All condemn pending budget cuts, spread blame
Written by PHILIP ELLIOTT,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and Republicans kept up the unrelenting mudslinging Sunday over who's to blame for roundly condemned budget cuts set to take effect at week's end, with the administration detailing the potential fallout in each state and governors worrying about the mess.
Legal pot in Colo., Wash. poses growing dilemma
Written by KRISTEN WYATT,Associated Press NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS,Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — It may be called weed, but marijuana is legendarily hard to grow.
Trial set to open for Gulf oil spill litigation
Written by MICHAEL KUNZELMAN,Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly three years after a deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico triggered the nation's worst offshore oil spill, a federal judge in New Orleans is set to preside over a high-stakes trial for the raft of litigation spawned by the disaster.
Return of sectarian threats in Iraq raises alarm
Written by ADAM SCHRECK,Associated Press QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA,Associated Press
BAGHDAD (AP) — The fliers began turning up at Sunni households in the Iraqi capital's Jihad neighborhood last week bearing a chilling message: Get out now or face "great agony" soon.
2nd blizzard bearing down on Plains region
Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — A second major winter storm was bearing down on the central Plains Sunday, forcing cancellations and sending public works crews scrambling for salt and sand supplies less than a week after another system dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the region.
Hunter acquitted of killing man mistaken for bear
Written by AP
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon hunter has been found not guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of a Marine reservist from California he says he mistook for a bear.
Smugglers still cashing in on Michigan can refund
Written by ALANNA DURKIN,Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan lawmakers want to crack down on can and bottle smugglers they say are scamming Michigan for undeserved recycling refunds, corrupting a generous 10-cent per container payback policy once infamously portrayed in a "Seinfeld" episode and which beverage officials now claim costs the state millions of dollars annually.
26-year-old man named as suspect in Vegas shooting
Written by KEN RITTER,Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The black SUV used as a getaway car in a pre-dawn shooting and crash that killed an aspiring rapper in a Maserati and two people in a taxi on the Las Vegas Strip was found Saturday as police named a 26-year-old man as the prime suspect.