Administrators and teachers at one of the nation’s largest public junior college districts are under investigation for spending at least half a million taxpayer dollars on personal trips abroad and lavish hotel stays as well as enrollment fraud. The Maricopa Community College District in Arizona serves about 270,000 students annually at 10 campuses and employs

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The day after two U.S. Border Patrol agents reported to prison to begin serving lengthy sentences for intercepting a Mexican drug smuggler, a Republican congressman introduced a bill to pardon them. The Constitution grants only the president the authority to pardon those convicted of crimes and George W. Bush has so far refused to pardon

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An appellate court ruling that blocked a federal law calling for the deportation of thousands of immigrants convicted of felonies has been unanimously reversed by the Supreme Court. The case involves a Peruvian man convicted in California of burglary in 1992, possession of a firearm by a felon in 1994 and auto theft in 2002.

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A former Alaska mayor has been indicted for embezzling at least $450,000 of Congressional earmark money, provided by his close friend in the U.S. Senate and intended for educational services to low-income youth. The money was part of the nearly $3 million earmarked over five years to a Fairbanks tax-exempt organization called LOVE that provided

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A North Carolina appeals court has reversed a trial judge’s decision to dismiss a Muslim woman’s lawsuit demanding the Quran be used for courtroom oaths. The woman, Syidah Mateen, initially filed the lawsuit in 2005 because she was denied placing her hand on the Quran as a witness in a trial. State law allows witnesses

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Hillary Clinton and Jesse Jackson looked very cozy at a recent Rainbow Push Coalition event that the reverend holds annually on Wall Street to pressure wealthy companies into giving his civil rights group millions of dollars. Clinton was a keynote speaker and she was all smiles during her address to, what in effect, is a

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Years after various investigations revealed widespread corruption in the United Nation’s scandal-plagued oil-for-food program, U.S. authorities have finally indicted its former director. Benon Sevan has been charged with bribery and conspiracy to commit fraud for his role in running the $64 billion scam that was created to bring food and humanitarian goods to the Iraqi

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A popular Democratic senator with a “pothead junkie” past and close ties to an indicted political fundraiser has formally announced his 2008 presidential bid. As expected, Illinois Senator Barack Obama has filed the official paperwork that will allow him to raise money for a White House campaign. On his Presidential Exploratory Committee web site Obama

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A U.S. Border Patrol agent is being federally investigated for shooting a violent Mexican migrant during a confrontation near a border portion of the Arizona desert where Mexican gunmen attacked a National Guard post less than two weeks ago. Though many of the details are being withheld by U.S. authorities, the unidentified agent shot the

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A newly elected governor who believes illegal immigrants should get drivers licenses and in-state college tuition rates has killed a policy that allows state troopers to detain illegal aliens. Democrat Deval Patrick, a former Clinton Justice Department attorney in charge of civil rights, has only been the governor of Massachusetts for a few weeks and

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