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BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand are offering a reward for information leading to the man accused of bombing a shrine in Bangkok, killing 20 people. The man is seen in video leaving a backpack at the downtown shrine that authorities believe contained an explosive device weighing more than 6 pounds. Police believe the man did not act alone, but is part of "a network."
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Fire officials in Alaska say geologists will have to assess the stability of an area in the coastal town of Sitka, where a landslide killed three people. Debris trapped the men Tuesday, but crews have not been able to dig because of the unstable terrain. Then men are presumed dead. One was a city building official and the other two were brothers. The landslides occurred after 2 ½ inches of rain fell in 24 hours.
CHELAN, Wash. (AP) — More than 1,000 people are battling the massive fires near Chelan (shuh-LAN'), Washington state, that have burned more than 170 square miles and destroyed an estimated 75 buildings. But they're just some of the huge blazes raging in the West. The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho says in the last two weeks alone, more than 1,500 square miles have burned in the Lower 48 states. Many of the blazes are burning throughout the dry West.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The teen girl who says she was raped last year by a senior at the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire will return to the witness stand today to testify. The teen, who was 15 at the time, says she was familiar with the practice of senior boys making sexual conquests of younger students before they graduate. But she says she initially declined an invitation by then 18-year-old Owen Labrie. Labrie says there was no intercourse.
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media is reporting that the son of a former police chief is one of two silent owners of the warehouse in Tianjin (tyan-jihn) where explosions killed at least 114 people. The official Xinhua (shihn-wah) News Agency says he used his connections to help obtain licenses, even though the hazmat facility violated safety rules. Xinhua says the other owner is a former executive at a state-owned chemical company who also used his connections to get the facility approved.
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