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Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:56:41 GMT TACOMA, Wash. -- More than a thousand people mourned the deaths of Charlie and Braden Powell at a public funeral Saturday, nearly a week after the young boys' father killed them and himself in a gas-fueled blaze. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006670780139/ 21006670780139 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:58:08 GMT ATLANTA -- Atlanta police have arrested a suspect in the beating of a 20-year-old gay man that was captured on a widely viewed video. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006670788859/ 21006670788859 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:56:01 GMT SPOKANE, Wash. -- Police said Saturday that they are looking for a 22-year-old man who is a "person of interest" in the deaths of a woman and two children whose bodies were found in a home in north Spokane. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006670776176/ 21006670776176 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:06:16 GMT ATLANTA -- Passengers on an American Airlines flight from Miami to Detroit have completed their journey hours after the plane made an emergency landing in Kentucky. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006670837638/ 21006670837638 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:02:30 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Human remains uncovered in Northern California with the help of a convicted serial killer have been preliminarily identified as one of his victims, and authorities continued to search another site for the remains of as many as 10 people. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006670815051/ 21006670815051 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:57:15 GMT WALPOLE, N.H. -- A teen who shot himself in the face in a crowded elementary school cafeteria in southwestern New Hampshire had residents Saturday asking how he got a gun into school and expressing concern for his classmates. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006670783557/ 21006670783557 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:01:26 GMT JACKSON, Miss. -- The parents of two boys who say the teens were punched during high school baseball hazing rituals say they're being victimized again -- this time because they aren't being allowed to play sports after switching schools. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006670808641/ 21006670808641 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:04:56 GMT BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- Max Pons is already anticipating the anxiety he'll feel when the heavy steel gate shuts behind him, leaving his home isolated on a strip of land between America's border fence and the violence raging across the Rio Grande in Mexico. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006670829634/ 21006670829634 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:02:37 GMT LONGMONT, Colo. -- Satellite image provider DigitalGlobe Inc. has released photos that it says show Syrian army tanks and other armored vehicles in the city of Homs. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006662175718/ 21006662175718 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:00:46 GMT WASHINGTON -- The nation's Roman Catholic bishops are expressing grave doubts about President Barack Obama's revamped health care rule on birth control. They say it raises serious moral concerns and lacks clear protections for certain employers, insurers and individuals. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006662164625/ 21006662164625 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:06:02 GMT WALPOLE, N.H. -- A 14-year-old shot himself in the face in a New Hampshire elementary school cafeteria filled with dozens of students eating lunch, officials said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006662196277/ 21006662196277 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:07:20 GMT SAN DIEGO -- To the young women who got into trouble partying in San Diego's popular downtown Gaslamp Quarter, officer Anthony Arevalos offered a way out: In return for sex, he would look the other way on traffic infractions. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006662204031/ 21006662204031 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:08:25 GMT NEW YORK -- A mother who tossed her toddler into the Hudson River after suddenly spiraling into psychosis can return to her native India and her children, a judge said Friday after she reached a rare form of agreement with prosecutors to resolve her attempted-murder case. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006662210557/ 21006662210557 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:04:59 GMT LOS ANGELES -- DNA taken from the mouth of a former police detective so closely matched saliva from a bite mark on the arm of a murdered woman that no one else could have produced that genetic similarity, a criminalist told jurors Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006662189999/ 21006662189999 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:13:26 GMT DETROIT -- A Nigerian who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane began his path to terrorism with a text message from a top al-Qaida figure in Yemen, the U.S. government said Friday in a court filing that discloses new details about their relationship. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006662240617/ 21006662240617 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:53:37 GMT LaPLACE, La. -- Authorities say five people were killed when a driver going the wrong way crashed into another vehicle on Interstate 10 outside New Orleans. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006657441778/ 21006657441778 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:03:33 GMT WASHINGTON -- Gabrielle Giffords, the recently retired congresswoman from Arizona who was shot in an assassination attempt 13 months ago, returned to Washington Friday for double honors. The Navy named a ship after her and she saw President Barack Obama sign the last piece of legislation she authored into law. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006660381334/ 21006660381334 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:03:35 GMT PHOENIX -- A fight broke out during a funeral at a Phoenix church after a friend of the departed punched a man who had reportedly been fighting with the deceased before he died. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006662181591/ 21006662181591 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:11:54 GMT SAN ANTONIO -- A federal court sent a message Friday that the Texas primaries shouldn't be pushed past April because of bitterly disputed voting maps and ordered the state and minority rights groups to spend the weekend back at the bargaining table. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006662231474/ 21006662231474 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:12:45 GMT DALLAS -- When 5,700 fifth-grade boys in Dallas' public schools recently went to see a movie about black fighter pilots in World War II, the girls stayed in school and saw a different movie instead. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006662236582/ 21006662236582 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:03:03 GMT SEATTLE -- Josh Powell told his 7-year-old son he had a "surprise" for him moments before attacking and killing him and his 5-year-old brother, according to the state social worker who was supposed to supervise a visit between Powell and his sons. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006657498379/ 21006657498379 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:56:27 GMT CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend is nearing the end of its first week. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006657458781/ 21006657458781 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:09:12 GMT CHICAGO -- Chicago's city clerk says she will buy a $1,000 savings bond for the boy whose winning design for the 2012-13 vehicle registration sticker was scrapped because some believe it may depict gang signs. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006657535269/ 21006657535269 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:04:49 GMT NEW YORK -- The father of an admitted terrorist faced up to 40 years in prison at sentencing Friday after his conviction on charges that he destroyed evidence and lied to investigators to cover up his son's plot to attack the New York City subways in 2009 as one of a trio of suicide bombers. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006657508973/ 21006657508973 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:18:44 GMT REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Eight school district employees were placed on leave during an investigation of their handling of allegations that a special education teacher kicked and slapped students. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006659752470/ 21006659752470 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:24:54 GMT SAN DIEGO -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is asking the Marine Corps to take another look at its investigation that concluded the Marine snipers who posed with a logo resembling a Nazi symbol should not be disciplined. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006659789433/ 21006659789433 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:20:12 GMT ALBANY, N.Y. -- Three Democratic state senators want an independent inspector to oversee the New York Police Department after what they called several abuses, including reports of widespread surveillance of Muslims and the crackdown on Occupy Wall Street protesters. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006659761230/ 21006659761230 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:25:28 GMT PITTSBURGH -- A married father used phony Facebook profiles to pose as two different Florida surfers to solicit sexually graphic messages and photos from seven teenage girls in western Pennsylvania, and two of the girls eventually agreed to meet for sex with the surfers' middle-aged "friend" -- yet another fake persona he used, the state attorney general said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006659792842/ 21006659792842 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:19:41 GMT NEW YORK -- Lawyers for a Pakistani scientist serving an 86 year prison sentence for shooting at U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan told an appeals court Friday that she was so mentally ill, she should have been barred from testifying at her own trial. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006659758137/ 21006659758137 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:04 GMT NEW YORK -- A woman who snatched a baby from a New York City hospital in 1987, then raised the child as her own daughter, has pleaded guilty to kidnapping. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006659796437/ 21006659796437 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:02:10 GMT HONOLULU -- West James beamed as he showed off a new entry in his journal: "I survived a dangerous rescue." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006657493087/ 21006657493087 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:54:30 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- One of four Connecticut police officers accused of abusing and harassing Latinos is asking a federal judge to dismiss the charges because of the publicity the case has received. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006657447037/ 21006657447037 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:55:21 GMT OZARK, Mo. -- After nearly two decades as a fugitive, a British man suspected of driving off with an armored car loaded with cash worth about $1.5 million has been captured in southwest Missouri, where he appeared in federal court wearing blue jeans and asking for a court-appointed defense attorney because he didn't have enough money to hire one. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006657452110/ 21006657452110 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:03:55 GMT SAN DIEGO -- A leading Jewish organization and others outraged by a photo showing Marine snipers in Afghanistan posing with a logo resembling a notorious Nazi symbol are demanding President Barack Obama order an investigation and hold the troops accountable. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006657503526/ 21006657503526 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:00:23 GMT BOSTON -- Troy Schoeller admits he could have chosen his words more carefully when he talked to a reporter about bodies he worked on as an embalmer at a funeral home. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006657482347/ 21006657482347 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:57:44 GMT LOS ANGELES -- The former third-grade teacher charged with committing lewd acts on students was paid $40,000 to drop an appeal of his firing, a newspaper reported Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006657466484/ 21006657466484 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:43:46 GMT SAN DIEGO -- The Marine Corps on Thursday once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS -- a special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006653422626/ 21006653422626 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:45:36 GMT OZARK, Mo. -- A British armored car guard suspected of driving off with a fortune worth $1.5 million back in 1993 has been captured in rural Missouri, where he had been working as a cable guy and raising a son who apparently knew nothing of his father's past. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006653433644/ 21006653433644 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:30:11 GMT WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Thursday declared that 10 states are free from the No Child Left Behind law, allowing them to scrap some of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education. In exchange, the states are promising higher standards and more creative ways to measure what students are learning. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006649021150/ 21006649021150 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:42:30 GMT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- An Uzbekistan national charged with threatening the life of President Barack Obama is now accused of providing aid to terrorism. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006653415091/ 21006653415091 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:43:03 GMT KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii -- A military jury on Thursday found a Marine sergeant not guilty after authorities charged him with hazing a lance corporal who later committed suicide in Afghanistan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006653418357/ 21006653418357 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:40:17 GMT CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The romantic rival of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend testified Thursday that he saw the defendant with his arm around her neck months before her death. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006653401727/ 21006653401727 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:46:47 GMT NEW YORK -- A prosecutor in a case against a North Carolina woman accused of snatching a newborn from a New York City hospital more than two decades ago says she will plead guilty Friday to criminal charges. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006653440732/ 21006653440732 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:41:38 GMT MILWAUKEE -- A federal judge ruled Thursday that two claims could move forward against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee for alleged sexual abuse by clergy, laying the groundwork for about 570 claims to follow. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006653409855/ 21006653409855 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:40:57 GMT HONOLULU -- Three family members attempting their first voyage across the Pacific in a sailboat were left adrift in rough seas hundreds of miles from land when their mast broke in high winds. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006653405760/ 21006653405760 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:39:05 GMT DES MOINES, Iowa -- Wild arm swings, sharp robotic turns, pulsing fist pumps. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006653394529/ 21006653394529 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:37:47 GMT CHICAGO -- Chicago's city clerk says she will buy a $1,000 savings bond for the boy whose winning design for the 2012-13 vehicle registration sticker was scrapped because some believe it may depict gang signs. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006653386732/ 21006653386732 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:44:40 GMT JERSEY SHORE, Pa. -- A couple in central Pennsylvania found a very unusual critter in their backyard -- a purple squirrel. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006653428059/ 21006653428059 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:23:44 GMT WASHINGTON -- Home-brewed coffee lovers, take note: More than a million coffee makers are being recalled after dozens of reports of the brewers spraying hot liquid, coffee grounds or tea leaves onto people. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006648982487/ 21006648982487 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:26:38 GMT MILLER PLACE, N.Y. -- The family of one of four people killed during a New York pharmacy holdup says it's filing a lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies that make oxycodone and the doctor who allegedly prescribed painkillers to the convicted murderer. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006648999854/ 21006648999854 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:36:49 GMT JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. -- Bret Baker welcomes customers aboard a Boeing 757 wearing a three-piece suit and a sparkling smile. His manner is all Friendly Skies but his pocket patch bears the seal of the Vice President of the United States, signaling that this is government business. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006649060959/ 21006649060959 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:52:18 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to review the first lower-cost versions of biotech drugs, expensive medications which have never before faced generic competition. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006651313861/ 21006651313861 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:39:18 GMT WASHINGTON -- Pentagon rules are catching up a bit with reality after a decade when women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006649075815/ 21006649075815 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:38:34 GMT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The last time same-sex marriage was debated in the state Capitol, the Legislature's sole gay lawmaker watched as his colleagues passed the state's version of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1998 banning gay marriage. Fourteen years after that "lonely moment," Sen. Ed Murray stood in the wings as lawmakers approved his bill allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006649071460/ 21006649071460 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:07:58 GMT LOS ANGELES -- The driver of a stolen car abandoned the vehicle early Thursday during a short police chase and took refuge on rooftops in Westwood, taunting officers during a continuing standoff that has lasted for hours, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006651047825/ 21006651047825 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:02 GMT OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has issued a 30-day stay of execution to a death-row inmate scheduled to die next week for the 1986 shooting death of the mother of his two children. