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- PUBLIC EYE
A different 'ology'
Will Smith's soon-to-open private school in Los Angeles is not a Scientology facility, as some reports have suggested, the academy's director said.
- NOW READ THIS
Chinese woman creates rare private animal shelter
CHENGDU, China – The white short-haired mutt was found dragging his crushed hind legs through rubble-clogged streets after the massive earthquake devastated China's Sichuan province.
- THE LIST
Seasonal extremes
- This Day In History
The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act are passed to protect consumers from adulterated food, drugs and cosmetics. The legislation follows the publication of Upton Sinclair's “The Jungle,” which exposed atrocities in Chicago's meatpacking industry.
- WORLD
Zimbabwe's Mugabe inaugurated after discredited vote
HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe's longtime ruler Robert Mugabe was sworn in as president for a sixth term yesterday after a widely discredited runoff in which he was the lone candidate. His main rival dismissed the inauguration as “an exercise in self-delusion.”
Hours after electoral officials said Mugabe won Friday's presidential runoff, which observers said was marred by violence and intimidation, the 84-year-old leader sounded a conciliatory note.
- WORLD
Anglican conservatives to form new bloc
JERUSALEM – Anglican conservatives, frustrated by the continuing stalemate over homosexuality in the Anglican Communion, declared yesterday they would defy historic lines of authority and create a new power bloc within the Communion led by a council predominantly of African archbishops.
- 6 killed in copter collision
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Two medical helicopters collided yesterday afternoon about a half-mile from a northern Arizona hospital, killing six people and critically injuring a nurse, a federal official said.
- Crews still fighting 1,000 Calif. fires
SAN FRANCISCO – Firefighters battled more than a thousand wildfires burning throughout Northern California to a stalemate yesterday, but forecasters said dangerous fire conditions wouldn't disappear anytime soon.
- Plane crash kills all four on board
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Four people were killed when a plane crashed and exploded after striking power lines in a forested area 40 miles northwest of the Las Vegas Strip, authorities said yesterday.
- Photo: On parade with pride
- REGION UPDATE
Rescuers search for teen in river
BAKERSFIELD – Kern County rescue teams searched yesterday for a teenager who disappeared in the Kern River, the third person over the weekend to succumb to the river's swift currents.
- NATION UPDATE
Storms lash South; child dies at air show
A 5-year-old was killed when strong winds blew over a row of tents at an Alabama air show during storms that stretched across the South yesterday while severe weather caused airport delays in the East, officials said.
- Bear mauls teen in bike race
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A 14-year-old girl riding in a mountain bike race was attacked in the dark of night by a bear yesterday and was severely injured, but she was able to make a brief 911 call that eventually resulted in her rescue.
- New York's trans-fat ban about to take effect
NEW YORK – Making cannoli is serious business in New York. It's a dessert so tempting a hit man in “The Godfather” couldn't leave a box behind.
- U.S. officials advised Iraqis on oil contracts
A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies to develop some of the largest fields in Iraq, U.S. officials say.
- Guards shoot suicide bomber, set off explosives before she reaches target
BAGHDAD – Iraqi guards opened fire on a female suicide bomber yesterday and triggered her explosives before she reached their headquarters, foiling the latest of more than 20 suicide missions by women this year, military officials said.
- Daily developments
Military deaths: As of yesterday, at least 4,113 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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