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Supreme Court dismisses killer's appeal

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave no explanation Tuesday for issuing its stay of execution. Death penalty lawyers noted that Carr's federal appeals have yet to be considered by the U.S. Supreme Court --- a step that is taken in all capital cases. On Wednesday, the state Attorney General's Office asked the appeals court to lift the stay.

As for Florida laws on gun control, they are a joke! What good are restrictions on gun dealers when we have no restrictions on gun shows or private citizens selling guns in newspaper ads?

On drug treatment, he could not say how much more he would spend.

Two of four suspects in the November torture-killing of a Watsonville nursing-home owner

referring to a lawsuit due before the state Court of Appeals tomorrow that focuses on five same-sex couples seeking marriage licenses in New York City.

Police chiefs have been speaking out against it.

HIGH COURT OVERTURNS KEY PART OF BRADY ACT RULING:FEDERALLY MANDATED BACKGROUND CHECKS ON GUN BUYERS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Death Penalty Paradox

'Eye for an Eye' Challenges Faithful

Wake up, people! The United States, the world's No. 1 arms trafficker, is killing itself with its own products.

Kaczynski pleads guilty to all charges

saying her father is clearly delusional.

Brooklyn Man Is Charged In Fatal Bodega Robbery

3 arrested in McFrugal slayings Robbery the motive, police say Mayor will ask DA to seek death penalty

In Pursuit of the 'Pink Dollar'

And, most recently, authorities in Upstate New York announced that they have linked Gary to a cold case there from 32 years ago. Syracuse, N.Y., police say they have matched Gary's DNA to that left at the scene of 40-year-old Marion Fisher's 1975 rape and strangulation.

TALE OF TWO INITIATIVES

A 22-year-old woman was accused of pretending to be a Federal immigration officer in a money-making scheme in which she took aliens to an Immigration and Naturalization Service office to be fingerprinted.

But there will also be celebrations by neighbors and co-workers. Many marriages will be by couples in their 30s, 40s and 50s who have lived together for years.

nd blamed legislators for not adequately funding the agency.

In a 6-1 decision, Chief Justice Mary Ann McMorrow said Ryan's intention was clear.

Holsey was arrested a few hours later sitting in his car outside his sister's house. Several months later, a stainless-steel .38 revolver that police identified as the murder weapon was found by a man mowing his yard for the first time since winter.

Sitting among dozens of family members of the victims, the Rev. Sharon Risher said she "felt like my heart was going to pop."

The price of patches, at $ 4 a patch, for eight weeks would be $ 224; the cost for 12 weeks would be $ 336.

Agents arrest four, say group smuggled immigrants in L.A.; SENIOR INS OFFICIAL WHO WORKS AT AIRPORT ACCUSED IN SCHEME

Justices to hear Brady Act case

Sheriff's stand on assault rifle ban a puzzler

Trial Opens for Rowan in Shooting of Trespasser

Nonprofit trains Bay Area immigrants to become baristas

Can the politics of this question change? The answer is plainly yes.

The GOP bill "lowers everybody's standards to the lowest in the union,"

Gun-control advocates -

It was personal.

Town Set to Defy Governor On Same-Sex Marriage Issue

. They will be moved to Potosi later, Moore said. Two women facing the death penalty are at a prison in Fulton. Prison officials had been planning to move the male death-row inmates to Potosi for several months but kept details of the move quiet for security reasons. Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers and a patrol helicopter were used in the move, Moore said. ''It went very smooth,'' he said. ''The inmates were cooperative.'' The Potosi Correctional Center was officially opened in November. With the addition of the death-row inmates, the 500-bed center now has a population of about 270 inmates.

Last month, the Indiana Supreme Court rejected a similar request from Mr. Williams, saying that the testing could not prove him innocent and that there was other strong evidence against him.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously today to expand the city's domestic partners policy despite congressional pressure that already may have cost the city millions of dollars.

DAYTON REINTRODUCES BILL FOR SAME-SEX BENEFITS

that a court erred in striking a ban on gays in the Boy Scouts.

The suit, filed in Bronx Supreme Court, charges Paterson exceeded his authority and contends it makes the Legislature's definition of marriage as involving a man and a woman "irrelevant."

Private-school heads urge 'common-sense gun laws'

Opponents of gay marriage, warning of many negative consequences, now include economic ones ("Gay marriage bill advances; GOP points to costs," March 14)

CLINTON'S BUDGET WILL INCLUDE MORE EFFORTS TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE

The antitrust investigation also comes as 30 cities and counties have filed lawsuits against gun manufacturers, wholesalers and retail dealers. Some cases are expected to soon reach the discovery phase, during which lawyers for the municipalities hope to uncover documents showing the gun industry was aware that its sales practices helped make it easy for criminals and juveniles to buy handguns. The suits against the gun makers charge them with failing to incorporate safety devices and negligently marketing their guns so that criminals can buy them.

HAS COMMON sense on gun laws broken out in Washington? Probably not, but over the past couple of weeks there have been a couple of minor but welcome victories in the quest for reasonable gun regulations.

