Senator Johanns says won't seek re-election in 2014
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nebraska-sen-johanns-won-seek-re-election-article-1.1267017
WASHINGTON | Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:43pm EST. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Mike Johanns, a Nebraska Republican, said on Monday that he would not seek re-election next year, becoming the fifth U.S.
Axelrod: White House made 'mistake' in releasing draft immigration bill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/18/obama-administration-marco-rubio
A former top adviser to the president said Monday that the White House had made a "mistake" in distributing a draft bill on immigration reform, as Republicans attacked the leaked blueprint as an attempt to sideline bipartisan input.
NJ pausing competition on Top 10 beaches; focuses on cooperation in aftermath ...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jl5tMl45hqlvhsqERuhRW3W3zyKA?docId=e1320afbcda04e66a3036398de60ca6c
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, New Jersey - A popular contest to name the best beach at the Jersey shore is taking a timeout this summer. The Top Ten Beaches contest will not have voting this year that pits one town against another for bragging rights at the shore.
Utah Jazz: Assistant Sidney Lowe arrested for income tax evasion
http://tracking.si.com/2013/02/18/sidney-lowe-arrested-taxes-utah-jazz/
Lowe, 53, coached the North Carolina State Wolfpack basketball team from 2006-11 before joining the Jazz staff in 2012. Photos. (Tribune file photo) Jazz assistant coach Sidney Lowe talks to guard Jamaal Tinsley during ...
South Carolina TV Wars: Mark Sanford vs. the World
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/02/south-carolina-tv-wars-mark-sanford-vs-the-world/
Mark Sanford wants you to know that he has learned from his mistakes and will try to change Washington if he gets there. That's the message of his first TV ad, now visible on cable airwaves in Charleston, S.C.
NYC spent at least $20m during bus strike
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/15/3237295/nyc-school-bus-strike-ends-after.html
NEW YORK - Schools Chancellor Dennis Wolcott says New York City spent roughly $20.6 million shuttling students to class during the monthlong bus strike.
Thousands Demand Action on Climate Change
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=102005PY4100
President Obama said in his State of the Union Address that if lawmakers don't act on climate change, he will. Protesters say they are holding him to his word.
NC woman pleads guilty in her niece's death
http://www.wlos.com/shared/news/features/top-stories/stories/wlos_guilty-plea-entered-10627.shtml
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A North Carolina woman is pleading guilty to killing her 15-month-old niece in a case in which social workers are accused of ignoring, then covering up the child's abuse until after her death.
Alec Baldwin reportedly yells racial slur at photographer in New York
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2013/02/18/baldwin-allegedly-assaults-photog.html
Alec Baldwin's war with the media apparently rages on, after allegedly calling an African-American photographer a "crackhead," "a coon" and "a drug dealer.
Mississippi ratified 13th Amendment in 1995
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/It-Took-Steven-Spielberg-Lincoln-Outlaw-Slavery-Mississippi-35815.html
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The state of Mississippi has corrected a clerical error that left unrecorded ratification of the 13th Amendment for 18 years.
WH press claw at Obama's golf outing with Tiger
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/02/18/wh-press-claw-at-obamas-golf-outing-with-tiger/
A Sunday golf outing in Florida, in which President Obama played 18 holes with Tiger Woods, has left the White House Correspondents Association clawing and snarling.
2 questioned in shooting of Chicago woman
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2-questioned-shooting-chicago-woman-article-1.1266897?localLinksEnabled=false
Police in Chicago are questioning two men in connection with the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old woman who was killed just hours after her sister attended President Obama's speech on gun violence there, police said.
US Rep. Andrews: Sequester could have local tax impact
http://theweek.com/article/index/240245/why-americans-hate-congress
Rob Andrews, a Democratic congressman from South Jersey, says now is no time for Congress to be taking a week off. And state and local taxes could go up, he predicts, if members don't get back on the job swiftly.
Will passengers abandon cruise ships?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/houston-woman-plans-lawsuit-carnival-bungled-cruise-article-1.1266990
Tweet. Will passengers abandon cruise ships? The cruise ship Carnival Triumph is towed into Mobile Bay near Dauphin Island, Ala., Thursday.
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