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War for mobile messaging is on
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amSAN FRANCISCO — WhatsApp is one of Silicon Valley’s most buzzed-about companies, yet it actively avoids the spotlight, operating out of a small office in Mountain View, Calif., with no sign on the...
Kerry urges Nigeria to restrain army in fight against Islamists
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Nigeria to ensure its army does not violate human rights as it pursues radical Islamists in the northeast region.
“We are also...
Fractured rail possible cause of train crash
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amRuling out foul play, federal investigators were looking at a fractured rail as the possible cause of the Connecticut train crash that left dozens of commuters injured and is expected to disrupt...
Are multiple concussions driving suicides in the military?
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amLOS ANGELES — The U.S. military has faced two epidemics over the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
One is suicide. The annual rate of military personnel taking their own lives has...
Navy dolphins discover rare old torpedo off Calif. coast near Coronado
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amSAN DIEGO — In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a...
Mental illness in youth: a common struggle
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3 percent to be...
Republicans try to link IRS scandal, health reform
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans attempted to connect the Internal Revenue Service scandal to the Obama administration’s controversial health-care-reform law in a Saturday response to the president’...
Obama responds to criticism with ‘fix it’ strategy
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — At a news conference in a rainy Rose Garden on Thursday, President Barack Obama and the Turkish prime minister had weighty matters to discuss — the bloody civil war in Syria, a...
N. Korea fires short-range missiles off its east coast
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amBEIJING — North Korea fired three short-range missiles off its east coast Saturday, following through on months of threats to conduct a missile launch.
The South Korean Defense Ministry...
Durrin 5 generation photo
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amThis is a five generation photo for my grandmother, Lillian Durrin. She lives at Montesano Health and Rehab. In the photo is Lillian, her son Barry Durrin of Aberdeen, granddaughter Jennifer...
