VoteKansas.org

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican presidential nomination all but in hand, Mitt Romney is refocusing his efforts on challenging President Barack Obama, raising cash for the battle ahead and reconciling with onetime primary rival Rick Santorum....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik slammed a psychiatric report that declared him insane, insisting Wednesday it was based on "evil fabrications" meant to portray him as irrational and unintelligent....

The British girl who vanished in Portugal in 2007 may still be alive, UK authorities say. Police released an image that shows what she might look today at age 9.

The PSNI helicopter and dog handlers were involved in a border search operation on Tuesday after three inmates escaped from an open prison in County Cavan.

Arrest outside the threshold of the home led to invalid protective sweep of the house. The officers failed to articulate any facts or reason to justify going in the house. United States v. Barsoum, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56218 (M.D. Fla. April 5, 2012):

Against these standards, the government offers nothing to suggest the Defendant or anyone in the residence (his family) likely posed a danger to the agents, and certainly nothing that a reasonably prudent officer would accept. Instead, the main reason the government seemingly gives is that the agents took the Defendant inside to avoid the rainy morning and to offer him the opportunity to put on some clothes and shoes. Frankly, I find another reason is more obvious. As Agent Zdrojewski admitted, he wanted to secure the Defendant's consent to search his house. Indeed, he specifically chose that location for the Defendant's arrest, as opposed to the pharmacy, to increase his odds that he could search the residence.11 Because I find the government has failed to meet its burden under Buie, I find the agents' entry into the Defendant's house and their subsequent protective sweep illegal.

11 I do not suggest that this tactic is illegal; on the contrary, the approach is commonplace. But as Payton and Buie make clear, an arrest warrant and a search warrant are not synonymous. Without a search warrant, the government must present an exception to the warrant requirement.

Defense counsel was not ineffective for not challenging the length of a stop where the stop was lengthened by the wait for the owner of the car to come to the scene. Defense counsel also was not ineffective for not challenge the stop where the car was indisputably speeding. Owens v. United States, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56416 (M.D. Pa. April 23, 2012).*

The same pro se defendant’s motion to suppress was denied where he never, after being invited to do so, said what it was he was trying to suppress. United States v. Goodrich, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56472 (W.D. Mo. April 23, 2012),* R&R 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56470 (W.D. Mo. April 11, 2012).*

Pro se defendant’s claim that a search warrant could not issue without a criminal complaint also being issued is denied as without any legal basis. United States v. Goodrich, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56470 (W.D. Mo. April 23, 2012).*

BOSTON (AP) -- He was a skilled fisherman, a veteran of two wars and an accomplished hunter. Oh, and Ted Williams also played baseball....

PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) -- Soldiers from rival North and South Korea eye one another across a thin strip of no-man's land that - just barely - keeps their armies apart. The tension, they insist on both sides, is palpable....

24 hours of news photos: 25 April

The number of teachers in England's state schools system fell by 10,000 in the year to November, government figures show.

Championship clubs making losses of more than £6m will be fined or put under a transfer embargo from 2014-15.

The trial of Nat Fraser has heard his wife due to see her solicitor about divorcing him on the day she disappeared.

The animated film Brave will premiere Dolby's Atmos system which allows sounds to be placed with more precision in theatres.

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's main opposition council is crumbling under the weight of infighting and divisions over issues that cut to the heart of the revolution, including accusations that the movement is becoming as autocratic as the regime it wants to drive out....

The German radar satellite TerraSAR-X is returning regular images of the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, to try to catch the birth of a giant berg.

The US space agency Nasa is testing a network of GPS sensors as a rapid-response measure of earthquake location and magnitude.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- No excessive drinking - and no alcohol at all within 10 hours of working. Disreputable establishments are off limits, as is entertaining foreigners in the hotel room....

Jack White will write, produce and perform the music for the Lone Ranger movie, the film's producer confirms.

Sebastian Vettel says Red Bull have lost their air of confidence after failing to replicate the dominance they enjoyed during 2011.

Opposition leader Ed Miliband has blamed the government's "catastrophic" economic policy for pushing the UK back into recession and described Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt as a "political disaster".