BOISE, Idaho U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, is reconsidering his decision to resign Sept. 30 after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting and may still fight for his Senate seat, his spokesman said Tuesday evening.
“It’s not such a foregone conclusion anymore, that the only thing he could do was resign,” said Craig spokesman Sidney Smith.
Craig was a no-show Tuesday as Congress reconvened after a summer break and it wasn’t clear whether he’ll return at all since deciding to resign over his guilty plea in a sex sting this summer at the Minneapolis airport.
Billy Martin, one of Craig’s lawyers, said the senator’s arrest in an undercover police operation in men’s room of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport “raises very serious constitutional questions.”
Craig contended throughout last week he had done nothing wrong and said his only mistake was pleading guilty on Aug. 1 to a misdemeanor charge.
Alabama: Caffeine in soft drinks
A new study shows that citrus-flavored sodas often have a higher caffeine content than the most popular colas. The research at Auburn University also found that caffeine content can vary widely from brand to brand, and even within a brand. Caffeine content of well-known national brands include: Coca-Cola (33.9 milligrams), Diet Pepsi (36.7 milligrams), Pepsi (38.9 milligrams), Dr Pepper (42.6 milligrams), Diet Dr Pepper (44.1 milligrams), Diet Coke (46.3 milligrams), Mountain Dew (54.8 milligrams), and Diet Mountain Dew (55.2 milligrams) and Vault Zero (74 milligrams).
Louisiana: Gov. Ray Nagin?
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin could be days away from announcing he will run for governor of Louisiana. A member of Nagin’s inner circle told the Associated Press last month that the second-term Democratic mayor planned to announce a run for governor shortly after Labor Day.
Mass.: Hand allegedly a trophy
Two friends accused of beating two homeless men to death with baseball bats, then using one man’s severed hand to brag about the killings at a party, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder. Eric Snow, 25, and James Winquist, 23, were ordered held without bail at their arraignment in Hingham.
W. Virginia: Cave-in kills miner
A collapsing roof at a Bronzite Mine southwest of Charleston killed coal miner Brent Reynolds, 35, of Virgie, Ky., on Monday, the second mine fatality in the area in a month. Nationwide, 17 coal miners died in the first 712 months of this year, not counting the six miners missing and presumed dead in Utah’s Crandall Canyon mine, according to data from the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Texas: Davy Crockett’s last letter
Just two months before he perished defending the Alamo, Davy Crockett described in a letter to his daughter and son-in-law the land he treasured enough to die for its independence. The Texas Historical Commission announced Tuesday it bought the letter for $490,000 from Simpson Galleries, a Houston fine arts auctioneer. The letter is believed to be the last that Crockett penned before he and about 200 other Alamo defenders were killed in 1836.
R.I.: Cat-kidnap blackmail threat
A North Kingstown man has been charged with extorting more than $20,000 from his elderly mother by repeatedly threatening to kidnap her beloved cat and demanding ransom, police said. Garry Lamar, 47, was arrested Friday and released on $200 bail. He has been ordered to stay away from his 78-year-old mother, Mary Lamar Grancher.
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