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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s decision to hear a new case from Michigan on the politically charged issue of affirmative action offers an intriguing hint that the justices will not use a separate challenge already pending from Texas for a broad ruling bringing an end to the consideration of race in college admissions. To […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Law enforcement officials praised the bravery and tenacity of a 9-year-old girl who crawled out of a mangled SUV at the bottom of a remote Southern California canyon and hiked nearly two miles to find help for her father, who was pinned in the driver’s seat following a rollover crash. Celia […]
Robert Zimmerman Jr., the brother of Trayvon Martin‘s killer, George Zimmerman, recently compared the slain teenager to De’Marquise Elkins. 17-year-old Elkins was one of two teens who allegedly shot an 13-month-old Antonio Santiago in his stroller as the toddler and his mother walked home from the post office in Georgia on March 21. The side-by-side […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Given the choice of whether to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama‘s health care law, many Republican governors and lawmakers initially responded with an emphatic “no.” Now they are increasingly hedging their objections. A new “no, but …” approach is spreading among GOP states in which officials are still publicly […]
DETROIT (AP) — A bankruptcy lawyer and turnaround expert tasked with reviving Detroit’s beleaguered finances could be greeted by a crowd of protesters as he arrives at work Monday, then plans to spend his first day meeting with some city officials who for months fought against creating his job at all. Kevyn Orr is under […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota didn’t set out to become the abortion debate’s new epicenter. It happened by accident, after a legislative caucus that once vetted abortion bills languished, leaving lawmakers to propose a flurry of measures — some cribbed from Wikipedia — without roadblocks. Long dismissed as cold and inconsequential, North Dakota is […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A female developer was fired after tweeting about a group of men she said were making sexual comments at a computer programming conference, fueling an already vigorous debate about gender equality and culture in Silicon Valley. Adria Richards wrote on her blog at butyoureagirl.com that she was seated in a […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Former city police Chief Nate Harper will plead guilty to charges that he conspired to steal city police funds deposited into unauthorized police credit union accounts and failed to file federal tax returns from 2008 to 2011, his attorneys said Friday. Harper’s lawyers made the announcement at a news conference on a […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman who entered a Coney Island public housing development apartment and shot four people, killing one, is the subject of a manhunt, police said Friday. Police are searching for 29-year-old Joseph Brown, who they identified as a suspect. Authorities said it was unclear what prompted the shootings. The shooting victims […]
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The mother of a baby shot dead in his stroller took one look at a teenage suspect’s jailhouse mugshot Saturday and said he was definitely the killer. Yet an aunt of the teen said he was eating breakfast with her when the slaying took place. Despite the conflicting stories, police have […]
President Obama’s “Organizing for Action” arm retweeted Yoko Ono’s photo of her murdered husband John Lennon’s bloody glasses Thursday night, just as the Senate was preparing a new gun-control package. The picture, published on Yoko Ono’s account a day earlier, contained the text: “Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since […]
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — The live-in caretaker of a western Pennsylvania mansion is facing criminal charges for allegedly drinking more than $100,000 worth of the owner’s whiskey. Scottdale police have charged 62-year-old John Saunders with receiving stolen property and theft. Police tell The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review the owner found nine cases of whiskey hidden in the […]
