http://jamaica-gleaner.com/ The oldest and leading newspaper in Jamaica editor@gleanerjm.com (Garfield Grandison) roland.booth@gleanerjm.com (Roland Booth) en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT 60 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT Newspapers MOORE, Oklahoma (AP):The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused US$2 billion in overall damage, officials said yesterday.State authorities, meanwhile, said two infants were... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int1.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int1.html PHILADELPHIA (AP): A Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and who were on probation in their son's pneumonia death were charged with murder yesterday after a second young child died under what a prosecutor called "eerily... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int2.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int2.html WASHINGTON (AP):Members of a House panel angry over the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the military took a key step towards tackling the problem by passing legislation yesterday that would strip commanding officers of their long-standing... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int3.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int3.html Orlando, Florida (AP):A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot to death by authorities early yesterday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said.Ibragim... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int4.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int4.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):The World Health Organization (WHO) says the Horn of Africa is experiencing an outbreak of polio, with cases confirmed in Kenya and Somalia.WHO said yesterday that a four-year-old girl near the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int5.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int5.html SANTO DOMINGO (AP):Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested a man suspected of raping at least 60 women in the past two years.Police say 23-year-old Jonathan Parra confessed to raping women ages 16 to 28 after picking them up on his... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int6.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int6.html SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (AP):A proposal that revamps sex education in Illinois public schools to include information about contraception and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has cleared the state Senate.Current state law says sex education should... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int7.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int7.html CHICAGO (AP):The president of the Chicago Teachers' Union (CTU) says the Board of Education's decision to close 50 schools is "bad governance."CTU President Karen Lewis put out a statement yesterday after the board vote. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int8.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int8.html OKLAHOMA, Moore (AP):The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside an Oklahoma City area church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off, survivors of a deadly tornado that barrelled... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int1.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int1.html MOROCCO, Rabat, (AP):A MOROCCAN court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against gays in this North African nation.Prosecutors at the Temara court near Rabat, the... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int2.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130523/int/int2.html