WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has named 35 national co-chairs, including elected officials, campaign volunteers and a few celebrities. Among the Democratic politicians serving as co-chairs are Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin. Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, …
22 Feb 12
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – A former New Jersey police chief is refusing to comment on his decision to allow the New York Police Department to monitor and catalog his city’s Muslim neighborhoods. Garry McCarthy was the Newark police chief in 2007, when the plainclothes …
22 Feb 12
WASHINGTON (AP) – Newt Gingrich is asserting that President Barack Obama pursues an “outrageously anti-American” energy policy that snubs the Keystone oil pipeline and puts too much stock in electric car technology to wean the country from foreign oil dependency. The former House speaker …
21 Feb 12
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Jury selection is set to start today in the landmark priest sex-abuse trial of a longtime official of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Monsignor William Lynn is the first U.S. church official ever charged for allegedly keeping accused priests in …
21 Feb 12
LONDON (AP) – Britain’s defense secretary says about 2,100 military reserves have been called up to help protect the 2012 London Olympics. Philip Hammond confirmed in a written statement published Monday that the reservists would form part of a deployment of up to …
20 Feb 12
The non-profit National Road Safety Foundation (NRSF) and Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, are looking for ideas from young people to help convince their peers of the dangers of distracted driving. The contest opened Jan. 7 …
