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By Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times
BISBEE, Ariz. — They can't tear it down, so they decided to do the next best thing. They painted it.
By Melanie Mason, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Just one day after President Obama tapped Vice President Joe Biden to lead an initiative on gun violence, Jon Adler was...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
Rick de los Santos wants to reopen an animal slaughter business that's been banned in the U.S. for years. Along the way, he's also opened...
By Matea Gold and Melanie Mason, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — In the week after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, as President Obama and Democratic lawmakers issued urgent...
By Lisa Mascaro and Christi Parsons, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — With the sudden collapse of House Speaker John A. Boehner's Plan B to avert most year-end tax increases, President...
By Paul Richter, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — President Obama nominated John F. Kerry, the five-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham...
By Paul Richter and David S. Cloud, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — President Obama's consideration of Chuck Hagel to be Defense secretary has set off an outcry of criticism that could...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans on Thursday challenged the Obama administration's plan for correcting flaws exposed by the...
One of two bank robbers was arrested late Thursday after a manhunt following the pair's daring escape from a high-rise federal jail in...
By Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
NEWTOWN, Conn. — When the wind blows a certain way across the tree-topped hills, Gary Bennett can stand in his yard and hear echoes of...
By Lisa Mascaro, Michael A. Memoli and Christi Parsons, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John A. Boehner abruptly canceled a vote on his Plan B tax proposal late Thursday after failing to find...
By James Rainey, Los Angeles Times
Two governors, a congressman, various state legislators and a host of conservative commentators joined the chief executive of the Gun Owners...
By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times
Elizabeth Guzman will never forget the day last year when she came home from work to find her 25-year-old stepson, Bobby, holding a knife....
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Reported sexual assaults at the nation's three military academies jumped by 23% overall this year, but the data...
By Jason Meisner and Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — Two bank robbers who rappelled 15 stories down a federal high-rise jail to freedom, then hailed a cab, remained fugitives...
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Sen. Daniel Inouye, the second-longest-serving senator in U.S. history, was remembered Thursday as a man who gallantly...
By Paul West, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — President Obama committed himself to placing gun control at the top of his second-term agenda, redoubling his intention...
By Shashank Bengali and Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times
NEWTOWN, Conn. — A 7-year-old who dreamed of being a fireman. A heroic teacher who loved flamingoes. A beloved principal whose last...