Thursday, May 17, 2012
 
 
by The Associated Press

BELMONT, Mass. (AP) ' Don't bet on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney winning his home state or even trying.

"That's not been a topic of discussion," Romney campaign adviser Kevin Madden said when asked if the former Massachusetts governor would compete in the heavily Democratic state.

Aides say there are other ways he can win the White House and deny President Barack Obama a second term without banking on Massachusetts' 11 electoral votes.

That political reality illustrates the degree to which Romney's efforts to curry favor with conserva   [READ MORE]

 
 
NEW YORK (AP) ' A judge on Wednesday struck down a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists, saying it left journalists, scholars and political activists facing the prospect of indefinite detention for exercising First Amendment rights.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manh.....   [READ MORE]
 
LOS ANGELES (AP) ' Manny Pacquiao says he loves and supports gays and lesbians, even though he does not approve of gay marriage.

The world champion boxer and Filipino congressman has been criticized ever since he gave an interview to the examiner.com website in which he opposed President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage.

Pacquiao said Wedne.....   [READ MORE]
 
CHICAGO (AP) ' Hours after police found Estrella Carrera stabbed to death in her bathtub, still clad in the silver sequined cocktail dress she wore to celebrate her wedding to her on-and-off boyfriend, her family received a haunting phone call from the groom's sister.

Carrera's groom, Arnoldo Jimenez, had called his sister and tearfully told her he had left his b.....   [READ MORE]
 
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) ' Inside the jury room, the case had nothing to do with Susan Powell. Outside, it was all about her.

Family members of the missing Utah mother cheered a verdict Wednesday convicting her father-in-law of 14 voyeurism charges. Susan Powell's parents have long believed that Steve Powell knows something about her 2009 disappearance.

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NEW YORK (AP) ' Arbitrator Shyam Das heard arguments Wednesday from NFL and players union lawyers on whether Commissioner Roger Goodell can discipline players for actions that occurred before the league's current labor agreement was signed last August.

The hearing, which stemmed from the NFL's bounty investigation of the New Orleans Saints, lasted more than two h.....   [READ MORE]
LeBron James and Dwyane Wade were not carrying "Help Wanted" signs around the Miami Heat practice floor on Wednesday. The mood was not grim, voices were not hushed and scowls were not prominent.

The way the Heat see it, their series with Indiana simply anew Thursday night. And the Pacers sound like they agree.

Indiana will host to Miami in Game 3 after th.....   [READ MORE]
 
 
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