Fireworks for tonight's Nashville show stolen - Nashville Tennessean
Pub. Date - Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:20:00 GMT
Nashville police are investigating the theft of fireworks from the city's planned Fourth of July fireworks show on the banks of the Cumberland River. Police said three shells from a 4-inch long canister and two from a 5-inch-long canister were taken ...

Holiday violence leaves city on edge - Boston Globe
Pub. Date - Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:01:00 GMT
A teenager fatally shot in the head at a holiday cookout in Hyde Park, the crackle of gunshots and firecrackers mingling in the evening air. A 20-year-old killed in a drive-by shooting, gunned down outside his Roxbury home. A homeless man brazenly ...

'I know they kill each other. But they're human beings' - Chicago Sun-Times
Pub. Date - Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:01:00 GMT
Johannes Brahms intermezzo floats from a grand piano out a first-floor window in Little Village and floods the front stoop. » Click to enlarge image Despite being surrounded by violence on an almost daily basis, these residents of some of Chicago's ...

1,000 protest G-8 summit in Japan; police arrest 4 - BusinessWeek
Pub. Date - Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:41:00 GMT
More than 1,000 people marched in northern Japan on Saturday to protest an upcoming summit of the top industrialized countries, and police arrested four protesters after a brief scuffle. No injuries were reported. Demonstrators gathered at a park in ...

Event hits all the right notes - Des Moines Register
Pub. Date - Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:54:00 GMT
Families and individuals joined together under the summer sun, and barefooted hippies stood beside young professionals in designer clothes as Des Moines' 80/35 Music Festival closed out its inaugural weekend Saturday. Event organizers estimated 30 ...

Pakistan Islamists vow jihad year after mosque siege - Reuters India
Pub. Date - Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:14:00 GMT
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Pakistani Islamists vowed support for jihad, or Muslim holy war, on Sunday as they gathered at a mosque in the capital, Islamabad, to mark the first anniversary of an army raid on the complex. More than 100 people ...

More than 10 dead in blast near Pakistan mosque - Reuters Africa
Pub. Date - Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:01:00 GMT
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed more than 10 people and wounded 22 in an attack on police who had been guarding Islamists marking the anniversary of an army commando raid on the Red Mosque in Pakistan's capital, police said. Senior ...

On the record with Don Howard - Northwest Herald
Pub. Date - Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:43:00 GMT
Don Howard has an entire wall of plaques in the basement of his McHenry home given to him for his service in various community, charity and service organizations. His résumé is a long one: lifelong resident of McHenry, school board member for 18 ...

Tennessee News Stories and Articles - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Pub. Date - Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:43:00 GMT
Tenn. inmate freed after 22 years on death row NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A former death row inmate was freed from a Nashville prison Wednesday for the first time in nearly 23 years after an anonymous donor paid his bail... HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Bus stops ...

Oddly Enough - Reuters - Yahoo News
Pub. Date - Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:01:00 GMT
BERLIN (Reuters) - A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum Saturday, police said. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A sculpture of the signing of the Declaration of Independence ...