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House Republicans choose Californian to lead immigration committee

Without reform, though, the presence of what may be six million illegal aliens in this country exacts an economic and social toll. No one knows how high that toll is, either, or how much of it is offset by the advantages society gains from a low-wage work force that cannot receive benefits available to citizens.

The New York Police Department, where Timoney was second-in-command, has a strict policy of "no smoking in uniform in public," an NYPD spokesman said yesterday. A Los Angeles police spokesman said that department's policy was virtually identical.

Richmond: Catholic Charities opens comprehensive services center for needy

Mother Teresa has appealed to a Pennsylvania judge to spare the life of a convicted child-killer

The National Rifle Association tracks the legislation online and has praised the new state laws.

Delaware, Continuing a Trend, Becomes the 11th State to Allow Same-Sex Unions

The House approved the bill, 231-198, largely along party lines. Six Democrats voted yes, while 14 Republicans voted no.

Marriages by couples ring true

And whether there is a law probably will have little to do with the fallout over the shooting in Atlanta and more to do with the political sensitivities of Washington, some members of Congress said

KILLER GETS REHEARING ON SENTENCE

The bill defines pellet and BB guns as firearms as well as rifles and shotguns from which shot or bullets are propelled by exploding gunpowder.

The president's proposal calls for a renewed assault weapons ban, universal background checks and restrictions of the sizes of ammunition magazines, as well as new school safety and mental health programs.

The White House announced the proposals while Obama was vacationing in Hawaii.

Coleman said he wants

Calif. faces tax increases, budget cuts

Such devices generally cost $ 5 to $ 15

48 hours before he was expected to be sentenced to prison.

Teenagers working undercover succeeded in buying cigarettes illegally from nearly half of the Northern Virginia store clerks and vending machines they tested, according to a survey by two state health agencies.

STUDY: PA. AMONG LEADERS IN GUN SHOWS

GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE: YOU BE THE JUDGE

An Iowa college known for liberal activism is welcoming an unlikely neighbor: one of the nation's largest suppliers of high-capacity ammunition magazines and accessories for assault rifles and other guns.

A WORKING START Program boosts immigrants into workforce quickly

Open Debate on Guns

Mr. Blumenthal cited worries about the spiraling use of tobacco among younger and younger people, particularly girls.

Within hours of the massacre, President Barack Obama was lamenting the absence of progress on gun control. A particular Democratic (and media) lament was Congress' failure to pass anything after Sandy Hook.

Gun rights group targets House speaker with mailer about rape

A. SUPREME COURT STAYS EXECUTIONS OF TWO MEN

Pastors in Ohio, North Carolina, Florida and other swing states are readying Sunday sermons inveighing against same-sex unions, while activist groups have begun laying plans for social media campaigns, leafleting drives and other get-out-the-vote efforts centered on the same-sex marriage issue.

During 2000, 77,211 applications to buy handguns or rifles were submitted to state or local law enforcement agencies, a 1.1 percent increase over 1999, according to a study released last week by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Almost three-quarters of African-Americans said the country is losing its "moral compass" by removing prayer in school and fighting the display of the Ten Commandments in public, as did 62.3 percent of respondents overall.

The taxes would sharply increase the price paid for cigarettes bought in Indian stores and could have a huge impact on the economies of some tribes, like the Shinnecock Nation in Southampton, which relies heavily on cigarette sales for its support.

A May 15 execution date was set Thursday for Darrell Gene Devier for the 1979 kidnapping, rape and murder of a 12-year-old Adairsville girl, Mary Frances Stoner.

Tobacco's New Troubles

In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, is standing by his 2012 veto of a measure to allow gay couples to marry and is refusing to free Republican legislators to follow their conscience on an override vote. Mr. Christie is imposing a large ideological tax on thousands of couples and their families whose interests he is supposed to protect. He is depriving them of federal benefits, which their tax payments help underwrite.

The bill previously passed the state Senate and now heads to Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is expected to sign it into law.

But while Michael Boggess Sr. testified in intimate detail Thursday about his sexual abuse of Todd and also of another son, Michael Boggess Jr., he was not permitted to tell jurors that he was a pedophile who had sexually victimized up to 2,000 other young boys.

convey benefits. The truth is that benefits may be conveyed in a myriad of ways.

CONFESSED KILLER CONVICTED IN TEXAS SLAYING

deporting undocumented immigrants

The choice of a naturalization ceremony for Friday's event was symbolic, said ARC spokeswoman Julie Ralston. "It more reflects that we are existing in a global marketplace and attracting people here for jobs from all over the world," she said. "Newcomers drive our growth."

The defendants include John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, and Robert S. Mueller III, the former F.B.I. director. A lawyer for the plaintiffs said the ruling sent a powerful message.

Doctors hoping to reduce the exposure of smokers' children to secondhand smoke have found that putting nicotine monitors in the home seems to help persuade parents to smoke less around their children.

Royal Palm to support gun-control resolution;

Boulder murder sends investigators to Mass. Family of suspect in clothing-store slaying being interviewed

the late Pope John Paul II.

I don't want to sound like the European telling Americans how to deal with their own country.

