IMMIGRATION RAID: U.S. Atty. Matt Dummermuth of Iowa says 300 of the 389 people detained after an immigration raid at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville have pleaded guilty and been sentenced on felony charges.
CONTRACT SCAM: Retired Army National Guard Lt. Col. Levonda Selph pleaded guilty Tuesday in Washington to steering a Pentagon contract for warehouses in Iraq to a contractor in return for $4,000 in cash and a $5,000 trip to Thailand.
GIRLS KILLED: Investigators had no suspects Tuesday in the weekend killings of 13-year-old Taylor Paschal-Placker and 11-year-old Skyla Whitaker of Weleetka, Okla.
ON THE RUN? A hedge-fund swindler who was supposed to be driving himself to prison abandoned his car on a Hudson River bridge north of New York City on Monday, with “Suicide is Painless” scrawled on its hood. Skeptical authorities are looking for Samuel Israel III, 48.
ON THE MEND: A relative of a 4-year-old South Carolina girl who accidentally shot herself with her grandmother’s handgun in a Sam’s Club store said Tuesday the family expects the child to be out of the hospital by week’s end.
SEPARATION: Astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station said goodbye Tuesday. The shuttle and its crew of seven are due back on Earth on Saturday.
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‘If you want to wet your whistle with Lake Erie water, come home to Ohio, and you can drink to your heart’s content.’
– Tim Grendell, a member of the Ohio Senate, which voted 33-0 on Tuesday to approve the Great Lakes Compact among eight states and two Canadian provinces to prevent most diversions of water from the lakes’ basin.
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