Zambia

Dinosaurs may have been wiped out by a mass extinction about  65 million years ago, but an earlier extinction event may have given their predecessors a leg up on the competition, according to a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....

Families from across the North Shore gathered over the weekend to pack beet seeds for people living in poverty overseas. Organized by Willow Creek Community Church, the seed-packing event attracted more than 3,000 volunteers, including 5-year-olds and a...

Being “shoebox crazy” is something Danville’s Kathy Kendrick and Liberty’s Nicki Johnson have become used to. As part of the collection team for the Danville area, they were two of many volunteers who packed and collected about 23,...

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Millions of dollars hung in the balance as a committee huddled in London, trying to decide which former African leader was worthy of their hefty cash prize. Monday, they announced which government chief won. Nobody. For the third time in its six years...

Wednesday was the last check-up for Anderson Mambwe. This Saturday Anderson is going home to Zambia.  "They were all expecting me to have my legs amputated," says Mambwe, "My mom she will be very proud of me." Anderson's feet were deformed causing...

Chester H. Sollenberger, 86, of Lebanon, Pa., died Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, at his residence. He was married 55 years to the late Mildred Grove Sollenberger, who passed away March 13, 2003, while living in Hagerstown, Md. Born April 18, 1926, in...

 Though separated by an ocean and thousands of miles, when Sister Lynette Rodrigues arrived at Presentation Convent in Aberdeen from Zambia, she felt a connection with the Aberdeen sisters.  "The first thing for me was the sense of Presentation, of...

The Rev. Gerald "Gerry" Vincent Lardner, a Sulpician priest who taught preaching and later served as a missionary in Africa, died of cancer June 18 at Mercy Medical Center. He was 70 and lived in North Baltimore. Born in Baltimore and raised on...

Chinese manager slain at controversial coal mine: In a riot over a pay dispute, enraged Zambian miners killed the Chinese mine manager, Wu Shengzai, 50, and wounded another representative of the Chinese-owned Collum coal mine, according to Zambian...

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