June 19, 2013
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Little urgency to avoid budget cuts
WASHINGTON — Ten days before a new deadline for broad, automatic government spending cuts, the sense of urgency that surrounded other recent fiscal crises is absent. Government agencies are prepari...
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Associated Press Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., gestures during an interview Feb. 7 in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama's immigration bill may have angered Republicans but it could spur GOP lawmakers to rally behind a similar plan of their own rather than support legislation with Obama's name attached. Although a key Republican says Obama's draft bill injects partisanship into the process, all parties say bipartisan talks are moving forward.
White House tries to keep on track
WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday sought to keep delicate immigration negotiations on track, as a key Republican senator distanced himself further from a draft bill President Barack Obama’s a...
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Man fired after assaulting toddler charge
MINNEAPOLIS — A man charged with slapping a toddler on a Minneapolis-to-Atlanta flight is out of a job, his former employer said Sunday. Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, of Hayden, Idaho, is no longer an...
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Associated Press Ron Gilson, a 79-year-old life Gloucester native, walks along the fish pier Wednesday in Gloucester, Mass. In May, a massive reduction is coming to the catch limit for cod caught in the Gulf of Maine, just outside Gloucester Harbor, and the cuts are acknowledged by fishermen, regulators and environmentalists to be devastating, and perhaps fatal, for the historic industry.
Fishing’s decline looms for Eastern coast
GLOUCESTER, Mass. — His city’s best fishing days are long past it, but lifelong Gloucester resident Ron Gilson still sees what once was when he drives past what remains. There’s the waterfront l...
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Soybean seed fight reaches Supreme court
WASHINGTON — Vernon Hugh Bowman seems comfortable with the old way of doing things, right down to the rotary-dial telephone he said he was using in a conference call. But the 75-year-old Indiana...
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Other groups hope to grow amid Scout woes
NEW YORK — With the Boy Scouts of America entangled in a furor over its ban on gays, lesser-known youth organizations across the ideological spectrum see an opportunity. They wonder if the turmoil ...
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Associated Press Yellow crime-scene tape blocks off the home Monday, where authorities say country music singer Mindy McCready died in an apparent suicide at Heber Springs, Ark. McCready was found dead on the front porch, the same place where her boyfriend, musician David Wilson, died last month of a gunshot wound to the head.
Ex-boyfriend: McCready left rehab too soon
HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. — Mindy McCready threatened suicide after losing custody of her sons earlier this month, yet she was allowed to leave a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program just days befor...
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Associated Press Martha Stewart (center) is accompanied by lawyer Robert Morvillo (center right) and a bodyguard while leaving the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse building in 2004 in New York. The courthouse in downtown Manhattan, which has played host to numerous big trials, including Stewart's obstruction of justice trial, recently reopened after a six-year renovation.
First big trial set for refurbished NY courthouse
NEW YORK — A historic courthouse got a facelift just in time for the trial of a police officer accused of plotting to kill and eat women. A six-year gutting of the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courtho...
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Coast Guard: Cause of cruise ship fire was leak
ATLANTA — A leak in a fuel oil return line caused the engine-room fire that disabled a Carnival cruise ship at sea, leaving 4,200 people without power or working toilets for five days, a Coast Guar...
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Associated Press Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss (third from right) looks toward Magic Johnson (third from left) during a ceremony of the Magic Johnson Foundation in 2011 in Los Angeles. Buss, the Lakers' playboy owner who shepherded the NBA franchise to 10 championships, has died at 80.
Lakers’ owner Buss dies at 80
Jerry Buss built a glittering life at the intersection of sports and Hollywood. After growing up in poverty in Wyoming, he earned success in academia, aerospace and real estate before discoverin...
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