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UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- Richmond Myrick, the principal of Largo High School, is a registered Democrat in overwhelmingly Democratic Prince George's County next to Washington, D.C. He has not been active politically and is not recorded as having made any contributions to candidates for federal office. Yet recently, he stood in the parking lot of Prince George's Community College adjoining his school to introduce Republican Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, whom he has endorsed for the U.S. Senate. Myrick is African American, as are most students at Largo High. So is Steele. If enough non-political blacks follow Myrick's course, Steele...

WASHINGTON - Citing national security, GOP Rep. Sue Myrick of Charlotte introduced legislation Wednesday that would deny North Carolina $870 million in federal highway money unless it stops issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Specifically, Myrick's bill would target six states that still accept taxpayer ID numbers -- issued by the Internal Revenue Service -- as proof of identity or residence by persons seeking a driver's license. Besides North Carolina, Myrick's office said, those states are West Virginia, Illinois, Utah, New Mexico and Kentucky. But Myrick, who is looking at a possible run for governor in 2008, led off her...

(CBS 3) BENSALEM, PA The man who police say is responsible for killing a 14-year-old in a hit and run in Bensalem was arraigned on Monday. The deadly hit and run took the life of Rasheen Newkirk, a special needs student at Bensalem High School. Police say the driver responsible is Carlos Hunaga-Reyes who is in the country illegally. He is from Ecuador and does not have a license. “He is very nervous and very sorry for the accident,” said Spanish interpreter, Estrella Forge, adding, “He really feels bad about the family and he does not know what to do.”...

Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) let slip a bombshell disclosure at a news conference today to announce a bill targeting states that allow illegal aliens to get drivers licenses. During the Q&A with reporters, Myrick gave as a reason for proposing the bill the recent capture of three al Qaeda terrorists at the U.S.-Mexico border. A check of Google News turned up no references to this incident, yet Myrick stated this was a 'given fact.' No reporter asked her about this revelation, but it was noted at the end of a Charlotte Observer article by Tim Funk. Two Representatives from North...

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Relatives of a woman critically injured in an apparent drunken driving wreck two months ago said she is trying to awaken from a coma. Tina Gardner, 31, of Mount Holly, was a passenger in a Subaru station wagon driven by her husband, Scott Gardner that collided with a truck driven by Ramiro Gallegos on July 16 in coastal Brunswick County. Scott Gardner was killed in the accident. The couple's two young children suffered minor injuries. Tina Gardner suffered severe injuries and has been at WakeMed Health & Hospitals in Raleigh in a coma since. A family Web...

GASTONIA -- Congresswoman Sue Myrick will take her tough talk on illegal immigration to the people Tuesday night in a community meeting in Gastonia to discuss her proposed Scott Gardner Immigration Act. The proposal is named for the Gaston County man who police say was killed by an illegal immigrant driving drunk. Some critics of the proposed legislation worry about the impact it could have on local businesses and on a segment of the population. Some people 6NEWS spoke to Tuesday agree with Myrick that drunk driving has to be stopped. But they said Myrick is reaching too far in...

GASTONIA, N.C. -- Reacting to the death of a North Carolina man in drunken driving accident involving an illegal immigrant, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick on Monday unveiled a proposal that she said would make local police more responsible for tracking illegal immigrants, Myrick said.The legislation would require all state and local law enforcement agencies to report immigration status, deportation orders and failures to appear to the FBI's National Crime Information Center database within 30 days of the incident.

Congresswoman Sue Myrick unveiled the "Scott Gardner Immigration Act" Monday. The proposed legislation offers immigrations reforms that are more strict, more far reaching than almost anything that had been suggested before including requiring local cops in Charlotte and across the United States to be immigration police. Gardner was the Gaston County man killed this summer by a drunk driver. The suspect was in the country illegally. “You're drunk, you're driving, you're illegal, you're deported, period,” Myrick said. Myrick’s act would put people like alleged drunk driver, Ramiro Gallegos, an undocumented immigrant with five previous DUI charges into a national FBI...

Myrick to seek change in immigration system JIM MORRILL Staff Writer To help fix an immigration system she believes is broken, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick plans to introduce the "The Scott Gardner Act" when Congress returns in September.Gardner was the Mount Holly man killed last month in Brunswick County when his car was hit by a truck driven by an illegal Mexican immigrant. Ramiro Gallegos has been charged with drunken driving and murder.It was Gallegos' fifth impaired driving charge in five years. He was eligible for deportation each time he was arrested. Though he was entered in computers as an...

US Attorney General John Ashcroft Silent of North Carolina Representative Sue Myrick's (Rep.) Investigation Request for NC Childcare owners, Sandra & Hubert Rabon

(CNSNews.com)- President Bush wants 53.1 billion in federal taxes to spend on public education for fiscal year 2004 as part of the record $2.2 trillion budget he sent to Congress on Monday. Democrats are accusing the president of not spending enough.

<p>HIGH POINT, North Carolina (AP) -- An advocacy group criticized two North Carolina congressional members for comments they made about Arab-Americans, saying the remarks are part of "a very disturbing trend."</p> <p>Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., who heads the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, said on a radio call-in program Tuesday that he agreed with the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Coble made his remark when a caller suggested Arabs in the United States should be confined.</p>

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 — It was several steps short of a full-blown purge, but a recent move by the strong-minded Republican House leadership to consolidate its power over the next Congress still packed enough force to jolt Capitol Hill. In a display of discipline applauded by some of the most conservative House members, the leadership pulled in the reins on the 13 Republican members who control most discretionary federal spending, a group of subcommittee chairmen so powerful they are known as the Cardinals. From now on, House leaders said, the chairmen will be selected not by seniority but by J....