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LIBERTY COUNTY, Texas -- Dozens of bodies have been found in a mass grave in Liberty County, officials said Tuesday. The Liberty County Sheriff's Office said 25 to 30 bodies were buried at the intersection of County Roads 2049 and 2048 between Hardin and Daisetta. The bodies are those of children, according to preliminary reports. The FBI was called in to assist the investigation.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Airstrikes and ground operations by NATO and Afghan troops killed dozens of insurgents, including a senior Taliban leader who spearheaded attacks against security forces, the alliance said Thursday as the war in Afghanistan entered its 10th year. Sixteen militants were killed in air raids and ground fighting overnight in the Darqad, Yangi Qala and Khwaja Bahawuddin districts of Takhar province, Gen. Shah Jahan Noori, provincial police chief, told The Associated Press. More than a dozen insurgents were wounded. Northern Takhar has been the scene of escalating military operations in recent days, as NATO and Afghan forces step...

Chemical leak sickens dozens at Las Vegas poolBy the CNN Wire Staff August 27, 2010 7:01 p.m. EDT (CNN) -- A chemical leak in the pool area of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, sickened as many as 100 people Friday, sending 12 of them to local hospitals, according to a spokeswoman for Clark County. It was not immediately clear what kind of chemical was responsible for the fumes, which caused some of the hotel's guests to have difficulty breathing, said Clark County spokeswoman Stacey Welling. About 200 people were evacuated from the area, Welling said. Video of...

(CBS) Tammy and Troy Renault Look like any middle class couple, but someone else is living what used to be their home. Almost everything they own is in storage, reports CBS News correspondent Seth Doane. Now, home for the Renaults and their four kids is a campsite - a tent and a borrowed trailer. Troy said that how they ended up there is Economics 101. When he lost his job with a construction company and had trouble finding work on his own, the bills piled up, and everything else came crashing down. "You go from 'do you pay your lights...

(IsraelNN.com) Fire fighters in northern Israel fought dozens of blazes that broke out during the day Wednesday, most of them around noontime. A source in the Hadera Fire Services told News1 that due to the fact that numerous fires broke out in a relatively limited area, the working assumption is that they were deliberately set. “We still do not know how the fires were set and we do not have details about the arsonist or arsonists,” he said.

STEPHENVILLE, Texas - In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO. Several dozen people — including a pilot, county constable and business owners — insist they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some reported seeing fighter jets chasing it. "People wonder what in the world it is because this is the Bible Belt, and everyone is afraid it's the end of times," said Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw...

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi military on Tuesday took a hard stance against 33 foreigners and 10 Iraqis detained after a shooting involving their convoy run by a U.S.-contracted firm in Baghdad, saying they were accused of opening fire randomly and wounding an Iraqi woman. The U.S. military said that the convoy belonged to Almco Group, an Iraqi-run company that has contracts with U.S.-led forces, but that it was unclear if those detained were operating under the auspices of those contracts or others when the shooting occurred Monday. "We are steadfastly against any security company that behaves recklessly when it comes...

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. – Overnight rain and cooler temperatures slowed a wildfire that had raced out of a canyon, destroyed 27 houses and killed a homeowner who went back to try to save his belongings, a top fire official said early Monday. The change in weather gave firefighters a chance to shore up their fire lines, though conditions could shift again for the worse, state wildland fire coordinator Joe Lowe told crews at a morning briefing held in light rain. “This fire is not over yet,” he cautioned. “This fire could come back to life again.” The blaze was started...

The state Assembly is voting on hundreds of bills each day this week as lawmakers rush to meet a Friday deadline to send legislation to the Senate, which did not meet Tuesday. Here are some of the bills acted upon: GLOBAL WARMING - By a 44-26 vote, the Assembly sent the Senate a bill by Assemblyman John Laird, D-Santa Cruz, that would require coastal cities and counties to consider the impact of rising sea levels brought on by global warming when they amend their general plans. "If we bury our heads in the sand on this one we will drown,"...

WASHINGTON, May 6, 2007 – Iraqi and coalition forces detained 26 suspects and seized multiple weapons caches in Iraq during several recent operations in the country, and terrorist bombers continued to strike against Iraqi civilians and security forces today. Raids today targeting al Qaeda, a foreign fighter facilitation network and bombing networks, netted 13 suspects. Coalition forces detained four individuals northeast of Karmah for suspected involvement in facilitating the movement of foreign fighters into Iraq. Four more suspected terrorists with alleged ties to the al Qaeda network were detained in the town of Hit, and coalition forces detained an...

Dozens feared dead in Solomon Islands tsunami Staff and agencies Monday April 2, 2007 Guardian Unlimited (UK) Dozens of people were feared dead today in the Solomon Islands after an undersea earthquake caused a powerful tsunami to sweep across the low-lying South Pacific nation. The quake, and a series of aftershocks, prompted a tsunami alert across much of the Pacific region, with beaches closed and ferries cancelled as far away as Sydney amid fears of a disaster on the scale of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, which killed more than 250,000 people. Although the alert elsewhere was scaled...

