Man found guilty in Knox toddler's death, gets life sentence with parole chance  - www.johnsoncitypress.com 

KNOXVILLE — Aja McBayne had no seat at the defense table, but a Knox County jury's verdict Wednesday in the death of her 18-month-old son proved as much an exoneration of her as it did a conviction of the man on trial.

Bradley Manning suspected source of Wikileaks documents scandal grew up in Wales following family split  - www.telegraph.co.uk 

The US soldier suspected of being behind the Wikileaks documents scandal grew up in Wales after moving there following his parents' divorce.

Pinnacle Lutheran Church celebrates new pastor  - www.henriettapost.com 

On July 3, the congregation at Pinnacle Lutheran Church on Pinnacle Road welcomed a new pastor.

The new whistle-blowers  - www.bbc.co.uk 

How did the leak of US papers on the Afghan war happen?

NFL Season Preview 2010: 50 Reasons to be Excited About Training Camp  - bleacherreport.com 

Can you smell that? That's the smell of NFL training camps, fresh and ready to begin for yet another year. Now for those of you that choose to pay little attention to NFL training camps, I suggest you do this season, as many storylines are yet to unfold. In what has been quite an eventful NFL offseason, we now see players both new, old and on totally different teams, suit up and show their ...

Victorino out at least two weeks  - dailylocal.com 

PHILADELPHIA — Wednesday afternoon at Citizens Bank Park may have marked the first time an All-Star — and a guy who has led the team in hitting in each of the last two seasons — landed on the disabled list but was not the biggest news of the day at the ballpark.

4A State baseball: Mason City punishes Ankeny in 11-4 win  - wcfcourier.com 

DES MOINES --- The Mason City High baseball team left no stoneunturned.

Letters: Failing to learn the lessons of Afghan history  - www.guardian.co.uk 

Like Geoff Simmons ( Letters , 27 July), we applaud WikiLeaks for exposing the bloody war in Afghanistan, and the Guardian for publishing it ( Report, 26 July). The UK affection for US warmongering goes hand in hand with Cameron's further development of a war economy ( Report , 25 July). Is this why the government wants to end universal jurisdiction, which allows the arrest of suspected war ...

Parish prepares for Bonnie  - thesttammanynews.com 

Even though tropical storm Bonnie did not develop into a hurricane, parish officials were not taking any chances Friday and Saturday and did what they had to do to get the parish ready for what might turn into something worse.

Official: Pentagon focusing on 'main suspect' in Afghanistan leak  - www.cnn.com 

The Pentagon is focusing on jailed Army Pfc. Bradley Manning as the main suspect in the leak of tens of thousands of secret U.S. military documents related to the war in Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon official told CNN Wednesday.