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nese group's growing involvement in the Syrian civil war.
• Shells fired by Syria's overwhelmingly Sunni rebels regularly fall on the town, killing civilians, scaring off visitors and keeping schools and many shops shuttered.
• Many believe the shelling is a message from Sunni extremists that there would be a price to pay for supporting the Shiite Muslim group.
• This week, 20-year-old Loulou Awad was the latest victim of growing sectarian hatred on both sides of the border.
• It was around sunset Monday when the first rocket from Syria slammed into her hometown of Hermel, a predominantly Shiite area in Lebanon's northeastern corner. The hotel management student ran to the roof of her uncle's house across the street from her parents' apartment to see the damage.
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Who handles hot potatoes like the IRS probe? A look at 4 types of Washington investigation
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Most of what Americans know about their government's crimes, misdeeds and foul-ups comes from the government itself. Washington's investigation machine never quits.
• Thousands of federal workers spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year checking up on their peers. And Congress is watching, too. The probes that go public -- what happened at the Internal Revenue Service, or in Benghazi, Libya, or with the seizure of journalists' phone and email records -- are just a sampling.
• Is this gotcha gallery trustworthy? Are investigators running amok, or toadying to the powers they're supposed to check? Or just treading water in a turbulent sea of some 2.1 million government workers? Opinions are as different as the investigations, and tend to be skewed by politics.
• There are, however, points to judge an investigation by: how its leaders are chosen, how much independence they have, whether they have the resources and the authority they need and display the will to follow a question to its end.
• A guide to Washington's scandal-chasing apparatus:
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Trustee reprimand underscores serious reaction to Ohio St president's latest verbal gaffes
• COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Verbal gaffes by Ohio State University president Gordon Gee have long been a source of amusement and headaches at the school, (Continued on page 34)
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