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The troops would beef up the effort to train more Iraqi forces to fight the Islamic State. Some 3,000 American troops are already in Iraq to provide security or to train and advise Iraqi forces.

Scientists soared through clouds with a new instrument that takes 3-D pictures of the edge. What they learned about the size and density of droplets surprised them and might lead to better forecasts.

Trading on the exchange was halted at 11:32 a.m. and restored at approximately 3:10 p.m. ET. The NYSE said the issue was technical and not due to malicious activity.

William Del Monte was 3 months old when the deadly earthquake struck. At 109, he was "a piece of living San Francisco history."

The Centers for Disease Control is concerned about an increase in a rare birth defect in Brazil that could be linked to the virus. But Zika is not just in Brazil; see a map of where it is spreading.

It's been nearly 3 weeks since armed men seized the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Ore. Renee Montagne talks to Les Zaitz of The Oregonian about the tension.

Akronite Sage Lewis and his organization, The Homeless Charity LLC, lost their latest attempt to build a tent city for homeless people. The Akron Board of Zoning Appeals turned down a request on Wednesday for a variance to allow the encampment on Lewis’s property at 15 Broad St. in the Middlebury neighborhood of east Akron.

Robin Hood has made great fodder for storytelling for centuries. The English folk legend fist was the hero of a 15th-century ballad. He then commanded a 19th-century childrens book before starring in the 20th-century silver-screen classic. Zack Powell as Robin Hood [photo: Roger Mastroianni]

Three months after a report detailing problems at the Cuyahoga County Jail, the U.S. Marshals Service says it has not returned its detainees to the downtown jail. In November, the U.S. Marshal’s office in Washington released a report on the county jail system that described a long list of what it called “inhumane” conditions. U.S. Marshal Peter Elliot, head of the Cleveland office, stopped bringing detainees to the jail downtown.

A Northeast Ohio judge says it’s not the right time to talk about consolidating the roughly dozen municipal court systems in Cuyahoga County. The idea of fusing the county’s 13 separate municipal courts has circulated for years, and two common pleas judges floated the notion anew in a story this week in Cleveland.com.