Shifting tactics, Mexico readies social programs to combat drug gangs in violent border city

Mexico shifts strategy in border city violence

New Orleans board backs millage hike ahead of $40 million bond sale sought for street projects

New Orleans eyes December sale for $40M bond sale

20 years after UN pact to protect children, some successes alongside a long list of woes

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NJ’s Resorts Atlantic City, 1st US casino outside Nevada, to surrender keys to its lenders

NJ Resorts casino gets OK to give keys to lenders

Jurors in Baltimore mayor’s theft trial end 1st day of deliberations without verdict

Jurors in Md. mayor’s trial deliberate, go home

NJ governor-elect tells local officials there’s no miracle cure for state’s fiscal problems

NJ governor-elect: Expect no fiscal miracles

Cash strapped Mexico City pushes ahead with transit, bike improvements

Mexico City’s transit improvements on track

Trade groups say Obama administration scaring off oil, gas bidders from public lands in West

News Pres Obama Healthcare

Person in chicken costume ruffles feathers at Colorado city council meeting, leaves egg behind

Person in chicken suit ruffles feathers in Colo.

FAA says computers working again; Controllers union says problems in Salt Lake City, too

FAA says flight computers working again

WASHINGTON — FAA officials say failed computers that delayed flights across the country are now working again.

Explosion rocks courthouse in northwestern Pakistani city, killing 19 and wounding 51

19 killed in courthouse bombing in NW Pakistan

Blast rocks courthouse in northwestern Pakistani city, killing 19

19 killed in courthouse bombing in NW Pakistan

Blast rocks courthouse in northwestern Pakistani city, killing 16

16 killed in Pakistan courthouse bombing

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber killed 16 people Thursday outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants fighting back against an army offensive in the nearby Afghan border region.

New Jersey’s first casino says it’s in dire straits a day before handover vote

NJ’s first casino says it’s in dire straits

Ark. police officer uses stun gun on unruly 10-year-old girl; town mayor wants investigation

Ark. police officer uses Taser on 10-year-old girl

St. Louis mayor says big vision for northside should lead to big results

St. Louis mayor signs measures for development

City councils in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles vote to ban declawing of cats

Beverly Hills, LA councils ban declawing of cats

LA County’s top prosecutor says he will bust marijuana dispensaries that take cash for pot

LA County prosecutor: Sell medical pot, get busted

DC board says ‘no’ to putting gay marriage ban on ballot, citing human rights law

DC board won’t allow gay marriage ban on ballot

Gibbs: Israeli housing plans dismaying, make US peace efforts more difficult

Gibbs: Israeli housing plans dismaying

WASHINGTON — White House spokesman Robert Gibbs is voicing dismay over the Jerusalem city government’s registration of plans for 900 additional housing units in a Jewish neighborhood in a part of city claimed by Palestinians.

Ariz. rep says 9/11 trial is too risky in NYC, what if terrorists took mayor’s daughter

Lawmaker: What if terrorists took NYC mayor’s kid

DC board says ‘no’ to putting gay marriage measure on ballot, citing human rights law

DC board rejects gay marriage ballot effort

LA City Council confirms, swears in Charlie Beck as new police chief

LA City Council confirms new police chief

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department has a new chief.

In Washington, a Muslim-American immigrant becomes blue collar town’s unlikely mayor

In WA, old mining town elects a Muslim mayor

Ark. man arrested in Thailand faces charges over alleged bid rigging in North Little Rock

Ark. man allegedly defrauded NLR bidding process

WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Chinese students, US ambassador show off language skills at town hall

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