LAGOS, Nigeria — A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation.
Steve Hartzler, 65, died Thursday (May 31, 2012) at his home on South Galena Road after an extended illness.
High School graduation is a once in a lifetime event that caps a journey from childhood though early adulthood. During Saturday’s Big Walnut High School graduation ceremony, district superintendent Steve Mazzi reminded the graduating seniors that they began that journey in 1999, when they were in kindergarten.
BEIRUT — Saying he is impatient and frustrated, special envoy Kofi Annan called on the Syrian president Friday to implement a U.N.-brokered peace plan following a horrific weekend massacre that killed more than 100 people.
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — The discouraging new unemployment numbers present President Barack Obama with a sobering reminder that an uneven recovery from the recession can be a fragile argument for his re-election. It’s all deepening his anxiety over the political and economic threat posed by the European debt crisis.
BOSTON — A battle over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman appears headed for the Supreme Court after an appeals court ruled Thursday that denying benefits to married gay couples is unconstitutional.
WASHINGTON — Top congressional Republicans made a new offer to President Barack Obama on Thursday in their fight over heading off a doubling of interest rates on federal college loans for 7.4 million students, proposing fresh ways to cover the effort’s $6 billion cost.
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday fell short in an effort to ban abortions based on the sex of the fetus as Republicans and Democrats made an election-year appeal for women’s votes.