President Obama has had a busy week countering reports of poor decisions that led to the death of a U.S. ambassador to Libya in the Benghazi attack last September, overreach and seizure of Associated Press phone records, and possible criminal charges against the IRS for political targeting of conservative organizations.
On Tuesday, Alaska's governor, Sean Parnell ordered the state flags to fly at half-mast on Wednesday in observance of Peace Officers Memorial Day as well as Law Enforcement Memorial Week.
It was announced by the Atlantic County Prosecutors office in New Jersey that authorities had arrested the father of the four-year-old boy who shot his six-year-old playmate on April 8th.
In Haines, Alaska, State Troopers assisted in apprehending a Utah suspect in a 20 year-old cold case involving the rape and aggravated murder of an elderly Ogden, Utah woman on Wednesday.