Feb 18th, 2010 · A lawyer involved in anti-mob trials in southwestern China found himself on trial, accused of falsifying evidence. Many Chinese lawyers see the case as an assault on their profession, and the case has sparked a nationwide debate about due process.
Feb 16th, 2010 · It's been one year since President Obama signed legislation sending federal stimulus dollars to state coffers. Missouri had some of the earliest "shovel ready" projects. Upgrades to U.S. Route 60 in the southwestern part of the state were completed because of the stimulus funds.
Feb 9th, 2010 · Democratic Congressman John Murtha died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., after complications from gallbladder surgery. He was 77. Murtha represented southwestern Pennsylvania for 36 years. Most of that time he was the top Democrat on defense appropriations — moving billions of dollars and sending as much as he could to his home district.
Oct 30th, 2009 · Wal-Mart, Kroger and Meijer are suspending business with a large southwestern Michigan blueberry grower after investigators found children as young as 6 working in the grower's fields. The retailers said Friday they have stopped buying products from Adkin Blue Ribbon Blueberry Co. near South Haven.
Jun 15th, 2009 · The country-rock band from Austin combines elements of southwestern country, Cajun dance, Appalachian fiddle and West Coast guitar with a collective love for surrealist art and literature.
May 5th, 2009 · Two days after the earthquake struck southwestern China last May, Melissa Block interviewed a couple as rescue workers searched for their toddler son and his grandparents who were buried under a collapsed apartment building. Block checks in with the boy's aunt to see how the family is coping with the loss of its loved ones.
May 4th, 2009 · Nearly a year after the deadly May 12 earthquake in southwestern China, the government has not released figures of the number of children killed in collapsed schools. Some parents allege shoddy construction. Activists continue to investigate the deaths, despite the efforts of authorities to block them.
Nov 17th, 2008 · The man authorities say is the military leader of the Basque separatist rebel group ETA — Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina — is in custody in southwestern France.