IRAQI PM SAYS HIS COUNTRY ON HIGH ALERT OVER SYRIA
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN A Baghdad municipality worker cleans, while people and security forces inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013.…
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MEXICO’S VIGILANTES ATTACK LOCAL POLICE, TAKE ARMS
By MARK STEVENSON Vigilantes attack a local police officer during clashes between local police and self defense groups in the town of Tixtla, Mexico, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. The vigilantes…
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR PROPOSES $315M PRISON FIX
By DON THOMPSON Gov. Jerry Brown, center, discusses a proposal to reduce California’s prison population, at a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. In response to…
HEARING BEGINS FOR NAVAL ACADEMY FOOTBALL PLAYERS
By BRIAN WITTE In this July, 24, 2013 photo released by the U.S. Navy Football team, Midshipmen Josh Tate is shown. A hearing has begun to determine whether Tate and…
EX-SALVADORAN MILITARY LEADER GETS 21 MONTHS IN US
Former El Salvadoran military Col. Inocente Orlando Montano departs federal court, in Boston, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, following the first day of a sentencing hearing on immigration charges. Montano was…
VT. MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO KIDNAPPING, KILLING NIECE
By LISA RATHKE FILE- This July 9, 2008, file photo, shows James Bennett, father of Brooke Bennett, a 12-year-old girl who prosecutors say was sexually assaulted and killed by her…
JUDGE DELAYS SETTING JODI ARIAS SENTENCING RETRIAL
By BRIAN SKOLOFF and BOB CHRISTIE FILE – In this July 16, 2013 file photo, convicted murderer Jodi Arias appears for a hearing in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix.…
WITNESS: MAN ACC– USED OF KILLING GA. BABY HID GUN
By KATE BRUMBACK Brunswick Police Department Criminal Investigator Angela Smith fields questions from defense attorneys as to the photographs used to identify a suspect in the execution style shooting death…