Car smashes into doctors office, injuring five


Firefighters remove debris from a medical building after a car barreled through the front door Wednesday, injuring five people.(Photo/Salem,Mass., News)

By Stacie N. Galang
CNHI News Service

The right attacks American values

Stephen Dick

By Stephen Dick
CNHI News Service

Look out, here comes another Cheney to vomit on the Constitution. Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick, started Keep America Safe, called "a new right-wing noise machine," by Frank Rich in his New York Times column. And look again, she’s aided and abetted by the clueless neocon Bill Kristol who will stoop to any slimy message to prop up his ideology.

Keep America Safe formed after the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility shamefully decided that Bush administration torture advocates Jay Bybee and John Yoo exercised "poor judgment" when they advocated that torture was OK because the president could do what he wanted.

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Afghan uncertainty: Who do you trust?

Editorial: Afghan uncertainty
New Castle News
New Castle, Pa.

One of the difficulties of bringing stability to Afghanistan is the constantly changing political landscape.

Much of Afghanistan tends to be a collection of clans and regions, rather than a real nation. Warlords and tribal chieftains control vast territories. And most of them have no lasting loyalty to any higher authority.

What they really want is power and the money that comes with it — especially from the lucrative opium trade.

St. Patrick’s Day tradition kicks off with World’s Shortest Parade

By Michelle Fritz
CNHI News Service

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — In Niagara Falls, nothing is bigger on St. Patrick’s Day than the World’s Shortest Parade, and this year the record-breaking parade was shorter than ever.

Thieves drive off with nearly 4,000 pounds of copper wire

CNHI News Service

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. — Thieves that broke into a facility that housed copper wire and other metals had to work extra hard to get away with their heist.

Police said thieves broke into the National Grid facility early Wednesday and filled a pickup truck bed with about 4,000 pounds of copper wire valued at about $8,000.

When the pickup truck became stuck in mud, police said the thieves broke into a National Grid bucket truck and used it to help free the getaway vehicle.

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