Washington, D.C.

New stamps feature American Indian art

A series of stamps and postal cards featuring American Indian artwork will be issued next month by the Postal Service.

The stamps and cards will come with 10 different images, the post office said Wednesday. The 37-cent, self-adhesive stamps and 23-cent postal cards, pictured above, will be issued Aug. 21 in Santa Fe, N.M., and will go on sale nationwide the next Monday.

“These stamps represent a small sampling of the diverse ways that Native Americans created objects used in their everyday lives that were also extraordinary expressions of beauty, ” said Anita Bizzotto, Postal Service chief marketing officer and senior vice president.

Washington, D.C.

Anti-abortion group fights campaign finance

A Wisconsin anti-abortion group filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the federal campaign-finance law’s restrictions on advertising in the months leading up to an election.

The law prohibits interest groups from running corporate-funded radio and TV advertisements that mention a candidate’s name within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election. Wisconsin Right to Life says that unfairly restricts its free-speech rights.

The anti-abortion group wants to run commercials asking people to call Wisconsin Sens. Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl, both Democrats, urging them to oppose filibusters of President Bush’s judicial nominees. But because Feingold is running for re-election this year, the group is barred from mentioning his name.

Washington, D.C.

Lawsuit challenges American’s detention

An American jailed in Saudi Arabia for more than a year should have the same chance in U.S. courts to contest his detention that the Supreme Court has given foreign-born terrorism suspects, his lawyers said Wednesday.

A lawsuit filed in federal court contends the United States ordered Ahmed Abu Ali’s arrest in Saudi Arabia in an attempt to keep him beyond the reach of U.S. courts and in the hands of jailers who could abuse or torture him for information.

The suit is the latest fallout from the Supreme Court’s ruling last month that foreigners arrested abroad and held at a Navy prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, can use American courts to contest their detention.

Abu Ali, who was born in Houston, was arrested in June 2003 as he took a university exam in Saudi Arabia, his parents alleged in the suit filed on his behalf. The FBI has questioned Abu Ali at least twice, but he has not been charged with any crime or allowed to see a lawyer, the suit said.

New Jersey

Body identified as missing teen

A body unearthed from a shallow grave was identified as that of a 16-year-old girl believed murdered by a family acquaintance, authorities said Wednesday.

Officers with search dogs found the body Tuesday in the woods about two miles from Brittney Gregory’s house in Brick Township. She was last heard from July 11 when she called her mother.

Jack Fuller, 38, a friend of Brittney’s father, has been charged with murder and jailed on $1 million bail. He has a history of drug and theft-related arrests, and he got out of prison last year.

Investigators said the cause of death had not been established, and tests were being done to determine whether the girl had been sexually assaulted.