Gay couple wants health benefits back after move to Idaho, which bans same-sex marriage

EAGLE, Idaho
- What they didn’t know before moving to Idaho could fill a house, and in many ways it does.The kitchen table holds stacks of legal papers. Medication bottles litter a nearby countertop. The two-story home Robert Ryan, 42, shares with his partner, Ralph Martinelli, 53, overlooks […]

NATO, pushing 60, will grapple with new and old threats at summit

In Afghanistan, it is battling al-Qaida and Taliban. In newly independent Kosovo, it’s up against Serbian protesters armed with firebombs and grenades. And behind the scenes, it is helping to quell the violence in Iraq and to track down suspected war criminals in Bosnia.NATO, its chief insists, has no ambitions to become a “global policeman.” […]

Homeless man testifies in LA murder-for-profit trial of 2 women

LOS ANGELES
- A homeless man testified Friday he was befriended by an elderly woman who is now charged with killing two other homeless men for profit and was pressured to sign documents with his personal information %26mdash; papers he now believes involved insurance policies.Jimmy Covington, 48, took […]

Anger builds over relatives who were ripped off

Allegations of people spending someone else’s Social Security checks, draining bank accounts, having homes signed over to them and other financial abuses have jumped 116 percent in the last seven years. We asked readers whether they knew someone who had been swindled. Here are some of the responses:
AN INSURANCE POLICY RAISES FAMILY SUSPICIONS
My grandmother died […]

Three-time Daytona 500 winner Dale Jarrett races his way into field

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. %26mdash; Dale Jarrett refused to make any contingency plans if he missed the Daytona 500.
Good thing, too.
Now, he doesn’t have to alter his itinerary Sunday.
Jarrett, a three-time Daytona 500 winner who is retiring after the first five races this year, finished ninth in the second of two 150-mile qualifiers […]

Anger builds over relatives who were ripped off

Allegations of people spending someone else’s Social Security checks, draining bank accounts, having homes signed over to them and other financial abuses have jumped 116 percent in the last seven years. We asked readers whether they knew someone who had been swindled. Here are some of the responses:
AN INSURANCE POLICY RAISES FAMILY SUSPICIONS
My grandmother died […]

Three-time Daytona 500 winner Dale Jarrett races his way into field

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. %26mdash; Dale Jarrett refused to make any contingency plans if he missed the Daytona 500.
Good thing, too.
Now, he doesn’t have to alter his itinerary Sunday.
Jarrett, a three-time Daytona 500 winner who is retiring after the first five races this year, finished ninth in the second of two 150-mile qualifiers […]

Three-time Daytona 500 winner Dale Jarrett races his way into field

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. %26mdash; Dale Jarrett refused to make any contingency plans if he missed the Daytona 500.
Good thing, too.
Now, he doesn’t have to alter his itinerary Sunday.
Jarrett, a three-time Daytona 500 winner who is retiring after the first five races this year, finished ninth in the second of two 150-mile qualifiers […]

Stop the junk-mail madness

Does the unwanted information flooding your life make you want to go against the flow?
Few people like to be stopped midbite to answer unsolicited sales calls during dinner. Then again, maybe you’re having spam — the kind that clogs your e-mail inbox until you can’t find the messages you actually want.
Now consider the trees. The […]

Credit River Township man sentenced in fraud scheme

A co-owner and loan officer of LHS Mortgage in Burnsville was sentenced Thursday to just over five years in federal prison for his role in a fraud scheme that obtained $18 million in fraudulent loans on about 40 properties.
Ronald Clark Joseph, 50, of Credit River Township, had cooperated with authorities investigating the scheme, which yielded […]