This story was co-published with PBS Frontline and McClatchy. WASHINGTON — Rushing into court to undo a major blunder, Justice Department lawyers defending a civil suit Tuesday retracted statements that question the FBI's finding that a former Army microbiologist mailed the anthrax-filled letters that killed five people in 2001.
NEW YORK-It was announced that the number of foreclosures plunged during the first half of 2011. Compared to the same period last year, foreclosure filing fell by 29%. and fell by 25% from numbers at the end of the last half of last year. Normally, that would be encouraging news. Normally, one would stop and […]
CHICAGO—The highest-ranking leader nationwide of the Latin Kings street gang was sentenced yesterday to 60 years in federal prison, the statutory maximum, after being convicted at trial last April of racketeering conspiracy (RICO) and related charges involving narcotics trafficking and violence that plagued numerous neighborhoods on the city’s north, south and west sides.. The defendant, […]
President Obama, yesterday announced his administration's intent to appoint four more people to administrative positions. He intends to appoint Nancy E. Solderberg as Chairman of the Public Interest Declassification Board, and Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker as a member of that same board. He also intends to appoint two people to the President's Committee for people with […]