Wilson and Democratic legislative leaders have been saying for weeks that they expected relatively easy budget approval this year because they intended to count on $3.1 billion in federal immigration aid.

Simple benefits for spouses, which involve Social Security, immigration, inheritance and taxes, cannot be secured by state law or contract. Can we please accept the fact that marriage, regardless of sexual orientation, is about security, love, commitment and trust?

Wednesday's action differed significantly from two previous attempts to get a waiting-period law in Hillsborough. Over the last two years, commissioners have voted down both a two-day and a three-day cooling-off period.

POLITICAL BRIEFING

LUGAR AD TARGETS ASSAULT RIFLES

Officials estimated the annual cost to taxpayers would be less than $ 400,000

Capitol Focus Activists hope to influence legislators as the U.S. Senate debates changes

Smoking-ban foe to run for governor

AMERICANS FAVOR TOUGHER GUN CONTROLS, POLL FINDS

POLICE BREATHE SIGH OF RELIEF: FEWER GUNS MEAN SAFER CITY

GOP Fears Agenda Drift as 2000 Elections Near

THE HOLSEY MURDER TRIAL

Mr. Bush

"It's the economy, both a push and pull," said University of Michigan demographer William Frey, an expert on immigration. "Our economy is looking better to people from outside. . . . And the need for labor here is high at both the low-skilled and high-skilled end."

Senate plan could double high-skilled worker visas

BAM'S QUICK DRAW Wants gun law in 2013

HIS EXECUTION DAY IS HERE, YET QUESTIONS OF INNOCENCE PERSIST

McLeod and Hayes were charged with selling guns to felons and selling a silencer, which is illegal. Each pleaded guilty in March to one count of firearm-related conspiracy.

"The constitution is one of the documents that draws up the fundamental aspects of our society. Marriage needs to be in there as one of those fundamental aspects."

Courting gay-marriage laws

Clinton announces 'Net checks for gun dealers

How to avoid being asked to 'show your papers'

ASSAULT ON ALL SENSE Squirt gun ban near RNC But packing heat OK in 'event zone'

IN FLORIDA, A WAITING LIST TO WATCH EXECUTIONS

Pennsylvania now has 237 convicted murderers, including Banks, awaiting execution on the nation's fourth-largest death row, behind California, Texas and Florida.

McClain included statements from two doctors who say Medina did not die immediately and suffered intense pain. Corroded copper screens in the head-piece started a fire that ignited Medina's death mask.

His eyes remained closed as he gasped twice when the chemicals began flowing into his arms.

Once Banned, Now Loved and Loathed: How the AR-15 Became 'America's Ri-fle'

Earlier reports had up to 10 cult members dead, but authorities now are counting only the confirmed dead.

probably would have qualified to carry a concealed handgun into the workplace under the law that Mr. Bush signed in Texas and a proposal Mr. Ashcroft backed in Missouri.

The defense also suggested that Mr. Page did not fire any shots at all in the incident, which occurred not far from his building.

He also had some scathing words about gun control for government officials, including President Trump, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan.

Stop sucking up to 'gun culture.'

banning smoking altogether. Others are allowing smoking just about anywhere.

Since that ruling, Virginia prosecutors have been seeking to convict Wolfe under a new set of indictments. Defense attorneys have been pushing to have the case dropped for good, arguing that a fair trial is now impossible.

The D.C. bill, which would give the city a representative with full voting rights in the House (and give another House seat to GOP-leaning Utah), has been stuck in neutral since February, when the Senate passed the measure but added an amendment that would repeal most of the district's gun-control laws. The move angered local leaders, but pro-gun rights measures command strong support in both the House and Senate, making it difficult for Democrats to move the voting rights bill on its own.

Obama's economic case for an immigration overhaul in 3 charts

It marked the first time R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has paid damages in a case brought by an individual smoker for injuries caused by cigarettes.

Ashcroft Sees No Halt in Executions

Weekend Gun Report: October 18-20, 2013

Gay marriage equality box spreads on social media

NRA cash helps stay gun control efforts;

gun control proponents decry as the nation's "most extreme example" of efforts to gut gun laws.

Polls indicate minor shifts in views on guns, laws

Two weeks ago, a state judge in Palm Beach sided with the state. Ruling that the attorneys' demands were "unconscionable and clearly excessive," Circuit Judge Harold Jeffrey Cohen ordered the attorneys to arbitrate their fees. The dissidents have since sued to have the judge removed from the case.

Man charged in immigrant fraud case

Labor dispute over U.S. Open in Merion intensifies

We could have incarcerated him in a secure facility,

"It's time we stepped out on the issue," Mr. Weicker said.

US West to offer same-sex benefits State's largest employer joins trend

What are ICE raids accomplishing?

ECORATED VETERAN COULD BE NEXT TO BE EXECUTED SUPREME COURT REJECTS ARGUMENTS FOR KILLER WOUNDED IN VIETNAM

A wider ban will be easier to enforce than one that is more selective, said City Manager James Keene. The ordinance is expected to be in place by mid-July.

after gun-rights groups held a series of demonstrations openly carrying unloaded weapons.