MO. SLAYING CASE MAY HINGE ON PROPERTY RIGHTS
By JIM SALTER In a Aug. 16, 2013, photo James Crocker, left, is escorted to court for a prelimiary hearing in Steeleville, Mo. Crocker had grown weary of the canoe…
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INDIA PASSES $20 BLN LAW TO EXPAND FOOD WELFARE
By KATY DAIGLE FILE – In this Aug. 22,2013 file photo, an Indian schoolgirl eats a free midday meal at a government school on the outskirts of Jammu, India. India…
4 OF 5 SCHOOLS BEEF UP POLICY AFTER PENN STATE
By EDDIE PELLS FILE – In this Oct. 9, 2012, file photo, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, is taken from the Centre County Courthouse by…
IMMIGRATION BILL KNOT: ‘SPECIAL’ CITIZENSHIP PATH
By ERICA WERNER FILE- In this Feb. 5, 2013, file photo House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, center, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., right, and Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.,…
OBAMA OFFERS NEW GUN CONTROL STEPS
By JOSH LEDERMAN FILE – In this April 17, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama puts his arm around former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords before speaking in the Rose Garden…
DEMOCRATS SPAR OVER DELAYING CALIF. PRISON ORDER
By DON THOMPSON State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, foreground, disusses the cost of Senate Democrats’ proposal to reduce prison crowding compared to one proposed by the Governor,…
MORE ARMED SECURITY AT SCHOOLS AFTER NEWTOWN
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, Dara Van Antwerp, the school resource officer at Panther Run Elementary School Pembroke Pines, Fla., sits in the classroom…
COLOMBIAN REBELS SUSPEND PEACE TALKS IN HAVANA
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Pablo Catatumbo, chief of the western bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, center, speaks to journalists accompanied by Ricardo Tellez, left, and Ivan…