The Defense Department announced 8 new U.S. casualties in Afghanistan over the Memorial Day weekend, bringing the total number of U.S. casualties in the almost-decade-long war in that country to 1,503.

Twenty-eight U.S. service personnel have died in Afghanistan in May. These heroes hailed from all regions of America, calling 17 states and Puerto Rico their homes.

933 of the 1,503 U.S. casualties over the course of the Afghanistan war have come since President Barack Obama was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2009. That equals 62 percent of the total.

All warnings of the end of the world have apparently been "raptured" off the homepage of a doomsday preacher who wrongly predicted the return of Jesus over the weekend, and made a new prediction tonight that the end would now come on Oct. 21 of this year.

For many months, Oakland, Calif.-based Family Radio and its main voice Harold Camping had been thundering warnings that Judgment Day was to take place May 21, 2011, and that it would be a certainty with "no Plan B."

The site even had a countdown on the front page of its website, listing the number of days left until the return of the living God:

For the first time in more than three years, dozens of day laborers are no longer gathering to wait for work in the parking lot at Culpeper Town Square along Bus. 29. That’s because Centro Properties, the national company that owns the shopping center,

Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Tuesday he has every right to crack down on day laborers in Phoenix. "I happen to be the county sheriff. I think Phoenix happens to be in the county. I go into Phoenix all the time to do investigations," Arpaio told FM News/Talk 92

Faith-based leaders plan to push ahead with plans to build a day labor center in northwest Houston, despite a strong showing by opponents of illegal immigration at a town hall meeting Tuesday night.

LOS ANGELES – Their faces reflect how uncomfortable it is for them to talk about. On street corners where day laborers congregate, it’s no longer as easy to find work – but there are plenty of offers of sex for money. There is also a high incidence