Fort Worth, Texas, council members want report on police raid on gay nightclub

FORT WORTH, Texas — Two city officials are seeking an investigation into a police raid at a gay nightclub that ended with the arrests of several patrons and the hospitalization of a man with a head injury.

2 Fort Worth council members call for investigation of police raid at gay nightclub

FORT WORTH, Texas — Two Fort Worth City Council members are calling for an investigation into a police raid at a gay bar.

Gay Pride Parade marks 40th anniversary of NYC Stonewall uprisings

NEW YORK — Decades after a riot at a Greenwich Village bar sparked a movement for equal rights, gay New Yorkers celebrated their gains at Sunday’s gay pride parade and lamented the state has not legalized same-sex marriage.

Arizona moves to allow guns in bars, worrying some saloon owners who say it’s a bad mix

PHOENIX — There was a time in the Wild West that cowboys had to check their guns before they could pull up a bar stool for a drink — rules that protected against the saloon gunfights that came to define the frontier era in places like Arizona.

Ex-owner of RI nightclub where fire killed 100 released early from prison for good behavior

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A former co-owner of a Rhode Island nightclub where a fire killed 100 people was released from prison Thursday after earning time off for good behavior.

Perez Hilton says he was punched by Black Eyed Peas manager outside Toronto nightclub

TORONTO — Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton says he got a black eye from the manager of the Black Eyed Peas.

Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor says all-women’s Belizean Grove doesn’t unfairly discriminate

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor (SOHN’-yuh soh-toh-my-YOR’) says an elite all-women’s club she belongs to doesn’t discriminate unfairly by gender.

Mexico day care fire kills 38 children; father rams pickup through to reach babies, toddlers

HERMOSILLO, Mexico — Grieving parents began burying their children after a devastating daycare fire killed 38 infants and toddlers in a tragedy that stunned Mexico and prompted its president to promise a thorough investigation.

Mexico day care fire kills 35 children; father rams pickup through to reach babies, toddlers

HERMOSILLO, Mexico — Sobbing relatives waited outside a morgue Saturday to claim the bodies of 35 children killed in a day care fire in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts to evacuate babies and toddlers through the building’s only working exit. One father crashed his pickup truck through the wall to rescue his child.

3 men in an SUV shot to death after leaving downtown St. Louis nightclub

ST. LOUIS — Three men who had just left a downtown St. Louis nightclub were killed in a barrage of bullets by gunmen in another vehicle.

Britain proposes affirmative action bill that could number days of old boy networks

LONDON — Is the end near for the English gentleman of privilege?

Fear, anger, laughter as Mexico’s capital copes with possibility of global flu epidemic

MEXICO CITY — The schools and museums are closed. Sold-out games between Mexico’s most popular soccer teams are being played in empty stadiums. Health workers are ordering sickly passengers off subways and buses. And while bars and nightclubs filled up as usual, even some teenagers were dancing with surgical masks on.