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Prosecutors also are seeking the death penalty for Spann, 26, of West Palm Beach, who began serving a 13-year prison sentence in October after pleading no contest to a reduced manslaughter charge for killing a Tallahassee man two months before Perron's abduction and murder

compared with her fear of making her relationship with Thea Spyer public only 10 years ago.

ourt Rebuffs Georgian on Death Row

Sweeney: Mistake not to vote on gay marriage

Monday is the deadline for filing motions for summary judgment in the case, and attorneys for both sides said they will submit papers in U.S. District Court here. The case could produce a landmark ruling on the protections given to homosexuals and lesbians.

Supreme Court to Weigh Award in a Smoker's Death

Hard time for this man is the proper punishment on Earth.

deportation

Our deadlockeddemocracy

Separtists convicted in Jewish site killings

Those who run K-12 schools and county courthouses were explicitly named in the state law and accorded that power, but universities were not.

health coverage.

About 100 local people add their voices to calls coming from across U.S.

Berglund then ripped the nation's elected officials: "What Congress did was dumb. It makes me angry."

KACZYNSKI'S INTRANSIGENCE ECHOES THAT OF OTHER DEFENDANTS / EXPERTS SAY CLIENTS HAVE FIRED THEIR LAWYERS TO AVOID BEING PORTRAYED AS MENTALLY ILL.

Obama Decries Senate's Rejection of Gun Safety Measures

A DIFFERENT FAMILY RITUAL: HOT POT; COMING TOGETHER AROUND A CONTAINER OF BOILING BROTH

Now, with Dixon headed for trial, the government has been forced to acknowledge that its sole witness at first told a different story about what happened June 26, 2000.

Leaders see new gun laws

The Pierce County ordinance prohibits all tobacco advertising that can be seen from the street, with the exception of signs outside stores of plain design that list only cigarette prices. Even those signs are banned within 1,000 feet of schools and other areas frequented by minors.

''I've been checking my mail every day, but I haven't heard anything,'' said Francisca Fiero, 73, a Mexican immigrant in Las Vegas. ''I'm starting to get very worried.''

"It's the right thing to do, plain and simple."

Katie Mulcahey was soon vindicated. Mayor George B. McClellan vetoed the measure two weeks after it was enacted.

and we earnestly enforce it in all public places and specifically in restaurants.

ordered the company

in their battle against gang violence.

POLITICS: THE ISSUES; Dole's Immigration Stance Splits G.O.P.

Henry was convicted of three killings. He stabbed his girlfriend, 28-year-old Patricia Roddy, 20 times in 1976 while her children were in the back seat of her car. He pleaded to second-degree murder and served a little over seven years. When he got out, he married Suzanne Henry. He killed her in December 1985 in Zephyrhills, stabbing her after an argument while her son 5-year-old son, Eugene Christian, was nearby. He killed the boy later that day with the same knife and dumped him in a field.

Immigrants Suffering in U.S. Custody

Maine and Maryland became the first states in which voters approved gay marriage.

The annual studies are part of campaign by the American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute to educate children about the perils of smoking

Court rejects gay marriage ban

Immigrant-Smuggling Case Against Driver Goes to Jury

But his attorneys say Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court decision banning the execution of the mentally retarded appears to guarantee that he will live out a natural life in prison.

A separate attempt to address a new policy emerging in Washington failed when Republicans in the House of Delegates refused to allow the introduction of legislation dealing with Internet privacy.

By a vote of 50 to 48, the lawmakers beat back an attempt by Senator Phil Gramm, Republican of Texas, to remove the ban from an omnibus crime bill. The action broke a three-week deadlock that had stalled final passage.

HOW THEY VOTED

2 accused of selling visas for up to $30,000

The House GOP lawmakers said the bill

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Two hours later, Gov. Mark White of Texas refused to grant a 30-day reprieve. In more than five years of appeals, his case was reviewed 11 times and he won four stays, one just 11 hours before he was to have been put to death.

Byrd, who is black, argued unsuccessfully that he had been the victim of a jury from which blacks had been excluded.

GUN CONTROL IS A NUANCED IDEA

Concealed handgun law triggers no barrage

The headlines are blazing, Twitter is lit up, the political press is all hot for the kind of story it loves to tell: two huge celebrities attacking each other.

The notion that gun control was responsible for the Democrats' debacle 15 years ago was floated by Richard Gephardt, the former Democratic House leader, and other pols and commentators after the '94 election. But it was Bill Clinton who gave it current credence. ''The N.R.A. could rightly claim to have made Gingrich the House speaker,'' Mr. Clinton wrote in his 2004 autobiography, pumping up the gun lobby and, not incidentally, himself by attributing the body blow to his party to his principled leadership on guns.

The state of Texas notified Missouri Gov. Bob Holden on Wednesday that concealed-weapons permits issued in Missouri will not be honored in the "Lone Star" state.

NO PARTY LINE ON GUN-CONTROL VOTES

Violators could be fined $250.

it makes you think: Is that what they deserve?"

