Investor alarm over Spanish banks

STOCKS FELL yesterday as the European Central Bank (ECB) halted lending to some Greek financial institutions and fears of a run on Spain’s Bankia sparked a further bout of nerves among investors.

PA priest-abuse files kept behind lock, key, alarm

Evidence in a groundbreaking priest-abuse trial shows the men running the Philadelphia archdiocese used byzantine methods to keep child sex-abuse complaints from prying eyes.

3-alarm fire in South Jordan forces evacuations, damages property

Close to 30 South Jordan homes were evacuated Tuesday afternoon when a fast-moving brush fire took off near Glenmoor Golf Course.

AP Exclusive: Drawing of structure said to shed light on Iran's secret nuclear work

VIENNA - An image said to come from inside an Iranian military site shows an explosives containment chamber of the type needed for nuclear arms-related tests that U.N. inspectors suspect Tehran has conducted at the site. Iran denies such testing and has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of such a chamber.

Fire spreads to two SODO buildings

Fire investigators will be looking into what caused the two-alarm fire near Andover Street and 7th Avenue South.