Tag: Nation

In this May 10, 1984 photo, gay partners Richard Adams, left, and Anthony Sullivan appear at a news conference. They were facing the deportation of Sullivan to Austrialia. Adams, who used both the altar and the courtroom to help begin the push for gay marriage four decades before it reached the center of the national consciousness, has died, his attorney said Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. After a brief illness, Adams died Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, at age 65 in the Hollywood home he shared with Sullivan, his partner of 43 years, attorney Lavi Soloway told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times) NO FORNS; NO SALES; MAGS OUT; ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER OUT; LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS OUT; VENTURA COUNTY STAR OUT; INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT, TV OUT

Richard Adams, early figure in gay marriage, dies

Andrew Dalton · December 23, 2012 10:59 pm

Pallbearers carry the casket of U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye into the courtyard of the Hawaii state Capitol during a visitation ceremony in Honolulu on, Saturday Dec. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Oskar Garcia)

Memorial service for Sen. Inouye held in Hawaii

Becky Bohrer · December 23, 2012 10:48 pm

ADDS BYLINE - A person, left, takes photos of at the scene of a head-on collision involving two minivans on Interstate 75, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, near Franklin, Ohio. The collision killed four people, including a 7-year-old boy, from two different families in Ohio and Tennessee just two days before Christmas. Two other children were critically injured in the collision. (AP Photo/Dayton Daily News, Drew Simon) LOCAL PRINT OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; WKEF-TV OUT; WRGT-TV OUT; WDTN-TV OUT

Head-on crash amid holiday travel kills 4 in Ohio

Amanda Lee Myers · December 23, 2012 10:48 pm

Brooklyn Bridge candlelight vigil aims at gun laws

Julie Walker · December 23, 2012 10:39 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 file photo, Addison Strychalsky, 2, of Newtown, Conn., pets Libby, a golden retriever therapy dog, during a visit from the dogs and their handlers to a memorial for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims in Newtown. As the shock of Newtown's horrific school shooting starts to wear off, as the headlines fade and the therapists leave, residents are seeking a way forward through faith, community and a determination to seize their future. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

What now in Newtown? Seize the change, healers say

Jesse Washington · December 23, 2012 9:31 pm

Bo Preising, Suitable Technologies' vice president of engineering, at left, talks with fellow engineers, Josh Faust, center on screen, and Josh Tyler, on screen at right, both using a Beam remote presence system in Palo Alto, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. More employees are working from home, but there's still no substitute for actually being at the office. Enter the Beam. It's a roving computer screen _ with video cameras, microphones and speakers _ that stands five feet and rides on motorized wheels. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Telepresence robots let employees ‘beam’ into work

Terence Chea · December 23, 2012 8:56 pm

Ex-Sandy Hook teacher: Lanza was sweet little boy

Brock Vergakis · December 23, 2012 8:54 pm

FILE - This Oct. 5, 2012 file photo shows Boston Mayor Tom Menino during a campaign event for Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren in Boston. Menino on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, responded to the National Rifle Association's call for armed police and security volunteers to be posted at schools, saying the group's proposal "is not a plan, but a ploy to bring more guns into our neighborhoods," following the Dec. 14 massacre in a Connecticut elementary school. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)

Boston mayor out of hospital after lengthy stay

Washington Examiner · December 23, 2012 8:01 pm

So. Calif. couple unlawfully wedded for 48 years

Washington Examiner · December 23, 2012 7:49 pm

Kristina Shevchenko, Clackamas Town Center shooting victim, talks to reporters for first time at her house as her father Veniamin looks on, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012 in Portland, Ore. Kristina Shevchenko, a 15-year-old girl was seriously wounded when a gunman killed two people and then himself at an Oregon shopping mall. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Motoya Nakamura) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT; THE MERCURY OUT; WILLAMETTE WEEK OUT; PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP OUT

Oregon mall shooting survivor tells her story

Washington Examiner · December 23, 2012 7:27 pm

FILE - This Nov. 1, 2012, file photo shows former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel speaking in Omaha, Neb. President Barack Obama's possible pick of Republican Chuck Hagel to run the Pentagon raises serious concerns among some of his former Senate colleagues, who question his pronouncements on Iraq, Israel and the Middle East. The reservations publicly expressed by a few Republicans and even a Democrat hardly rival the unyielding GOP objections to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who withdrew from consideration last week for secretary of state in the face of relentless attacks mostly over her public statements about the Sept. 11 assault on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Senators: Hagel would face tough confirmation

Washington Examiner · December 23, 2012 6:13 pm

FILE - This undated file booking photo provided by the Mobile County/Metro Jail shows Randy "Rasheed" Wilson. A federal judge on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 denied bond for Wilson, a 25-year-old Mobile, Ala., native charged with plotting to join violent international jihad. U.S. Magistrate Judge Katherine Nelson said Wilson should remain in jail pending further court proceedings. (AP Photo/Mobile County/Metro Jail via AL.com, File)

Alabama terror case could hinge on relationships

JAY REEVESMELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL · December 23, 2012 6:10 pm