An Iraq Army Sgt. Maj. (left) yells out final instructions to the troops of 4th Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, prior to pass and review July 13. The 4/1-4 Iraqi Army conducted a turn-over of authority of Forwarding Operating Base O'Ryan and surrounding area south of Balad, Iraq, from the U.S. Army's 1-8 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jeremy L. Wood) BAGHDAD – Because of the increasing abilities of Iraqi security forces, Coalition forces have been able to transfer to Iraqi control dozens of forward...

About 75 illegal immigrants were found Tuesday in the desert about 50 miles west of Phoenix, many suffering from dehydration and exhaustion from triple-digit heat, authorities said. Seven immigrants and three sheriff's deputies were taken to hospitals for treatment, said Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Officers used a helicopter, canine units and all-terrain vehicles and conducted foot patrols to search for others believed to be in the area, officials said. "We know they're still out there because there's sounds in the brush," said Lt. Paul Chagolla, a sheriff's department spokesman. "We can hear them. They've hunkered down." Lt. Chuck Siemens,...

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2006 – One Canadian army officer was killed and three Afghan National Army soldiers were wounded in an operation yesterday in the Panjway district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province. Eighteen Taliban extremists were killed and 26 captured in the operation. A combined joint task force of Afghan National Police, Afghan National Army and Canadian forces from Task Force Orion conducted the intelligence-based combat operation, U.S. officials said. The operation, which targeted extremists who had infiltrated a series of villages in Panjway, began before dawn and lasted well into the night. "The combined force conducted a successful, complex fight...

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2006 – Coalition forces killed more than 40 terrorists and detained 13 suspected terrorists in various raids May 13 and yesterday throughout Iraq, military officials in Iraq reported. Coalition forces conducted a coordinated ground and air attack against an enemy safe haven in Yusifiyah yesterday, killing more than 25 terrorists, detaining four, and destroying three safe houses and a vehicle loaded with weapons and ammunition. Upon initiating the attack in the afternoon, coalition troops immediately killed two terrorists in response to hostile activity from a suspected safe house and an associated vehicle. Once the threat was suppressed...

MIAMI (March 17) - A growing scandal over teachers who paid to get credit for courses they never took has cost nearly three dozen educators their jobs, and hundreds of others were being investigated. The Miami-Dade County School Board voted 5-4 on Wednesday to fire six teachers and accept resignations from 26 others. The punishments stem from a scam run by former high school teacher William McCoggle, who claimed to offer continuing-education classes through a private company. McCoggle pleaded guilty to fraud in November, admitting he did little more than sell transcripts, requiring no tests, homework or other academic work....

Dozens killed in Pakistan clashes Tens of thousands of soldiers face tribal militants in the mountains Pakistani troops have killed dozens of pro-Taleban militants near the border with Afghanistan, officials say. Pakistani officials said 46 militants and three soldiers were killed in the fighting, though local reports said the death toll might be 70 or above. Hundreds of people are said to have fled the clashes in North Waziristan. Tribal militants attacked army troops, apparently retaliating for an attack on a suspected al-Qaeda camp earlier in the week, which killed up to 45 people. The latest fighting started on Saturday...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A team of scientists exploring an isolated jungle in one of Indonesia's most remote provinces said they discovered dozens of new species of frogs, butterflies and plants — as well as large mammals hunted to near extinction elsewhere. The team also found wildlife that were remarkably unafraid of humans during their rapid assessment survey of the Foja Mountains, which has more than two million acres of old growth tropical forest, Bruce Beehler, a co-leader of the monthlong trip, said in announcing the discoveries on Tuesday. Two Long-Beaked Echidnas, a primitive egg-laying mammal, simply allowed scientists to pick...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Municipal workers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala found remains believed to be from a mass grave dating to 1991, when Saddam Hussein's regime put down a Shiite uprising in the south. Also, more than 10,000 people marched through Baghdad in support of a national unity government of Sunnis and Shiites, while insurgent attacks killed six Iraqi policemen and two civilians in a fresh surge of violence. The remains were discovered Monday and were sent for testing Tuesday in an effort to identify the bodies, said Rahman Mashawy, a Karbala police spokesman. He did not say...

Between forkfuls of angel-hair pasta, Metra engineer Mike Smith calmly told his story Monday, detail by agonizing detail, of the ill-fated Rock Island line train that jumped the tracks under his control. At Nick and Tony's restaurant downtown, Smith talked to reporters for the first time, saying he was sorry that his passengers -- "the most precious cargo" -- suffered and died in the horrific crash. But last month's derailment that killed two women and injured dozens of others was not his fault, he said. "I can say I'm sorry even though I had nothing to do with it," said...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - A state Senate committee shelved nearly five dozen spending bills Thursday, including measures to pay for clean air projects, replace aging school buses and expand education programs for state prison inmates. The action came as lawmakers get ready to negotiate a state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The Senate Appropriations Committee took up more than 230 bills that had some significant fiscal impact, sending most of them to the full Senate for votes next week, some with amendments that reduced their cost. The approved bills included a measure by Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Dozens of bills, including proposals to build more toll roads, control plant and animal pests and require satellite monitoring of high-risk sex offenders, were shelved Wednesday as an Assembly committee pared down spending measures. At the same time, the Appropriations Committee approved bills to recognize gay marriages, allow doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients and raise the state minimum wage. The committee held up more than a third of 506 bills that would have a significant impact on state spending or revenue and cut the cost of many of the measures it sent to the full Assembly....

