Pottstown Mercury news

• Under fire, Obama retreats on birth control policy February 10, 2012
  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, struggling with a political storm that has threatened to keep building, announced a birth control compromise Friday that he said would both protect religious liberties and ensure that the nation´s women have access to free contraception.After weeks of growing controversy, Obama backed off a recently announced requirement […]
• Obama budget predicts 1.3 trillion deficit for 2012 February 10, 2012
  WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday confirmed a report that President Barack Obama´s new budget predicts a $1.3 trillion deficit for the ongoing fiscal year. The deficit would drop to $901 billion next year under the administration´s tax and spending policies.In his budget submission on Monday the president will also repeat his call to raise the top incom […]
• Mengel attorney says murder case should be dropped February 10, 2012
  Mengel attorney says murder case should be droppedBy MICHAEL P. RELLAHANmrellahan@journalregister.comWEST CHESTER - The attorney for Morgan Marie Mengel on Friday asked a Common Pleas Court judge to prohibit the prosecution from retrying his client on charges that she helped murder her husband, saying the prosecution had engaged in misconduct designed to pre […]
• Navy names ship for former congresswoman Giffords February 10, 2012
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Navy has named a ship for Gabrielle Giffords, the recently retired congresswoman from Arizona who is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head received in January 2011.In a ceremony at the Pentagon, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus unveiled an artist´s rendering of the USS Gabrielle Giffords.The littoral combat ship is among the Navy´s most v […]