Pottstown Mercury news

• 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 […]
• Untitled February 10, 2012
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A man from Uzbekistan pleaded guilty Friday to plotting with an Islamic terror organization in his home country to kill President Barack Obama with an automatic rifle he bought from an undercover federal agent in Alabama.Ulugbek Kodirov entered the plea during a hearing in Birmingham before U.S. District Judge Abdul K. Kallon, an Obama app […]