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ALTON, Texas - The police chief in this South Texas town has been charged with two counts of sexual assault for allegedly violating male employees who were passed out at his home during parties. Jose Luis Vela, 42, was being held in the Hidalgo County Jail on $200,000 bond after his Thursday arraignment on the two felony charges. The city has placed him on paid leave pending the outcome of the case. "This is the first time I've ever heard of a chief of a police arrested for sexually assaulting his employees," said Sheriff Lupe Trevino, whose office started an...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Bill Clinton reveled in the spotlight on Thursday as political friend and foe alike, including two presidents named Bush, helped him dedicate his $165 million presidential library, which highlights his achievements with a little bit of Monica Lewinsky mixed in. Only 91-year-old Gerald Ford was among former presidents absent, a group that grew smaller last summer with the death of Ronald Reagan. Democrat Jimmy Carter, 80, and Republican George Bush, 80, and his son, President Bush, and their wives, attended a rain-soaked ceremony on the bank of the Arkansas River. The event featured 30,000 of...

The more than 4,500 people who crammed into the field house at Hamilton College on Tuesday got to see the new model Bill Clinton, a former president who says he now spends more time looking at the trees. Heart bypass surgery can do that to a person, the 58-year-old Democrat explained. For eight years, of course, it was Clinton's job to see the forest through the trees. The Franklin Roosevelt-inspired 22nd Amendment meant that was all the time Clinton would have in the Oval office, unless Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton takes him back there as "first husband." She is considered...

  Supreme Court: Gay Sex Not AdulteryDecision Comes In Divorce AppealPOSTED: 11:55 a.m. EST November 7, 2003CONCORD, N.H. -- If a married woman has sex with another woman, is that adultery? The New Hampshire Supreme Court says no. The court was asked to review a divorce case in which a husband accused his wife of adultery after she had a sexual relationship with another woman. Any finding that one spouse is at fault in the break-up of a marriage can change how the court divides the couple's property. Robin Mayer, of Brownsville, Vt., was named in the divorce proceedings of...