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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and National Rifle Association (NRA) have filed a motion in federal court to have both New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Warren Riley held in contempt. Their frustration stems from the continued failure of Nagin and Riley to comply with a federal injunction issued last September to halt illegal gun confiscations following Hurricane Katrina and return all seized firearms to their owners. SAF Founder Alan Gottlieb said the motion was made only after attorneys had exhausted all attempts to communicate and cooperate with the defendants, who have essentially ignored the federal court order....

A federal grand jury on Wednesday handed up an indictment charging Sussex County’s former Democratic Party boss, his stepfather and another man with embezzling $284,000 in health and other union funds from a now-defunct union local that the party boss founded and once ran. The five-count indictment charges Charles W. Cart and his stepfather, Charles H. Wiener, with conspiracy, mail fraud and money laundering in a scheme that drove the United Service Workers Local 16 to bankruptcy. A third man, Marvin Raphael, is also charged with conspiracy to embezzle from the union. The charges make no mention of Cart’s conduct...