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The last time Sonia Eid saw her son Jihad was 14 years ago, when she watched from a distance as the Lebanese army corporal, blindfolded and bound to a line of other prisoners, was led into interrogation at Syria's notorious Mazzeh prison. He is just one of dozens of Lebanese who human rights groups say are still being held as political prisoners in Syrian jails, something Syria's government denies. Eid said her son was 20 when he was captured by the Syrian army on Oct. 13, 1990, the day that Lebanon's long civil war ended as...

U.S. Forces Conduct Raids in Mosul Sun Jan 16,11:48 AM ET By JASON KEYSER, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces carried out a series of raids in Iraq's troubled northern city of Mosul, the military said Sunday, as American and Iraqi authorities scramble to prepare for elections there in the face of mass resignations of polling staff and police. A Bradley Fighting Vehicle was damaged Sunday in the city when an explosion occurred as a U.S. convoy passed by, witnesses said. It was unclear whether there were casualties. U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz acknowledged that the security...

Federal prosecutors in Virginia yesterday charged 26 persons in a nationwide investigation of the fraudulent issuance of green cards, driver's licenses, passports, Social Security cards and other identification papers to thousands of Indonesian immigrants now living illegally throughout the United States. U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty said the fraudulent documents allowed the immigrants for a substantial fee to obtain a wide variety of government benefits, including asylum. Mr. McNulty said the charges resulted from a two-year investigation into the illegal practices of Indonesian immigration brokers and consultants operating in Northern Virginia and Maryland. He identified them as the Chinese Indonesian...

Dozens of people marched Friday to protest Israeli and U.S. policies toward Palestinians."Arafat was obviously a hero for the Palestinian people, the man fought for 40 years," said protester Tom Jacobs, 52, an unemployed construction worker from Detroit. Demonstrators carried signs with slogans such as "Zionism is racism" and "U.S. hands off Muslim land."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcers have arrested dozens in a crackdown on "spam" e-mail, identity theft and other fraudulent online activity, a person involved in the investigation said Wednesday. The U.S. Justice Department (news - web sites) was expected to announce details of the sweep at a press conference on Thursday. The department declined to comment before then. Congress outlawed many forms of unsolicited bulk e-mail last year, but spam continues to swamp Internet users with unwanted pitches for pornography, questionable medicine and suspiciously low mortgage rates. Unsolicited bulk e-mail accounted for 65 percent of all e-mail traffic, according...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Warning of renewed military attacks if arm-twisting fails, Pakistani security forces detained dozens of tribesmen Saturday after tribal elders failed to register and disarm foreign militants suspected of links to the Taliban and al-Qaida. The crackdown also included the seizures of vehicles and closings of businesses. It focused on the Ahmedzai Wazir tribe in South Waziristan, a region bordering Afghanistan and a possible refuge for extremists, including Osama bin Laden and his chief aide, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Pakistani authorities took the action after a compromise reached with tribal elders in the semiautonomous region two months ago broke...

How al-Qa'ida has split into dozens of autonomous, hard-to-find 'franchises' By Kim Sengupta 22 November 2003 The Afghan war was meant to deprive al-Qa'ida of the protection of its Taliban allies and destroy it as a fighting force. But the Istanbul bombings are the latest example of how the organisation has reinvented itself to continue its jihad. Al-Qai'da has proved to be a many-headed hydra. One was decapitated in Afghanistan, with many of Osama bin Laden's senior lieutenants killed or captured, and much of its financial resources uncovered and blocked. But the organisation has now sprung up again in a...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq — American troops raided homes and farmhouses in the hostile "Sunni triangle" (search) west and north of Baghdad on Sunday, detaining dozens of people believed to be supporters of Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>Twenty-four regime loyalists, including a "targeted leader," were captured in the raids conducted by the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment (search), according to U.S. Central Command. It provided no details on the identities of the captives.</p>

Dozens of Israeli Tanks Sweep Into Nablus; 2 Killed Thu Aug 1,10:13 PM ET NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - More than 100 Israeli tanks swept into the West Bank city of Nablus and opened fire with machineguns early Friday, killing two Palestinians, witnesses said, in apparent retaliation for a Jerusalem bombing. Tanks and armored vehicles, which had formed part of a force that had kept Nablus surrounded and under curfew for weeks, pushed deep into the Palestinian-ruled northern West Bank city under cover of darkness, the Palestinian witnesses said. The massive incursion was launched two days after militants from the...