Officials News

Fairfield - Increasing flu activity in the San Francisco Bay Area has prompted health officials in Solano County to remind residents that there's still time to get vaccinated against current strains of the virus.

New Castle - Residents of New Castle, Pennsylvania, hope that some air sample tests will reveal why their city smells like cat urine.

Salt Lake City - Wildlife officials are baffled at a series of photos that appear to show a person dressed up in a goat suit costume among a herd of goats and crawling on all fours near Ben Lomond Peak in Weber County, Utah.

Lebrija - Spanish social workers have closely monitored the home and living conditions of a 10-year-old Romanian girl, who gave birth last week, to see whether her baby is being properly cared for, according to officials.

The United Arab Emirates closed its airspace to a plane carrying Canadian government and military officials on Monday, expressing their unhappiness with the country’s stand on commercial landing rights.

Grand Isle - Did BP hire beach cleanup workers in preparation for President Barack Obama's visit to Louisiana? Jefferson Parish Councilman say so in what he called a dog and pony show staged for the press and the visiting President.

Durban - Three South African soccer officials, including national team director Sipho Nkumane, have been suspended ahead of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup which is scheduled to start next month.

Throughout the 1990s, right-wing militia groups were growing at a rapid rate and now, again, they are growing in mass amounts, according to a new U.S. report.

The United States released five Iranian officials yesterday. The men were greeted in Iran with flowers and a cheering crowd.

An anti-corruption watchdog based in Iraq have said 1,000 warrants have been issued for officials who are accused of being corrupt.

In what is being called a sharply divided decision, the US Supreme Court has ruled that former Bush officials can't be sued for abuse of terror suspects.

Officials are on alert for possible copycat killings in the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy. In Canada, police closed down an Ontario school after bomb threats, while two teenagers were arrested for a suspected prank in Montreal.

49 police officials were killed by Maoist rebels in eastern India

A police man confessed killing five of his own colleagues while guarding a bank in Indian capital Delhi.

SENIOR executives at Daventry District Council have come under fire after running up a £1,300 bill for an overnight stay at a hotel only six miles from their offices.

The Sydney tar ponds are known as one of Canada's WORST TOXIC waste sites ever.

Federal officials fanned out across Southern California over the past week in one of the biggest sweeps of its kind, arresting 761 illegal immigrants ranging from murder suspects to visa violators.

Doctors have definitively established a link between work at ground zero and chronic respiratory illness.

Calgary health officials are launching an International search to hire nursing staff due to the shortage of medical professionals that is causing hospitals in Alberta to close beds.

U.S officials said there are no immediate plans to attack Iran, but refused to rule out the possibility of military action in the future.

They have been charged with criminal offenses that caused an HIV outbreak in Kazakhstan.

The executions of two senior associates of Saddam Hussein will take place some time this week as planned, according to the Iraqi government.

An outbreak of walking pneumonia among children from Greenwood Elementary School that has been linked to at least one death and serious illness in others has forced officials to close the school for at least one week.

Cambodian and international judges are meeting to discuss the rules to be applied during the trials of the former leaders of the Khmer Rouge.