Welcome to The Mall
Current National and State News
- Family transformed three years after bridge disaster
For 13-year-old Arrianna Merritt, the words mother and hero go hand in hand.
- Third blaze ignites in CA wildfires
Hundreds of firefighters battled a third wildfire in the Los Angeles area early Friday as two more raged within 60 miles of one another.
- Russian boy rejected in U.S. is back in orphanage
A Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow, Russia, by his adoptive mother in the United States has been returned to an orphanage, an attorney of the World Association for Children and Parents said Friday.
- Obama says U.S. auto industry 'growing strong' after bailout
President Barack Obama, speaking at a Chrysler plant here Friday, praised the recovery of the embattled U.S. auto industry and celebrated the tough choices he says made a comeback possible.
- Indian American faces 20-year jail for embezzling $34 mn from company
A former Indian-American executive, who 'engaged in irrational and excessive buying sprees', faces up to 20 years in jail after pleading guilty to embezzling $34 million from stereo headphone manufacturer Koss Corporation where she worked as vice president, finance.
- Memorial to I-35W bridge victims may be shifted
Minnesota bridges rated: An interactive map of bridges that are "structurally deficient," "functionally obsolete" or have gusset plates like those on the I-35W bridge.
- July 30, 2010 game thread
Geoff Baker covers the Mariners for The Seattle Times. He provides daily coverage of the team throughout spring training, and during the season.
- HibTac Did Not Discriminate Against Deaf Man
The jury deliberated less than two hours before finding Friday that the mining company did not discriminate against James Edstrom, a deaf man from Eveleth.







