WASHINGTON — Private property owners’ concerns will take a back seat to the Bush administration’s plan to finish a U.S.-Mexico border wall this year, the White House said Tuesday.

LAS VEGAS — Independent truck drivers around the country put it in park to protest record high fuel prices.There’s no organized protest in Las Vegas, but some Valley truckers said they support the tr…

WASHINGTON — A legislative effort to address the nation’s home foreclosure crisis moved forward in the Senate Tuesday as Democratic and GOP leaders defused a potential filibuster.Majority Leader Harr…

Tue, Apr 1, 2008 (8:42 p.m.) Some of the thousands of mobile homes stored for possible use by disaster victims have formaldehyde levels rivaling those of housing already deemed unsafe for victims of …

Tue, Apr 1, 2008 (8:42 p.m.) With four bullets still in his body, a survivor of the 50-shot police barrage that killed an unarmed groom-to-be took the witness stand Tuesday and belittled the undercov…

Tue, Apr 1, 2008 (8:42 p.m.) The military is using the FBI to skirt legal restrictions on domestic surveillance to obtain private records of Americans’ Internet service providers, financial instituti…

Tue, Apr 1, 2008 (8:42 p.m.) A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks inc…

: I'm losing money, it's hard to make ends meet now. One driver told us 5 years ago, he was averaging 24 rides per day, now he says he's lucky to get between 16 and 18. The Taxicab Authori…

Mitch Truswell reporting Two of the supervisors accused of allowing substandard work at the Harrah's and Rio hotels are about to face some serious charges. The two men were due in court Tuesday. D…

Tue, Apr 1, 2008 (8:42 p.m.) A judge who wrote threatening letters to the publisher of the Boston Herald after he won a $2 million libel judgment against the newspaper should be publicly censured, su…