http://www.monroenews.com/news/local/www.monroenews.com stories: Localen-usFri, 24 May 2013 17:00:00 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/mccc-ready-black-president/Dr. Kojo Quartey says being a minority in a mostly white community doesn’t intimidate him.Ray KisonasFri, 24 May 2013 17:00:00 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/mccc-ready-black-president/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/city-moore-okla-creates-serve-moore-web-site/City of Moore, Okla., launches a Web site to coordinate tornado donation and relief efforts.Paula WethingtonFri, 24 May 2013 16:06:05 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/city-moore-okla-creates-serve-moore-web-site/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/frost-advisory-issued-early-saturday/A frost advisory has been posted for early Saturday morning, according to an announcement from the National Weather Service.Paula WethingtonFri, 24 May 2013 15:28:22 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/frost-advisory-issued-early-saturday/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/holiday-closings-listed-area/Area government offices and financial institutions will be closed Monday due to the Memorial Day holiday.Fri, 24 May 2013 15:00:00 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/holiday-closings-listed-area/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/billboards-feature-mich-woman-missing-1990/FOWLERVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Livingston County authorities plan to put up billboards featuring a Lansing-area woman who disappeared in 1990 and two other cold cases.THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFri, 24 May 2013 14:07:15 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/billboards-feature-mich-woman-missing-1990/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/i-5-bridge-collapses-nw-wash-people-water/MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — A truck hauling an oversized load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major route between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the interstate into the river below as the driver watched the structure collapse in his rearview mirror.THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFri, 24 May 2013 14:00:00 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/i-5-bridge-collapses-nw-wash-people-water/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/no-bail-pa-parents-faith-healing-death/PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia judge has ordered that a couple who believe in faith healing over medicine be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son.THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFri, 24 May 2013 13:41:29 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/no-bail-pa-parents-faith-healing-death/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/water-helps-fedco-bloom/Partly due to the world’s thirst for fresh water, Fluid Equipment Development Co. (FEDCO) has started work on an estimated $5 million expansion of its Monroe plant that will nearly double its size and create more jobs.Charles SlatFri, 24 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/water-helps-fedco-bloom/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/county-honor-fallen-veterans/Prayers, services and veterans’ parades will be held Monday in more than a half-dozen Monroe County communities in memory of men and women who have served in the armed forces.Dean CousinoFri, 24 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/county-honor-fallen-veterans/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/boy-scouts-approve-plan-accept-openly-gay-boys/GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's controversies are far from over.THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFri, 24 May 2013 09:36:52 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/boy-scouts-approve-plan-accept-openly-gay-boys/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/bill-would-let-michigan-install-red-light-cameras/LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's local governments would have the option to put cameras at intersections to spot drivers running red lights under proposed legislation in the state House.THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFri, 24 May 2013 05:59:21 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/bill-would-let-michigan-install-red-light-cameras/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/jurors-deadlock-jodi-arias-penalty-retrial-set/PHOENIX (AP) — Jurors who spent five months determining Jodi Arias' fate couldn't decide whether she should get life in prison or die for murdering her boyfriend, sending prosecutors back to the drawing board to rehash the shocking case of sex, lies and violence to another 12 people.THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFri, 24 May 2013 05:43:09 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/jurors-deadlock-jodi-arias-penalty-retrial-set/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/summer-park-st-marys-park-concert-series/More local acts than usual will make up this year’s free Sum­mer Entertainment in the Park series, which kicked off Thursday night. “There is a lot of talent right here, and we’d like to make sure we are highlighting our own talent as well as enjoying out-of-town bands,” said Loretta LaPointe, recreation manager for the Monroe Recreation Department, which sponsors the series.Suzanne Nolan WislerFri, 24 May 2013 05:39:24 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/summer-park-st-marys-park-concert-series/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/irs-replaces-official-who-revealed-targeting/WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service official who led the unit that targeted tea party groups and publicly disclosed the activity has been replaced, making her the third top IRS official moved aside since the episode was revealed two weeks ago. THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFri, 24 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/24/irs-replaces-official-who-revealed-targeting/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/23/michigan-panel-oks-3-pct-raise-k-12-schools/Michigan's public schools would get about 3 percent more and it's community colleges and universities about 2 percent more in overall funding next fiscal year under measures approved by Republican-led budget panels Thursday.THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThu, 23 May 2013 23:05:28 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/23/michigan-panel-oks-3-pct-raise-k-12-schools/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/23/city-council-okays-lavender-st-work/Work is under way to replace pavement and install a storm sewer on a stretch of Lavender St. between Calkins St. and Hendricks Dr. as part of a reconstruction project for the street.Charles SlatThu, 23 May 2013 17:00:00 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/23/city-council-okays-lavender-st-work/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/23/michigan-joblessness-falls-06-points-april/LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan says that the seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate is down 0.6 percentage points statewide and in most major labor markets. THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThu, 23 May 2013 16:10:38 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/23/michigan-joblessness-falls-06-points-april/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/23/michigan-budget-panel-oks-fund-boost-colleges/LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's community colleges and universities could receive roughly 2 percent more in overall funding next fiscal year. THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThu, 23 May 2013 15:24:12 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/23/michigan-budget-panel-oks-fund-boost-colleges/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/23/obama-defends-drone-strikes-says-no-cure-all/WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged the targeted strikes are no "cure-all" and said he is haunted by the civilians unintentionally killed.THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThu, 23 May 2013 15:21:28 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/23/obama-defends-drone-strikes-says-no-cure-all/http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/23/man-shot-fbi-had-ties-boston-bombing-suspect/ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Chechen immigrant shot to death in Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that officials believe may have been connected to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, authorities said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThu, 23 May 2013 15:19:01 -0400http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/23/man-shot-fbi-had-ties-boston-bombing-suspect/