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Chipotle discloses criminal probe on immigration
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. said on Tuesday that federal prosecutors are investigating the company for possible criminal violations of securities laws related to its hiring practices. The Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement unit is already probing the company for compliance with employee work authorization laws. The company said Friday ...
Priest: We weren't prepared for abuse complaints
A priest assigned to help with child sex-abuse complaints at the Philadelphia archdiocese in the early 1990s says he was "woefully unprepared" and left after a year. Monsignor James Beisel's (BYE'-zuhlz) testimony comes in the child-endangerment and conspiracy trial of his friend, Monsignor William Lynn. Lynn is accused of keeping ...
Chipotle discloses criminal probe on immigration
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. said on Tuesday that federal prosecutors are investigating the company for possible criminal violations of securities laws related to its hiring practices. The Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement unit is already probing the company for compliance with employee work authorization laws. The company said Friday ...
Fargo lawmaker heads medical marijuana initiative
A Fargo Democratic lawmaker is chairman of a new initiative campaign to make marijuana use legal in North Dakota for medical reasons. The proposed law was turned in to Secretary of State Al Jaeger's office on Tuesday. Jaeger's approval is needed before the initiative petition can be circulated. Fargo Democratic ...
Legion's latest admission revives hypocrisy charge
The Legion of Christ religious order, already discredited for concealing the crimes of its pedophile founder, suffered another blow to its credibility Tuesday after its superior admitted he knew in 2005 that his most prominent priest had fathered a child, yet allowed him to keep teaching and preaching about morality. ...
THE RACE: Polls show presidential race tightening
With about five months to go, the presidential race is tightening, polls show, with voters nearly evenly divided between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, his likely Republican challenger. Obama and Romney are locked in a dead heat over handling the economy, the top concern of voters, a new Washington ...
Pa. pain management doc pleads to drug charges
A western Pennsylvania doctor who specializes in pain management likely faces more than 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to prescribing unnecessary painkillers and defrauding insurance carriers of at least $400,000 in the process. Oliver Herndon, 40, of McMurray, left U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab's courtroom without commenting Tuesday, ...
Tunisia to extradite ex-Libyan prime minister
Tunisia said Tuesday it will soon extradite Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi back to his homeland, after detaining the former Libyan prime minister for eight months. Al-Mahmoudi was arrested in September for illegally crossing the frontier into Tunisia as he tried to flee to Algeria, where members of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's ...
Cuba's first daughter has gone beyond Castro name
She has her uncle's penchant for speaking her mind. From her father, she inherited a disciplined tenacity. But Mariela Castro, a married mother of three and member of Cuba's most powerful family, has paved her own way in making gay rights her life's cause. And now the 49-year-old daughter of ...
Sentence given, but Rutgers webcam saga not over
The legal saga is far from over for a former Rutgers University student sentenced to 30 days jail for using a webcam to spy on his roommate kissing another man. The cultural fallout could continue, too. Dharun Ravi, 20, was sentenced Monday, two months after a jury convicted him of ...
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