More than a dozen corrections officers at the Prince George's County jail have had run-ins with the law that include charges of theft, assault, domestic violence and drunken driving, and many of them were kept on the force, records show.

Anxious to counter the blanket media coverage that has followed Sen. Barack Obama on his overseas journey, Sen. John McCain is weighing whether to announce his running mate in the coming weeks before the spotlight shifts to China and the opening of the Olympic Games next month.

For Trinity Wilbourn, teaching high school via the Internet offers a heartening and maddening prism into the teenage mind-set.

BAGHDAD, July 24 -- The International Olympic Committee has banned most of Iraq's seven-member team from participating in the Beijing Games because of concerns that the Iraqi government has interfered politically in the leadership of the country's Olympic movement.