New Obama offer moves toward Boehner

Man held after LA schools threatened

Deciding fate of massacre site can help healing

High court fight looms over right to carry a gun in public places

WASHINGTON (AP) - The next big issue in the national debate over guns - whether people have a right to be armed in public - is moving closer to Supreme Court review.

Chicano rock pioneers Los Lobos marking 40 years

LOS ANGELES (AP) - They are seen as the progenitors of Chicano rock 'n' roll, the first band that had the boldness, and some might even say the naiveté, to fuse punk rock with Mexican folk tunes.

Campaign tracking year-round practice

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - As Maine's governor addressed the newly elected Legislature in early December, his frustration with trackers, the video camera-toting operatives who follow politicians around, boiled over into a brief diatribe that set the session off to a sour start.

Movement seen in 'fiscal cliff' talks

WASHINGTON (AP) - Big differences remain, but there is finally movement in long-stalled talks on avoiding the "fiscal cliff."

Gunman had hundreds of rounds of ammo

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage was carrying an arsenal of hundreds of rounds of especially deadly ammunition - enough to kill just about every student in the school if given enough time, authorities said Sunday, raising the chilling possibility that the bloodbath could have been even worse.

Routine morning, then unthinkable terror

City opposes visits by Vietnam officials

WESTMINSTER (AP) - The Southern California home to a huge Little Saigon community has renewed its opposition to visits from communist Vietnam officials. The resolution unanimously approved Wednesday night by the Westminster City Council says the officials from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam are not welcome. The resolution, which was first adopted in 2004, expired in 2009. <p ...

Medi-Cal cuts could hurt health reform

School shooting revives gun debate

4 doused with flammable liquid, set afire in Colo.

Connecticut shooting suspect was honors student

Substitute teacher becomes heir to $7.4M gold fortune

CARSON CITY, Nevada (AP) - A substitute teacher from California was found to be the only heir to a fortune of gold coins discovered by a cleaning crew in the home of a reclusive cousin who quietly stashed away a treasure of more than $7 million before he died this year. A court hearing in Carson City is scheduled Tuesday, when a ...

Capra classic sequel panned as not ‘Wonderful’

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FLA. BULLYING CASE: CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST TEENS: ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Charges have been dropped against two teenage girls whom a sheriff had accused of bullying a Florida classmate who later committed suicide, the girls' attorneys said Wednesday.

Elvis Presley's intellectual property rights are sold

GOP tweets altered image of Grimes as 'Obama Girl'

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The National Republican Senatorial Committee took disciplinary action Tuesday against a junior staffer who tweeted an "extremely offensive" photo-shopped image of Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.

Gettysburg: A short speech long remembered

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - In solemnity, thousands of people gathered at a central Pennsylvania battlefield park Tuesday to honor a speech given 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln predicted would not be long remembered.

Va. state senator stabbed by his son

Navy sailor, fiancee marry at Nevada airport

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A U.S. Navy sailor told his high school sweetheart he wanted to marry her the moment he laid eyes on her after an 11-month deployment off the coast of war-torn Syria.

Player charged for hitting player with helmet

PLATTE CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri high school football player was charged Tuesday with assault for allegedly ripping off another player's helmet during a game and hitting him in the head with it, giving him a concussion. Colin W. Byrd, a 17-year-old center for Platte County R-3 High School, is charged with misdemeanor assault for the incident that occurred Oct. 18 during a game against Winnetonka High School, Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd said. ...

High court refuses to block Texas law

WASHINGTON (AP) - A sharply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to continue enforcing abortion restrictions that opponents say have led more than a third of the state's clinics to stop providing abortions.

NYC bans tobacco sales to anyone under age 21

NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed landmark legislation Tuesday banning the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21, making New York the first large city or state in the country to prohibit sales to young adults.

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Kids less fit than parents were

Congressman charged with cocaine possession

Officer fires at minivan in traffic stop chaos

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Two New Mexico state police officers are under investigation and a mother and her 14-year-old son are facing charges after a routine traffic stop turned to chaos when the teen physically confronted one officer and another officer fired shots at a minivan carrying children.

servative students to stage 'immigrant game'

ConAUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A conservative student group announced Monday they will play a "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Game" this week on the University of Texas at Austin, drawing condemnation from Democrats and a threat of expulsion from campus officials.