From the Wire
- Ga. Firefighters 'Relieved' Hostage Ordeal is Over
It's a call that firefighters routinely respond to—a report of a medical emergency.
- North Korea Delivers New Round of War Rhetoric
North Korea delivered a fresh round of rhetoric Thursday with claims it had "powerful striking means" on standby for a missile launch.
- Critics Revive Past Promises to Knock Obama Budget
Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class.
- Senate Ready to Launch Gun-Control Debate
Legislation would expand background checks, toughen penalties against illicit firearms sales and offer slightly more money for school security.
- Bryant: Obama Budget Undercuts Medicaid Expansion
Top Mississippi Republicans say their opposition to Medicaid expansion is getting a boost from an unlikely source—President Barack Obama.
- Post Office Backpedals on Eliminating Saturday Delivery
The financially beleaguered Postal Service conceded Wednesday that its gamble to compel congressional approval had failed.
- Epps Says Do Best He Can to Operate MDOC
The Mississippi Department of Corrections may delay some renovation projects and counties may not get paid for housing some parole and probation violators until MDOC can transport them back to prison as the agency deals with continuing funding problems.
- Miss. Set to Add Terrorism to Death Penalty Law
Mississippi is set to add terrorism to the list of crimes that could lead to the death penalty, if a victim is killed.
- Coroner: Man Shot Self Twice After Killing Officer
The murder suspect who killed a detective at police headquarters in Mississippi's capital city last week shot himself twice in the head after shooting the officer four times, the coroner said Tuesday.
- Tentative Farm Workers Deal in Immigration Talks
A tentative deal has been reached between agriculture workers and growers, a key senator said Tuesday, smoothing the way for a landmark immigration bill to be released within a week.
- Obama Sends Congress $3.8 Trillion Spending Plan
President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.8 trillion spending blueprint that seeks to achieve an elusive "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits by raising taxes further on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit programs such as Social Security.
- Reporter's Sources Subject of Colo. Court Hearing
A Colorado judge has ordered New York-based Fox News reporter Jana Winter to attend a hearing Wednesday as part of theater shooting suspect James Holmes' attempt to identify her confidential sources.
- Alert to Congress: Nuclear Evacuation May Bog Down
A new government report challenges a pillar of planning for disasters at American nuclear power plants.
- Employers Eager for New Foreign Worker Program
As desperate as unemployed Americans are to find work, there are still some jobs that many would never consider applying for because they are seen as too dirty, too demanding or just plain unappealing.
- Dem, GOP Senators Reach Background Check Deal
Two senators have struck a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more firearms purchases.