A federal judge in Birmingham will hear arguments whether a new Alabama immigration law constitutes an unfair assault on civil liberties or is a long-overdue effort to protect American jobs and borders.
Police arrest naked NY man in fatal stabbing spree
The man killed an elderly man dead and injuring four others, was charged with murder on Wednesday, police said.
Pope laments ‘amnesia’ about God during Spain trip
Pope Benedict XVI is in Spain to celebrate the church’s World Youth Day.
6th person dies from Ind. fair accident injuries
Strong winds at Indiana fair cause stage to collapse.
Planned Parenthood to end abortions in 3 AZ cities
These changes comply with recent state laws that placed restrictions on abortion.
Students absent as neighbors discuss city proposal limiting housing
The moratorium, which the council voted to support on Aug. 9, extends around the St. Thomas campus from I-94 to St. Clair Avenue and from Mississippi River Boulevard to Fairview Avenue.
Shutdown over, Dayton to ‘do what I can’ on jobs
More than 200,000 Minnesota residents are jobless, and last month’s shutdown caused the state’s unemployment rate to jump to 7.2 percent.
Police: School bomb plot aimed for mass casualties
Police found shrapnel, plastic tubing, timing and fuse devices the student was amassing in a plot he intended to be worse than the Columbine mass killings, police said Wednesday.
FBI investigates fatal rundown of black Miss. man
An FBI spokeswoman in Mississippi, said Wednesday that the bureau is investigating the June 26 death and said the agency wants to “determine whether federal civil rights crimes occurred.”
Chile’s president, miners mark year since collapse
Several of the miners carried an image of the Virgin to the Candelaria cathedral in downtown Copiapo, a dusty mining city in Chile’s northern desert 31 miles (50 kilometers) from the isolated mine that has been closed since the miners were pulled out alive 69 days after their ordeal began.
Cargill recalling 36M pounds of ground turkey
Cargill said that it is recalling fresh and frozen ground turkey products produced at the company’s Springdale, Ark., plant from Feb. 20 through Aug. 2 due to possible contamination from the strain of salmonella.
ACLU seeks info on how police use cellphone data
The civil rights organization said 34 of its national affiliates have filed open-records requests with hundreds of law enforcement agencies seeking disclosure on cellphone location data, which is used to pinpoint where people go with their phones.
Giffords’ recovery: A look back (video)
On Jan. 8, Arizona Democrat Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head in the parking lot of a Tucson grocery store while meeting with constituents. On Monday, she returned to the House of Representatives. READ MORE
Authorities examine body of girl killed in 1957
The body was exhumed weeks after authorities announced they’d arrested a Seattle man and charged him with murder in the death of the girl, who was abducted by a man as she played outside her home in Sycamore in December 1957.
North Korea predicts new nuclear arms race
Sin Son Ho told a General Assembly meeting that if “the largest nuclear weapon state” — a reference to the United States — wants to stop the spread of nuclear weapons “it should show its good example by negotiating the Treaty of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons.”