11-17-2024  3:49 am   •   PDX and SEA Weather

USA News

President says tax returns would shed light on opponent's offshore accounts

(CNN) -- In a new television ad released Tuesday, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign continues its push to get Republican challenger Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns.


READ MORE

Black drivers overall are twice as likely as white drivers to be arrested

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A Kansas State University researcher's analysis has found that racial profiling is intertwined with gender.

READ MORE

State's finding of 100 registered non-citizen voters turned out to contain legitimate citizens

(CNN) -- Florida election officials will have access to a federal law enforcement database to challenge the eligibility of a person to vote as part of its effort to purge non-citizens from its voting rolls, state officials said.


READ MORE

Former president of Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP was key to getting Image Awards on TV

(CNN) -- Willis Edwards, longtime president of the Beverly Hills/Hollywood branch of the NAACP and key to launching the NAACP Image Awards on national television, died Friday in Mission Hills, California, according to a spokeswoman for Providence Holy Cross Medical Center.


READ MORE

Prosecutors have become adept at using lyrics as evidence at criminal trials

Torrence Hatch, the Baton Rouge, La., rapper better known to fans as Lil Boosie, faced the trial of his life in May. Charged with first-degree murder in the 2009 shooting death of Terry Boyd, Boosie stood accused of paying his friend Mike "Marlo Mike" Loudon $2,800 to carry out the hit.


READ MORE

The FBI used a photographer to help monitor activists and celebrities visiting the city

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- While Rosetta Miller-Perry worked for the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in Memphis decades ago, her colleagues in the FBI office upstairs were secretly monitoring her, according to newly released records.


READ MORE

Program will use tax dollars to send children to private and parochial schools

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A Baton Rouge judge refused Tuesday to prevent the start of a statewide voucher program that will use tax dollars to send children to private and parochial schools.


READ MORE

Many plots were handled by informants, lacked credibility or were not pursued beyond discussion

The NYPD is regularly held up as one of the most sophisticated and significant counterterrorism operations in the country. As evidence of the NYPD's excellence, the department, its allies and the media have repeatedly said the department has thwarted or helped thwart 14 terrorist plots against New York since Sept 11.


READ MORE

For homeowners seeking compensation, it's crucial how the servicer messed up

Can you put a price on the damage caused by a wrongful foreclosure? Banking regulators have. And it's $125,000. Or $60,000. Or $15,000. Or… it's unclear.


READ MORE

FBI, Justice Department Reviewing Forensic Evidence in Thousands of Cases Department did not estimate how long it will take or how many cases will be reviewed

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI and Justice Department are undertaking a broad review of thousands of criminal cases to see if any defendants were wrongly convicted based on faulty forensics, the department said Wednesday.


READ MORE

Recently Published by The Skanner News

  • Default
  • Title
  • Date
  • Random

theskanner50yrs 250x300