2 MORE NM COUNTIES GIVE SAME-SEX LICENSES
By JERI CLAUSING and RUSSELL CONTRERAS CORRECTS DAY OF WEEK TO TUESDAY, NOT MONDAY – Jena and Nan Masland, both 35, join dozens of same-sex couple lining up outside the…
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UN REFUGEE HEAD: SYRIA ON ‘VERGE OF THE ABYSS’
By ADAM SCHRECK AP10ThingsToSee – FILE – Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 20,…
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…
STUDY: WAIVERS LEAVE BEHIND AT-RISK STUDENTS
By PHILIP ELLIOTT FILE – In this April 30, 2013, file photo, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, left, reads to preschool children at the Cross Cultural Family Center in San Francisco.…
REPORT: UNDERAGE TOBACCO SALES AT RECORD LOWS
By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM FILE – In this Friday, Feb. 28, 1997 file photo, a sign warns minors tobacco will not be sold to them at Montgomery Grocery, in Little Hickman,…
UN RIGHTS CHIEF MEETS SRI LANKAN WAR SURVIVORS
Family members of disappeared Tamil people holding pictures of their relatives protest during the visit of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Aug.…
MIDWEST HEAT WAVE PROMPTS EARLY SCHOOL DISMISSALS
By GRANT SCHULTE Five year-old Grace Kennedy cools off from the heat in a water fountain in Stinson Park in Omaha, Neb., Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. An unusual, late-summer heat…
NM COUNTY TOLD TO ISSUE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LICENSES
JERI CLAUSING Angelique Neuman, left, and Jen Roper, right, celebrate their wedding at Christus St. Vincent Regional Cancer Center, where Roper is undergoing treatment, Friday Aug. 23, 2013 in Santa…