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June 16th, 2010

Donors give $20K to help defend AZ immigration law (AP)

Hundreds gathered at a rally supporting Arizona's new law on illegal immigration as they listen to speakers near the capitol Saturday, June 5, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's office has received nearly $20,000 in private donations to help the state mount a legal defense against lawsuits related to its tough new immigration law.


June 16th, 2010

Man dies after being attacked by bees in Calif. (AP)

AP - Authorities say a 55-year-old man went into cardiac arrest and died after being stung more than 500 times by bees as he cleared brush from a property in Southern California.

June 16th, 2010

American on US no-fly list stranded in Egypt (AP)

Yahya Wehelie, from Fairfax, Virginia, US, displays his US passport to an Associated Press reporter, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, June 16, 2010.  A Virginia man, stuck in Egypt for the last six weeks, living in a cheap hotel and surviving on fast food, said Wednesday that he was told his name was on a U.S. no-fly list because of people he met during a trip to Yemen. Wehelie, 26, who was born in Fairfax, Virginia, to Somali parents was returning from 18 months studying in Yemen, when Egyptian authorities stopped him from boarding his flight to New York saying the FBI wanted to speak with him. Wehelie said he was then told his name was on a no-fly list and he now cannot board a U.S. airline or enter American airspace. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - A Virginia man said he has been stuck in limbo in Egypt for the last six weeks, living in a cheap hotel and surviving on fast food after his name was placed on a U.S. no-fly list because of a trip to Yemen.


June 16th, 2010

Ala. prof charged in brother’s 1986 shooting death (AP)

This police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.    Prosecutors are set to hold a news conference to announce the results of an investigation into the 1986 shooting death of 18-year-old Seth Bishop, brother of Amy Bishop, that was originally ruled an accident. Authorities reopened the case after Amy Bishop was charged in February in a shooting rampage at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Dept.)AP - It was "obviously" a homicide case, a former prosecutor says, but authorities didn't have the evidence to present it to a grand jury at the time. Twenty-four-years lapsed and three other killings occurred before another prosecutor did.


June 16th, 2010

Experts argue firing squad is a humane execution (AP)

Family members of George 'Nick' Kirk, front row from left: Jamie Stewart, Mandi Hull, and Barb Webb, react as the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole announces their unanimous decision to deny Ronnie Lee Gardner's request for commutation Monday, June 14, 2010 in Draper, Utah. Gardner, who shot and seriously injured Kirk in 1985, is scheduled to be executed by firing squad Friday for the fatal courthouse shooting of attorney Michael Burdell. (AP Photo/Trent Nelson, Pool)AP - A condemned Utah inmate's decision to die in a barrage of bullets fired by five unnamed marksmen has been vilified by many as an archaic form of Old West-style justice.



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