View Comments
AN INTERNATIONAL military patrol that included seven Americans came under machine gun fire while driving in a northern Iraq security zone established for minority Kurds, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday night. No one was reported injured, and it has not been confirmed that the attackers were Iraqi forces. . . . NINE BIG semitrailer trucks and 25 cars crashed in a huge chain reaction collision early Thursday on a fog-shrouded, icy California interstate, authorities said. At least seven people were taken to hospitals. . . . FIVE PEOPLE died in accidents involving church vehicles in Kentucky, including two who were run over by a fire truck after fleeing a blaze on their church bus.