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MISSOURI MAKES PLANS TO MOVE EXECUTION CHAMBER TO FULTON

Just a few weeks ago, an Alameda County judge sentenced an Oakland man to death

If two state senators have their way

Hoosier Mercy

From the suburbs to the Iron Range, bars took advantage of the loophole, drawing national attention. On March 5, Magnan announced that the "performances" violate the statewide ban. Many ceased the performances; many did not.

Reno said the Justice Department's inspector general was investigating the problem with the criminal background checks.

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest-ranking Latino lawmaker in Congress and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the president shouldn't wait.

has asked the court to award him

In fact, unless you're a police undercover agent, it is hard to think of any good legal use for a snubbie.

Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential candidate

Latisha Espinosa, daughter of farm workers, is a high school senior who has spent much of the last two years patiently raising twin brothers on her own. Her father, a Mexican-born man who has toiled the fields of the United States much of his adult life to provide for his children, made a mistake in 1993

AUSTRALIAN WON'T FACE DEATH PENALTY

The north half of the squat pink home served as one of a dozen brothels in South Florida since 1996, according to a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. attorney's office. FBI and Border Patrol agents arrested Rogerio Francisco Cadena, 50, of Veracruz, Mexico, two weeks ago for smuggling at least 23 women and girls and forcing them to pay for their delivery to Florida by selling their bodies.

COPS AGAINST GUNS

has gotten just over $60,000 from the NRA since 1998, according to the analysis.

Court ruling creates possible crack in Wisconsin ban on benefits for gay couples

Leopard claims the ads affected millions of people, and that he is wracked with guilt.

For the first time since 2005, Arkansas executed a death-row inmate. Now the state is turning its attention to three more executions planned for the coming days.

, endangering the welfare of a child

Democrats Assail Allen In Pitch for Female Vote

"He's not advocating for a shutdown in any way

A suspected illegal immigrant - arrested and released by Denver police five months ago - has been charged with murder in the death of a woman dragged behind a truck by her neck for more than a mile.

In the short time since a Baltimore circuit court declared the state's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutiona

FLORIDA BECOMES ANTI-SMOKING MODEL

SENATOR WOULD DISARM U.S. FOREST, REFUGE PATROLS

'Go home and get in line': Fact-checking Kris Kobach on DACA

He said the ordinance conflicts with federal labor law, attempts to regulate interstate commerce in violation of the Constitution and violates two other federal laws that were the focus of the hearing:

that would impose mandatory standards for lawyers appointed to capital cases and withhold federal prison funds from states that fail to meet those guidelines.

many of them crime-related,

Six Republicans etched their names onto the wrong side of history Thursday night when they killed a bill that would have allowed for civil unions in Colorado.

they represent only about one-third of the 223 million firearms manufactured or imported for sale in the United States from 1899 to 1993

the politics of gay marriage did

The measure has already passed the State Assembly and now heads to the governor's desk.

"With a butcher knife. Is there any more coffee?" Castro said, according to a transcript of the confession.

Philip Morris leads the way in aggressive marketing to young women, dating back to its sponsorship of the Virginia Slims tennis tour. Now, the tobacco giant has underwritten a Virginia Slims Woman Thing record label and concert series. On Friday, at Atlanta's Cotton Club, the series will make its fifth stop on a 10-city tour.

Gov. Mitt Romney's efforts

The prosecution also cannot comment on the letter because of the gag order, said Erik Friedly, spokesman for the Fulton County district attorney's office. Friedly said the gag order applies to Al-Amin as well as the attorneys, but only a judge could determine if the letter is a violation of the order.

CONGRESS LEFT town having failed to pass the comprehensive reform of immigration laws that President Bush claimed to want but didn't do much to promote at crunchtime.

Secure borders are citizens' right

We as physicians are the witnesses to the human toll of this disease," Megan Ranney, an emergency-medicine special-ist at Brown University, said at the meeting.

U.S. population tops 290M, could reach 300M by 2007

Both groups say their attorneys have assured them they are within the law.

Premium Cigars Roll Back Into Favor

Penalty Phase of Sniper Trial Nears End

The Senate narrowly approved the measure today, the last day of the regular legislative session, on a 21-16 vote, but it failed in the Assembly.

"They've been heavily promoted by the tobacco industry" and the casino industry as a way to welcome both smokers and nonsmokers, Repace said.

David Kessler of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said he wants to put new controls on cigarette sales to minors. Statistics show 90 percent of smokers get hooked on nicotine as teens, according to one government scientist.

