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Hispanic Mormon leads House Republicans on immigration

WASHINGTON — Raul Labrador, a tea party favorite, has emerged as House Republicans’ go-to negotiator on immigration. He is unusually prepared for the task: The Puerto Rico-born Mormon convert is a lawyer fluent in Spanish who has represented undocumented residents fighting ...

Washington snowpack best in the West

SEATTLE -- The mountain snowpack in Washington is 112 percent of normal and the best in the West, where the average for other states is about 75 percent, a water supply specialist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service said Friday.Arizona is the lowest at 40 percent and the Southwest ...

5 killed, 4 injured in Mesquite crash

MESQUITE, Nev. -- Five people are dead and four others critically injured after a crash involving an SUV and a van on Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.The Nevada Highway Patrol says the SUV rear-ended the van early Saturday, causing both vehicles to roll near Mesquite, about 80 miles northeast ...

Ex-Romney campaign manager to monitor Dems for embarrassing quotes

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s former campaign manager is working with two Republican National Committee staff members to form America Rising, a conservative opposition research group, organizers said Thursday.The group will track Democrats who might run for president in 2016, with the goal of ...

8 senators meet in secret on immigration reform

WASHINGTON -- The eight senators meet in private several times a week, alternating between Sen. John McCain's and Sen. Charles Schumer's offices. They sit in arm chairs arranged in a circle and sip water or soft drinks as they debate temporary workers and border security. In a capital riven by ...

Study shows states with most gun laws have fewest firearm deaths

States with the most laws regulating firearms, including Massachusetts and New York, have the lowest gun-death rates from homicides and suicides, according to a study published by the American Medical Association.Physicians and researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University ...