Man arrested in disappearance of NYC boy Etan Patz
NEW YORK (AP) — The timing couldn't have been more symbolic: On the eve of National Missing Children's Day, police said they'd at last cracked the case that started it — the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
NJ Muslims angry over NYPD surveillance findings
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Muslim leaders in New Jersey say they are angry but uncertain what their next step will be after the state's attorney general found that New York City police did not violate any laws in its surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques and student groups in New Jersey.
- Pool access for the disabled sparks controversy
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the disabled.
Texas farmers use business wile to weather drought
ELKHART, Texas (AP) — Linda Galayda hauled water and flagged down truck drivers to ask about their hay. She sold calves and young cows and made her son leave their East Texas family ranch for a job in San Antonio.
AWOL Muslim soldier guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot
WACO, Texas (AP) — Walking around a gun store one day last summer, the young man never took off his sunglasses as he asked questions about items he piled on the counter — behavior that struck the manager as odd.
- Cheaters, pony up; LA subway's honor system ending
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nobody pays in LA. Or so say some scofflaws on the city's fast-growing subway system. But soon they'll be digging for their dollar-fifty like everyone else.
Dragon capsule on course for space station arrival
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately bankrolled spacecraft is getting ever closer to the International Space Station for a historic docking Friday.
After NYC beer museum tour, hop on over to its bar
NEW YORK (AP) — Beer was hip in New York long before hipsters were into craft brews, according to a new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society that traces the history of beer all the way back to drunken Colonial times.
Former top Calif. football prospect exonerated
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — First he cried. Then Brian Banks — exonerated of a rape conviction that cost him five years in prison — walked outside the courthouse and seized the moment of freedom he had dreamed of for so long.
Vegas grocer accused of war crimes sent to Bosnia
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, a lawyer and U.S. officials said Thursday.
- Today in History
Today is Friday, May 25, the 146th day of 2012. There are 220 days left in the year.