Mr. Williams was convicted and sentenced to death. Mr. Castille went on to serve on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

I believe cigarette manufacturers are in cahoots with TV producers and the motion picture industry. An awful lot of stars seem to be smoking on TV, which gives the public the idea that smoking is cool, fashionable and sophisticated. I've kept track of these TV shows, and so far, I've seen smoking on "Roseanne," "Law and Order," "NYPD Blue" and Stephen King's "Longaliers." There's a lot more smoking on TV than there used to be, and this is no accident. Please look into this.

Gunning for votes

And, they did. Just before 5 p.m., on a day of the unexpected, the Berkeley couple whose case brought down the Proposition 8 ban exchanged vows on live television at San Francisco City Hall.

Control The Violence By Controlling Guns

Judges in Texas and Kentucky this week added their endorsements to those voiced in the past three months by colleagues in New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia.

A predicament on citizenship

Speaking somberly, and at times passionately, from the bench in a marble-paneled courtroom at the federal courthouse here, Judge Matsch voiced contempt for Mr. McVeigh's crimes and surprised even some government lawyers who had predicted that he would grant Mr. McVeigh at least a short reprieve.

CALLERS PATCH-ED THROUGH TO COMMISH FOR CIG ADVIC

legislation seeking to prevent gay marriages -- by defining marriage in federal law as the union of a man and a woman

Smuggling Death Toll May Drop

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado on Monday said it is offering same-sex partner benefits to companies with one to 50 employees.

No guns at the St. Louis Zoo, judge rules

S.F. takes step toward same-sex matrimony

SAG Awards: From Julia Louis-Dreyfus to Mahershala Ali, here are the many (many) political statements

Amendment to highway bill sideswipes Little Tobacco

The NRA regains its edge Group gears up for fall elections

Board of Probation and Parole

The Bloomberg administration insists that enforcement has not been increased, but the number of smoking violations citywide rose last year by about 70%.

Gov. Blunt's immigration moves upset Hispanics here

In a lawsuit seeking to hold gun manufacturers liable for shootings with illegally obtained handguns, an economist testified yesterday that the plaintiffs' main contention was based on flawed statistics.

President Barack Obama

When a person lives and works in a foreign country, that person should receive the same benefits as citizens

U.S. lawmakers from Pa., N.J. look at gun measures

Free for All

"If your IQ is above that, you don't even get to be evaluated, no mental health check, and no psychiatrists can examine you and see what your childhood was like,

But it was really about clamping down on Espinoza.

Although Herbert has appealed the judge's order, he has virtually no chance of having it overturned, and his attorney, Maura Jaite, described him as "totally devastated" yesterday. He has been in INS detention for 17 months.

Immigration Rules and Fairness

Their assignment is to sell Congress on the $ 368.5 billion tobacco settlement, negotiated by tobacco lawyers and state attorneys general, which would shield the industry from future lawsuits filed by smokers. In return, these politicos get a big cut of the whopping $ 30 million that the tobacco industry has spent on lobbying this year.

gun safety.

"He killed us all," she said. "He destroyed my whole family. We just fell apart."

Theater Gunman Is Spared Death in Aurora Case

They won't make us instantly safer.

D.C. government won't appeal concealed-carry rights case to the Supreme Court

Illegal Immigrants Die in Field Fire

Execs: Gay marriage ban costly

With his laptop before him on the bar at Mission Taqueria, Jesse Bacon, 39, picked at his salsa and chips. He chose to patronize this Center City restaurant, he said, because it gave its Latino staff the day off, with pay, in support of the ";Day Without Immigrants"; protest.

THERE'S NO NEED FOR CITIZEN MILITIAS IN 1994 AMERICA

DRIFTER WHO MURDERED ELDERLY MAN IN MADISON COUNTY PREPARES FOR EXECUTION

"We realize this is a controversial topic, so we're giving them the opportunity to give us comments," spokesman Mike Bazinet said.

Court flooded with marriage applications

In brief

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Cynthia Kern issued that order as she refused the co-op's request to order Diane Wells to stop smoking.

States already have executed 32 prisoners this year, 14 in Texas alone, and more than in any year since 1962.

Outgoing Illinois Gov. George Ryan turned death to life for all 156 of his state's Death Row inmates yesterday.

President Obama? Hillary Clinton? No, it was Donald Trump.

110 Wrongful Convictions, and Counting

Clerics need not sanctify gay rites

ut much of that evidence was never heard. Prosecutors rested their case early without calling more than a dozen inmates listed as witnesses.

A mayoral commission is recommending the NYPD ban cops from carrying their guns off-duty if they are drinking.

ONLY IN THE AJC MARCH FOR OUR LIVES;

or a genuine change of heart,