New York Times
SANFORD, Fla. — The killing of Trayvon Martin here two and a half months ago has been cast as the latest test of race relations and equal justice in America. But it was also a test of a small city police department that does not even have a homicide ...
Reuters
By Colleen Jenkins | GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - The defense rested its case on Wednesday in the federal trial of ex-Senator John Edwards on charges he used presidential campaign finances to hide his then-pregnant mistress from voters, ...
TIME
By AP / MIKE BAKER Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Josh Powell, far right, with his wife Susan and their two sons Charles and Braden, in a file photo taken on Sept. 30, 2009 (TACOMA, Wash.) — A jury on Wednesday convicted Steve Powell on all 14 charges in a ...
San Francisco Chronicle
(Corrects wording on standoff in fifth paragraph from end. For more campaign news, go to ELECT.) May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Mitt Romney, attacking President Barack Obama for the second consecutive day for swelling the federal debt, said the president has ...
TMZ.com
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, 52-year-old Mary Kennedy was found dead in her Mount Kisco, New York home this afternoon. The Bedford Police Department responded to the scene at approximately 1:36pm to investigate a possible "unattended death," ...
The Republic
GRANT SCHULTE AP OMAHA, Neb. — Until a few months ago, most Nebraskans had never heard of Deb Fischer, a state legislator and rancher from Valentine who overcame two better-financed opponents to claim the Republican nomination for US Senate, ...
CBS News
(CBS News) Despite what appears to be an uphill battle, Democrats are confident they will retain control of the Senate in this fall's election. "We walked into this cycle with 23 seats to defend, the Republicans only had 10 seats to defend, ...
Los Angeles Times
By Maeve Reston TAMPA, Fla. — Throughout the Republican primaries this year, no other campaign came close to approaching the message discipline and efficiency of Mitt Romney's campaign. But campaign aides took that approach to a new level on Wednesday ...
