NEW PROSECUTOR TO LOOK AT MO. SEX ASSAULT CASE
By BILL DRAPER FILE – In this Aug. 3, 2012 file photo, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker addresses the media during a news conference, in Kansas City, Mo. A…
Local governments
NJ GOVERNOR ENDS GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT AS COUPLES WED
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and ANGELA DELLI SANTI Beth Asaro, left, and Joanne Schailey celebrate after exchanging vows to become the first same-sex couple married in Lambertville, N.J. history at 12:01…
DEMOCRAT BOOKER WINS US SENATE ELECTION IN NJ
By KATIE ZEZIMA and GEOFF MULVIHILL Newark Mayor Cory Booker talks to supporters during an election night victory party after winning a special election for the U.S. Senate, Wednesday, Oct.…
NEW VATICAN NO. 2 A NO-SHOW AT HANDOVER CEREMONY
By NICOLE WINFIELD FILE – In this Feb. 16, 2009 file photo Monsignor Pietro Parolin attends a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam. Pope Francis bid farewell Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, to…
MEXICO’S CRACKDOWN ON DRUGS SPURS EXTORTION WAVE
By MARK STEVENSON A police vehicle is parked next to the clinic owned by Dr. Roman Gomez Gaviria on the outskirts of Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. Security has…
JEERS, INVESTIGATIONS BELEAGUER CLEVELAND POLICE
By THOMAS J. SHEERAN In this Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 photo shows Cleveland residents holding up signs in protest of the Cleveland Police Department in Cleveland. Months of disciplinary hearings…
US: DETROIT EX-MAYOR SHOULD GET 28 YEARS IN PRISON
By ED WHITE FILE – In this May 25, 2010 file photo, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sits at his sentencing in Wayne County Circuit Court on an obstruction-of-justice conviction.…
MIGRANT SHIP CAPSIZES OFF ITALY, KILLING 94
By NICOLE WINFIELD Bodies of drowned migrants are lined up in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Tens of people died when a ship carrying African migrants toward…