Obama assembles all-star cast to talk immigration

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42818128/ns/politics-white_house/His immigration overhaul stalled, President Barack Obama is enlisting an array of voices, including Latino entertainment and media stars, to help jump-start legislation and reassure crucial but restless Hispanic voters that he has not abandoned his campaign pledge to change the law.

Sheriff's helicopter pilots being targeted by laser beams an ongoing problem

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/04/sheriffs-lasers-helicol.html
L.A. County Sheriff's Department helicopters have been targeted from the ground by individuals shooting laser beams six times in the last few months, officials said this week.

 

South Assesses the Toll After a Deadly Barrage of Tornadoes

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/us/29storm.html?ref=us

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A day after enduring a terrifying bombardment of storms that killed hundreds across the South and spawned tornadoes that razed neighborhoods and even entire towns, people from Texas to Virginia to Georgia searched through rubble for survivors on Thursday and tried to reclaim their own lives.

U.S. appeals court OKs decision blocking Arizona immigration law

A federal appeals court on Monday affirmed a previous injunction of Arizona's controversial immigration law, another setback for legislation that has drawn sharp opposition from President Barack Obama's administration.http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/11/arizona.immigration/index.html?iref=allsearch

Body of N.C. honor student missing for months found floating in river

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/04/21/maryland.north.carolina.body.found/index.html?hpt=T2

(CNN) -- The body of a 16-year-old honor student from North Carolina -- missing since December -- has been found in a Maryland river, her father and police said Thursday.

For schoolchildren, where's the water?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/04/18/water.school.children/index.html?hpt=Sbin
CNN) -- When 12-year-old Mason went to lunch each day last year, he could choose between orange juice and milk, but he couldn't get a cup of water.

Robots find radiation still too deadly for humans to enter 2 Japan reactor units

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-japan-nuclear-robots-20110419,0,3998883.story?track=rss
Readings Monday from robots that entered two crippled buildings at Japan's tsunami-flooded nuclear plant for the first time in more than a month showed a harsh environment still too radioactive for workers to enter.

Georgia passes immigration bill similar to Arizona's

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-georgia-immigration-20110415,0,240355.story

Reporting from Atlanta—

Following Arizona's lead, the Georgia Legislature on Thursday passed a strict measure that would empower police to check the immigration status of "criminal" suspects and force many businesses to do the same with potential employees

Sponsor of Arizona citizenship bill hopes it prompts lawsuit

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/28/arizona.immigration.citizenship/index.html?iref=allsearch
The Arizona state legislator who co-sponsored the latest immigration crackdown proposal -- to end citizenship for U.S.-born kids of illegal immigrants -- told CNN Friday that he hopes the legislation will provoke a lawsuit so that the U.S. Supreme Court "can end the controversy over the true meaning of the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause."

Blogger gets three years in jail for 'insulting the military...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/04/egypt-blogger-gets-three-years-in-jail-for-insulting-the-military.htmlIn the first such case since the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak, an Egyptian blogger has been sentenced to three years in jail by a military court for “insulting the military” and “disturbing public security.”

Suspect arrested in slaying of U.S. agent in Mexico

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/04/05/mexico.agent.killed/index.html?iref=allsearch

(CNN) -- Mexican police have arrested another suspect in the death earlier this year of a U.S. immigration agent, authorities said Tuesday.

Officials struggle to plug leak at Japan nuclear plant

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/02/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html?hpt=T2
A first attempt to plug a cracked concrete shaft that is leaking highly radioactive water into the ocean off Japan failed Saturday, so officials are now exploring alternatives, spokesmen for Tokyo Electric Co. said.