MOFFETT WRONG - HIGH IMMIGRATION UNTENABLE

Executions had been postponed while the United States Supreme Court considered a similar challenge to injection procedures in a Kentucky case. In October, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which granted the reprieve, halted the execution of Heliberto Chi on the same issues. The Chi case has still not been resolved.

so long as the Second Amendment is not infringed

Cobb District Attorney Pat Head was attending a conference Wednesday and unavailable for comment, but in previous statements to the media he has supported his office's prosecution of McNeil and denied any racial motivation.

Gov. Christie followed through on his promise to veto a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, but did it with a twist Friday:

Since court records have been sealed by District Judge Paul King, Moore said, he could not discuss specifics of the investigation or arrests.

As of Friday, 708 of the approximately 1,000 people on the government list had been arrested under what is being called the Alien Absconder Apprehension Initiative, INS official Nancy Cohen said.

Griffin maintained his innocence

Concealed handgun laws reduced murder by 8.5 percent, rape by 5 percent and severe assault by 7 percent.

Lethal injection should replace electric chair

Triple Jeopardy

But it can still be the city of guns.

If you were considering refinancing your mortgage

major victory for those who oppose same-sex marriage and underscoring the deep and passionate divisions surrounding the issue.

Reacting to the assault, Bush asserted his independence from the 3.5 million-member NRA and was noncommittal toward relieving gun manufacturers of liability.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Constance C. Russell said the state's voters must first decide whether same-sex relationships should have any legal status before they can be asked to decide whether same-sex marriages should be banned.

Wilson told the seven-man, five-woman jury.

Contrastingly, Pressley Sutherland, interim pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church of Tampa, calls the singer's tweets brave.

Gay marriages deemed legal in Pennsylvania

legislators

"Employers have discovered that these benefits help attract and keep the best workers, a critical consideration in the current tight job market."

Trump is not alone in foreign hiring

At the White House, President Trump has on several occasions used the bully pulpit to highlight some of the most sensational crimes by immigrants, and he met in the Oval Office with family members of their victims.

Trump: Immigration crackdown begins

SMOKING BAN BILL AIMS TO CLEAR THE AIR

In addition to banishing many current restrictions, House Bill 981 would prevent police or the National Guard from disarming people during states of emergency, and it would allow citizens to sue if that occurred.

Over the next 17 months, Reggi, 40, and Emanuel, 42, organized six more bus trips to Iowa. Today marks the eighth. It was to head out before dawn with 14 couples on board. When they arrive at the Johnson County Administration Building in Iowa City today to get their marriage licenses, the number of couples taking the bus trips from St. Louis will surpass the 100 mark

It makes little sense to issue firearms hunting licenses to persons forbidden by law from possessing firearms.

AGENCY PROPOSES CHANGES IN TAR AND NICOTINE TESTING

Gay-marriage bills stalled in Pennsylvania

"We are ending our pursuit of the death penalty in this case only because we are compelled to do so by a change in the law after we filed charges, and how it has been interpreted in this case."

Opponents of gay marriage concede victory will not be swift in their attempt to amend the U.S. Constitution, even after prevailing in all 11 states where the issue was on the ballot last month.

While federal officials said they were studying their options, several said they considered the Virginia courts to be the most likely to try the case first.

ban cigarette vending machines, limit sales to behind the counter and tighten advertising

Immigrants made up one-quarter of Americans who lacked health insurance in 2003, up from one-fifth a decade earlier, the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute reported Monday.

r. Lucas, who had been charged with killing the unidentified woman while committing or trying to commit aggravated rape, showed no emotion as the verdict was read.

Got a license for that loaded jalopy?

Westville: Unlikely first in South Jersey

Sen. Ron Teck of Grand Junction said he drafted Senate Bill 10

: gun vio-lence restraining orders (GVRO), in which law enforcement agencies, families and household members can quickly remove firearms from individuals deemed unstable or unfit to own them

Senate OKs gun-business protections Suit barrier NRA priority

asked Alice Miller of New York City. She works against the death penalty for Amnesty International USA, and travels to sites of executions across the nation to protest.

a Catholic

The weapons "on trial" are not sporting guns. They have no function except to kill. In 1791, did the authors of the Bill of Rights imagine the war zone the country would become?

The Numbing Toll of So Many Guns

Supporting comprehensive immigration reform is a good start, if the GOP is sincere and isn't doing it just to garner more votes. But it's far from a done deal.

to cut the budget

"We're on lockdown and we're not allowed to leave," the staffer said. "Somebody heard a gunshot down in the garage."

By the time Walter Morris walked into 2-year-old Dustin Gee's world, the toddler's life was already a living torment.

Lower courts need not weigh an issue simply because two Supreme Court justices believe it is important. But comments from even one justice on novel legal questions have sometimes spurred state and federal judges to study them and take conflicting positions, leading to a formal Supreme Court ruling.

''There is some relief, but my family is still gone,'' Dr. William A. Petit Jr., whose wife and two daughters were killed, said after the verdict. ''It doesn't bring them back. It doesn't bring back the home that we had.''

California legislators seek new gun restrictions

proposal to ban the sale of guns within the St. Petersburg city limits