Anheuser-Busch has sued InBev, calling the Belgian brewer's plan to buy the iconic U.S. brewer "illegal." Matt Sepic, of member station KWMU in St. Louis, says the suit seeks to bar InBev from soliciting support from Anheuser-Busch shareholders.

The private security firm has been accused of tax evasion and murder. Now, the city of San Diego is claiming that the company undermined the permitting process for a new building near the Mexican border.

The League of United Latin American Citizens — the nation's oldest civil rights organization — meets in Washington, D.C., this week, and presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain are slated to speak at the convention today. LULAC's national executive director, Brent Wilkes, discusses what he hopes to hear from candidates and the role Latino voters may play in elections this November.

In looking at the most recent Supreme Court term, journalist Jeffrey Toobin concludes that Justice Anthony Kennedy dominated its controversial decisions.

A bipartisan study group led by two former secretaries of state — James Baker and Warren Christopher — is proposing new war powers legislation. It would require the president to consult lawmakers before initiating combat lasting longer than a week, except in emergencies.

Some sheriff deputies in Fairfield County, Ohio, are using golf carts to save gas and money. Deputies in the community of Bremen (pop. 1,200) use the electric carts to patrol some neighborhoods. Deputies say the carts are not only more efficient, they also improve community-policing efforts. Mike Thompson reports from member station WOSU.

More than 360 inmates live in what was once a gymnasium. The prison no longer has room for them — or for sports and rehabilitative programs. With inmates packed so close all day, every day, racial segregation provides one of the few sources of order.

The Supreme Court is on its summer recess, but before the justices closed up shop, they decided a flurry of cases by 5-4 margins. Earlier in the term, they had achieved larger majorities in a series of cases. A look back at the court's term and at its prospects for the future.

As senators, Barack Obama and John McCain have long-held views on intelligence issues like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which sets down rules for wiretapping. As presidential candidates, though, the two are changing their perspectives.

The members of the FBI's Special Surveillance Group team, or SSGs, operate just below the radar — and that is where they are most effective.

OLYMPIA -- Washington drivers: Don't even think about reading, writing or sending a text message while behind the wheel. It could cost you $101.

OLYMPIA -- The chairwoman of the Senate Education Committee is in a standoff with Gov. Chris Gregoire over the possibility of delaying the reading and writing sections of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning as a graduation requirement.

State lawmakers said Monday there's no hope this session for a plan that would provide tax money for a new Seattle Sonics arena in Renton.

With only a handful of unresolved bills and the finishing touches on the budget left to complete, Democrats are on track to adjourn the 2007 legislative session Friday, two days ahead of schedule.

OLYMPIA -- The state Senate passed a measure Friday that would ban text messaging while driving.

The Legislature passed a bill Friday to allow labor unions to spend non-members' bargaining fees on political causes without first getting their permission.

Nearly 100,000 votes were invalidated in Washington's unpopular "pick-a-party" primary last September because voters didn't check a box noting their party preference.

An effort by environmentalists and residents of Maury Island to kill plans for a gravel mine beside the state's only aquatic reserve failed in Olympia.

A tax package for the Seattle Sonics' new arena finally got out of the gate Friday with an oral vote from the Senate Ways and Means Committee.

Washington voters will get to decide in November whether to allow simple-majority approval of property tax levies for local public schools.

OLYMPIA -- The state House passed a vast health care reform measure Thursday that supporters say would improve Washington's system, but opponents say would do nothing to help small businesses and families.

OLYMPIA -- After seven years of debate, the Legislature passed a measure that bans driving while talking on a hand-held cell phone.

OLYMPIA -- Gays and lesbians can't legally wed, but the Legislature took another step toward that Tuesday by passing domestic partnership legislation for same-sex couples.

OLYMPIA -- The Seattle Sonics scrambled Tuesday to modify their legislative request for tax money for a new arena in Renton -- less than two weeks before lawmakers are scheduled to leave town for the year.

OLYMPIA -- Lawmakers have voted to delay a requirement that students pass the math portion of Washington's high-stakes test in order to graduate from high school, but the test's future is still up in the air.

A procedural snag may drag down a proposal aimed at helping tenants displaced when developers convert their apartment buildings to condos.

OLYMPIA -- Washington would become the second state in the country to allow online voter registration under a measure passed Monday by the Legislature.

State Treasurer Michael Murphy rejects the finance plan for the proposed rebuilding of the Highway 520 bridge and won't bankroll the project unless lawmakers levy tolls on the Interstate 90 crossing as well.