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Venezuela, 18 other nations create food fund Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA -- Venezuela and 18 nations in the Americas have created a regional food fund to help ensure supplies for poor countries. The fund known as Petro Food is largely backed by a Venezuelan promise to donate five U.S. cents for every barrel of oil ...

Haiti's latest political crisis has cost the country millions in foreign aid, jobs and investments, and time lost. BY JACQUELINE CHARLES The $74 million contract to pave the rutted highway in Haiti's Central Plateau region should have been signed last month. American investors should be pouring in after Congress gave the ailing ...

By ANICK JESDANUN |  AP Internet Writer 3:28 PM CDT, July 30, 2008 NEW YORK (AP) _ A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations. Many researchers want to rethink the ...

Jim Leusner | Sentinel Staff Writer July 31, 2008 Before he committed suicide last month, Winter Park developer Steve Walsh stole at least $21.4 million from his business partners, a lawsuit alleges. Orlando-based Schrimsher & Co. and Schrimsher Investments Corp. are accusing Walsh of secretly misappropriating money in recent years from at least ...

Associated Press Published on: 07/31/08 Police have arrested a Gwinnett County man they say raped a 17-year-old girl while out of jail on a work release program. The man, who was arrested Wednesday, was a prisoner at the Gwinnett County Comprehensive Correctional Facility. He was released each day to go to work and ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire (GREG'-wahr) is taking it as a compliment: She was turned away from a bar in the state capital because she couldn't prove she's of legal age to drink. The 61-year-old governor and her staff had served burgers at the annual Capital Lakefair last weekend ...

Broward's police union endorsed Sheriff Al Lamberti for election a week after approving a contract with him, leading some to call it a conflict of interest. BY AMY SHERMAN Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti, who is running to keep one of the county's law enforcement jobs, got the endorsement on Wednesday of the ...

Gov. Schwarzenegger signs a law sponsored by the city of L.A. It requires convicted vandals to remove their scrawls and keep walls clean for a year. By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer July 31, 2008 SACRAMENTO -- At the urging of Los Angeles officials alarmed about graffiti defacing the city's many ...

BY OREN YANIV AND ALISON GENDAR DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Thursday, July 31st 2008, 12:33 AM A city cop caught on tape beating a handcuffed Army vet paused to take a phone call and then went right back to smashing the man with his baton, police sources told the Daily News. Officer David London, ...

From the Associated Press An Anaheim couple is accused of abusing and torturing their children, including binding their wrists and ankles and leaving them tied up for long periods, sometimes overnight. Authorities say Kimberly Quebe, 48, and John Quebe, 47, were arrested last week on 62 felony charges, including false imprisonment by ...