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• Bill Clinton tells CNN that tough '90s crime bill went too far
• Long-awaited deflate-gate investigation implicates Pats, Tom Brady
• Bill Clinton on 'Clinton Cash': 'It won't fly'
• Former House Speaker Jim Wright dies at age 92
• Baltimore asks U.S. Justice Dept to investigate police practices
• Day 16 of jury deliberations in 1979 New York missing boy murder trial
• Idaho officer fatally shot; man held after high-speed chase
• Boston bomber's lawyers aim to paint Tsarnaev as teen gone astray
• Investigators: Germanwings co-pilot practiced descent before crash
• Michigan voters reject $1.9 billion road repair measure
• Gunman's hashtag hinted at Texas plot
• California regulators approve unprecedented water cutbacks
• Police officer dies after shooting in north Idaho
• Officer charged in Gray death contends arrest was legal
• Hillary Clinton presses advantage on immigration
• Clinton: Nation needs to fix broken immigration system
• Senate adopts GOP budget targeting Obamacare
• Capital murder indictment returned in U.Va. slaying case

Bill Clinton tells CNN that tough '90s crime bill went too far Posted: 06 May 2015 11:31 AM PDT Former President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday that an anti-crime crackdown when he was in office in the 1990s went too far, and said he now supports his wife Hillary's plans to reverse some of those justice policies. The former president told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that the crime bill was imperfect. Bill Clinton signed into law a major crime bill in 1994 that imposed tougher sentences, put thousands of more police on the streets and helped fund the building of extra prisons. We have too wide a net. We have too many people in prison. And we wound up spending - putting so many people in prison that there wasn't enough money left to educate them, train them for new jobs and increase the chances when they came out that they could live productive lives," he said according to a CNN transcript of the interview.

Long-awaited deflate-gate investigation implicates Pats, Tom Brady Posted: 06 May 2015 10:58 AM PDT Ted Wells' investigation into the possibility that the Patriots were involved in deflating footballs has found that it's more likely than not some of the Patriots were guilty.

Bill Clinton on 'Clinton Cash': 'It won't fly' Posted: 06 May 2015 10:25 AM PDT Bill Clinton continued his defense of the Clinton Foundation Wednesday, with the former president dismissing suggestions made by "Clinton Cash" author Peter Schweizer that donations taken from foreign governments during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state influenced American policy.

Former House Speaker Jim Wright dies at age 92 Posted: 06 May 2015 09:34 AM PDT DALLAS (AP) — Former House Speaker Jim Wright, the longtime Texas Democrat who became the first speaker in history to be driven out of office in midterm, has died. He was 92.

Baltimore asks U.S. Justice Dept to investigate police practices Posted: 06 May 2015 07:55 AM PDT (Reuters) - Baltimore will ask the U.S. Justice Department to review its police department for civil rights violations after the death of a black man from injuries sustained in police custody, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said on Wednesday. The investigation will look into police "patterns and practices" and potential violations of the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which bars unreasonable searches and seizures, Rawlings-Blake told a news conference. (Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington; Editing by Susan Heavey)

Day 16 of jury deliberations in 1979 New York missing boy murder trial Posted: 06 May 2015 07:38 AM PDT By Natasja Sheriff NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York jury began its 16th day of deliberations on Wednesday in the murder trial of a former deli worker accused in the 1979 killing of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy whose disappearance changed the way the United States responds to reports of missing children. On Tuesday, the jury weighing kidnapping and murder charges against Pedro Hernandez, 54, in state Supreme Court in Manhattan told the judge it was deadlocked but was ordered to keep trying. Hernandez told police in 2012 that he choked the boy in the basement of a deli where he worked, stuffed him in a box and left his still-moving body in an alley. His picture was among the first to appear on milk cartons in a national campaign to locate missing children.

Idaho officer fatally shot; man held after high-speed chase Posted: 06 May 2015 06:32 AM PDT SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A 26-year-old north Idaho man accused of fatally shooting a veteran police officer and stealing his patrol car has been ordered held on $2 million bail.

