SAN FRANCISCO – It’s a familiar sight at murder trials: grieving relatives clutching a victim’s photograph as they sit in court. And in one California case, those pictures could lead to the release of a convicted murderer. In 1995, the mourning family members of Tom Studer (search) wore his photo …
Read More »Diocese to Sell Churches to Pay for Abuse Claims
ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland – A Roman Catholic diocese in eastern Canada (search) plans to sell all its churches and missions to raise the money to pay the victims of sexual assault by a priest who was convicted more than a decade ago, a bishop said Monday. The Catholic Diocese of …
Read More »FEC Throws Out Election Complaints
WASHINGTON – Complaints from the 2004 presidential race involving Ralph Nader (search) and the anti-John Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (search) have been dismissed by election officials. The Federal Election Commission (search) said Thursday it threw out three complaints, including: —One alleging the interest group Citizen Works (search) …
Read More »Recap of April 9 Edition
The following is a transcription of the April 9, 2005 edition of “FOX News Watch,” that has been edited for clarity: ERIC BURNS, HOST: This week on “FOX News Watch”: the pope’s death. But did he use the media to send a message in the last days of his life? …
Read More »Melanoma Can Develop in Children
CHICAGO – At age 10, freckle-faced Corey Halpin had bigger things to think about like basketball and Boy Scouts than the little black mole he noticed on his arm while camping. At first, he thought it might be a tick. “I pushed it but it didn’t move, but it bled,” …
Read More »5.1 Quake Rattles California
MARICOPA, Calif. – A magnitude-5.1 earthquake struck in Southern California (search) on Saturday and could be felt dozens of miles away in downtown Los Angeles, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The quake struck shortly after noon and was centered about 13 miles east of Maricopa …
Read More »Ups and Downs for the Week April 11
This is a partial transcript from “The Beltway Boys”, April 16, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The Beltway Boys” Saturday at 6 p.m. ET and Sunday at 1 and 6 a.m. EST. MORT KONDRACKE, CO-HOST: Let’s see who’s up and down this week. UP: John Bolton (search), …
Read More »Philly Man Wanted in Danish Dismemberment Probe
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish police have issued an international arrest warrant for a 34-year-old American from Philadelphia in connection with the killing of a Dane whose dismembered body was found in Copenhagen (search) over Easter, police said Monday. Jared Heller (search) was suspected of being an accessory to murder, said …
Read More »Officials: 'Minutemen' Dissuade Some Migrants
AGUA PRIETA, Mexico – The number of Mexican migrants trying to sneak into the United States through southeast Arizona has dropped by half since hundreds of U.S. civilians began guarding the area earlier this week, say Mexican officials assigned to protect their citizens. But that doesn’t mean the migrants have …
Read More »Got IRA? Read This!
Dear Friends — I had planned to post the winners of the book “50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your Credit” this week, but the Supreme Court just handed down a ruling that affects millions of us and it’s too important to ignore. If you wrote to me explaining …
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