A magnitude-5.8 earthquake rocked the U.S.-Mexico border region Wednesday, causing hospitals to evacuate in the Mexican industrial city of Mexicali as buildings swayed more than 100 miles to the west in San Diego and southwestern Arizona.

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Twin bombings — one a possible assassination attempt against an Iraqi provincial governor — killed 23 people and wounded the governor Wednesday in the worst violence in months to hit the western province that was once al-Qaida’s top stronghold in Iraq.

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Tens of thousands of hard-line government supporters turned out for state-sponsored rallies Wednesday, some of them calling for the execution of opposition leaders as Iran’s police chief threatened to show “no mercy” in crushing any new protests by the proreform movement.

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The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for the bombing of a religious procession in Karachi, which suggests that the militants may be escalating their war against the state with a rare attack in Pakistan’s commercial hub.

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Larry Legro of Sun Prairie, Wis., is this year’s World Champion Liar, winning the Burlington Liars Club’s award for this line: “I just realized how bad the economy really is.

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There’s an especially starry knight in Britain’s latest round of royal honors.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “The same kind of failures that were there in 9/11 were present in this one.” Former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, a Republican who led the commission that examined the Sept. 11 attacks, on the plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner Article, 1A

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “We will take severe action. The era of tolerance is over.

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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 31, 1909 Pulaski County had the largest delegation of any county in the state of the annual convention of the Arkansas State Teachers Association

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East Carolina Coach Skip Holtz has been hearing from a lot of old friends back in Fayetteville in recent days, and it hasn’t been just Christmas cards or Happy New Year’s wishes.

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