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Labrador pleased with Supreme Court ruling
U.S. Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho, issued the following statement with respect to today's U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a Circuit Court ruling on a State of Arizona immigration law:
More trouble brewin'
MALTA, Idaho - America's kids will be learning about the U.S. Constitution this coming school year with help from a decidedly conservative Idaho publishing hou…
Forecasts, TV and luck eased tornado risk
PIEDMONT, Okla. (AP) - When three tornadoes marched toward Oklahoma City and its suburbs, thousands of people in the path benefited from good forecasts, luck a…
'You feel so small and helpless'
JOPLIN, Mo. - Standing amid the ruins of what had been a Goodyear service center, Robert Alves turns in place to take a grim inventory.
Storms kill seven
EL RENO, Okla. - Violent thunderstorms roared across middle America on Tuesday, killing seven people in two states, with several tornadoes touching down in Okl…
NASA to abandon trapped rover Spirit
LOS ANGELES - Spirit, the scrappy robot geologist that captivated the world with its antics on Mars before getting stuck in a sand trap, is about to meet its e…
The dogs of war
SAN DIEGO - Life after the military is looking brighter than ever for America's four-legged veterans since one of their own helped in the mission to kill Osama…
Officials: Kyle Busch speeding at 128 mph
STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) - NASCAR driver Kyle Busch was clocked by a North Carolina sheriff's deputy going 128 mph in a 45 mph zone and was cited for careless and reckless driving and speeding, a law enforcement spok…
Rain, floods hit Plains and Rockies
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Relief teams reached an isolated town on Montana's flooded Crow Indian reservation on Tuesday, as authorities elsewhere in the state recovered the body of a second victim of floodwaters expec…
Get out of jail free?
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that California must drastically reduce its prison population to relieve severe overcrowding that has …
Rescuers race to find survivors of Missouri tornado
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed …
Radio host says world's end coming in October
OAKLAND, Calif. - As crestfallen followers of a California preacher who foresaw the world's end strained to find meaning in their lives, Harold Camping revised his apocalyptic prophecy Monday, saying he was off by …
FBI: Violent crime drops 5.5 percent
WASHINGTON - Crime levels fell across the board last year, extending a multi-year downward trend with a 5.5 percent drop in the number of violent crimes in 2010 and a 2.8 percent decline in the number of property c…
Tornadoes batter central US, kill unknown number
Minneapolis, Joplin, Mo., hit hard
Apocalypse (not) now
OAKLAND, Calif. - They spent months warning the world of the apocalypse, some giving away earthly belongings or draining their savings accounts. And so they waited, vigilantly, on Saturday for the appointed hour to…