Criminals arrested with firearms now are facing time in federal prisons under a program aimed at curbing gun violence in the state.

The Almanac 
The weekly UPI Almanac package for March 5-11, 2007.

Congress inching closer to immigration reform, lawmakers say 
WASHINGTON — Unable last year to bridge a wide gulf on immigration, the House and Senate need to quickly revive work on an issue important to Arkansas workers, families and employers, lawmakers said Wednesday.

Distrust, fear a year after Iraq mosque bombing 
The Samarra attack has led to a life that’s ‘unbearable,’ Iraqis say. BAGHDAD On a gray, drizzly day in the mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Karada, one of this capital’s last bastions of relative stability, sheepherder Ahmed Jassim Safee reflected on how life has changed in the year since sectarian warfare erupted with the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra.
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