September 9, 2013 Recall Fights in Colorado Grow Fiercer in Last Days By JACK HEALY PUEBLO, Colo. — At first, Angela Giron was surprised to find herself in the cross hairs of a campaign to recall Colorado lawmakers who had supported a slate of new gun-control laws. She had won her State Senate seat by a 10-point margin. Her Southern Colorado district is heavily Hispanic and reliably Democratic, hardly ideal terrain to oust a lawmaker with Mexican roots whose mother once worked picking beans. "I thought, what the heck?" Ms. Giron said. "Why would they do that?" But over the summer, Ms. Giron found herself at the center of a citizen-led recall campaign heavily financed by the National Rifle Association and other conservative groups and Second Amendment advocates, who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on advertisements and mailings to oust her  and a fellow Demo...

Center-right bloc takes power in Norway Reuters  |  Sep 10, 2013, 04.11 AM IST in Share 1  Comments More A A READ MORE  Norwegian Election | Norway's Opposition Conservatives | Norway Election | Erna Solberg "The voters had the choice between 12 years of red-green government or a new government with new ideas and new solutions," Solberg said. OSLO, Norway:  Conservative Party leader   Erna Solberg , nicknamed "Iron Erna" , will become Norway's new prime minister as the leader of a center-right coalition government likely including an anti-immigration party.  Preliminary results from the oil-rich Nordic country's parliamentary elections shows  the Conservative Party  got 26.8 percent of votes, the best result for the party in 28 years. Solberg, who will be Norway's second female prime minister after  Gro Harlem Brundtland , thanked the voters Monday for a historic victory.  "The voters had the choice between 12 years of red-green gov...

Man indicted on homicide charge after DUI video confession By  Marlei Martinez  and  David Simpson , CNN updated 11:41 AM EDT, Mon September 9, 2013 Drunk driving confession goes viral STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW:  An Ohio grand jury has indicted Matthew Cordle In an online video, he confessed that his drunken driving killed a man in June Prosecutor: There will be no leniency based on the video Defense: Cordle wanted to raise drunken driving awareness, give closure to victim's family (CNN)  -- A driver who confessed in an online video that his drunken driving killed a man now faces a homicide charge. A grand jury in Franklin County, Ohio, indicted Matthew Cordle on Monday on charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, more than two months after the deadly wrong-way collision. The 22-year-old's online admission that he was to blame has been watched more than a million times on YouTube. Now, Ohio's legal system must de...