Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is under pressure to condemn posthumous Mormon baptisms of Jews and Holocaust victims.
Romney “should speak to his own church and say they should stop,” said Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in a story in the Huffington Post.
“I wonder if as a candidate for the presidency Mitt Romney is aware of what his church is doing,” Wiesel continued.
HAYWARD — They line up at the same time every year when Pliny the Younger comes to town.
The inquiries started last week, said Kevin Doyne, a bartender at The Bistro in downtown Hayward, and Thursday at 1 p.m. sharp about 30 fans of strong, hoppy ales gathered for the tapping of the keg. It’s a triple India pale ale not to be confused with Pliny the Elder, a double India pale ale that isn’t nearly as scarce, but still coveted by self-anointed “hopheads.”
Made but once each year, the Younger doesn’t last long and when it arrives it’s not unheard of for the beer truck driver to get a standing ovation, Doyne said.
“People take the day off work, or work an early shift to get here,” he said.
It’s was a busy weekend for sheriff’s officials and other rescuers in the Angeles National Forest over the weekend, where 15 people were rescued and one body was recovered. Sheriff’s officials have put together a summary of the weekend incidents, complete with footage from rescue helicopter crew members’ helmet cameras:More info
from WOI
The Iowa caucuses — the first contest of the 2012 presidential nominating season — were held Tuesday night. President Obama was unopposed, but Democrats met in caucuses across the state for what was essentially a pep rally.
For nearly a dozen years now — eons by technology standards — the Hewlett-Packard computer system that handles the state’s online filing and public access to campaign disclosure forms for elected officials has hummed along without many hiccups.
OK, many have said it could be better. But it works. Or, at least, it did.
As of late Saturday, the system was still down with its second prolonged access failure in two weeks.
BLOOMFIELD, N.M. – A repeat drunk driver was arrested after causing a deadly crash involving 10 people. The crash occurred Friday night on Highway 550, south of Bloomfield, New Mexico. San Juan county sheriff’s officials say Howard Haceesa Jr., 36, was driving the wrong way when he crashed head-on into an SUV carrying seven people. A 50 year-old woman inside the SUV was killed. Two children, Alexis Gardea, 10, and Ignacio Piñon, 4, were airlifted to the UNM Hospital, where they remain in intensive care. One of two passengers inside Haceesa’s vehicle was also killed.
Authorities say Galvin Dennison, Haceesa’s front passenger, was airlifted to San Juan Regional Medical Center, where he remains incapacitated and on a ventilator.