The American Illness: Ten people died yesterday afternoon including the first police officer on the scene in a shooting inside a Boulder, Colorado  grocery store. A wounded suspect was taken into custody.   People inside the King Soopers market on the south side of …

Flash Flood: A flash flood late yesterday swept away two vehicles carrying women and children in the Arizona/Utah border town of Hildale, home of the fundamentalist polygamist sect run by Warren Jeffs. Eight people are dead and five are missing. …

Human Tide: The Italian Coast Guard today was responding to distress calls from two boats loaded with as many as 450 people in the Mediterranean. After the drowning of as many as 1,100 African migrants in just the past week, …