WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Pet shelters in the Washington area have not been affected by the contaminated pet food that sickened animals around the country and triggered a major product recall. Other shelters around the country found themselves short of pet food after the Food and Drug Administration recalled more than 100 brands due to suspected contamination. However, the problem was so widespread and went undetected for so long that Crist has drafted legislation that would require tighter...

Paul Raymond, whose belief in "courtesy and common sense" in education became the touchstone principle of the Northwest School -- a Seattle institution he co-founded nearly 30 years ago -- died Thursday after a brief illness. The three met while teaching together in California and hatched the idea of a school run by teachers who would provide a foundation for young people to go out and change the world. Raymond, who had been a history teacher, wanted to build a learning institute that...

It is the fervent hope of this old friend of Mick's that somehow that charisma, combined with Mick's spiritual knowledge of death's impending harvest - and hopeful repentance - impressed God enough to grant salvation to his soul. But he had a strange pride in his faults, causing him to show the article around town, cherry-picking the parts about his sports heroics and, oddly, bragging that "it's all true. The desired effect was that he would grasp the realities of his life, causing him to...

Bob Woolmer was not murdered and died of heart failure, says a group of Scotland Yard detectives, who were assisting the Jamaican Police into investigations, a leading local daily claimed today. The Sunday Gleaner newspaper said that according to a pathology report submitted by the Scotland Yard team the former Pakistan cricket coach died of natural causes and not manual strangulation as was initially reported by Jamaican Police Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields. The Sunday Gleaner...

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The US government has forecasted that the world reserves of wheat, before next year s harvest, will decline for a third-straight year to the lowest level in 26 years.

Growers warned to be vigilant as UK wheat pests threaten crops Wheat growers in the UK have been warned their crops are at risk from

Nix was a bricklayer for years, until he was hurt in an accident and retired early from the career he chose as a young man. Although proud of his accomplishments, Nix had some advice for today's high school students: &#8220My idea is that life will be a whole lot more beneficial and, even, more profitable, and they'll lead a better life if they get an education. Nix was in the work force for years before deciding to get a degree. The ceremony was broadcast to his son's military unit in...

The latest unsettling news about the widening melamine scandal...hat fish meal used at state fish hatcheries and other fish-rearing...