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By not securing the occupants of a rental car that was subject to impoundment for lack of an authorized driver, the need for a search incident was akin to the situation in Belton rather than Gant. United States v. Harmon, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 153996 (M.D. Fla. November 4, 2011).* [So, the officer can simply not secure the persons arrested and use that as an excuse for search incident? Better yet, the car was subject to impoundment for lack of a licensed driver. Period. This was deciding something that didn't need to be decided. Don't count on this case being good law.]

Defendant’s suppression motion was denied in 1998 and he appealed. He since had post-conviction hearings. “His repetitive frivolous motions and appeals will not change this court's ruling on the issue. It was determined more than a decade ago that the January 2, 1998, search of Claude Bellamy's house was by consent.” Bellamy v. United States, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32458 (E.D. N.C. March 12, 2012)

Defendant was arrested in Belize for immigration violations and child pornography was found. He makes no showing whatsoever that American authorities had anything to do with it. United States v. McVicker, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33164 (D. Ore. March 13, 2012).*

The United States must learn from a series of crises in Afghanistan so it does not repeat them, the U.S. defense secretary told American troops in the country Wednesday, days after an American soldier was detained on suspicion of killing 16 Afghan men, women and children.

Republican voters in Alabama and Mississippi handed Rick Santorum two more wins on Tuesday and conservative support continued to elude Mitt Romney. Plus, Newt Gingrich found reason to continue his campaign despite losing both Southern states.

JACKSON, Miss. — Despite dozens of allegations of neglect and sexual abuse over the years, the U.S. State Department has scrapped a plan to require FBI-based fingerprint searches for people hosting foreign high school exchange students, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.

The federal agency in recent years ...

Mitt Romney lost the Alabama and Mississippi primaries to Rick Santorum on Tuesday, but he continued the long slog for delegates, which his campaign believes will eventually secure him the nomination.

Citing the challenges in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama and visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday they remained committed to completing the mission successfully by turning over security responsibility to Afghan forces by the end of 2014.

CNN's John King and Erin Burnett ask Rick Santorum's communications director should Gingrich leave the race.

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich points out that he got more delegates from Alabama and Mississippi than Romney.

A beaming Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum declared he "did it again" and "defied the odds" Tuesday night as he took the stage fresh off his wins in the critical Southern states of Alabama and Mississippi.

Rick Santorum thanks supporters after taking a key Southern victory in Alabama.

The Pennsylvanian sweeps Alabama and Mississippi.

HANOVER, N.H. — Things have only gotten messier at Dartmouth College in the weeks since a former fraternity brother went public with hazing allegations involving swimming in and swallowing vomit.

Senior Andrew Lohse brought the issue to the forefront in January, when he wrote a column in the school newspaper ...

DYERSVILLE, Iowa — Should we build it, and would they come?

Those are the questions being debated in the Iowa town where "Field of Dreams" was filmed as it considers a $38 million proposal to turn the farmland around the famous cornfield diamond into one of the nation's largest youth ...

Lawmakers in California's Assembly will hit the campaign trail this year, touting their votes on all manner of bills. But what they say may not reflect the stand they took when the bill was being debated.

That's because California is one of at least 10 states in which some lawmakers ...

NEW YORK — Most voters in New York City have no problem with the way the police department has treated Muslims, a poll showed Tuesday, despite weeks of criticism leveled against the NYPD's counterterrorism program by Muslim activists and out-of-state politicians.

A series of articles by the Associated Press has ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco sheriff has a political thicket to get through now that he's putting his legal woes behind him with a plea bargain in a domestic-violence case that made international headlines.

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment in exchange ...

I hope that in the countries where people have risen against dictatorships, they will reflect on and learn from what happened to us in Iran.

New study: 27% of student borrowers have past due balances.

Calling the corporate welfare roll.

The industry sends more money to Washington than to shareholders.