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November 23rd, 2012
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The Hays Daily News, Nov. 18
The Kansas Secretary of State Office usually is low profile. Statutes guide the rather perfunctory roles it performs.
Not so with Kris Kobach, whose national and state moonlighting has made him the face of Kansas for outsiders.
One of two, in reality, as Gov. Sam Brownback's grander political ambitions keep him in the spotlight as well. With unreserved backing from...
November 23rd, 2012
Written by Mitch Weiss - Associated Press in Religion's Mighty Rivers, Latest News with 0 Comments
RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) — A man who claims he's being stalked for helping a 22-year-old man escape a North Carolina church that abused him for being gay says the harassment won't stop him from encouraging others to leave.
Jerry Cooper has filed false imprisonment and stalking complaints against four members of the Word of Faith Fellowship church.
The complaints stem from Cooper's visit to the...
November 21st, 2012
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ROME (AP) — Italian police have blocked access to a white supremacist website and arrested four people for allegedly inciting racial hatred and spreading anti-Semitism.
Authorities on Friday blocked Stormfront, a white supremacist website based in the United States, and shut down its Italian-language forum.
They also confiscated knives, batons and baseball bats as well neo-Nazi and Fascist...
November 21st, 2012
Written by Daud Yussuf - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
GARISSA, Kenya (AP) - More than a dozen people have been shot, one woman has died and hundreds of shops were burned to the ground in this eastern Kenyan town amid rising Somali-Kenyan tensions, officials said Tuesday.
The violence follows a lethal attack here on Monday in which three Kenyan soldiers were killed. Local sympathizers of al-Shabab - a Somali Islamist extremist group that Kenyan...
November 21st, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Police at the University of Mississippi say they have turned over to the FBI information regarding vandalism apparently aimed at an African-American freshman.
"We are presenting everything we have about this case to them," University Police Chief Calvin Sellers said in The Oxford Eagle (http://bit.ly/RLLA3t). "They will investigate to see if this is a hate crime or civil...
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