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Sacramento, CA – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law legislation that will help law enforcement officials track down and apprehend armed criminals and other prohibited persons. AB 962 by Assembly Member Kevin DeLeon (D-Los Angeles) had the support of law enforcement officials from across the state and was modeled after successful city ordinances, including the cities of Sacramento and Los Angeles. AB 962 was the Brady Campaign´s top priority bill in this year´s legislature. The law requires maintenance of purchaser records by handgun ammunition vendors. Local law enforcement can use these records to find illegal guns. "The purchase records will...

MERRIMACK — The attorney representing the illegal immigrant charged by New Ipswich police for criminal trespassing will argue state law is being misused and the Vienna Convention was violated when her client was not put in touch with the Mexican Consulate. During an interview in her Merrimack office, Attorney Mona Movafaghi said the Vienna Convention guaranteed the right of her client to contact the Mexican Consulate, but police failed to provide the opportunity. New Ipswich Police Chief W. Garrett Chamberlain charged Jorge Mora Ramirez, 21, with criminal trespass and operating a vehicle without a valid license on April 15. Ramirez...

GAZA CITY: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat defied on Wednesday a suggestion by Israel's new foreign minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that the Jewish state might use the cover of a US war on Iraq to deport him. "No one can expel me from my homeland," Arafat told journalists in Ramallah after receiving a delegation from the Orthodox Christian patriarchate from nearby Jerusalem. "They must remember that I am president Arafat," he was quoted by the official WAFA news agency as saying. Before he was even sworn in as foreign minister, Netanyahu repeated on Tuesday his long-standing enmity for Arafat, saying he regretted...

Yasser Arafat called on Christians Thursday to join Muslims in rejecting a US congressional demand that Jerusalem be recognized as Israel’s capital amid widespread fury in the Islamic world over the latest affront. “No one can touch Jerusalem,” the Palestinian leader said in a meeting with representatives of the Palestinian Christian community, with which he has close ties, at his wrecked headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. “I call on Muslim and Christian nations to act against any decision attacking (the status) of Jerusalem,” Arafat also told reporters after the meeting, although he did not elaborate any further...