US News

Police raid Md. mayor's home and kill his dogs

The Topeka Capital-Journal - Fri Aug 08

Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table.

FBI obtains search warrants for local library computers

The Frederick News Post - Fri Aug 08

Search warrants filed and released Thursday show the FBI was looking for suicide notes and documents related to threats Bruce Ivins made against his co-workers when agents took computers from a Frederick ...

Feds give state more time for levee repayment

NOLA,com - Fri Aug 08

The federal government has agreed to give the state up to 30 years to repay its $1.8 billion share for levee improvements in the New Orleans area - money that initially had to be repaid by 2011.

Bin Laden's ex-driver convicted

The Boston Globe - Thu Aug 07

A military jury yesterday found a former driver for Osama bin Laden guilty of supporting terrorism but not of conspiring in terrorist attacks, handing the Bush administration a partial victory in the first US ...

Culver says flood's impact could hit $10 billion

Quad-City Times - Thu Aug 07

DES MOINES, Iowa - Gov. Chet Culver said Wednesday that Iowa's overall financial losses from flooding could push as high as $10 billion.

New candidate enters Senate race

The Mankato Free Press - Thu Aug 07

Priscilla Lord Faris believes Minnesota's Democrats endorsed the wrong man for the wrong reasons to take on Sen.

The Democrats' Big Problem: The War in Iraq Wasn't About Oil

Cybercast News Service - Wed Aug 06

This 2008 presidential election cycle has been jam-packed with irony. John McCain has been forced to rely on the 527 groups he so despises; Barack Obama has been denounced by members of the black community but ...

'Junior' Gotti faces new mob-related charges

Los Angeles Times - Wed Aug 06

NEW YORK -- Despite surviving three mistrials in two years and declaring himself long retired from the mob, John A. "Junior" Gotti was hit with new federal charges Tuesday involving three gangland slayings -- ...

Company gives up banner plane license

Myrtle Beach Online - Wed Aug 06

ONLINE Portions of this story appeared on MyrtleBeachOnline.com at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday.

Parole board rejects Mexican inmate's last-minute reprieve request

Star-telegram.com - Tue Aug 05

By DAVE MONTGOMERY WASHINGTON - The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday unanimously recommended against a reprieve for Jose Ernesto Medellin, a Mexican national who faces execution today for the ...