Charles McArthur Emmanuel, also known as Charles "Chuckie" Taylor Jr., was convicted of torture, firearms and conspiracy charges on the second day of jury deliberations. He faces life in prison, with sentencing set for Jan. 9.

Big banks have formed an unusual alliance with consumer advocates to urge the government to allow huge portions of credit-card debt to be forgiven, a turnabout from recent years when the banking industry lobbied strenuously to make it harder for

San Diego's Cerro Negro comes to Old Town Artisans, 201 N. Court Ave., Downtown for a powerful evening of flamenco rhythms Saturday night.

Iran plunged this week into a storm of political recrimination, largely directed at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as officials and ordinary Iranians realized with shock that the Islamic republic faces a severe economic crisis of its own.

The controversy that would rock her office over the murder of a local doctor was two weeks from exploding onto the front page.

CCC work honored at Colossal Cave

Ex-UW staffer sets himself on fire

The Nanfang Daily said it was an "open secret" in the industry that melamine scrap is being repackaged into an inexpensive product called "protein powder" that is sold to food suppliers.

He's going left," Robinson said.

Sporadic gunfire could still be heard Thursday night in Goma, the provincial capital of eastern Congo, but the city was calm for much of the day.

A teenage volunteer discovered the curved shard bearing five lines of faded characters in July in the ruins of an ancient town on a hilltop south of Jerusalem. Yossi Garfinkel, the Israeli archaeologist leading the excavations at Hirbet Qeiyafa, released

And they are ranked fifth in the Pac-10 in total offense.

But Weedon did not keep the secret for long.

But the good news was quickly tempered by NASA's announcement Thursday that a mission to upgrade the popular telescope will be delayed at least until May.

SWAT Officer John Malovich shot Richard Lee Clark, 49, after Clark refused to drop his handgun during a confrontation with officers inside his room north of Downtown, authorities said.

That's the premise that launches Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," which Pima Community College Theatre Arts opens next week.

The company staged the Samuel Beckett play in February and it quickly sold out. It added an additional weekend, and that quickly sold out as well.

The scale and planning behind the 13 blasts surprised authorities, who struggled to determine who was behind the attacks — among the worst in a region plagued by separatism, ethnic violence and Islamic militants.