By PAM LOUWAGIE, Minneapolis Star Tribune

LANSING, Iowa - In the rolling countryside along the Minnesota border, the lonesome, dusty roads seemingly outnumber the people. So when Tony and Gertie Monat were looking for a place to live 14 years ago, they were happy to find a house with a paved surface in front of it.

On a cold December morning five years ago, FBI agents knocked on the door of a basement apartment in northeast Minneapolis, and Mohamed Abdullah Warsame answered.
He let the agents in to talk, and later they took him to another location to talk more. He hasn't been home since.

DENVER -- Originally, the antiwar march that started after an afternoon concert at Denver's Coliseum this week wasn't a permitted parade.But when police got word Wednesday that thousands were expected to take to the streets in what had the potential to be the largest protest of the Democratic National Convention so far, they struck a deal with protest leaders.