Boston bomber's lawyers aim to paint Tsarnaev as teen gone astray Posted: 06 May 2015 04:23 AM PDT Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will call more witnesses on Wednesday as they seek to spare his life by painting him as a normal teen who went astray when he followed his older, domineering brother in carrying out the attack. He was also convicted of killing a police officer three days later. Over the past two weeks lawyers for Tsarnaev have called three dozen witnesses who described him as a mild-mannered teenager who, even as his college grades slipped, remained the kind and well-liked youngster he had been as a child.  "He never caused harm to anybody or disrespected anybody,"college student Henry Alvarez, who wrestled on the same team as Tsarnaev in high school, told jurors on Tuesday.  Martin Richard, 8, Chinese exchange student Lu Lingzi, 23, and restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29, died in the bombing. The Tsarnaev brothers also shot dead Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier.

Investigators: Germanwings co-pilot practiced descent before crash Posted: 06 May 2015 04:07 AM PDT French investigators say Andreas Lubitz tried a controlled descent on the previous flight.

Michigan voters reject $1.9 billion road repair measure Posted: 06 May 2015 03:52 AM PDT By Joseph White DETROIT (Reuters) - Michigan voters Tuesday rejected a ballot proposal to hike the state sales tax to pay for fixing the state's crumbling roads and bridges. The final vote reported by the Michigan Secretary of State's office was 80 percent opposed, and 20 percent in favor. The complex $1.9 billion measure included proposals to amend the state constitution to increase the state sales tax to 7 percent from six percent, raise motor vehicle fuel taxes and peg them to inflation, send more money to schools and enhance an earned income tax credit that benefits lower income residents. Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Snyder campaigned for the plan, saying it would raise an additional $1.3 billion to fix the state's highways and bridges, many of them in poor condition after years of harsh weather, heavy truck traffic and funding cuts.

Gunman's hashtag hinted at Texas plot Posted: 06 May 2015 02:07 AM PDT PHOENIX (AP) — About 20 minutes before the shooting at a Texas cartoon contest that featured images of the Prophet Muhammad, a final tweet posted on an account linked to one of the gunmen said: "May Allah accept us as mujahideen," or holy warriors.

California regulators approve unprecedented water cutbacks Posted: 06 May 2015 01:17 AM PDT SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California water regulators adopted sweeping, unprecedented restrictions on how people, governments and businesses can use water amid the state's ongoing drought, hoping to push reluctant residents to deeper conservation.

Police officer dies after shooting in north Idaho Posted: 06 May 2015 12:22 AM PDT (Reuters) - A police officer died of his wounds after he was shot by a man he was trying to stop in northern Idaho on Tuesday, officials said. Coeur d'Alene police sergeant Greg Moore was making a suspicious person check on Tuesday morning when the man opened fire, said police. The man then drove off in Moore's patrol car and led officers of a neighboring city on a high-speed chase, Post Falls Police Chief R. Scot Haug told reporters. The shooting comes a day after a New York City plainclothes police officer died from a gun shot wound to the head suffered during a confrontation with a suspect over the weekend.

Officer charged in Gray death contends arrest was legal Posted: 05 May 2015 09:42 PM PDT BALTIMORE (AP) — One of the Baltimore police officers who arrested Freddie Gray wants the police department and prosecutor to produce a knife that was the reason for the arrest, saying in court papers that it is an illegal weapon.

Hillary Clinton presses advantage on immigration Posted: 05 May 2015 09:25 PM PDT The Democratic candidate challenges Republicans on their approach to immigration reform.

Clinton: Nation needs to fix broken immigration system Posted: 05 May 2015 05:37 PM PDT The Democratic presidential candidate draws a sharp contrast with the GOP on key immigration issues.

Senate adopts GOP budget targeting Obamacare Posted: 05 May 2015 03:27 PM PDT The Senate has adopted a compromise GOP budget, paving the way for an assault on President Barack Obama's health care law this summer and a partisan showdown over spending bills this fall.

Capital murder indictment returned in U.Va. slaying case Posted: 05 May 2015 03:10 PM PDT CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The man charged with abducting and killing a University of Virginia student has been charged with capital murder and now faces the prospect of the death penalty.

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