Anger over Obama's meeting with US governor

President Barack Obama's planned meeting with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer faces a protest from opponents of Arizona's new immigration law.

Opponents say the law, which Brewer signed, is discriminatory and that Obama isn't doing enough on immigration reform.

Brewer is to meet Obama at the White House on Thursday, and opponents said they will hold a demonstration there to denounce the Republican governor, "the discriminatory Arizona law she signed" and "President Obama's halfhearted leadership on immigration reform."

Supporters of an overhaul of U.S. immigration law have accused Obama of not pushing Congress hard enough to pass …

Police: report

Mingo man accused of

stabbing three people

VARNEY - A Mingo County man is accused of stabbing his wife andtwo other people who tried to break up a domestic dispute, a MingoCounty dispatcher said.

The fight occurred about 10 p.m. Saturday, the dispatcher saidSunday.

The woman was flown by helicopter to Cabell-Huntington Hospital inHuntington with life-threatening injuries, the dispatcher said. Thetwo bystanders received minor injuries.

The dispatcher said she had no information about the identity ofthe man or the woman.

Calls to the Mingo County Sheriff's Department were …

Gore, Schwarzenegger push US candidate forum on climate change

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will take part in a bipartisan presidential candidate forum on energy and climate change next month in New Hampshire, shortly ahead of the state's first-in-the-United States primary.

Gore, who has been the target of several Democratic grassroots efforts to persuade him to run for president, has said he has no plans to become a candidate, but has not firmly shut the door to a bid. Schwarzenegger, a Republican and native of Austria who is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution from becoming president, had previously signaled his intention to play a role in the 2008 contest by drawing attention …

Bar owner, patrons robbed by 3 men on South Side

Several patrons and the 71-year-old female owner of a cocktail lounge were robbed by three men early Friday in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side.

Three men, one of whom was armed, entered Frances' Lounge, 307 E. 75th St. about 1 a.m., lined several patrons up and took their money and other belongings, Chicago Police said. No one was injured and no shots were fired.

Frances Mitchell, the owner, said 11 patrons were robbed, including her 38-year-old son.

She said the robbery shook her up, especially after she was recently mugged and beaten while walking with her grandson.

Mitchell, who has owned the bar for nearly 44 years, said she was sitting …

AM/C future depends great deal on Boston

Strange, but true: the date and field of the next America'sMarathon/Chicago will be determined in large part by what happens atMonday's 91st Boston Marathon.

The AM/C runner recruitment campaign normally starts at Boston.Not so this year. The Chicago race won't even have a booth atBoston's heavily-attended Runners' Expo.

But Bob Bright, executive director, and Pete Kozura, director,will represent AM/C at Boston.

"My going is largely tradition," Bright said. "There is a lotof politics involved." Next year there might be even more, if AM/Cswitches to a May date - a move possibly necessitated by the race'schange in sponsorship.

Both Bright …

Networks Differ With Respect to Previews

NEW YORK - For many of the broadcast networks' new fall shows, interested fans don't have to wait until they actually appear on television. How old-fashioned.

Many are already available online. The networks are taking different approaches to previewing their shows: CBS and Fox are targeting specific shows, ABC is keeping its shows offline and NBC is doing everything short of coming to your home and setting up your computer.

It's all a brave new world for the networks, who are still operating on guesswork about whether the Internet can help make hits.

"The new world order demands a distribution that is anywhere, anytime, anyhow," said Vivi Zigler, executive vice …

Bungle in the jungle as 'I'm a Celebrity' debuts

Viewers could be saying "Get me out of here!" after the premiere of a new season of NBC's reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!"

The nightly competition show originates from the Costa Rican jungle, with semi-famous people vying for food, supplies and money for their favorite charities _ not to mention coronation as King or Queen of the Jungle.

But judging from Monday's debut, most of the action is bickering and eating bugs.

No one was eliminated, depriving viewers of that small measure of gratification.

"The only thing that's certain is, YOU are in control of their lives," co-host Damien …