up to now refused to confirm or deny Israeli accusations that it masterminded the abduction and killing of the three young men, one of them a joint U.S.-Israeli citizen, in Hebron. "The popular will was exercised throughout our occupied land, and culminated in the heroic operation by the Qassam Brigades in imprisoning the three settlers in Hebron," he said, referring to Hamas's armed wing. Jewish seminary students Eyal Yifrach, 19, and Gilad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel, both 16, were abducted while hitchhiking in the Israeli occupied West Bank on June 12 and killed.
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| Sicilian hilltop houses on sale for one euro, great view included Posted: 20 Aug 2014 11:56 AM PDT  It's an offer you can't refuse: rustic abodes in a picturesque hilltop village on the island of Sicily, once home to Italian peasants and their donkeys, are up for sale for just one euro. Hewn into the Madonie mountains and dotted throughout the town of Gangi, the houses were left empty after their owners emigrated in the 1920s.
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| Foley's death isn't changing views in Congress Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:09 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — For all its horror, the beheading of an American journalist in Syria appears unlikely to change lawmakers' minds about military intervention against Islamic State extremists. It's equally unclear whether the Obama administration will be asking them to back a new U.S. approach. |
| 2 American Ebola patients released from hospital Posted: 21 Aug 2014 09:06 AM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — At least one of the two American aid workers who were infected with the Ebola virus was to be discharged Thursday from an Atlanta hospital, a spokeswoman for the aid group he was working for said. |
| Cool Map Thing: Philly 'Hoods Most 'Walkable Yet Affordable' In The Nation Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:44 AM PDT  Overlapped map of affodability (yellow) and walkability (blue) via Munson's City Some dude named Dave Munson loves himself some math. The only things he probably loves more are his family, budgeting his money and a high walkscore. Actually the last...
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| The Shutter: Campus Burger Stalwart Players Will Shutter in November Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:43 AM PDT  UT will lose an essential late night drunk burger destination: longtime campus restaurant Players will shutter in November. After Reddit rumored the move, CultureMap confirmed the closure with Players co-owner Carlos Oliveira. The University of Texas purchased the land...
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| Temple University student assaulted on move-in day Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:41 AM PDT  Temple University says it is investigating a reported attack on a student that allegedly included what the school called "religious slurs."
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| Vital Updates: Paulie Gee's Places Portland Expansion Plans on Hold Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:41 AM PDT  Photo of Paulie Gee's Brooklyn courtesy Krieger/Eater NY In late 2013, pizza fans salivated over the news that Brooklyn pizza legend Paulie Gee's would be expanding to Portland with a ringer manning its ovens: pizza enthusiast Adam Kuban, the...
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| Eater Histories: The Strange History of Frozen Food: From Clarence Birdseye to the Distinguished Order of Zerocrats Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:40 AM PDT  Gregory Ng is a marketing agency creative director from North Carolina and the self-proclaimed "Frozen Food Master." He doesn't like pickles — especially the frozen kind — and as the dedicated host to the Youtube frozen food review series...
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| The Shutter: Century-Old Jerabek's New Bohemian Bakery Closes Again Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:39 AM PDT  The St. Paul bakery had stood on these grounds for over one hundred years, but Monday, August 18, was Jerabek's New Bohemian's final day of business. Things were bleak last year when it was first announced that the bakery would...
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| Tennis - Injured Isner pulls out of Winston-Salem Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:39 AM PDT  - Two-time champion John Isner withdrew from the US Open tune-up event at Winston-Salem on Thursday with a left ankle injury. The American was due to play Lukas Rosol in the quarter-finals on Thursday, but pulled out with the injury suffered in his win over Mikhail Kukushkin on Wednesday. "I am extremely disappointed to have to withdraw from the Winston-Salem Open, one of my favorite stops of the year," said Isner, who hails from North Carolina. It wasn't yet clear if the injury would affect 29-year-old Isner's appearance in the US Open, which starts on Monday in New York.
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| Manziel, Browns agree he's not ready to start Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:39 AM PDT  BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Johnny Manziel pulled off his orange helmet, dropped to his left knee and watched from the side as Brian Hoyer worked with Cleveland's starting offense during practice.
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| Foley death underlines Western agony of ransom payment Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:38 AM PDT  James Foley's beheading underscores the agonising dilemma governments face in hostage situations: paying a ransom that funds kidnappers and encourages more hostage-taking or refusing and risking the US journalist's fate. For a long time, the United States and Britain have refused to allow any money to change hands while other European countries -- including France -- have paid up, although this is officially denied. A source who took part in efforts to free James Foley, who did not wish to be identified, said that after months of uncertainty over his whereabouts, the hostage's family received a letter demanding an unrealistic ransom of $100 million (75 million euros). We saw that recently in Afghanistan where they freed Guantanamo prisoners in exchange for their captured soldier," said Alain Chouet, a former top official at France's DGSE external intelligence service.
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| Local Landmarks: First Fatburger Incorporated Into New Jefferson Park Housing Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:36 AM PDT  Yes, you're seeing that right: that is a Fatburger worked into this Streamline Moderne-inspired development from affordable housing provider Mercy Housing California. But it's not just any Fatburger—it's the very first one,...
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| Russian student worker missing in US national park Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:36 AM PDT  MOOSE, Wyoming (AP) — U.S. authorities searched Thursday for a Russian college student reported missing after failing to turn up at his summer job in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
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| Hottest Trainer 2014: It's Time to Vote On Your Favorite Hottest Trainer Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:36 AM PDT  Image via Erin Williams Yes, the time has come. Today, we kick off voting to select this year's hottest trainer. Facing off today are four contestants: Karen Smith, Jen Ratan, Jarrell Young and Erin Williams. Vote the comments section below,...
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| Of 163 arrests since shooting, 7 from Ferguson Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:35 AM PDT  FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Unrest in Ferguson since Michael Brown's death has resulted in 163 arrests in the area where protesters have gathered nightly, and although the majority of those arrested are Missourians just seven live in the St. Louis suburb where the shooting occurred, authorities said Thursday.
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