NATIONAL NEWS
School moves to tighten security after gang rape
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) -- Officials at a high school where a student was gang-raped in a courtyard are moving to tighten campus security with the long-stalled purchase of surveillance cameras, powerful lighting and new fencing....
Jury acquits driver of murder in border crash
EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) -- A California jury has acquitted a Mexican boy of murder in the drowning of six suspected illegal immigrants but convicted him of gross vehicular manslaughter for driving a sport utility vehicle into a canal in the fatal crash....
4 Amish bishops charged with not reporting abuse
MARSHFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- Four Amish leaders in southwest Missouri who chose to "shun" an accused child molester in their community rather than report him to authorities were charged Tuesday with failing to report the sexual abuse....
La. justice resigns after interracial wed flap
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A Louisiana justice of the peace who refuses to marry interracial couples resigned Tuesday, after weeks of calls for his ouster from civil rights groups and several public officials, including the governor....
Police: 3 ND college students found dead in pond
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) -- Three missing North Dakota college softball players were found dead Tuesday in a Jeep pulled from a pond, and police said they believed the women were in the vehicle when they made two desperate calls to friends for help....
NM boy charged with murder in father's death
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- An 11-year-old New Mexico boy who police say reported he fatally shot his father because the man was punishing him was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder....
Police: 4 more bodies found at Ohio rapist's home
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Remains of four more people were unearthed from the backyard of a rapist's home Tuesday, raising to 10 the number of bodies found in and near the house, as police also searched boarded-up homes in the neighborhood where residents complained for years of a stench that one even said "smelled like a dead body."...
Trial date delayed for NYC terror suspect's dad
DENVER (AP) -- Lawyers preparing for the trial of a Colorado man whose son is charged with conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction are getting more time to get ready....
Immigration teams arrest more criminal offenders
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Immigration agents assigned to track down people who have ignored deportation orders have increasingly arrested immigrants with criminal records during the past year, new data show....
Missing Ariz. teen's family finally knows her fate
PHOENIX (AP) -- Dorothy Gay Howard's family spent 55 years not knowing....
Feds: Gun, cash seizures up at Mexican border
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- U.S. authorities on Tuesday reported a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border since they began assigning more agents to stem the flow of southbound contraband....
Mich. looks at worst-case 20 percent budget cuts
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan's governor warned Tuesday of a possible 20 percent cut in state spending next year, a draconian step after billions in cuts since 2003 have already dented police and fire services, pushed schools toward insolvency and reduced oversight of prison inmates....
WORLD NEWS
Obama's half brother recalls their abusive father
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) -- President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel - the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir....
Anthropology giant Claude Levi-Strauss dead at 100
PARIS (AP) -- After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a journey that turned a young Parisian scholar into a founder of modern anthropology....
NKorea claims to expand arsenal of atomic bombs
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea claimed Tuesday that it has successfully weaponized more plutonium for atomic bombs, a day after warning Washington to agree quickly to direct talks or face the prospect of a growing North Korean nuclear arsenal....
Czech president signs EU reform treaty
PRAGUE (AP) -- A charter designed to transform the 27 countries and half a billion people of the European Union into a more unified and powerful global player has passed its last major hurdle and looks set to become law within weeks....
Clinton diverts to Egypt for Mideast peace talks
CAIRO (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a hastily arranged stop in the Egyptian capital Tuesday to consult with a longtime Arab ally amid indications of a shifting U.S. strategy for getting Israel and the Palestinians back to peace negotiations....
Man detained in killings of 2 Venezuelan soldiers
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A Venezuelan man was arrested in the shooting deaths of two National Guard soldiers near the Colombian border, a crime that authorities blame on right-wing Colombian paramilitary fighters....
Climate talks face difficult road ahead of meeting
Boycotts on either side of the Atlantic on Tuesday showed just how difficult it will be to clinch an agreement on global warming next month....
Tennessean among those killed in USVI plane crash
ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) -- U.S. Virgin Islands police have identified the people killed in a small plane crash last week as a man from Tennessee and two residents of the Caribbean territory....
Afghan corruption tough to combat
KABUL (AP) -- President Hamid Karzai promised to stamp out corruption. The image suggested otherwise. Standing at Karzai's side on Tuesday were his two vice presidents - both former warlords widely believed to have looted Afghanistan for years....
Mexico mayor announces death before body is found
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mauricio Fernandez couldn't have been happier....
China sentences notorious gang 'godmother'
BEIJING (AP) -- Dubbed the "godmother" of the Chinese underworld, she was notorious for her toughness and a lavish lifestyle that reportedly included luxury villas and a stable of 16 young lovers....
Honduran Congress to seek opinions before vote
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- A Honduran lawmaker says congressional leaders will seek the opinions of several government entities before convoking the full legislature to vote on reinstating ousted President Manuel Zelaya....
