Posts Tagged Municipal governments

Correction: Tunisia-Salafi Crackdown story

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — In a May 15 story about the Tunisian government taking a harder line on preaching by ultraconservative Muslim groups ahead of this past weekend’s conference by the group known as Ansar al-Shariah, The Associated Press reported erroneously that about 40,000 people attended the group’s conference last year. About 4,000 people attended the conference in Kairouan in 2012.

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

As GOP weighs how best to profit from Obama’s problems, Democrats hope it overplays its hand

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Police call fatal NYC shooting a hate crime

NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man’s face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York’s police commissioner called an “anti-gay” hate crime.

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Police: Former Aztec mayor killed in plane crash

AZTEC, N.M. (AP) — Authorities have identified former Aztec Mayor Michael Arnold as the pilot who was killed when his single-engine plane crashed on takeoff at an airport in northwestern New Mexico.

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