A deputy police chief and a sergeant in Renton have been demoted over a Web cartoon ridiculing city jail staff. Posted on YouTube in January, the video made fun of jail policies and staff and featured a clown refusing to admit into jail a drunken suspect brought in by police.

By Jeff Hodson

Seattle Times staff…

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Jamel Mims, a Fresh Prep instructor, working with students at Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics.

By SHARON OTTERMAN…

Photo of machine-made Shmura Matzo eaten during Passover week. Photo taken on April 12, 2006 by Yoninah

August 11, 2011

Reuters

A U.S. federal judge has ruled that an inmate in a New York jail does not have a constitutionally protected right to matzah and grape juice.

Christopher Henry, who was charged with first-degree sodomy, claimed permanent trauma and malnourishment and requested nearly $10 billion in damages for what he…

(Reuters) - Britain is considering disrupting online social networking such as Blackberry Messenger and Twitter during civil unrest, Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday, a move…

When aerosol particles from ship exhaust enter…

Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) wants the CIA and Pentagon to investigate whether the White House gave filmmakers access to confidential information regarding the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal's film project on slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is stirring up…

1:34 p.m. CDT, August 9, 2011

Farzana Ali, left, and Sherali Shalwani were killed on the Reagan Memorial Tollway Saturday by a car going the wrong way. (Family photos)

Cash was…

Some of the text messages read like real-time rallying calls for rioters.

By PAISLEY DODDS and RAPHAEL G. SATTER

Associated Press

LONDON —

Some of the text messages read like real-time rallying calls…

By Seattle Times staff

Billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist Charles Wyly, co-founder and former chairman of arts and crafts retail chain Michaels Stores Inc., died Sunday after suffering injuries in a car crash in Colorado. He…

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Pat Crawford, with assistance from her niece Sharnae Muhammad, worked on her hallway board last week at Toomer Elementary

By ALAN SCHWARZ

Published: August 7, 2011

ATLANTA —…

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Arne Duncan, secretary of education, in 2009. He said the No Child Left Behind law was hurting efforts to improve schools.

By SAM DILLON

Published: August 8,…

Members of the Summit County Sheriff Department leave the scene of a multiple fatal shooting in Copley Township, Ohio. (Karen Schiely / Akron Beacon Journal / August 7, 2011)