FBI: Raid disrupts planned terror attack
MINNEAPOLIS FBI officials said Monday they foiled a terrorist attack being planned in a small western Minnesota town, but they offered no details about the exact targets of the attack or the motive of the man accused of having a cache of explosives and weapons in a mobile home.
The FBI said the lives of several local residents were potentially saved with the arrest of Buford Rogers, 24, who made his first appearance Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Rogers, of Montevideo, was arrested Friday after authorities searched a mobile home hes associated with and found Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and firearms, according to an affidavit.
Airman who led unit charged for groping
ARLINGTON, Va. An Air Force officer who led the branchs Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit has been charged with groping a woman in a northern Virginia parking lot, authorities said Monday.
Arlington County Police said Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski of Arlington faces a misdemeanor charge of sexual battery after an alleged assault about 12:30 a.m. Sunday in the Crystal City area of the county. A police report says that the 41-year-old Krusinski was drunk and grabbed a womans breast and buttocks. Police say the woman fought him off and called police.
Calif. cities can ban medical pot shops
SAN FRANCISCO The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that cities and counties can ban medical marijuana dispensaries, a decision likely to further diminish the network of storefront pot shops and fuel efforts to have the state regulate the industry.
In a unanimous opinion, the court held that Californias medical marijuana laws the nations first and most liberal neither prevent local governments from using their land-use powers to zone dispensaries out of existence nor grant authorized users convenient access to the drug.
Heritage study sparks immigration bill spat
WASHINGTON A bipartisan Senate immigration bill would cost the government a net $6.3 trillion during the next 50 years to provide benefits for millions of people now living in the U.S. illegally, the Heritage Foundation said in a report Monday, setting off a fierce dispute with fellow conservatives who attacked the study as flawed and political.
The Heritage study said immigrants granted new legal status under the bill would eat up more than $9 trillion in health, education, retirement and other benefits during their lifetime, while contributing only around $3 trillion in taxes. Republicans and conservative groups who support the bill quickly countered that the study failed to measure broader economic benefits from an immigration overhaul, including a more robust workforce that would boost the gross domestic product.
The Heritage Foundation document is a political document; its not a very serious analysis, said former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican whos part of a task force with the nonprofit Bipartisan Policy Center that supports the bill.
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