Sheriff Arpaio wants to talk to Hispanics
Phoenix-area Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who won a sixth term in office Tuesday, says he wants to try to explain his controversial policies on immigration to Latinos. However, Arpaio also promised to continue...
View Article4.3 earthquake rattles Kentucky
A 4.3-magnitude earthquake, the strongest in Kentucky in more than 30 years, rattled the eastern and central part of the state Saturday, seismologists said. The earthquake was centered 8 miles west of...
View ArticleMubarak said to be in good health
Hosni Mubarak’s personal physician found the imprisoned former Egyptian president healthy in a recent examination, a prison official said. Mohamed Eleiwa, a spokesman for the Egyptian Prisons...
View ArticleCanadian admits voting in U.S.
An Austrian native and naturalized Canadian has been sentenced to five months in prison for voting illegally in at least two U.S. presidential elections. Josef Sever, 53, who moved to Florida in 1992,...
View ArticleBing: Detroit has new financial threat
Detroit Mayor David Bing said the repeal of Michigan’s emergency management law threatens his city’s efforts to get its fiscal house in order. In an interview with The Detroit News, Bing said Friday...
View ArticleLos Angeles opens first toll lanes
Los Angeles officials hope that charging drivers to use some “carpool lanes” on what had been freeways will relieve some of the region’s legendary traffic jams. The first tollway, from downtown Los...
View ArticleReport: U.N. needs access to Iran refugees
Human Rights Watch issued a report Friday asking Turkey to allow officials from the U.N. Human Rights Council to interview Iranian refugees in the country. The report, written by Faraz Sanei, the Iran...
View Article2012: Anniversaries in the year ahead
We look forward to 2013 with resolutions, hopes and clean calendars, but we’ll be looking back as well. A new year is always an opportunity to celebrate the anniversary of something, and plenty of...
View Article2012: At least 672 kids missing in U.S.
As 2012 was drawing to a close, 672 of the 715 children the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had posted as missing on its website had vanished in the United States. A center...
View Article17 soldiers, 4 children killed by bombs
A car bomb killed at least 17 soldiers in Pakistan and four children died in an explosion in Afghanistan, officials said. The car bomb was detonated close to an army post near the town of Miranshah in...
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