KINSHASA, Congo – Congo arrested a group of foreign security guards, including three Americans, on suspicion of plotting a coup ahead of national elections, a government official said Wednesday. But a United Nations official cast doubt on the claim and said the U.N. was confident the country would remain calm …
Read More »Inman Confessed to Bikini Slay, Two Other Attacks, Police Say
PICKENS, S.C. – A convicted sex offender charged Wednesday with first-degree murder, kidnapping and rape in the bikini strangulation death of a Clemson University junior has confessed to the murder and two other sexual attacks in two other states, authorities said. Jerry Buck Inman, 35, confessed to the May 26 …
Read More »Sticky-Fingered Skittles Snatchers Call the Scene of the Crime
Everyone knows the bad guy always returns to the scene of the crime, but actually calling the scene and identifying oneself is … well … it’s just stupid. Mitchell Scudder and Brian Current, two bad-to-the-bone bandits with a craving for candy, stole $30 worth of Skittles and Starburst from a …
Read More »One in Five U.S. Companies Allow Pets at Work
NEW YORK – On a typical day at Tellme Networks Inc., Jackson snores, Penny spends time learning Chinese and the bosses and workers are delighted. Penny, a Labrador Retriever, and Jackson, a bulldog, are part of an effort at many U.S. companies to allow pets in the workplace. One survey …
Read More »Longtime Illegal Residents Lose Battle to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a blow to some longtime illegal residents, upholding the deportation of a Mexican man who lived in the United States for 20 years. By an 8-1 vote, justices said that Humberto Fernandez-Vargas, who was deported several times from the 1970s to 1981, …
Read More »Indonesia VP Encourages Arabs to Pay For Temporary Marriages to Local Women
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesia’s vice president said he saw nothing wrong with Arab men paying local women to marry and then divorcing them days later, and he suggested the practice — dismissed by critics as legalized prostitution — could boost tourism. Vice President Jusuf Kalla made the off-the-cuff remarks Wednesday …
Read More »Legality of Guantanamo's Tribunals Moves to Halls of Congress
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court‘s rebuff of the Bush administration’s Guantanamo military tribunals knocks the issue into the halls of Congress, where GOP leaders are already trying to figure out how to give the president the options he wants for dealing with suspected terror detainees. That way forward could be …
Read More »Turkish Mine Collapse Kills 17
ANKARA, Turkey – A methane gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in western Turkey, killing 17 miners, a top official said from the scene Friday. Rescue workers evacuated 40 miners and recovered all bodies after Thursday evening’s blast caused a shaft to collapse at the mine in the village …
Read More »New Orleans Holds First Trial Since Katrina
NEW ORLEANS – Criminal jury trials began in New Orleans‘ state district court Monday for the first time since Hurricane Katrina flooded a stately courthouse. By mid-afternoon, a jury had begun deliberating the fate of a man charged with stealing a vehicle. “To do a jury trial is like the …
Read More »White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten Makes His Mark on West Wing
This is a partial transcript from “The Beltway Boys,” on June 3, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The Beltway Boys” Saturday at 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. ET and Sunday at 2:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. ET. MORT KONDRACKE, CO-HOST: Welcome back to “The Beltway Boys.” We’re …
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