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006651036275/ 21006651036275 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:34:53 GMT TACOMA, Wash. -- Nearly eight minutes elapsed between when a social worker called 911 to report that Josh Powell's children were in danger and when sheriff's deputies were dispatched, emergency call logs show. The home was a gas-fueled inferno - with Powell and his two young boys inside - by the time officers were on their way. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006649049353/ 21006649049353 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:33:57 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Sinister allegations of abuse by at least two teachers in a Los Angeles school have forced awkward discussions as parents warn youngsters that people they trust -- pastors, teachers, even relatives -- might do things that could hurt them. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006649043745/ 21006649043745 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:13:24 GMT TACOMA, Wash. -- Emergency call logs show that nearly eight minutes elapsed between the time a social worker called 911 to report that Josh Powell's children were in danger and when deputies were dispatched, and it took another 14 minutes for a deputy to arrive on scene. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006644960442/ 21006644960442 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:14:24 GMT MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. -- A man killed in a gunfight with security officers at a courthouse Wednesday was convicted a week ago of menacing the city mayor's daughter and was angry at the mayor, according to authorities and court documents. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006644966435/ 21006644966435 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:03:03 GMT DUQUESNE, Pa. -- A man has been arrested following a December Sweet 16 party shooting that killed one person and injured seven others at a western Pennsylvania home. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006644898394/ 21006644898394 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:17:27 GMT NEW YORK -- A judge on Wednesday upheld the jury conviction of a Russian arms dealer known as the Merchant of Death, but said his prison conditions seemed "harsh" and "brutal." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006644984762/ 21006644984762 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:58:55 GMT EUGENE, Ore. -- An Oregon judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked in the murder trial of a 24-year-old hotel clerk accused of killing her newborn son. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006644873577/ 21006644873577 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:08:38 GMT WASHINGTON -- For the past decade women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006644931860/ 21006644931860 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:57:37 GMT NEW YORK -- A Canadian man in a New York court has admitted attempting to buy sophisticated technology for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger insurgents in Sri Lanka. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006644865712/ 21006644865712 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:03:47 GMT FARGO, N.D. -- A man accused of brandishing a gun in a western North Dakota courtroom and unsuccessfully trying to kill jurors, a sheriff and a prosecutor told a jury Wednesday he forgot the weapon was in his pants and he panicked after he was found guilty of child molestation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006644902741/ 21006644902741 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:06:35 GMT CLEVELAND -- A mentally disabled former drug dealer convicted in the fire deaths of nine people, including eight children at a birthday sleepover, on Wednesday won a new trial from a judge who said jailhouse snitches and other witnesses were unreliable. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006644919552/ 21006644919552 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:05:18 GMT PARCHMAN, Miss. -- A Mississippi inmate has been put to death for killing two men in a December 1995 robbery spree after the courts declined to stop the execution based on arguments that he was mentally ill. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006644911837/ 21006644911837 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:07:12 GMT FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A northwestern Arizona tribe has voted to take over management of the Grand Canyon Skywalk from the Las Vegas developer who built it. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006644923236/ 21006644923236 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:16:32 GMT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Police released 911 calls that revealed a social worker's frantic attempts to alert authorities that Josh Powell had locked himself in his home with his two young sons, moments before he set off a huge fire that killed all inside. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640659283/ 21006640659283 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:23:05 GMT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Utah authorities have for at least six months investigated the disappearance of Susan Powell as a murder case. But without a body, they publicly held out hope that she would be found alive. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640698515/ 21006640698515 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:01:47 GMT SEATTLE -- Washington state authorities say they're not happy with the performance of a 911 dispatcher during last weekend's murder-suicide involving the husband of a missing Utah woman. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006642730770/ 21006642730770 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:18:06 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Conservative critics like to point out that the federal appeals court that just declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional has its decisions overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court more often than other judicial circuits, a record that could prove predictive if the high court agrees to review the gay marriage case on appeal. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640668631/ 21006640668631 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:49:28 GMT WASHINGTON -- A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, the government said Wednesday. There will be no cost to eligible passengers, who would no longer have to remove their shoes and belts before they board flights. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006641936819/ 21006641936819 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:42:44 GMT CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A former University of Virginia lacrosse player and the ex-girlfriend he is accused of killing had fights often and traded angry emails in the months before her death. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006642616474/ 21006642616474 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:57:23 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday that it is rolling out a plan to waive debts for many victims of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters who may have mistakenly received millions of dollars in aid. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006642704393/ 21006642704393 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:02:35 GMT HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A Democratic state lawmaker who has been convicted on corruption charges said Wednesday he will follow tradition and step down from the House of Representatives when he is sentenced, but that he hopes to delay the proceeding so he can run for re-election. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006642735511/ 21006642735511 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:20:57 GMT NEW YORK -- The New York City police commissioner's TV host son has been cleared of the prospect of criminal charges of raping a woman he met for a drink. But it's unclear how quickly Greg Kelly might return to his spot as a morning-show host. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640685747/ 21006640685747 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:41:53 GMT MIDDLETOWN, Ohio -- A pickup truck lost control on an icy road and crashed head-on into a school bus Wednesday morning, sending eight children and three adults to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006642611390/ 21006642611390 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:12:44 GMT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Washington state health officials said Tuesday they are investigating reports of intestinal illness affecting at least 19 squads that participated in a weekend state cheerleading tournament in Everett. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640636448/ 21006640636448 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:01:40 GMT CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous hacking group obtained more than 150 police officers' personal information from an old website for the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted it online. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640570026/ 21006640570026 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:00:37 GMT CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Opening statements are expected in the trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640563738/ 21006640563738 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:14:41 GMT PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- California's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in the Sierra Nevada foothills that some officials describe as one of the most egregious cases of illegal mining they have ever encountered. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640648170/ 21006640648170 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:13:32 GMT LOS ANGELES -- The move by school district administrators to replace the entire staff at an elementary school rocked by teacher sex abuse claims was a bold step to restore parents' badly shaken confidence at the school, but it has been met with mixed feelings. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640641241/ 21006640641241 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:06:13 GMT JACKSONVILLE, Ala. -- Shot through the upper back on a rooftop in Afghanistan and gasping for breath after a bullet ripped through his chest, Marine Sgt. Ben Tomlinson had a fear worse than death. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640597376/ 21006640597376 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:03:21 GMT JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri teenager who confessed to murdering a 9-year-old girl faces the possibility of life in prison when she's sentenced Wednesday morning. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640580188/ 21006640580188 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:04:42 GMT CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Move over, coffee and Red Bull. A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the novel product is not without its risks. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640588233/ 21006640588233 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:19:25 GMT HOUSTON -- Liar. Hypocrite. Adulterer. Fraudster. Coward. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640676564/ 21006640676564 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:22:18 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Shoppers in San Francisco will have to pay 10 cents per bag and more retailers are now banned from handing out plastic bags under a proposal approved Tuesday by the city's Board of Supervisors. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006640693840/ 21006640693840 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:14:38 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Same-sex marriage moved one step closer to the Supreme Court on Tuesday when a federal appeals court ruled California's ban unconstitutional, saying it serves no purpose other than to "lessen the status and human dignity" of gays. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006636327842/ 21006636327842 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:11:28 GMT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Utah authorities have for at least six months investigated the disappearance of Susan Powell as a murder case. But without a body, they publicly held out hope that she would be found alive. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006636308862/ 21006636308862 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:12:35 GMT RICHARDSON, Texas -- A suspected gunman is dead and a police officer and two bystanders are wounded after a shooting at a suburban Dallas transit station. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006636315549/ 21006636315549 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:14:02 GMT JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri teenager who confessed to murdering a young neighbor girl was described as a thrill killer by prosecutors and a mentally disturbed child by her defense attorneys as a judge heard arguments Tuesday on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or something less. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006636324251/ 21006636324251 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:07:54 GMT PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. -- Police said Tuesday that they have arrested five people in the shocking deaths of an Arizona couple found tied up and burned beyond recognition in their stylish stucco home in a posh Phoenix suburb. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006636287453/ 21006636287453 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:10:35 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A retired Los Angeles police officer has testified in the trial of a veteran LAPD detective charged with the murder of her ex-lover's new wife. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006636303512/ 21006636303512 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:05:26 GMT PHOENIX -- The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a ruling that barred a woman from running for a city council seat because she doesn't speak English proficiently. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006636272667/ 21006636272667 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:10:05 GMT NEW YORK -- Prosecutors say the New York Police Department commissioner's son won't face charges in connection to a rape accusation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006636300574/ 21006636300574 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:06:52 GMT NEW YORK -- A New York City teacher's aide already accused of possessing child pornography was jailed Tuesday after prosecutors brought new allegations that he videotaped himself spanking one naked child and fondling another in a public elementary school classroom. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006636281232/ 21006636281232 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:08:34 GMT LOS ANGELES -- When students return to the school where two teachers were jailed last week for alleged lewdness, they'll have new teachers in their classrooms, a new principal in the front office and new workers serving lunch. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006636291436/ 21006636291436 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:09:07 GMT GRAHAM, Wash. -- Josh Powell painted himself as a tortured man, ridiculed without reason in the disappearance of his wife, steadfastly insisting he was innocent until the end. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006631974743/ 21006631974743 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:13:14 GMT SEATTLE -- Amanda Knox's Italian lawyer has filed an appeal of her slander conviction in Italy, a Knox family spokesman in Seattle said Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006631999434/ 21006631999434 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:31:17 GMT ATLANTA -- A high-ranking official resigned Tuesday from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity after a dispute over whether the group should give funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006632467744/ 21006632467744 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:14:31 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Shocking death pictures of a murdered woman were shown to jurors in the trial of former police detective Stephanie Lazarus -- huge close-up portraits of the battered face of Sherri Rasmussen, who died 26 years ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006632007110/ 21006632007110 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:10:44 GMT COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina says in a lawsuit that the U.S. Justice Department was wrong to block the state from requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006633784437/ 21006633784437 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:14:35 GMT DETROIT -- Nearly two years after arrests, jury selection began Tuesday in a trial against seven people accused of conspiring to rebel against the government as members of a southern Michigan militia. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006633807516/ 21006633807516 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:11:57 GMT NEW CITY, N.Y. -- A guilty plea has averted a trial in an attempted murder case that brought unusual attention to a religious dispute in a Jewish enclave in New York. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006633791755/ 21006633791755 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:11:22 GMT STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- An Ohio lawmaker says his proposal to regulate exotic animals in the state is not ready to be introduced this week. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006633788272/ 21006633788272 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:15:46 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Supporters and opponents of California's ban on same-sex marriage were anxiously awaiting a federal appeals court decision Tuesday on whether the voter-approved measure violates the civil rights of gay men and lesbians. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006632014652/ 21006632014652 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:16:41 GMT GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A few years ago, John Rachor painted his helicopter orange and yellow, so it would be easier to spot if he ever crashed and became the target of a search and rescue operation in the rugged forests of southwestern Oregon. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006632020148/ 21006632020148 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:31 GMT KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii -- A Hawaii-based Marine sergeant is being court-martialed on accusations that he hazed a member of his squad by ordering him to dig a foxhole as punishment for falling asleep on watch duty in Afghanistan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006631923125/ 21006631923125 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:22:07 GMT WASHINGTON -- Alexis McKenzie's mother had mild dementia, but things sounded OK when she phoned home: Dad was with her, finishing his wife's sentences as they talked about puttering through the day and a drive to the store. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006632052785/ 21006632052785 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:20:49 GMT CHICAGO -- Good news for budget-minded travelers: There's no proof that flying economy-class increases your chances of dangerous blood clots, according to new guidelines from medical specialists. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006632044925/ 21006632044925 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:36:02 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A former Marine already accused of killing four homeless men was charged Monday with two new counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of his high school friend's mother and older brother. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627456280/ 21006627456280 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:30:25 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Former police detective Stephanie Lazarus was either a heartbroken, jilted lover driven to kill her romantic rival, or she was an innocent woman snared in a web of mishandled scientific evidence. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627422590/ 21006627422590 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:48:03 GMT SAN DIEGO -- A federal judge ruled Monday that the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that wounded former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will spend four more months at a federal prison facility where officials are forcibly medicating him. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627528367/ 21006627528367 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:08:16 GMT GRAHAM, Wash. -- Josh Powell's boys were coming for a visit, and he had preparations to make. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627649674/ 21006627649674 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:09:32 GMT JACKSON, Mississippi -- A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the execution of a Mississippi inmate who killed two men in a 1995 robbery spree. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627657243/ 21006627657243 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:01:28 GMT GRAHAM, Wash. -- Josh Powell planned the house fire that killed him and his young sons for some time, dropping toys at a charity over the weekend and sending final emails to several acquaintances in the minutes before the blaze, authorities said Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627248864/ 21006627248864 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:29:16 GMT CHICAGO -- A Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver who prosecutors say could be heard on FBI wiretaps discussing a plan to bomb a stadium pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to send money to a Pakistani-based terrorist with alleged ties to al-Qaida. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627415614/ 21006627415614 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:34:02 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Many children stayed home Monday while parents demanded more protection at an elementary school where two teachers are suspected of molesting students in class. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627444230/ 21006627444230 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:43:18 GMT NEW YORK -- A Brooklyn police officer trying to make extra money to buy a house pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy charges, admitting his central role in a smuggling case that involved guns, cigarettes and slot machines. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627499871/ 21006627499871 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:29:44 GMT TOMS RIVER, N.J. -- Jahmell Crockam took a look around the courthouse, couldn't find his lawyer, then went home. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627418431/ 21006627418431 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:31:50 GMT AUSTIN, Texas -- A federal judge on Monday upheld the Texas law requiring women to have a sonogram before having an abortion, saying an appeals court had forced him to declare the law constitutional. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627431091/ 21006627431091 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:28:39 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A barista abducted from a coffee shack that sits near one of Anchorage's busiest intersections had filed for a restraining order against a man, but had been too scared to show up for the court hearing, her father said Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627411959/ 21006627411959 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:46:18 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court plans to announce whether it thinks California's same-sex marriage ban violates the civil rights of gays and lesbians, and if the trial judge who struck down the voter-approved measure should have revealed he was in a long-term relationship with another man. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627517817/ 21006627517817 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:40:10 GMT GOODE, Va. -- An American aid worker rescued by Navy SEALs in Somalia last month says she's thankful for the support she's received. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627481066/ 21006627481066 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:30:56 GMT KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii -- The court martial for a Marine sergeant accused of hazing a fellow Marine who committed suicide in Afghanistan was delayed Monday after the prosecution asked to expand the details of the charges. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627425621/ 21006627425621 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:44:12 GMT NEWARK, N.J. -- A northern New Jersey man has admitted carjacking a 65-year-old grandmother, who was seriously injured when she became entangled in a seat belt and was dragged by the vehicle for two blocks. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627505271/ 21006627505271 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:36:45 GMT WASHINGTON -- The FBI has been paying closer attention to `sovereign citizen' extremists around the country out of concerns that they will react violently when they interact with government officials. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627460568/ 21006627460568 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:33:11 GMT ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- The main Atlantic City casino workers union ratified a new contract Monday night with the Golden Nugget Atlantic City. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627439142/ 21006627439142 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:37:25 GMT BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas -- Officials at Big Bend National Park in West Texas are looking for a mountain lion that attacked and injured a 6-year-old boy as he walked with three other people. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627464564/ 21006627464564 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:41:46 GMT SAN ANTONIO -- A federal judge ordered all sides in the Texas redistricting lawsuit to keep talking Monday, just hours after the attorney general announced a compromise plan that prompted immediate pushback from several minority groups involved in the case. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006627490612/ 21006627490612 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:53:25 GMT SAN DIEGO -- A federal judge has called a hearing to determine whether the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that left then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wounded should remain at a federal prison facility where officials are forcibly medicating him. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006622160586/ 21006622160586 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:56:20 GMT HONOLULU -- A second Marine is going to trial for allegedly hazing a fellow Marine who later fatally shot himself in Afghanistan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006622178055/ 21006622178055 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:44:57 GMT CHICAGO -- An attorney for a Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver accused of attempting to send funds to al-Qaida says his client will change his plea to guilty. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006624269725/ 21006624269725 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:50:51 GMT PHOENIX -- Police have started searching a landfill south of Phoenix for the body of a 5-year-old Arizona girl who has been missing for more than four months and who authorities now believe is dead. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006623945125/ 21006623945125 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:52:13 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Classes will be canceled for two days at an elementary school where two teachers face allegations of lewd acts with students, and the Los Angeles superintendent of schools is planning a meeting with troubled parents. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006622153325/ 21006622153325 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:28:41 GMT ATLANTA -- Georgia's top court on Monday struck down a state law designed to discourage assisted suicides after a legal battle brought by four members of a suicide group who said the law also violated free speech rights. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006623092119/ 21006623092119 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:21:01 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A former Marine already accused of killing four homeless men faces two new murder charges in the stabbing deaths of the mother and older brother of his high school friend, prosecutors said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006622686139/ 21006622686139 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:21:53 GMT SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Authorities say a Georgia man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the leg at a Savannah gun show. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006622691321/ 21006622691321 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:54:23 GMT WASHINGTON -- A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government's ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006622166328/ 21006622166328 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:51:38 GMT CHICAGO -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it's worried about the amount of second-hand smoke being inhaled by teens and middle-schoolers in cars. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006622149818/ 21006622149818 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:50:44 GMT COLEVILLE, Calif. -- Most families returned to a military housing complex outside a remote U.S. Marine training base in Northern California on Sunday, two days after a propane gas explosion that killed a Marine's wife and critically burned two other people. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006622144446/ 21006622144446 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:55:47 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A trial opening this week has the dramatic elements of a TV crime show -- a bloody murder scene, two pretty women and a love triangle that could have precipitated the killing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006622174728/ 21006622174728 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:57:32 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- A stomach virus outbreak delayed the departure of the cruise ship "Voyager of the Seas" from New Orleans in one of three outbreaks of illness aboard U.S.-based cruise ships reported over the weekend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006618945231/ 21006618945231 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:58:18 GMT GOLD BEACH, Ore. -- Three mushroom pickers lost six nights in the rugged forest of southwest Oregon with no food considered eating their dog, and used the screen on their dead cellphone and the blade of a sheath knife to flash a signal at the helicopter pilot who found them. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006618949818/ 21006618949818 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:14:46 GMT SAN DIEGO -- Eight sailors have been discharged from the Navy after a hazing incident aboard a San Diego-based amphibious assault ship that was captured on video and included the choking of a fellow sailor, a Navy spokesman said Saturday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006617968692/ 21006617968692 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:55:33 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The father of an 18-year-old Alaska woman who police say was abducted at gunpoint from her espresso stand says the reward for information that leads to her safe return has grown to $41,000. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006618933343/ 21006618933343 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:06:44 GMT NEW YORK -- A protest against embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside a luxury hotel in New York got heated Sunday when demonstrators saw him leave the building, with one charging toward him and another throwing a shoe. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006619000468/ 21006619000468 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:00:35 GMT WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. -- A memorial Mass has been scheduled for a Minnesota couple who are missing in the Italian cruise ship disaster, their family announced Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006618963585/ 21006618963585 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:02:29 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- Past the glass case containing sketches for his novel "Oliver Twist," beyond the handwritten letter to his publisher about Little Nell, and away from the first published installments of "Hard Times" sits Charles Dickens' pet bird. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006618974971/ 21006618974971 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:53:54 GMT OMAHA, Neb. -- A powerful winter storm that covered parts of Colorado with up to 6 feet of snow crept east across the Plains Saturday, knocking out electricity to thousands in Nebraska as the blanket of heavy, wet precipitation downed power lines and made travel treacherous. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006610283463/ 21006610283463 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:02:36 GMT YORBA LINDA, Calif. -- A 24-year-old jailed for more than three months in the deaths of his mother and brother was a free man Saturday after prosecutors said they would instead charge a high school friend accused in a string of serial killings. But the previously accused man now faces a hearing on whether he should be allowed to remain in the U.S. because he is suspected of being in the country illegally. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006610335618/ 21006610335618 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:53:06 GMT PHOENIX -- A small plane crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff Saturday in an eastern Arizona mountain community, killing a well-known rural Arizona auto dealer and his wife and seriously injuring his son and daughter-in-law. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006610278651/ 21006610278651 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:52:13 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A bizarre case at an inner-city elementary school where a teacher was charged with taking bondage-style photographs of children has expanded with the arrest of a second teacher suspected of fondling two girls in his classroom. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006610273379/ 21006610273379 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:51:09 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- Two windows were broken at the home where a toddler was reported missing seven weeks ago, officials said Saturday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006610266942/ 21006610266942 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:37:58 GMT To many people, breast cancer screening means a mammogram. But for millions of poor, mostly young women who visit Planned Parenthood, it is usually just a physical exam by the only health professional they may ever see. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006598307855/ 21006598307855 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:55:53 GMT WASHINGTON -- Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites, with police clearing away tents they said were banned under park rules. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006610295362/ 21006610295362 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:57:26 GMT DENVER -- The most powerful storm of the winter season pounded Colorado and parts of neighboring states on Friday, creating whiteout conditions on the eastern plains, cancelling more than 600 flights in Denver and closing hundreds of miles of highway between major Colorado cities and the Kansas border. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006601664638/ 21006601664638 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:44:19 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A second teacher at an inner-city elementary school where a teacher is accused of committing lewd acts on 23 children was arrested Friday on suspicion of fondling two girls in his classroom. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006601585990/ 21006601585990 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:43:44 GMT NEW YORK -- A woman stalked and shook down New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, getting him to pay her $6,000 and demanding more by threatening to harm his reputation, prosecutors said Thursday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006601582435/ 21006601582435 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:43:05 GMT KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The parents of a Kansas City baby missing since October said Friday they believe the child is alive and pleaded for her safe return. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006601578575/ 21006601578575 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:55:59 GMT WASHINGTON -- Michelle Obama is marking the second anniversary of her "Let's Move" campaign against childhood obesity. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006601655915/ 21006601655915 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:41:58 GMT HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006601571865/ 21006601571865 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:41:22 GMT DALLAS -- A Dallas teenager who was deported to South America under a false name never expressed concern during jailhouse phone calls that she was being misidentified as an illegal immigrant from Colombia. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006601568244/ 21006601568244 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:25:51 GMT MINNETONKA, Minn. -- A Minnesota company is recalling cooked eggs distributed in 34 states because of possible listeria contamination. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006597515154/ 21006597515154 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:34:50 GMT ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis parade welcoming home Iraq War and other post-Sept. 11 veterans is spurring talk of similar parades in at least eight other cities. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006598289088/ 21006598289088 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:06:51 GMT BOSTON -- The hacking collective Anonymous is claiming credit for defacing the Boston Police Department's website, part of a string of online attacks around the world being attributed to the group. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006599201163/ 21006599201163 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:02:09 GMT HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Pennsylvania health officials say the number of people stricken with illness after consuming raw milk from the same dairy has risen to 35 in four states. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006597372924/ 21006597372924 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:57:14 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A second teacher pulled from a classroom at Miramonte Elementary School this week was arrested Friday, just days after a third-grade teacher was charged with lewd acts involving photographing nearly two dozen children for sexual thrills, authorities said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006599503419/ 21006599503419 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:58:16 GMT DENVER -- A powerful winter storm swept across Colorado on Friday as it headed east, bringing blizzard warnings to eastern Colorado and western Kansas, and winter storm warnings for southeast Wyoming and western Nebraska. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006597349643/ 21006597349643 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:21:14 GMT BOISE, Idaho -- The chief executive and chairman of the Boise-based memory chip maker Micron died Friday morning when a small, experimental fixed-wing plane he was piloting crashed at the Boise airport, the company said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006599287479/ 21006599287479 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:20:35 GMT INDIANAPOLIS -- A jury began deliberations Friday in the voter fraud trial of Indiana's election chief, who faces charges that could oust him from office. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006599283576/ 21006599283576 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:19:46 GMT TOPEKA, Kan. -- Gov. Sam Brownback declared Friday he's confident that a local prosecutor's investigation of private gatherings he had with Kansas legislators at the governor's official residence did not violate the state's open meetings law, and he's planning two more get-togethers next week. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006599278653/ 21006599278653 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:02:49 GMT WILMINGTON, N.C. -- A Raleigh school administrator accused of paying a hit man to behead three witnesses in a North Carolina terrorism case is due in federal court. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006597376914/ 21006597376914 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:54:39 GMT HOLLIS, Maine -- A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes -- and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumor. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006597327949/ 21006597327949 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:04:11 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A second teacher has been pulled from a classroom at a Los Angeles elementary school where a teacher this week was charged with photographing children for sexual thrills. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006597385152/ 21006597385152 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:05:47 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- Divers from the Maine Warden Service and Maine State Police are back in a river as they continue to investigate the disappearance of a toddler. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006598114765/ 21006598114765 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:07:54 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Stressed out by flying? http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006597407451/ 21006597407451 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:06:32 GMT NEW YORK -- The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006597399221/ 21006597399221 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:32 GMT EAST HAVEN, Conn. -- A Connecticut police chief is officially retiring as a scandal over alleged abuse and harassment of Latinos by East Haven officers rocks the department. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006598083240/ 21006598083240 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:59:52 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Thirty bales of marijuana estimated to be worth $500,000 have been found floating off the Southern California coast. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006598079276/ 21006598079276 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:04:54 GMT DALLAS -- A Dallas teenager who was deported to South America under a false name never expressed concern during jailhouse phone calls that she was being misidentified as an illegal immigrant from Colombia. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006598109413/ 21006598109413 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:50:02 GMT PHOENIX -- Police on Thursday said the elderly man and woman found tied up and burned in a posh Phoenix suburb were the owners of the home where their remains were discovered. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006592980282/ 21006592980282 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:59:15 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Five people have been indicted in connection with an alleged human smuggling ring that used non-Spanish-speaking, African-American drivers to shuttle illegal immigrants from the border in a bid to elude detection, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006593035534/ 21006593035534 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:00:51 GMT MADISON, S.D. -- An old grudge that spanned more than a half-century may have led a 73-year-old man to fatally shoot his long-ago classmate at his South Dakota home, according to a court affidavit filed Thursday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006593045149/ 21006593045149 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:53:44 GMT NEW YORK -- The renowned breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure faced an escalating backlash Thursday over its decision to cut breast screening grants to Planned Parenthood. Some of Komen's local affiliates are openly upset, including all seven in California, and at least one top official has quit, reportedly in protest. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006593002471/ 21006593002471 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:55:44 GMT NEW YORK -- With the Super Bowl days away, federal authorities announced a crackdown Thursday on websites that stream unauthorized broadcasts of sports events just hours after New England quarterback Tom Brady told reporters in Indianapolis that he watched last year's game on an illegal site. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006593014417/ 21006593014417 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:56:34 GMT YREKA, Calif. -- Investigators in a far Northern California town sought leads Thursday in the theft of large chunks of gold from the county courthouse's $3 million historical collection, as residents lamented the loss of an important piece of their cultural heritage. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006593019441/ 21006593019441 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:57:21 GMT TUCSON, Ariz. -- A federal judge says a psychologist believes the Tucson shooting rampage suspect is still incompetent to stand trial. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006593024198/ 21006593024198 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:46:42 GMT NEW YORK -- A Jewish charity co-founder who claimed he traveled the world as a "Jewish Indiana Jones" to rescue Torahs pleaded guilty to fraud charges Thursday, saying he lied when he claimed he had personally obtained vintage Torah scrolls in Europe and Israel for six years. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006592960229/ 21006592960229 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:58:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Justice Department says it has indicted Switzerland's oldest private bank, claiming it conspired with Americans and others to hide more than $1.2 billion in client assets from the Internal Revenue Service. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006593028086/ 21006593028086 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:50:58 GMT DENVER -- Colorado takes pride in its Western entrepreneurial spirit -- and that extends to the belief of some lawmakers that business owners should be able to use deadly force against anyone who tries to take what's theirs. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006592985880/ 21006592985880 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:55:05 GMT NEW YORK -- Magazine distributor Robert B. Cohen, who built the Hudson News chain of newsstands from one store at LaGuardia Airport and changed the way travelers spend their downtime, has died at age 86. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006593010541/ 21006593010541 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:24:53 GMT PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. -- Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his lair to "see" his shadow on Thursday, in the process predicting six more weeks of winter. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006588149329/ 21006588149329 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:53:39 GMT LOS ANGELES -- California's attorney general has recommended the denial of the latest appeal of assassin Sirhan Sirhan, saying Wednesday that the man long-convicted in the murder of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy hasn't proved his innocence. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006588681967/ 21006588681967 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:27:05 GMT CHICAGO -- An inmate who says Chicago police officers tortured him into confessing to a brutal rape could learn Thursday whether the Illinois Supreme Court will allow him to present evidence of coercion that was denied at trial, a ruling that could have implications for as many as 20 other inmates seeking similar appeals. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006588522523/ 21006588522523 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:51:20 GMT LOS ANGELES -- The California Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday criticized Southern California Edison's response to a windstorm that left broad swaths of the Southwest without electricity last year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006588668053/ 21006588668053 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:55:39 GMT WASHINGTON -- U.S. citizenship is priceless to some, worthless to others. But now the State Department has a dollar figure: U.S. citizenship is worth $450. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006590853964/ 21006590853964 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:32:53 GMT MILWAUKEE -- About 550 people are asking for restitution for alleged sexual abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee -- more than in any of the other U.S. dioceses that have filed for bankruptcy protection, according to a lawyer involved in the Milwaukee case. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006588557349/ 21006588557349 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:54:05 GMT HOUSTON -- The first major metropolitan area in Texas is emerging from the state's historic drought. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006590844573/ 21006590844573 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:55:06 GMT HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- A discharged Marine private who slit his wrists in a suicide attempt is fighting his military conviction for deliberately injuring himself, arguing the punishment is inconsistent with the armed forces' efforts to battle a rise in suicides during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006590850672/ 21006590850672 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:52:13 GMT FORT HOOD, Texas -- A military judge has delayed the murder trial for the Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage until June. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006590833376/ 21006590833376 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:53:28 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A federal appeals court refused Thursday to unseal video recordings of a landmark trial on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban but said it needed more time to decide if a lower court judge properly struck down the voter-approved ban. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006590840832/ 21006590840832 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:34:17 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court will announce if it will unseal video recordings of the landmark trial on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban, but it's not ready to rule on whether a lower court judge properly struck down the voter-approved ban. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006588565735/ 21006588565735 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:38:36 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A Southern California woman took Honda to small-claims court and won in a big way. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006588591626/ 21006588591626 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:58:05 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A Philadelphia man arrested 44 times without a conviction faces at least 32 years in federal prison for a pair of armed robberies. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006589428570/ 21006589428570 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:41:26 GMT LOS ANGELES -- School officials questioned how an elementary school teacher suspected of taking bizarre bondage-style photographs of children in his class went undetected for years as new allegations of past and potentially inappropriate behavior by Mark Berndt surfaced. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006588608614/ 21006588608614 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:42:36 GMT DENVER -- The nation's leanest state is taking aim at junk food in school cafeterias as it considers the nation's toughest school trans-fat ban. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006588615645/ 21006588615645 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:49:48 GMT COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- With 120 lions, tigers and other big cats on the grounds, the owner of a Colorado refuge didn't think he needed a security system. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006588658838/ 21006588658838 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:48:06 GMT ROGUE RIVER, Ore. -- When police knocked on Josh Brewer's door to check for marijuana, even one of the nation's most liberal medical marijuana laws was put to the test. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006588648637/ 21006588648637 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:52:30 GMT NEW YORK -- FB? That's the best they could do? http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006588675056/ 21006588675056 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:32:16 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Angry parents confronted school officials Wednesday, demanding to know why they weren't told for a year that a teacher was suspected of photographing children in class for sexual thrills. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006584233657/ 21006584233657 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:32:54 GMT PHOENIX -- The victim of a 2004 Arizona bombing believed to be racially motivated took to the witness stand in federal court in Phoenix for the first time Wednesday, describing for jurors the chaos that erupted and unbearable pain he felt after he opened the bomb. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006584237449/ 21006584237449 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:28:43 GMT MILWAUKEE -- About 550 people have filed claims for restitution for alleged sexual abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee -- the most of the eight dioceses in the U.S. that have sought bankruptcy protection, a lawyer in the Milwaukee case said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006584212328/ 21006584212328 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:41:15 GMT SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- A 14-year-old Northern California girl who died during a sleepover party last summer overdosed on a chemical found in so-called "date rape" drugs, but it's unclear how she got the drug, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006584287522/ 21006584287522 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:43:15 GMT GREENFIELD, Mass. -- A New Hampshire pilot has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a Massachusetts plane crash that killed his 35-year-old daughter. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006584299567/ 21006584299567 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:38:18 GMT NEW YORK -- A coalition of media organizations and journalist groups sent a letter to the New York Police Department on Wednesday saying it has to take more steps to resolve reporter access issues. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006584269886/ 21006584269886 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:40:40 GMT ECHO SUMMIT, Calif. -- California's Sierra Nevada snowpack measured a meager 15 inches in some places, officials announced Wednesday, bearing bad news to a state that depends on snowmelt to meet the water needs of 25 million people and more than a million acres of farmland. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006584284087/ 21006584284087 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:42:13 GMT ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- A presidential historian has indicated he will plead guilty in a case in which he is accused of stealing documents signed by President Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Bonaparte and other well-known leaders from around the world. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006584293350/ 21006584293350 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:47:53 GMT PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The cost of the state-appointed receiver and legal fees related to bankruptcy proceedings in the Rhode Island city of Central Falls is nearly $400,000 more this fiscal year than budgeted, and the total spent on the receivership is expected to reach $2.26 million by July. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006584327350/ 21006584327350 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:59:45 GMT INDIANAPOLIS -- Pfizer Inc. is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills due to a packaging error that could raise the risk of an accidental pregnancy by leaving women with an inadequate dose. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006580798590/ 21006580798590 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:59:11 GMT FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- President Barack Obama called on Congress Wednesday to make it easier for millions of additional homeowners to refinance their mortgages at lower interest rates even if they owe more than their homes are worth. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006581515128/ 21006581515128 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:08:54 GMT FITCHBURG, Mass. -- A Massachusetts mother says the FBI used a chain saw blade to cut through her door and held her at gunpoint for at least 30 minutes before agents realized they were conducting a raid at the wrong home. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006580853418/ 21006580853418 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:34:06 GMT BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A man charged with hacking a Connecticut man to death with an ax and eating some body parts is due in a state courtroom under tight security after being returned from Florida. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006579924631/ 21006579924631 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:41:14 GMT SEQUIM, Wash. -- A 40-foot boat that exploded at a marina on Washington's Olympic Peninsula Tuesday evening broke windows, inflicted shrapnel-type damage on other nearby vessels and seriously injured a 78-year-old man, firefighters said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006579967444/ 21006579967444 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:08:28 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Bail for a former elementary school teacher accused of taking bizarre photos of children in his classroom for a sexual thrill was raised Wednesday to $23 million, as parents questioned why they weren't notified when the pictures were found more than a year ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006582290812/ 21006582290812 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:09:32 GMT NEWARK, N.J. -- The Transportation Security Administration says an airline employee has caused a security breach that briefly closed a terminal at Newark Liberty International Airport. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006582297286/ 21006582297286 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:10:10 GMT BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Lawyers for Facebook are looking for $84,000 in legal fees from a New York man after a judge ruled he caused delays in his lawsuit seeking part ownership in the $50 billion social networking site. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006582301058/ 21006582301058 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:09:02 GMT PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. -- Two people whose bodies were found in a burning home in a posh Phoenix suburb were homicide victims, but authorities haven't determined whether they died in the fire or were killed by other means, police said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006582294282/ 21006582294282 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:37:55 GMT CINCINNATI -- New safety and other measures are in place for the resumption of work at the Cincinnati casino site where more than a dozen workers were hurt. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006579947553/ 21006579947553 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:38:38 GMT COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A death row inmate in Ohio is hoping the state parole board will give him the chance to argue that a mysterious "man in red" could have started the arson fire that killed his 3-year-old son. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006579951834/ 21006579951834 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:07:55 GMT CINCINNATI -- A construction management official says structural connections in unrestricted areas at the Cincinnati casino where a collapse injured more than a dozen workers have been checked thoroughly. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006582287549/ 21006582287549 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:40:28 GMT TOPEKA, Kan. -- An architect of state and local laws cracking down on illegal immigration is a leading Republican officeholder in Kansas, but business groups in his home state are asking legislators to move in the opposite direction by starting an unusual program designed to give illegal immigrants hard-to-fill jobs. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006579962883/ 21006579962883 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:34:54 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, the retired head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and an uncharged central figure in a child sex-abuse case that involves the alleged shuffling of predator priests to unwitting parishes, has died. He was 88. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006579929427/ 21006579929427 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:23:19 GMT OGDEN, Utah -- Prosecutors charged a Utah man Tuesday with child abuse homicide in the overdose death of his teenage baby sitter whose body was found in a shallow grave more than a month after she was reported missing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575539939/ 21006575539939 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:31:35 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Authorities say the elementary school teacher told the children that it was a game. Once inside his third-grade classroom, they say, he blindfolded them, gagged them and set cockroaches crawling on their faces. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575589545/ 21006575589545 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:35:19 GMT EAST HAVEN, Conn. -- Police commissioners in East Haven, Conn., have voted to urge the mayor to fire the police chief instead of letting him retire amid allegations that officers abused Latinos. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575611996/ 21006575611996 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:21:01 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- Authorities on Tuesday charged a 16-year-old boy with a felony in what they say was a plot to detonate a bomb at a Utah high school. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575526166/ 21006575526166 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:36:16 GMT CHICAGO -- A White House official says Chicago taxpayers won't be paying for the upcoming summits in which leaders from around the world will descend on the city. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575617640/ 21006575617640 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:41:56 GMT WASHINGTON -- An agreement on a bill to provide operating authority for the Federal Aviation Administration over the next four years and to boost the agency's air traffic modernization effort was reached Tuesday by House and Senate negotiators, culminating a five-year struggle that included a partial shutdown of the agency. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575651670/ 21006575651670 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:30:23 GMT TOPEKA, Kan. -- A coalition of business groups will propose Kansas start a new program to help some illegal immigrants remain in the state so they can hold down jobs in agriculture and other industries with labor shortages, coalition representatives disclosed Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575582317/ 21006575582317 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:22:13 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- Workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities throughout California have gone on strike over contract disputes involving Kaiser's mental health and optical employees. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575533367/ 21006575533367 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:24:54 GMT NOBLESVILLE, Ind. -- Indiana's top elections official signed documents showing he was living at an address different than one he listed on voting records, witnesses testified Tuesday as prosecutors began building their case in a trial that could cost Secretary of State Charlie White his job and his freedom. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575549429/ 21006575549429 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:40:42 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The warning level for a remote Alaska volcano has been raised after a new lava dome began forming, indicating the mountain could explode and send up an ash cloud that could threaten aircraft. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575644237/ 21006575644237 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:32:55 GMT MONTARA, Calif. -- A man walking his dogs in a federal park overlooking the Pacific Ocean was hit with a stun gun and arrested by a park ranger who accused him of not tethering the animals and giving a false name, astonishing passers-by who say the reaction was excessive. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575597581/ 21006575597581 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:38:37 GMT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A proposal to legalize gay marriage in Washington state made it out of a final committee and faces its last major obstacle, a crucial vote Wednesday in the state Senate, where it has narrow support. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575631730/ 21006575631730 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:34:42 GMT SEATTLE -- Federal authorities aren't sure yet who shot several sea lions in the Puget Sound region in recent weeks, but a conservation group has offered up $10,000 for information that helps convict the perpetrators. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575608297/ 21006575608297 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:17:30 GMT NEW YORK -- The nation's leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates -- creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575505099/ 21006575505099 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:18:55 GMT NEW YORK -- The agency building the new World Trade Center says a design flaw could add millions of dollars to the cost of the complex's signature tower. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006575513531/ 21006575513531 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:21:34 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A police chase ended early Tuesday when the suspect's car slammed into a house, coming to rest inside a bedroom and on top of a sleeping man. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006571209429/ 21006571209429 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:24:43 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- A University of Utah student suffered a seizure before she fell from a chairlift at a Park City ski resort and died in an extremely rare case of a fatality on a properly functioning lift, authorities and industry officials said Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006571228387/ 21006571228387 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:18:27 GMT BEACH CITY, Ohio -- Ohio troopers believe a man was drinking before he crashed his all-terrain vehicle into a horse-drawn buggy carrying an Amish couple and their nine children. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006571190793/ 21006571190793 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:17:27 GMT KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii -- A Hawaii-based Marine accused of hazing a fellow Marine who later committed suicide in Afghanistan was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail and a reduction in rank. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006571184716/ 21006571184716 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:25:32 GMT WASHINGTON -- The federal government has swooped down on 105 people in 23 states in the past week as part of a nationwide crackdown on identity theft and tax refund fraud that was timed to warn cheats to beware this tax season, the Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006573393261/ 21006573393261 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:24:54 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles elementary school teacher was charged with committing lewd acts against nearly two dozen students after a film processor gave authorities bondage-style photographs showing children in blindfolds with their mouths taped, and some with giant cockroaches on their faces, authorities said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006573389424/ 21006573389424 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:24:19 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- Authorities on Tuesday charged a 16-year-old boy with a felony in what they say was a plot to detonate a bomb at a Utah high school. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006573385949/ 21006573385949 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:59:37 GMT WASHINGTON -- A fight over the redrawing of Texas' political maps that's shuttled from Washington to San Antonio returns to Washington on Tuesday for closing arguments in a trial to determine whether the maps drawn by the GOP-dominated Texas Legislature violated the federal Voting Rights Act. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006571437748/ 21006571437748 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:22:47 GMT NEW YORK -- A senior administrator at California's Claremont McKenna College resigned after admitting that for years he falsified SAT scores to publications such as U.S. News & World Report to inflate the small, prestigious school's ranking among the nation's colleges and universities, according to the college's president. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006571216757/ 21006571216757 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:26:09 GMT NEW YORK -- High school senior Fiona Lowenstein is not known for a lack of self-confidence -- after all, she once approached federal lawmakers for a sixth-grade paper on women and politics. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006573396926/ 21006573396926 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:20:05 GMT CHICAGO -- Officials are investigating the events surrounding a power failure at a nuclear reactor in northern Illinois, where steam was vented to reduce pressure after it shut down. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006571200553/ 21006571200553 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:01:39 GMT MONTARA, Calif. -- At least one witness is shaking her head in disbelief at a federal park ranger's use of a stun gun over the weekend on a Northern California man accused of walking his two small dogs without a leash in violation of park rules. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006572169996/ 21006572169996 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:20:48 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- The parents of a mentally disabled New Jersey girl say they've won a review of a children's hospital's decision to deny the girl a kidney transplant because of her mental disability. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006571204859/ 21006571204859 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:19:07 GMT SPICEWOOD, Texas -- Tanker trucks loaded with water have become the lifeline for a Texas lakefront village that came precariously close to becoming the state's first community to run out of drinking water during a historic drought. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006571194722/ 21006571194722 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:27:10 GMT LAPORTE, Pa. -- When federal regulators approved a 39-mile natural gas pipeline through northern Pennsylvania's pristine Endless Mountains, they cited the operator's assurances that it would make sparing use of eminent domain as it negotiated with more than 150 property owners along the pipeline's route. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006571243032/ 21006571243032 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:25:26 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Drug cartels have developed a number of money laundering schemes in recent years to turn dirty proceeds into clean cash. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006571232673/ 21006571232673 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:23:34 GMT HELENA, Mont. -- Carol Good Bear says she worries for her safety after the attorneys who negotiated a $3.4 billion settlement over misspent Native American land royalties published the phone numbers and addresses of the four people objecting to the deal. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006571221484/ 21006571221484 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:46:06 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- Police who confirmed the discovery of blood from a missing toddler in the basement of her father's home said Monday that they've found no evidence to support an abduction and that they believe adults in the home know more than what they're telling investigators. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006564876659/ 21006564876659 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:30:16 GMT SPICEWOOD, Texas -- Under dark clouds and rain, two tanker trucks for the first time delivered thousands of gallons of water Monday to a Texas town that came precariously close to becoming the state's first community to run out of water during a historic drought. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006566941694/ 21006566941694 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:34:59 GMT TRENTON, N.J. -- The verbal feud over gay marriage in New Jersey got more personal Monday with Gov. Chris Christie firing a slang term at a lawmaker, and a hero of the Civil Rights movement chastising the governor for a separate remark. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006566969954/ 21006566969954 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:29:04 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- Authorities say a 19-year-old University of Utah student suffered a seizure before she fell from a chairlift at a Park City ski resort and died. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006566934410/ 21006566934410 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:36:44 GMT PORTLAND, Ore. -- An Oregon judge is using his force to order a 45-day jail sentence and mental health evaluation for a would-be Jedi who attacked toy store customers with light sabers last December. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006566980454/ 21006566980454 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:27:54 GMT WASHINGTON -- Union leaders are denouncing a deal in Congress that would make it a little harder for them to organize airline workers. The deal was struck 10 days ago by top House Republicans and Senate Democrats as part of an effort to pass a long-term funding bill for the Federal Aviation Administration. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006566927467/ 21006566927467 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:27:12 GMT TRENTON, N.J. -- A New Jersey waitress cried in court Monday as she heard a prosecutor accuse her of "extreme sexual assault" on a 5-year-old girl she was baby-sitting and of streaming video of the abuse online. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006566923214/ 21006566923214 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:12:51 GMT HARTFORD, Conn. -- The police chief in East Haven, Conn., is retiring amid a scandal in which four officers are accused of tyrannizing Latino residents. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006563237110/ 21006563237110 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:31:41 GMT TRENTON, N.J. -- A New Jersey waitress cried in court Monday as she heard a prosecutor accuse her of "extreme sexual assault" on a 5-year-old girl she was baby-sitting and of streaming video of the abuse online. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006566950167/ 21006566950167 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:32:21 GMT NEW YORK -- A former clerk at the Archdiocese of New York got hired despite a prior theft conviction and then spent more than seven years covertly writing hundreds of checks to a relative so she could steal more than $1 million in money used to oversee schools, prosecutors and the archdiocese said Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006566954170/ 21006566954170 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:10:01 GMT CARSON, Calif. -- Two women have been stabbed to death and a man wounded near Los Angeles, and their alleged attacker is in custody. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006562140134/ 21006562140134 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:20:07 GMT SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Investigators on Sunday were trying to determine what motivated the driver of a sport utility vehicle to ignore a downed crossing arm and flashing lights and pull the vehicle into the path of an oncoming commuter train in Sacramento. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006562200775/ 21006562200775 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:20:43 GMT SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- Family members on Sunday identified an officer killed by fellow police on California's central coast, and questioned why the attempted arrest that led to his death had to take place while he was on duty in the streets. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006562204320/ 21006562204320 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:15:39 GMT WASHINGTON -- U.S. Park Police plan to begin enforcing a no-camping rule at two Washington sites where Occupy protesters have been demonstrating for months. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006562173996/ 21006562173996 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:18:48 GMT NEW YORK -- When word leaked out last year that New York police were showing an inflammatory movie about Muslims to trainees, news reporters flipped open their notebooks, picked up their phones and hit the speed dial for a man named Paul Browne. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006562192849/ 21006562192849 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:16:38 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Eugene Temkin was intent on having a hitman kidnap, torture and kill a former business partner and his family because he felt he wasn't repaid for a deal that soured nearly a decade earlier. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006562179879/ 21006562179879 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:48:16 GMT NEW YORK -- An Archdiocese of New York clerk has been arrested on charges of manipulating the church's accounts payable system to steal more than $1 million in education money. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006564889636/ 21006564889636 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:47:27 GMT TRENTON, N.J. -- A New Jersey waitress cried in court as she heard a prosecutor describe allegations that she sexually assaulted a 5-year-old she was baby-sitting and streamed video of the abuse online. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006564884734/ 21006564884734 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:48:46 GMT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Police in Alabama say they have arrested three suspects in the deaths of five people whose bodies were found by officers investigating a possible robbery. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006563452697/ 21006563452697 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:47:31 GMT PARK CITY, Utah -- A 19-year-old University of Utah student has died after falling about 30 feet from a Park City ski resort's chairlift. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006563445143/ 21006563445143 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:17:16 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is preparing to begin talks with Iraq on defining a long-term defense relationship that may include expanded U.S. training help, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's chief policy aide. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006562183687/ 21006562183687 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:17:59 GMT KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii -- A Hawaii-based lance corporal accused of hazing a fellow Marine who committed suicide at their remote outpost in Afghanistan will appear in court after agreeing to a plea bargain. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006562187977/ 21006562187977 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:08:58 GMT ATLANTA -- The Carter Center on Monday announced it received $40 million in donations to help fuel its mission to eradicate Guinea worm disease, a debilitating parasite that once plagued millions of people across the developing world. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006562133882/ 21006562133882 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:44:21 GMT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Police found five people dead inside a Birmingham home when they arrived early Sunday morning to investigate a possible robbery, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006558386190/ 21006558386190 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:41:05 GMT MECHANICSVILLE, Va. -- Authorities on Sunday identified bodies found in a suburban Richmond home as a man and his twin 3-year-old daughters. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006558366578/ 21006558366578 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:41:36 GMT NESHOBA, Miss. -- Authorities say an early-morning house fire in central Mississippi has killed three children, and a fourth is in a burn center. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006558369690/ 21006558369690 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:45:14 GMT AIKEN, S.C. -- A man accused of killing his girlfriend in Georgia and then gunning down a police officer in South Carolina had been dealing with mental problems before the slayings, the man's father said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006558391453/ 21006558391453 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:39:58 GMT WASHINGTON -- U.S. Park Police say an officer used an electronic stun gun on an Occupy DC participant who was tearing down fliers warning protesters about the ban on camping in McPherson Square. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006558359822/ 21006558359822 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:38:47 GMT SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Investigators on Sunday were trying to determine what motivated the driver of a sport utility vehicle to ignore a downed crossing arm and flashing lights and pull the vehicle into the path of an oncoming commuter train in Sacramento. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006558352737/ 21006558352737 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:42:26 GMT WORCESTER, Mass. -- A Massachusetts judge has dismissed assault charges against the fiancÈe of a man accused of fatally beating his 7-year-old son on Father's Day 2009. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006558374641/ 21006558374641 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:47:59 GMT NEW YORK -- Shele Covlin's body was found in the bathtub of her Manhattan apartment by her 9-year-old daughter on Dec. 31, 2009. Her young son was still asleep in his bed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006558407992/ 21006558407992 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:48:43 GMT ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Thousands of people clad in bathing trunks, bikinis and even some woolly winter hats have taken the Polar Bear Plunge into the Chesapeake Bay for charity. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006558412364/ 21006558412364 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:38:46 GMT BOSTON -- President Barack Obama has nominated a U.S. Marine general from Boston to be the next commander of the military's Southern Command. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006550072669/ 21006550072669 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:48:28 GMT PORTLAND, Maine -- Investigators have been analyzing blood found in the basement of a Maine home where a missing toddler was last seen six weeks ago, an official said Saturday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006549770823/ 21006549770823 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:36:14 GMT ESTACADA, Ore. -- The body of a 6-year-old girl has been found nearly a week after she was swept away in a frigid, fast-moving Oregon river. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006549697428/ 21006549697428 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:34:29 GMT SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- Police shot and killed a fellow officer when he fired his gun as they tried to take him into custody on suspicion of sexual misconduct with a teenage girl, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006549686935/ 21006549686935 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:37:37 GMT CLAY, Ala. -- Survivors still haunted by memories of last year's tornado outbreak that killed 250 in Alabama are writing checks, donating diapers and standing over hot grills to help victims of the latest twisters to pummel the state. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006550065725/ 21006550065725 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:37:06 GMT BOISE, Idaho -- Boise Airport officials say an American Airlines passenger jet traveling from Chicago to Seattle carrying 141 passengers and crew landed in Boise on Saturday after the pilot reported an engine failure. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006549702629/ 21006549702629 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:39:50 GMT Authorities say a skier has died after becoming trapped in an avalanche in a Utah backcountry area that the public was warned to avoid after potent snowstorms. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006549719085/ 21006549719085 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:41:47 GMT KIPLING, Colo. -- Police in Denver say a teenage girl is dead after she jumped out of a car driven by her mother and was hit and killed by an oncoming vehicle. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006549730750/ 21006549730750 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:45:41 GMT CROFTON, Md. -- Maryland State Police say four people have died after a driver apparently went the wrong way on U.S. Route 50 between Washington and Annapolis and collided with another car. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006549754125/ 21006549754125 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:43:34 GMT SAINT IGNACE, Mich. -- The U.S. Coast Guard has freed two ships trapped by ice in the Straits of Mackinac between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006549741431/ 21006549741431 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:42:42 GMT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A man who tells authorities he was stuck in the mud at the Rio Grande river in New Mexico for three days has been rescued after a group of high school students on a field trip heard him yelling for help. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006549736255/ 21006549736255 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:39:09 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- Police have used tear gas and flash bang grenades on demonstrators in Oakland, Calif., as authorities say a protest involving an estimated 2,000 people turned violent. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006549714945/ 21006549714945 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:46:55 GMT CINCINNATI -- A hospital spokesman says a worker who was injured when a floor collapsed at an Ohio casino construction site remains in serious condition a day later as investigators work to figure out what happened. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006549761599/ 21006549761599 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:44:18 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A federal appeals court has granted another look at the evidence in the case of a man convicted of killing his daughter in what authorities alleged was an arson fire two decades ago in eastern Pennsylvania. Defense attorneys and some arson specialists say that determination was made using what's now considered flawed science. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006549745824/ 21006549745824 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:59:24 GMT SEATTLE -- After a two-year international crime spree in which he survived a handful of crash landings, Colton Harris-Moore -- the infamous "Barefoot Bandit" -- says he's lucky to be alive. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541196427/ 21006541196427 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:00:21 GMT CINCINNATI -- A hospital spokesman says a worker injured in a collapse at the construction site of a Cincinnati casino has taken a turn for the worse and is in serious condition. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541202132/ 21006541202132 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:20:30 GMT ROCKVILLE, Md. -- A woman convicted of killing her co-worker at an upscale yoga clothing shop in the Washington suburbs, then spinning an elaborate lie about being attacked by two masked men, was ordered Friday to spend the rest of her life behind bars. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541323015/ 21006541323015 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:18:44 GMT ST. LOUIS -- Police say a St. Louis woman who allegedly robbed an officer who responded to her call for help was caught when she used his bank card a short time later. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541312450/ 21006541312450 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:07:58 GMT ROY, Utah -- The two teens had a detailed plot, blueprints of the school and security systems, but no explosives. They had hours of flight simulator training on a home computer and a plan to flee the country, but no plane. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541247848/ 21006541247848 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:17:31 GMT NEW YORK -- The company through which billionaire Ronald Perelman accumulated much of his wealth must pay his former longtime friend and right-hand dealmaking executive $16 million, an acrimonious end to a quarter century friendship that was not lost on a jury mostly shielded from the human drama. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541305182/ 21006541305182 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:11:59 GMT RENO, Nev. -- Fire investigators have confirmed arcing power lines caused the wind-blown blaze that destroyed dozens of homes on the southwest side of Reno in November. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541271970/ 21006541271970 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:01:03 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A former Marine convicted of killing three women in Illinois has pleaded not guilty to murdering five more women in California. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541206382/ 21006541206382 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:18:08 GMT KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Farmers whose land was damaged by Missouri River flooding expressed frustration Friday that a missed deadline will keep them from sharing in $215 million from one federal disaster program. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541308880/ 21006541308880 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:10:39 GMT SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California prison officials have sent layoff notices to 545 employees, including 140 guards, as the inmate population declines to comply with a federal court order. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541263910/ 21006541263910 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:11:18 GMT PORTLAND, Ore. -- Eugene Police Officer Dan Baker drove a blue SUV and set off sirens to clear cars in front of him at traffic lights. He pulled over motorists -- though it's unclear if he ever gave out tickets. And when he stopped by a youth shelter as a volunteer, he came in full uniform. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541267839/ 21006541267839 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:19:48 GMT FLORENCE, Ore. -- A man has pleaded no contest to animal abuse after being accused of fatally shooting a 90-pound bear cub rummaging in his neighbor's garbage. But the case could be dismissed if he doesn't break the law for six months. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541318854/ 21006541318854 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:16:56 GMT SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The court-appointed receiver overseeing California's prison health care system said Friday the state must keep its promise to spend more than $2 billion for new medical facilities before the federal courts can end an oversight role that has lasted six years. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541301699/ 21006541301699 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:21:11 GMT PHOENIX -- Authorities in Tennessee say they've arrested a man who's suspected of threatening the self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" in America. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541327145/ 21006541327145 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:19:18 GMT NEWARK, N.J. -- The state's largest city must produce a list of documents related to a $100 million pledge to its public schools from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a judge ruled Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541315827/ 21006541315827 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:21:55 GMT WILMINGTON, N.C. -- A North Carolina man must stand trial in a plot to hire a hit man to behead three witnesses from his brother's terrorism case, a federal magistrate judge ruled on Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541331516/ 21006541331516 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:58:43 GMT SAN ANTONIO -- A lengthy and contentious fight over Texas redistricting plans took a new twist Friday when the state and a minority group opposing the redrawn maps started negotiating over the disputed districts in hopes of preserving its April 3 primary. