In Brief - May 12, 2008
Around the Northwest
- Puget Sound wetlands are disappearing.
- Despite restraining orders, 3 different women have become victims of domestic violence in King County recent weeks.
- Ada County, Idaho is facing the challenges of development.
- An Oregon woman becomes the first female brewmaster to win the coveted World Beer Cup award.
- A growing and alarming number of U.S. veterans are committing suicide.
- Former Republican Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia announced that he is running for President as a Libertarian. Barr was one of the House leaders who pushed the impeachment of President Clinton.
- Federal immigration agents have raided a meat plant in Iowa this morning.
- Thousands have been killed as a 7.8 earthquake hit China.
- Fighting continues between government forces and pro-Syrian gunmen in Beirut.
- World levels of carbon dioxide are at a record high.
- 1780 - British forces take Charleston, South Carolina during the American Revolution.
- 1949 - The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
- 2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter becomes the first American President to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro took power in 1959.
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