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Chicago's next US attorney faces urgent dilemma

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:51 PM PDT

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's next U.S. attorney faces a dilemma sprung from the twin evils bedeviling America's third-largest city.
    

Public access fight over Manning docs in Md. court

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:46 PM PDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — A dispute over public access to court records in the case of Pfc. Bradley Manning has moved to a civilian court.
    

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Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:44 PM PDT

    

Housing for homeless vets dedicated in Providence

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:43 PM PDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A newly renovated six-unit building where homeless veterans with mental health and substance abuse problems can live and get support services has been dedicated in Providence.
    

Long session prompts Fox to nix Morocco trip

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:40 PM PDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's House Speaker is cancelling a planned trip to Morocco as the state's legislative session wears on.
    

Bloomberg to host fundraiser for Raimondo in NYC

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:37 PM PDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is backing Rhode Island Treasurer Gina Raimondo by hosting a fundraiser for her as next year's governor's race nears.
    

Kerry casts absentee ballot in state's Senate race

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:34 PM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry has cast his ballot in the race for his former U.S. Senate seat.
    

Stanley Cup Game 2 draws most viewers for NBCSN

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:33 PM PDT

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Stanley Cup finals' Game 2 drew the most viewers for the NHL on NBC Sports Network since the cable channel started televising the league in 2006.
    

State Police: Victims in Swansea murder-suicide case argued over money

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:30 PM PDT

Police have identified the two men shot to death Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide in Swansea that allegedly escalated after an argument over money, State Police said today. Swansea police and State Police responded to a report of shots fired on Stephen French Road around 6 p.m. Sunday and found Mitchell Stevenson, 37, of Tiverton, R.I., fatally shot in a car, State Police said.
    

Vt. state employees union reinstates chief

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:25 PM PDT

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The union representing Vermont state workers has reversed a vote its board took last week to fire its executive director, placing him instead on paid leave while an investigation is done.
    

Texas, SD governors court Conn. gun makers

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:24 PM PDT

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The governors of Texas and South Dakota visited Connecticut on Monday to court gun manufacturers that have threatened to leave since the state passed tough new gun-control laws this year in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
    

Maine lawmakers uphold LePage veto on 3 bills

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:24 PM PDT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers have failed to get enough votes to override three vetoes from Republican Gov. Paul LePage.
    

Man facing extradition for murder claims innocence

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:23 PM PDT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A former U.S. Marine fighting extradition to the Philippines on charges of killing a couple said in a jailhouse letter professing his innocence that he would never do something "so heinous and stupid."
    

Pharmacist loses license after kids given morphine

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 02:05 PM PDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island pharmacist and former state senator has had his license revoked by the state director of health after two young children who got medicine from his pharmacy were mistakenly given morphine.
    

Cancer killed Calif. serial killer Richard Ramirez

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:43 PM PDT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A form of cancer killed the serial killer known as the Night Stalker who terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s, coroner's officials said Monday.
    

NH court: no scholarships for religious schools

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:59 PM PDT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A program that gives businesses tax credits for funding scholarships that send New Hampshire students to private or public schools has been declared unconstitutional, but a judge says it can continue as long as none of the money goes to religious schools.
    

Immigration splits GOP's national, House interests

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:44 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican establishment hopes an overhaul of immigration laws will help the party run stronger presidential races. But that goal is about to hit big hurdles in the form of House Republicans.
    

FBI reaches milestone in Most Wanted fugitive list

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:40 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has reached a milestone in its 63-year-old program of pursuing its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives."
    

Senator wants answers about alleged CIA payments

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:38 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senator Bob Corker says he's holding up $75 million in U.S. assistance to Afghanistan until he gets answers from the Obama administration about alleged cash payments from the CIA to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
    

Ex-North Carolina Gov. Jim Holshouser dies at 78

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:58 PM PDT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jim Holshouser, who was North Carolina's first Republican governor of the 20th century, has died. He was 78.