U.S. Urged To Escalate Tobacco War

Arguments about protecting the Second Amendment are a canard; the Supreme Court has said states can regulate guns for lawful users.

Only Massachusetts and Connecticut allow same-sex marriage. Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Vermont allow same-sex civil unions.

Because of that history of discrimination, the decision properly treats sexual orientation as a ''suspect classification'' entitled to the sort of heightened legal scrutiny applied to distinctions based on race or sex.

Kelly revokes Obama order shielding immigrant parents of U.S. citizens

- President Bush's crusade

From a discussion on "Think Tank," broadcast on WETA May 27:

The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Friday that Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) -- who was shot and seriously injured in a Jan. 2011 assassination attempt -- and Wayne LaPierre, chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association, will headline a panel of five witnesses.

Gay heirs win Gov OKs tax refunds for married survivors

Brushing aside the veto threat, the bill's supporters described the letter as an important concession by the Administration. Saying that the letter marked a "shift in position," Mr. Schumer asserted it "indicated for the first time that the President is not opposed to the concept of the bill per se."

Would constitutionally banning gay marriage threaten benefits for thousands of Floridians -gay, straight or even siblings living together - who depend on their domestic partnership to pay for health care?

The justices themselves made it difficult for lower court judges to determine where the ruling leads. The full impact of the ruling, spelled out in four separate opinions, likely will not be known until lower courts begin to interpret it.

"Is it morally irresponsible for the state to execute someone when there is reasonable doubt that he can make good judgments," said Rita Linhardt of the Missouri Catholic Conference.

Dangerous 'Ground'

SECOND JUDGE BLOCKS CALIFORNIA MEASURE AGAINST ILLEGAL ALIENS

For the first time in more than 40 years

New York Senate votes to legalize gay marriage

JUDGE NUDGES STATE'S TOBACCO LAWSUIT ALONG

But unless her preferred politicians make gun registration, licensing and locks a must, she says she won't vote for them come November.

Courthouse Shooting Heats Up Debate on Gun Bill

Also Wednesday, four same-sex couples sued in federal court in Madison seeking state recognition of marriages that took place over the summer.

UPHOLD MARRIAGE EQUALITY

Getting around gay marriage

To reach his conclusion, Price studied Medina's brain cells and examined evidence of Medina having a heartbeat after the electricity was applied.

Existing gun laws need to be aggressively enforced and abuses prosecuted to the fullest.

as socially conservative Democratic-Farmer-Laborites in the Senate became more comfortable voting against it.

The penal law imposes sentences on convicted felons to achieve three aims. One is to deter people from breaking the law. One is to prevent further victimization. And one is to inflict punishment.

But now these rights seem to be at odds with each other and have caused bitter exchanges between interpreters of the Constitution.

Accused Killer Appears in Court

A RELUCTANT 'HERO'

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday removed any lingering legal doubts about whether same-sex couples can marry in California beginning June 17, setting the stage for a rush of gay nuptials that morning.

Trayvon Martin's mother targets 'stand your ground' law

Superior Court Judge Mary C. Jacobson, in a ruling Thursday, said the state had failed to make its case that a stay was merited.

This kind of progressive thinking was, well, unthinkable and certainly not spoken aloud by self-avowed conservatives just a few months ago.

Our Gay Marriage, for Love and for Principle

Nickles is among a handful of senators who oppose the buyout and who sit onthe negotiating committee whose task is producing a compromise tax bill with the House that may include a buyout.

a former prosecutor.

"He has the heart of cold steel and God help him,"

Not only was he raised around guns, hunting with his grandfather, but he knows what it's like to feel the barrel of a gun pressed against his head.

Giffords was an Arizona congresswoman when she was shot at a public event in January, 2011. She officially retired from Congress a year later.

Christoph Prantner of Austria's Der Standard bemoans American insistence on Second Amendment rights, "even when this freedom occasionally has a very high price and, in a bloody perversion, fatally impairs the freedom of others."

Kokesh has refused to participate in the legal proceedings against him.

With those denials, the latest of more than 70 rejections of challenges to gun regulations, the justices have made it clear that reasonable gun-control laws arefully consistent with Second Amendment rights.

It is unclear just how many Queens residents chew paan. But as the number of Pakistan, Indian and Bangladeshi immigrants in the borough grows, the sight of a rotten, russet-stained mouths has become common. The number of Queens residents who identified themselves as Asian, most of them immigrants from South Asia and China, rose from 5 percent in 1980 to 18 percent in 2000.

He offered no final words and was pronounced dead six minutes after he was dropped through a trap door.

In Pursuit Of Freedom, Only to Find Prison Bars; Immigration Officials Try to Discern Those Fleeing Persecution

Making a Killing examines different forms of gun violence, including suicides, unintentional shootings, domestic abuse, urban gun violence and mass shootings. As the title suggests, the movie explores the National Rifle Association's role in blocking gun control legislation.

Editorial: Another landmark mass shooting elicits predictable thoughts, prayers, surrender

WAL-MART (YES. WAL-MART) TO OFFER SAME-SEX HEALTH BENEFITS

Man guilty in railroad murder wants to die