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Hofstra student killed by police during break-in

In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University. A short time later, the intruder, Dalton Smith, and a 21-year-old college ...

Police face difficult deadline in destroying guns

Phoenix police are in a race against time in processing guns that the city purchased at recent gun buyback events. A new Arizona law that hasn't yet taken effect bars cities and counties from destroying guns turned over to police at buyback events and instead requires that the guns be ...

FILE - In this Friday, May 17, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore. President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday, May 19, 2013, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama exhorts good deeds by Morehouse graduates

President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives. The president said his success was due to ...

In this photo taken Tuesday, May 14, 2013, Medical marijuana prescriptions vials are filled at the Venice Beach Care Center medical marijuana dispensary in Venice, Calif. Los Angeles politicians have tried and failed for so long to regulate medical marijuana that it was only a matter of time before voters got a chance to control shops that have proliferated. Complicating matters, there are three measures on Tuesday's ballot that would allow sick people to get the drug, but either limit the number of shops, raise taxes or do both. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Fate of LA pot shops left to voters

Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime. Voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide how Los Angeles should handle its high with three competing measures ...

OBAMA TELLS MOREHOUSE GRADUATES TO SET AN EXAMPLE

c.2013 New York Times News Service ATLANTA — President Barack Obama came to Morehouse College, the alma mater of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on Sunday to tell graduates, 50 years after King’s landmark “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, that “laws and hearts and minds have ...

Ohio superintendent leaving, shooting delayed plan

A northeast Ohio superintendent who guided the district after a school shooting that killed three students is stepping down, one year later than originally planned. Chardon Schools Superintendent Joseph Bergant will resign effective June 7. A public reception honoring Bergant was held before last week's monthly board meeting. Bergant originally ...

In this Friday, May 17, 2013, photo, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin is interviewed in her federal court chambers, in New York. Scheindlin is the federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NY 'frisk' judge calls criticism 'below-the-belt'

The federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department has no doubt where she stands with the government. "I know I'm not their favorite judge," U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin said during an Associated Press interview Friday. It was another ...

Fla. gov. steps up pace on signing death warrants

Gov. Rick Scott is signing death warrants at a pace rarely seen in Florida since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Scott already has signed five death warrants this year, including three in a recent span of less than four weeks. Only one of the five condemned men has ...

In this photo taken Wednesday May 8, 2013 Chuda Niroula, a native of Bhutan, poses in his apartment with his country's flag, and the United States flag, in Manchester, N.H.  Almost two years ago he arrived in Manchester as one of the 60,000 to 80,000 refugees taken in each year by the U.S. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Manchester continues to grapple with new refugees

After being exiled from his native Bhutan at age 4, Chuda Niroula spent the next two decades in a Nepali refugee camp with no running water, no electricity and never enough food. Almost two years ago he arrived in Manchester as one of the 60,000 to 80,000 refugees taken in ...

Snohomish transit organization rejects anti-gun ad

The main transit organization in Snohomish County is declining to run advertisements from a statewide gun control group on public buses. The Daily Herald of Everett reports (http://is.gd/4fKXzv ) that Community Transit's board adopted a new policy May 2 banning political advertisements. Board members said the new policy was not ...

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