The Associated Press

The Pasco School District is moving closer to a year-round schedule to ease overcrowding.

The school board plans to vote in about a month on a plan for a staggered, year-round schedule.

The Tri-City Herald says two public information sessions about multi-track year-round school will be held next week in…

July 19, 2011 |  4:27 pm

A La Mesa man who posted racial epithets and a call to "shoot" Barack Obama on an Internet chat site was engaging in constitutionally protected free speech, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in overturning his criminal conviction.

Walter Bagdasarian was found…

An organized crime group calling itself the Knights Templar is distributing booklets saying it is fighting a war against poverty, tyranny and injustice, publicly appealing to hearts and minds in a part of Mexico where the government claims it has largely taken down the major drug traffickers

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and…

By JAMES KANTER

Published: July 13, 2011

BRUSSELS — The European…

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The eyes of an Afghan villager were scanned last year by an American soldier in the volatile Arghandab Valley.

By THOM SHANKER

Published: July 13,…

A 12-year-old girl was given a deferred sentence for cyberstalking and first-degree computer trespassing, which requires her to stay out of trouble for six months, attend counseling, perform 20 hours of community service and follow other requirements.

By Jennifer Sullivan

Seattle Times staff reporter…

By KIM BOLAN, Vancouver Sun July 12, 2011

Federal prosecutors have dropped all charges laid last fall in a high-profile international drug case in which more than $9 million worth of cocaine was smuggled from Mexico.

The Canada Border Services Agency and the RCMP’s Federal Drug Enforcement Branch showed off their massive cocaine and…

Dismembered body of missing Hasidic nine-year-old boy found in dumpster and a fridge as police arrest 'bearded loner'

The dismembered body of a missing nine-year-old Hasidic boy has been found hidden in separate locations across New York.

The horrific discoveries provide a gruesome end to the desperate search for Leiby Kletzky, who was last seen leaving the Brooklyn-based Boyan Day Camp on 44th Street on…

King County, the state and four area cities spent more than $30 million in 2009 because the federal government said it might have to flood the Green River Valley so the damaged Howard Hanson Dam wouldn't blow. But nearly two years after work began, the Federal Emergency Management Agency still refuses to help foot the bill, arguing that there was never an imminent threat.

By…

The Associated Press

A Southern California woman is behind bars after police say she poisoned her husband, cut off his penis and threw it in the garbage disposal because he "deserved it."

By Denisse Salazar

The Orange County Register

… and stick it to Wall Street at the same time! Sounds like the best of both worlds to us!

by Richard Ruelas - Jul. 10, 2011 12:00 AM

The Arizona Republic

Mark Henle/The Arizona Republic

Senator Lori Klein holding her .380 Ruger handgun in the Senate members lounge.…

July 11th, 2011

As college students across the country prepare to convene in the nation’s capitol to discuss college gun bans on August 8th, two more states have expanded the right to carry concealed weapons on campus.

Wisconsin became the 49th state to decriminalize bearing arms for defense when Governor Scott Walker signed SB 93 into law on July 8.

The law,…

The architect behind Arizona’s controversial anti-immigrant law now faces a recall from his position as state senate president. The group, Citizens for a Better Arizona, collected and delivered well over the necessary amount of signatures needed to force a recall of Republican State Senator Russell Pearce last week. According to law, Pearce must now resign from office within five business days or face a recall election. State officials say such an election would likely be set for November or…

Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad of Memphis, Tenn., says his trial in a fatal Little Rock Army facility attack is being handled in Arkansas state court to get him the death penalty. His father alleges a government coverup.

Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, center, charged in the 2009 death of an Army recruiter, will be tried in Little Rock, Ark. (Danny Johnston / Associated Press /…