June 19, 2013
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Mayor resigns over accusations of gay slurs
CINCINNATI — The mayor of a southeastern Ohio town has resigned over accusations that she repeatedly referred to a gay police officer’s sexuality in front of his colleagues and created a hostile wo...
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Associated Press Los Angeles police officers stand near "Phraselators" in 2008 as they monitor May Day protesters gathering downtown to call for immigration reform in Los Angeles. The department is using new tactics and technology, including the "Phraselators," which can broadcast to a crowd in different languages, in hopes of overcoming the memory of the previous year's violent event. Christopher Dorner's claim that his career as a Los Angeles police officer was undone by a racist conspiracy at the department comes at a time when it's widely held the LAPD has moved beyond the troubled racial legacy of Rodney King and the O.J. Simpson trial.
Rant puts focus on LAPD legacy
LOS ANGELES — Fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner’s claim in an online “manifesto” that his career was undone by racist colleagues conspiring against him comes at a time when ...
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Associated Press A fresh drill hole, (center), made by the Curiosity rover Friday, appears next to an earlier test hole. Curiosity has completed its first drill into a Martian rock, a huge milestone since landing in an ancient crater in August 2012.
Curiosity finishes 1st drill into Mars rock
LOS ANGELES — In a Mars first, the Curiosity rover drilled into a rock and prepared to dump an aspirin-sized pinch of powder into its onboard laboratories for closer inspection. The feat marked ...
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Texas-sized silence ensues as immigration talks ramp up
AUSTIN, Texas — With nearly 2 million illegal immigrants and a 1,200-mile border with Mexico, Texas has more at stake than most states in the renewed push to overhaul the nation’s immigration syste...
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Associated Press With tears in her eyes, Pirscilla Arena, 41, from Mount Sinai, N.Y., reads letters that she wrote to her two children as she spent Friday night in her car Saturday at the Brookhaven Town Hall in Farmingville, NY. Arena's car got stuck in the snow while she was traveling home after work during Friday's snow storm.
Stuck in the snow
FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. — Stranded for hours on a snow-covered road, Priscilla Arena prayed, took out a sheet of loose-leaf paper and wrote what she thought might be her last words to her husband and ch...
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GOP hopes for better ties with minorities
WASHINGTON — The Republican Party’s problems with minority voters have preoccupied strategists since November, and it’s possible those difficulties will persist or worsen. But an opening for marked...
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Associated Press Gov. Terry Branstad visits with farmer Randy Hilleman of State Center and Bonnie, the pig he officially pardoned Friday, in Des Moines, Iowa. The pardoning ceremony was part of the lead up to Saturday's Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines.
Bacon enthusiasts converge in Iowa for fest
DES MOINES, Iowa — The smell of bacon was in the air Saturday as thousands converged on Iowa’s capital city for an increasingly popular festival celebrating all things connected with the meat. S...
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Associated Press Wayne LaPierre Jr., executive vice president and chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association, speaks April 14 at its national convention in St. Louis. LaPierre, 63, has been serving up heated us-vs.-them rhetoric to rally the NRA faithful. Usually it works; sometimes it backfires.
LaPierre: An ‘absent-minded professor’
WASHINGTON — Wayne LaPierre would just as soon read a book as fire a gun. That’s right, the National Rifle Association’s fire-breathing defender of gun rights is more academic than marksman. ...
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Electric company: Super Bowl blackout was caused by relay
NEW ORLEANS — The company that supplied electricity to the Super Bowl says the blackout that halted the big game was caused by a device it installed specially to prevent a power failure. But the...
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Associated Press A California Highway Patrol officer tells a driver to roll the window down Friday while searching for former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner at a checkpoint near Big Bear Lake, Calif. Law enforcement officers working in falling snow searched the Southern California mountain for Dorner, who is accused of carrying out a killing spree because he felt he was unfairly fired from his job.
Hunt for ex-cop goes on amid storm
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. — All that was left were footprints leading away from Christopher Dorner’s burned-out pickup truck, and enormous, snow-covered mountains where he could be hiding among hundred...
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