SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – A judge on Friday declined to force the state controller to comply with an order by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pay state workers minimum wage while the state remains without a budget. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette denied the administration’s request for a temporary restraining order that would have [...]
These narcos are waging an insurgency because they must in order to gain the control of the government, law enforcement, and judiciary that is required for them to continue their criminal operations… CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico’s decades-long fight against traffickers, [...]
CNN: Washington — A former State Department analyst was sentenced to life in prison Friday for spying for Cuba for almost 30 years. His wife and partner in spying received a sentence of six years and nine months, but will get credit for more than a year already served. Kendall Myers, 73, pleaded guilty last [...]
CNS News: Maryland will join Pennsylvania as the second state to use federal tax dollars to pay for abortions under the new health care law signed by President Barack Obama in March, according to information released by Maryland’s State Health Insurance Plan. Maryland will receive $85 million in federal funds for its federally mandated high-risk [...]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Utah officials said Friday they have identified at least two state workers who apparently accessed confidential documents to create a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants that was mailed to law enforcement officials and the news media. Gov. Gary Herbert (above) said the employees work for the Department of Workforce [...]
The Hill: Mitt Romney is dominating fundraising in the nascent GOP 2012 presidential field and pushing ahead with a strategy to bolster not just midterm congressional campaigns but state-level ones — as well as his own. The former Massachusetts governor, who sought the Republican White House nomination in 2008, has put considerable distance between himself [...]
The Guardian: The new coalition government regards the release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie plane bombing as a “mistake”, Britain’s ambassador to the US has said. Sir Nigel Sheinwald made the statement as the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said she would look into claims by a group of Democrat senators that [...]
Arizona Republic: The courtroom battle over Senate Bill 1070 began Thursday, but the legal fight has been going on almost since the legislation became law in April. One provision in the immigration law allowed Gov. Jan Brewer to hire a private firm to defend her office rather than rely on Attorney General Terry Goddard’s staff. [...]
CBS News: Democrats have a chance to extend unemployment benefits, now that West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin has appointed his former aide, Carte Goodwin, to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd. The party cannot expect Goodwin to support climate change legislation that puts a price on carbon, however. Manchin announced Friday afternoon that Goodwin, 36, [...]
The Michigan View: In the latest stop on his “Recovery Summer†tour, rock star President Barack Obama landed in Holland, Michigan Thursday, insulted its congressman, handed American stimulus dollars to a Korean corporation, and proclaimed Obamanomics a success even as Michigan has lost 94,000 jobs since his Recovery Act was enacted. All in all, another [...]
The Washington Times: West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III on Friday appointed fellow Democrat and former legal adviser Carte Goodwin to the Senate seat vacated by the death last month of Sen. Robert C. Byrd. Mr. Goodwin, 36, will hold the seat for at least several months, as the state legislature prepares to examine whether [...]
