Boston Marathon Bomber Caught, Town Celebrates Jubilation erupted in the streets of Watertown, Massachusetts. For every police vehicle, there was drive-by congratulations after nearly 24 hours of gunshots, explosions and lockdowns. Suspect number 2 i...
School Shootings Shock Connecticut Town Residents of Newtown gathered Friday evening for religious services amid a prevailing mood of shock and horror. Alex Ortner is the father of two toddlers and says his heart goes out to the victims. At think tha...
Kix Brooks Goes Solo on 'New To This Town' The title track to Kix Brooks new solo album New To This Town features Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh. Brooks also brought in Rascal Flatts member Jay DeMarcus to co-produce the collection. Brooks recorded his f...
Kenyan Hip Hop Artists Praise Inspirational Town Kenyan hip hop took off in the mid-1990s, when the group Kalamashaka started rapping in informal Swahili, instead of English. The musicians were from the low-income suburb, Dandora, which is now widely...
At 75, New Deal's 'Green Towns' Endure In an effort to pull the United States out of the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelts so-called New Deal administration created a bevy of government agencies designed to help Americans r...
Warnings of Humanitarian Crisis in Greek Port Town Aid workers say the Greek economic crash is causing a humanitarian crisis in one impoverished suburb of the port city of Piraeus. Most of the residents of Perama are unemployed and many are unable to...
AMERICAN MOSAIC - Artists Paint the Town in Baltimore JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im June Simms. This week on our program, we talk to Ben Nichols, lead singer and songwriter for the band Lucero. We also repo...
Police Mistrust Threatens US-Afghan Alliance in Key Town The Marzak strategy hinged on setting up a new, tribe-based local police force capable of defending the town against Taliban fighters. After two weeks of training, the first 50 police began dut...
BEIJING,Feb.?13 (Xinhuanet) The small town on the banks of the Mississippi River is Feeling Great, abuzz with excitement and recalling happy memories as it looks forward to the return of an old friend - Vice-President Xi Jinping. It was 27 years ago...
World-Class Runners Flock to Kenyan Town Lornah Kiplagat is a Kenyan-born athlete who has won marathons throughout the world and holds several world records. She and her husband Pieter founded the High Altitude Training Center in Iten, Kenya, after r...