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006541192386/ 21006541192386 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:21:19 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A Connecticut man condemned to die for a home invasion that killed a mother and her two daughters says it is surreal to face death and insists he did not intend to kill anyone. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006537007971/ 21006537007971 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:43:54 GMT DENVER - One of three siblings who were part of a multistate crime spree and nationwide manhunt planned to escape from a Colorado jail, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006539663474/ 21006539663474 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:20:43 GMT WASHINGTON -- Patients with hard-to-treat kidney cancer that has spread to other parts of the body gained a new drug option Friday as federal regulators approved a twice-a-day pill from Pfizer for the disease. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006538804333/ 21006538804333 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:32:06 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- California air regulators passed Friday sweeping auto emission standards that include a mandate to have 1.4 million electric and hybrid vehicles on state roads by 2025. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006538872665/ 21006538872665 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:34:55 GMT PORTLAND, Ore. -- Portland transit police have arrested an 11-year-old boy who displayed a loaded gun during a dispute on a light rail train. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006537089536/ 21006537089536 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:20:00 GMT NEW YORK -- New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the CIA officer working as an assistant to the department's top intelligence officer will leave in April after nine months. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006538800030/ 21006538800030 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:44:50 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration says it has detained several shipments of imported orange juice after finding traces of an illegal fungicide. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006537869031/ 21006537869031 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:33:49 GMT KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Taiwan official has been scheduled for sentencing Friday, more than two months after she was arrested, charged and pleaded guilty to a federal labor violation accusing her of underpaying and overworking two housekeepers. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006537082980/ 21006537082980 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:30:33 GMT BENTON, Ky. -- Two spans of a southwest Kentucky bridge collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship that carried aviation parts. No injuries were immediately reported, state transportation officials said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006537063395/ 21006537063395 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:28:37 GMT RENO, Nev. -- A federal judge in Nevada who handed horse protection advocates a rare victory last fall has rejected their latest request to block government roundups of free-roaming mustangs in the West, saying they'll have to go to Congress if they think the animals are being treated inhumanely and need more protection. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006537051730/ 21006537051730 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:23:41 GMT WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors have ended a six-year legal fight against the imprisoned father-son executives of a defunct Pennsylvania cable company after deeming the tax fraud charges against them not worth pursuing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006537022112/ 21006537022112 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:22:22 GMT POTTSTOWN, Pa. -- A suburban Philadelphia middle school's ban on a popular type of fur-lined boots isn't about fashion, it's about cellphones. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006537014257/ 21006537014257 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:19:58 GMT WASHINGTON -- The federal government's plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans' civil liberties. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006536999841/ 21006536999841 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:57:09 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006536862966/ 21006536862966 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:56:18 GMT BOSTON -- Lawyers for Children's Hospital Boston have asked a Massachusetts judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 11 former patients of a renowned pediatrician who they say sexually abused them in North Carolina. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006536857860/ 21006536857860 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:04:42 GMT HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A convicted killer has been executed in Texas for the abduction, rape and strangulation of a 38-year-old woman 18 years ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006532588256/ 21006532588256 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:35:18 GMT DALLAS -- A man accused of stabbing his estranged wife and her parents to death in a Dallas home was arrested Thursday as he drove from a fast-food restaurant where officers tracked him after the killings, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006532771858/ 21006532771858 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:35:52 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah high school student bragged to police that he was smarter than the Columbine killers and was plotting with an older student to set off a bomb during a school assembly and escape in a stolen plane, court documents say. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006532775229/ 21006532775229 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:34:30 GMT EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- Federal investigators helped by a conscientious paroled killer say they foiled a plot to abduct, extort and electrocute a wealthy man in a scheme they say borrowed elements from a television show and sought to blame the killing on the planned victim's cat. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006532767048/ 21006532767048 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:30:35 GMT NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The rig owner involved in drilling the ill-fated well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico and spewed more than 200 million gallons of oil will not have to pay many of the pollution claims because it was shielded in a contract with well-owner BP, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. The ruling comes as BP, the states affected by the disaster and the federal government are discussing a settlement over the nation's largest offshore oil spill. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006532743596/ 21006532743596 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:03:53 GMT COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio investment group's lawsuit seeking to collect $100 million on three-decade-old Venezuelan promissory notes is headed back to a federal judge for further deliberations. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006532583373/ 21006532583373 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:33:52 GMT DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa Lottery officials say a New York attorney has withdrawn his mysterious claim on a multimillion-dollar jackpot. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006532763233/ 21006532763233 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:32:50 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah mayor who wrote news stories under a false identify was sued for defamation on the same day he announced he will seek the Republican nomination to run for Salt Lake County mayor. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006532757094/ 21006532757094 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:05:21 GMT WASHINGTON -- A new Justice Department fraud-fighting unit will bring together 55 prosecutors and federal and state investigators focusing on one of the contributing factors to the financial crisis -- the collapse of residential mortgage-backed securities. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006532592171/ 21006532592171 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:11:12 GMT SANTA FE, N.M. -- Republican Gov. Susana Martinez suffered a temporary political setback Thursday in a bid to stop New Mexico from granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006532627276/ 21006532627276 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:36:40 GMT WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday the Justice Department opened a record number of more than 100 new investigations into possible voting rights discrimination across the country last year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006532780084/ 21006532780084 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:53:43 GMT WASHINGTON -- The applause rolled through the big chamber, growing ever louder as hundreds of Republicans and Democrats suddenly realized Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was back in the House. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006520282323/ 21006520282323 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:09:08 GMT WASHINGTON -- Pentagon leaders outlined a plan Thursday for absorbing $487 billion in defense cuts over the coming decade by shrinking U.S. ground forces, slowing the purchase of a next-generation stealth fighter and retiring older planes and ships. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006530094870/ 21006530094870 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:56:32 GMT BALTIMORE -- A Maryland man pleaded guilty Thursday to trying to detonate what he thought was a car bomb outside a military recruiting center in suburban Baltimore. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006528939210/ 21006528939210 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:13:13 GMT NEW YORK -- A son of the city police commissioner is under investigation by prosecutors and denies any wrongdoing, his lawyer said Wednesday, without elaborating on the allegations. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006528319329/ 21006528319329 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:14:36 GMT HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Connecticut mayor who made a quip about tacos when asked what he could do for his town's besieged Latino community has no plans to step down, though calls for his resignation grew Thursday in his community and statewide. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006530127695/ 21006530127695 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:14:02 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- The head of California's air quality board on Thursday called proposed rules that would require automakers to build less-polluting cars and trucks by 2025 a historic move for a cleaner environment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006530124286/ 21006530124286 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:15:17 GMT COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The mother of a South Carolina toddler missing since Thanksgiving is pregnant and should be released from jail because she needs prenatal care, the woman's attorney argued in court papers filed this week. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006530131740/ 21006530131740 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:57:16 GMT HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A Roman Catholic bishop in Pennsylvania is drawing criticism for comparing the public school system to those under Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006528943615/ 21006528943615 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:23:02 GMT ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Donny Hopkins was buying his wife cigarettes at a drug store when a man burst inside and screamed the unbelievable: A serial killer was savagely stabbing a man in the parking lot. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006528378290/ 21006528378290 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:12:16 GMT SEATTLE -- A group of conservationists and American Indian tribes are suing over the Navy's expanded use of sonar in training exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, saying the noise can harass and kill whales and other marine life. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006528313653/ 21006528313653 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:14:04 GMT LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Taco Bell, the fast-food chain that caters to late-night snacking, is making a play for the breakfast crowd. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006528324474/ 21006528324474 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:55:18 GMT CHICAGO -- About 16 million Americans have oral HPV, a sexually transmitted virus more commonly linked with cervical cancer that also can cause mouth cancer, according to the first nationwide estimate. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006528931884/ 21006528931884 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:30:02 GMT WASHINGTON -- Consumer groups are scrambling to salvage a popular provision of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that suddenly seems to be in question. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006528420226/ 21006528420226 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:16:57 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration says new rules to manage nearly 200 million acres of national forests will protect watersheds and wildlife while promoting uses ranging from recreation to logging. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006528341762/ 21006528341762 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:17:53 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- California is poised to vote on new rules that would require automakers to build cars and trucks by 2025 that emit about three-quarters less smog producing pollutants and also mandate that one of every seven new cars sold in the state be a zero emission or plug-in hybrid vehicle. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006528347331/ 21006528347331 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:59:37 GMT WASHINGTON -- The secret was still intact when President Barack Obama, entering the House chamber Tuesday evening to deliver his State of the Union speech, pointed at his Pentagon chief and said, "Good job tonight." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006519237740/ 21006519237740 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:00:14 GMT ESTACADA, Ore. -- The search for a 6-year-old Oregon girl who fell into the frigid, fast-moving Clackamas River was suspended late Tuesday after searchers recovered several items of her clothing and deteriorating weather conditions put search crews at risk. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006519241490/ 21006519241490 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:00:58 GMT ALHAMBRA, California -- The bizarre murder case against a man who assumed multiple identities including that of a Rockefeller is headed for trial and a lawyer for the defendant said he welcomes the chance to go before a jury. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006519245846/ 21006519245846 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:56:12 GMT HOUSTON -- Heavy rain and powerful winds that likely spawned tornadoes have swept across Texas, forcing drivers to abandon cars on flooded roads but not dropping enough water to make up for the state's historic drought. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006521737229/ 21006521737229 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:06:24 GMT CLEAR SPRING, Md. -- Emergency crews have rescued a man who spent hours trapped deep inside a cave in Maryland. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006519278487/ 21006519278487 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:43:03 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve went further than ever Wednesday to assure consumers and businesses that they'll be able to borrow cheaply well into the future. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006521298373/ 21006521298373 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:41:09 GMT DEDHAM, Mass. -- A lawyer for an Alabama professor who could be executed for allegedly killing three colleagues asked a judge Wednesday to keep a report into the 1986 killing of her brother secret, arguing it could prejudice a jury against her. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006523806939/ 21006523806939 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:39:34 GMT SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Rancho Cordova man who recently lost his job is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in the shooting death of his former boss, the city's parks superintendent. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006523797462/ 21006523797462 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:37:51 GMT NEW YORK -- A judge gave federal prosecutors until a week from Wednesday to give up the name of a witness they say was recruited for a chilling, al-Qaida-sanctioned plot for suicide bombers to attack the New York City subways with explosives made from beauty supplies. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006523787168/ 21006523787168 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:33:34 GMT SANTA FE, N.M. -- Two New Mexico men have been sentenced to prison for branding a swastika on the arm of a developmentally disabled Navajo man. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006523761430/ 21006523761430 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:32:44 GMT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A federal jury has awarded $22 million to a New Mexico man who was kept in solitary confinement for two years and forced to pull his own tooth after being arrested for drunken driving in Dona Ana County. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006523756413/ 21006523756413 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:31:25 GMT PHOENIX -- One of two white supremacist brothers accused of bombing a black city official in suburban Phoenix told a government informant shortly before his arrest that once his mother died, he would return to a life of "bomb throwing" and "sniper shooting" because he had nothing to lose, according to a recording played for jurors Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006523748555/ 21006523748555 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:28:14 GMT HONOLULU -- A woman who needed blood while aboard a Hawaii-bound cruise ship has been taken to a hospital on the Big Island. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006523729466/ 21006523729466 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:26:05 GMT ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Danny Hopkins was making a quick stop at a drug store to buy his wife a pack of cigarettes when a man burst inside and screamed for help. