WASHINGTON - April 19, 2010 - Amerika's “Great Compromiser” Henry Clay called government “the great trust,” but most Amerikans today have little faith in Washington's ability to deal with the nation's problems.

GRAVELLY POINT PARK, Virginia (PNN) - April 19, 2010 - Several dozen gun-toting activists rallied Monday in a small national park near Washington, D.C. to issue dire warnings that the United States could face civil war unless big government stops eating away at their rights.

CHICAGO, Illinois - April 17, 2010 - Minutes after a suburban Chicago police officer was charged with striking a motorist with his baton, prosecutors handed out copies of a video showing the beating - taken by a dashboard camera on the officer's own squad car.

PHIADELPHIA, Pennsylvania - April 16, 2010 - A Philadelphia-area school district secretly took "thousands" of webcam photos of students in their homes and tracked their web site visits and parts of online chats through spy software installed on the students' school-issued laptops, a Pennsylvania court heard yesterday.

CHEYENNE, Wyoming - April 15, 2010 - A Wal-Mart truck driver kidnapped and accosted by a Wymoing state trooper who considered killing him has sued the trooper and several other state officials.

TRACY CITY, Tennessee - April 15, 2010 - A dead man was elected mayor of a small Tennessee town eager to oust a woman who'd been appointed to the job after the previous mayor died, local media reports.

Carl Robin Geary, Sr., a local alderman known for straight talk and always wearing overalls, was a candidate for mayor when he died of a heart attack on March 10.

JACKSON, New Jersey - April 15, 2010 - Sensors installed in the Bella Terra assisted-living community in Jackson, New Jersey can immediately alert staff of out-of-pattern behavior that could help residents who've suffered falls or health issues.