National News

NYers Furious Over Photos Taken Through Windows

May 17th, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he
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Idaho Man Heads To Court After Terrorism Arrest

May 17th, 2013

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Uzbekistan national living in Idaho has been arrested on federal charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack. Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, is expected to make his first appearance in U.S. District Court Friday morning, one
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Problems Surface Over Ariz.’s 2007 Immigration Law

May 17th, 2013

PHOENIX (AP) — The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation’s border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. The law marked a bold step by a state into an area that had long
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Arrests In New Orleans Parade Shootings Cheered

May 17th, 2013

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Days after sudden gunfire brought a chaotic and bloody end to a Mother’s Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans, news of six arrests gave an organizer of the traditional event reason to celebrate again. “I’m just ecstatic,” Edward Buckner, president of the Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club, said
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Arias Victim’s Family Makes Dramatic Statement

May 17th, 2013

PHOENIX (AP) — Steven Alexander stood before the jury, looked up at a family picture and grimaced and cried as he ticked off the list of problems that have befallen him in the five years since his brother was murdered: ulcers, depression, a separation from his wife, nightmares. The dreams consist of someone coming at
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