Chuck Scwager, Salem, N.H., reviews route of Peking to Paris Motor Challenge race.

By Jillian Jorgensen
CNHI News Service

West Virginia University's uniform will honor 29 fallen miners who died in an underground explosion. The Mountaineers will wear the new uniforms in a game at Pittsburgh.
Courtesy of Nike Media Gallery

By Bob Hertzel
CNHI News Service

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — I am not from outer space, as some have suggested, but I am from another century and, as such, I am basically a conservative voice at a time when things are becoming far more daring.

Mendenhall Glacier is 15 minutes from downtown Juneau, easy to access and understand through the National Forest Service Visitor Center.
G.W. Tibbetts/The Tifton (Ga.)Gazette

By Christine Tibbetts
CNHI News Service

CNHI News Service

HAVERHILL, Mass. — Potholes can be a problem for motorists in the spring, but Haverhill Mayor James Fiorentini had a much bigger worry: Someone was stealing manhole covers off the city’s streets.

Police were on high alert after 14 covers were removed from city streets in the past several days. Fiorentini said stealing the covers is a dangerous crime because of the possible risk of injury to drivers.

Police Capt. Alan Ratte, head of detectives, said investigators got right to work to cracking the missing manhole mystery.

Obama walked tightrope in speech
The Daily Star
Oneonta, N.Y.

On Tuesday night, a somber President Barack Obama announced the end of combat operations for American forces in Iraq.
It was clear in the Oval Office speech to the nation that the president was walking a verbal tightrope.
He described an end to a war that hasn’t really ended, one that he never wanted to occur in the first place, yet one that he has had to lead since January 2009.