Given 2nd term, Obama now facing new urgent task
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama faces a new urgent task now that he has a second term, working with a status-quo Congress to address an impending financial crisis that economists say could send the country back into recession.
"You made your voice heard," Obama said in
...Hearing in Army general's sex case enters 3rd day
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - A hearing to determine whether a U.S. Army general will be face a military trial on sex charges is entering a third day with testimony from additional women.
A female captain testified Tuesday that Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair twice forced her to perform oral sex and threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone.
...Rural Ark. counties oppose medical marijuana
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A failed proposal to legalize medical marijuana saw the strongest support in Arkansas' urban areas and in a handful of Mississippi Delta counties while rural areas overwhelmingly rejected the measure.
Complete but unofficial election returns show the strongest support in Pulaski and Washington counties, where 56% of voters
...Ohio nurse gets 10 years in malnutrition death
By AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press
CINCINNATI (AP) - An Ohio nurse has been sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison after she unexpectedly pleaded guilty in the malnutrition death of a teen who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds when she died.
Mollie Parsons had been set to go to trial Wednesday. She pleaded guilty Tuesday to involuntary
...Penn State ex-President Spanier arraigned
Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Former Penn State President Graham Spanier was arraigned and released on bail at a brief court appearance Wednesday on charges he lied about and concealed the child sex abuse allegations involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Spanier, accompanied by his
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