In the Nation

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration rolled out a new Web site designed to streamline food-safety information for consumers.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the new site - www.foodsafety.gov - yesterday during the Consumer Federation of America's food-policy conference.

The site puts food-related information from all federal agencies in one place, including recall and contamination alerts and tips on how to handle food safely. Sebelius said the site would help consumers worried about product recalls. - AP

WASHINGTON - Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl visited the nation's capital yesterday to tout his city's readiness to host this month's G-20 economic summit - and was interrupted by protesters who accused him of being too slow to issue demonstration permits.

Ravenstahl said the city had granted eight permit requests so far and was considering more. Pittsburgh officials want to ensure that demonstrators' First Amendment rights are respected during the Sept. 24-25 meetings, he said. But yesterday's protesters said they were not aware of any approved permits.

Ravenstahl said the city was training police to deal with additional security needs posed by the conference. The city will supply 900 to 1,000 officers, he said, with 1,000 more coming from the state police, and up to 2,000 additional outside forces. - AP

BILLINGS, Mont. - A federal judge said gray wolf hunts could go on for the first time in decades in the Northern Rockies, just months after the animals were removed from the endangered-species list.

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy denied a request by environmentalists and animal-welfare groups to stop the hunts in Idaho and Montana, saying that plans to kill more than 20 percent of the estimated 1,350 wolves in the two states would not cause long-term harm to the species.

The wolf population could sustain a hunting harvest in excess of 30 percent and still bounce back, Molloy said in his ruling issued late Tuesday. The ruling left unresolved the broader question of whether wolves should be returned to the endangered list. - AP

Discovery's astronauts tested their flight systems yesterday to make sure everything was in order for reentry. The shuttle is due to land at 7:05 p.m. today at Cape Canaveral, Fla., but storms could keep it in orbit an extra day or two.

A Florida man was set to be released from prison this week after his defense said DNA evidence showed he was wrongly convicted of murder and rape 26 years ago. Anthony Caravella, 41, who is mentally disabled, was sentenced to life in prison in the 1983 attack; he was 15 at the time.

A California state assemblyman, Mike Duvall, resigned amid growing outrage over a videotape that caught him bragging in graphic detail about having sex with a female lobbyist and another woman. Duvall, 54, a Republican whose votes on family-oriented legislation drew high marks from conservative groups, is married with two adult children.