McCain wins South Carolina primary; Clinton, Romney take Nevada COLUMBIA, Jan 20 (AP): Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain gained momentum with victories in contentious presidential nominating contests but failed to cement clear front-runner status as an unpredictable campaign moves to crucial big-state battles. While McCain, won his party's South Carolina primary on Saturday, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney also got a boost by winning the lightly contested Republican caucuses in Nevada. Clinton, the New York senator and former first lady, captured the popular vote among Democrats Saturday in Nevada, gaining support of about 51 percent of caucus-goers to Barack Obama's 45 percent. But the Illinois senator edged her out for national convention delegates, taking 13 to her 12.(Posted @ 19:39 PST)



Suicide bombing kills six in Iraq BAGHDAD, Jan 20 (AP): A suicide bombing killed six people Sunday in Anbar province, but the target of the attack, a U.S.-backed Sunni tribal sheik, was unhurt, police said.

Police arrest suspect in armed robbery

Maryland State Police have arrested an Ijamsville man in connection with a robbery in a McDonald's parking lot in Mount Airy Thursday.

Andre Jullian Meade, 19, was arrested Friday and charged with armed robbery, first-degree assault, theft of less than $500 and several handgun charges, according to a press release from state police.Troopers responded to the parking lot of the McDonald's in the 1700 block of Ridgeside Drive shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday for a report of a man who had been robbed, according to the release.A 19-year-old man had reportedly been confronted in the parking lot by two men who demanded his money before he drove away in his vehicle.The two suspects then demanded money from a second man, according to the release. The man, 21, refused and was threatened with a gun, at which time he gave the suspects an undisclosed amount of money.Neither victim was hurt, but their names weren't released by police, citing concerns for their safety.The two suspects drove off in a green vehicle police described as either a Honda Civic or Toyota Camry with unknown registration.Troopers from the Rockville barrack located Meade around 11:30 a.m.

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But it was only over time, the media bringing it up, old friends talking about it and asking about it, that I've come to see just what an incredible event it was. I made some strong statements about it at the time, but remember, right after we won that game, we had to fly back to L.A. and get ready for the next one, and the one after that. Sports is hard to be involved in and see the big picture."

What had happened, whether Goux was too busy to see it or not, was that a region looked into its collective Christian conscience and knew that they could no longer interpret the Bible from a racist perspective. For the Greek-American USC linebacker John Papadakis, who found himself as the liaison bridging the volatile black-white world that still divided the Trojans, it fulfilled the Platonic ideals that shaped his life and gave it meaning.

Man who claimed ‘mercy killing’ portrayed as master deceiver

Information presented to a Multnomah County grand jury paints a much different portrait of John L. Roberts than the one that emerged last week.