It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained reporters' telephone records four years earlier. The extraordinary call was ...
Sometimes tardy is timely. Wash. Corrections Officer Brandy Boyer says if she hadn't been 10 minutes late leaving for work Saturday morning she wouldn't have spotted a prison escapee. Boyer told The Columbian (http://is.gd/Yv8Vzk ) she was driving to Larch Corrections Center in southwest Washington for her shift when she ...
Guatemala's top court has thrown another curve into the genocide case of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, overturning his conviction and ordering that the trial be taken back to the middle of the proceedings. The ruling late Monday threw into disarray a process that had been hailed as historic for ...
A defense contractor at Camp Pendleton has been sentenced to six months in prison for his role in the theft of pricey medical equipment intended for overseas Marines. The U.S. attorney in San Diego said in a statement Monday that Michael Tuisee was also sentenced to six months of house ...
Jurors on Monday convicted a Washington state man of attempted aggravated murder and related counts stemming from a February 2012 encounter with police at an Astoria motel and his subsequent time in a county jail. The Clatsop County jury convicted Yevgeniy Savinskiy, 38, of Washougal, Wash., on two counts of ...
A summary of action in the Alabama Legislature on Monday, the 30th and final meeting day of the regular session: HOUSE: —Joined the Senate in rejecting the governor's proposal to delay Alabama's new private school tax credits for two years. —Gave final approval to a major overhaul of Alabama's gun ...
Authorities say two children who were forcibly taken by their father from a foster home in Massachusetts have been found safe in Connecticut and their father has been arrested. Massachusetts State Police say 8-year-old Patrick Nguyen (n'wihn) and his 10-year-old sister, Sarah Nguyen (n'wihn), were found unharmed at a convenience ...
Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency spokeswoman said Monday night. Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw were killed when they fell into the water Friday. Both were ...
Highlights of this day in history: Aviator Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris, completing the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic; The American Red Cross founded; Susan Lucci wins a Daytime Emmy; 'Gypsy' opens on Broadway. (May 2...
Residents of a western Mexico area who endured months besieged by a drug cartel cheered the arrival of hundreds of Mexican soldiers Monday. People in La Ruana in Michoacan state lined the main road to greet more than a dozen troop transports and heavily armed Humvees with applause and shouts ...
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