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006523716546/ 21006523716546 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:00:31 GMT BALTIMORE -- An ex-sheriff's deputy from Maryland is not liable for a suspect's electric stun gun death because his actions were reasonable and defended himself and others, a federal jury found on Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006521763163/ 21006521763163 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:05:44 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- A BP executive is expected to be the first witness to testify at a trial next month designed to identify the causes of a deadly rig explosion that spawned a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006519274416/ 21006519274416 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:02:35 GMT HOUSTON -- Texas financier R. Allen Stanford's financial empire was real, his attorney says, and not, as prosecutors contend, built on a foundation of lies, theft and bribes as part of an effort to rob investors of more than $7 billion through a vast Ponzi scheme that spanned more than 20 years. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006519255539/ 21006519255539 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:38:46 GMT WASHINGTON -- Arlington National Cemetery is a lot more full than anyone knew. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006523792681/ 21006523792681 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:27:10 GMT LOS ANGELES -- An unusual small claims lawsuit by a Honda hybrid owner took another complicated turn Wednesday with additional arguments that prompted a commissioner to delay a ruling for more consideration. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006523723023/ 21006523723023 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:03:25 GMT WASHINGTON -- The pharmaceutical industry won approval to market a record number of new drugs for rare diseases last year, as a combination of scientific innovation and business opportunity spurred new treatments for diseases long-ignored by drug companies. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006519260575/ 21006519260575 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:35:57 GMT RALEIGH, N.C. -- Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, heiress to a vast Gilded Age fortune built on tobacco and member of the family that endowed Duke University, has died. She was 91. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006523775748/ 21006523775748 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:04:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Schoolchildren's favorite lunch -- the ubiquitous frozen pizza -- is about to get healthier. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006519264072/ 21006519264072 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:04:38 GMT CHARLESTON, S.C. -- "The Ship That Would Not Die" is coming home to South Carolina. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006519267851/ 21006519267851 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:34:51 GMT CLEVELAND -- A Cleveland Clinic women's health specialist has made a house call at the zoo to demonstrate how to fit an orangutan with a newer brand of implanted birth-control device. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006523769182/ 21006523769182 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:01:10 GMT WASHINGTON -- An Idaho man accused of firing shots at the White House pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he tried to assassinate President Barack Obama. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006515647095/ 21006515647095 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:14:04 GMT CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- The lone Marine to face sentencing for the killing of two dozen unarmed Iraqis in one of the Iraq War's defining moments walked away with no jail time Tuesday after defending his squad's storming of the homes of Haditha as a necessary act "to keep the rest of my Marines alive." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006515724489/ 21006515724489 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:58:23 GMT NEW YORK -- A serial thief is headed for 10 years in prison for a string of heists at New York City luxury hotels, including a theft of $250,000 worth of valuables at The Plaza hotel room of a woman from the United Arab Emirates. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006515630373/ 21006515630373 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:16:33 GMT RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. -- Police on Tuesday arrested a recently laid-off park employee in the shooting death of a parks superintendent whose body was found in his bullet-riddled car in a Northern California park near the American River. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006515739364/ 21006515739364 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:10:11 GMT PORTLAND, Ore. -- Federal authorities say they'll seek to deport a Bulgarian man who assumed the identity of a murdered Ohio boy and became an Oregon liquor enforcement agent. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006515701126/ 21006515701126 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:15:18 GMT PHOENIX -- A government informant who used her good looks and feminine wiles to befriend two white supremacist brothers charged with bombing a black city official took the witness stand Tuesday in their trial, describing how the men fell so hard for her that one wanted to father her child. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006515731861/ 21006515731861 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:10:48 GMT WICHITA, Kan. -- As the nation's oldest sitting federal judge in history, U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown allowed himself few concessions to his advancing age as he insisted on presiding over significant and often complex cases right up until his death at 104. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006515704887/ 21006515704887 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:39:50 GMT HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A 19-year-old man was charged Tuesday with attempted murder and hate crimes in connection with recent firebombings of two northern New Jersey synagogues that put the region's Jewish community on edge and prompted round-the-clock police patrols. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006512999036/ 21006512999036 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:15:27 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The FBI on Tuesday arrested four East Haven police officers on conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges following an investigation into possible civil rights violations. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006511052783/ 21006511052783 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:18:12 GMT TRENTON, N.J. -- A New Jersey Senate panel has approved a same-sex marriage bill the same day Gov. Chris Christie vowed to veto it. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006513229237/ 21006513229237 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:33:08 GMT CAMP PENDLETON, California -- Military prosecutors worked for more than six years to bring Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich to trial on manslaughter charges that could have sent him away to prison for life. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006510798840/ 21006510798840 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:39:17 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A German man suspected of setting dozens of arsons that terrorized Los Angeles over the New Year's weekend will face additional charges, authorities said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006512995784/ 21006512995784 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:38:12 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- Lawyers for a Catholic Church official say prosecutors are trying to hold him alone responsible for the priest abuse scandal in Philadelphia. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006512989246/ 21006512989246 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:36:57 GMT BOSTON -- Final recordings President John F. Kennedy secretly made in the Oval Office include an eerie conversation about what would become the day of his funeral. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006512981713/ 21006512981713 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:37:37 GMT RYE, N.Y. -- Fifteen Muslims on Tuesday won conditional dismissals of charges stemming from an amusement park disturbance that started when women were told they couldn't wear religious headscarves on some rides. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006512985730/ 21006512985730 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:44:51 GMT PUEBLO, Colo. -- A man suspected in the kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl who escaped and called police from a Colorado Springs convenience store faces charges in another case involving a girl the same age. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006510869198/ 21006510869198 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:30:50 GMT HICKMAN, Ky. -- A 30-year-old man who grew up in a small town in western Kentucky came to the police station in the middle of the night with chilling news: He told officers that he had just shot the mayor. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006510785017/ 21006510785017 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:25:35 GMT NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- A former dentist in Massachusetts has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud for using paper clips instead of stainless steel posts in root canals. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006510753557/ 21006510753557 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:46:22 GMT NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- An American woman who sent her adopted Russian son back to Moscow alone on a plane with a note saying she didn't want him anymore is facing a lawsuit for child support, which is scheduled for trial in March. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006510878279/ 21006510878279 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:27:42 GMT FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. -- A Georgia father is pleading with whoever stole an urn that held his newborn daughter's ashes to return it to the family. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006510766267/ 21006510766267 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:26:33 GMT HOUSTON -- Texas financier R. Allen Stanford built a vast fortune through his network of banks and other businesses in the U.S., Latin America the Caribbean, and he led a lifestyle befitting a billionaire business magnate. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006510759354/ 21006510759354 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:29:40 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is preparing to welcome the space shuttle Discovery into its collection. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006510778079/ 21006510778079 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:43:36 GMT BOSTON -- President John F. Kennedy's library is releasing 45 hours of privately recorded meetings and phone calls, providing a window into the final months of his life. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006510861626/ 21006510861626 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:05:52 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A Southern California woman was convicted Monday of arranging to have a former NFL player kill her millionaire boyfriend more than a decade ago to collect on a $1 million life insurance policy and other cash. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006506675287/ 21006506675287 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:10:06 GMT FARGO, N.D. -- A Canadian man accused of masterminding one of the largest high-tech bank robberies in U.S. history was sentenced to nearly 18 years in prison Monday following a years-long investigation into fake debt collection agencies that prosecutors say stole the identities of about 38,000 people. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006506700660/ 21006506700660 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:07:53 GMT FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- A 21-year-old Syrian-American has been missing for three weeks after returning to Syria from suburban Detroit, a family member in Michigan said Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006506687346/ 21006506687346 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:02:58 GMT SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. -- A March trial has been scheduled in a child support lawsuit against an American woman who sent her adopted son back to Russia by himself with a note saying she didn't want to be his mother anymore. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006506657884/ 21006506657884 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:04:37 GMT HOUSTON -- Jury selection has ended for the day in the oft-delayed trial of jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who is accused of bilking investors out of $7 billion in a vast Ponzi scheme. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006506667713/ 21006506667713 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:01:58 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel plans to seek a reduction in his sentence of 20 years to life in prison for the killing of his neighbor when they were teenagers in 1975. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006506651821/ 21006506651821 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:04:05 GMT SEATTLE -- As the search for four people on the slopes of Mount Rainier stretches into its second week, experts say the rewards for the hearty few who attempt the summit of the 14,411-foot heavily glaciated volcano in winter are great -- as are the dangers. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006506664537/ 21006506664537 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:06:43 GMT HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A prosecutor on Monday described state Rep. Bill DeWeese as a "common thief" as the once-powerful Democrat became the first sitting Pennsylvania legislator to go on trial as part of a public corruption probe that started five years ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006506680396/ 21006506680396 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:29:15 GMT CLAY, Ala. -- Severe storms and possible tornadoes pounded the South on Monday, injuring more than 100 people and killing at least two in Alabama, including a man who lived in an area devastated by a deadly twister outbreak in the spring. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006502135546/ 21006502135546 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:23:55 GMT WASHINGTON -- The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006504263580/ 21006504263580 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:14:33 GMT PHOENIX -- In part, the short video has the feel of a campaign ad: the strains of soft music, the iconic snapshots of rugged Arizona desert, the candidate earnestly engaged with her constituents. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006501327330/ 21006501327330 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:28:19 GMT HILO, Hawaii -- A magnitude-4.7 earthquake and several small aftershocks shook Hawaii's Big Island on Sunday, but there were no reports of injury or damage. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006502129957/ 21006502129957 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:32:22 GMT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Washington's Legislature has enough votes to legalize gay marriage with a statement from Democratic Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen Monday who said she will support the measure, becoming the 25th vote needed to pass the bill out of the Senate. The House already has enough support, and Gov. Chris Gregoire has endorsed the plan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006504674249/ 21006504674249 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:26:22 GMT ST. LOUIS -- A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiring millions of dollars in advanced treatment -- a burden so costly that it's contributing to the closure of some burn units. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006502118240/ 21006502118240 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:49:34 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is launching a Spanish-language broadcast TV network that aims to bring the flavor of the Fox network to Hispanic audiences in the U.S. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006504777474/ 21006504777474 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:34:15 GMT HICKMAN, Ky. -- The mayor of a small western Kentucky town was shot dead early Monday morning in his home, and a suspect turned himself in shortly afterward. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006504685584/ 21006504685584 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:25:26 GMT MASSENA, N.Y. -- Kids say the darndest things, especially when daddy is trying to hide from the police. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006502112684/ 21006502112684 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:08:42 GMT ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Authorities say a former CIA agent who has claimed he helped interrogate a top suspected terrorist has been charged with leaking classified secrets about fellow officers to the media. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006504172227/ 21006504172227 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:09:35 GMT NEW YORK -- The convicted mastermind of a $100 million mortgage fraud scheme admitted Monday to plotting the death of a key witness in his trial while behind bars, with an undercover investigator posing as a hit man. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006504177578/ 21006504177578 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:36:59 GMT COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A juvenile suspect in a deadly scheme to rob people who replied to a Craigslist job ad in Ohio now faces a new set of criminal charges. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006504341926/ 21006504341926 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:22:06 GMT GENEVA -- The U.N. human rights chief says the U.S. government must close the Guantanamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama promised a year ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006502092646/ 21006502092646 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:19:14 GMT BOSTON -- A federal judge has ordered Boston College to turn over more interview transcripts and recordings of former IRA members. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006502075450/ 21006502075450 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:23:42 GMT KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Two guns thought to have been used by bank-robbing fugitives Bonnie and Clyde have been snatched up $210,000 at an auction in Kansas City, Mo. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006502102212/ 21006502102212 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:50:12 GMT FARGO, N.D. -- He was unemployed and receiving welfare, but Adekunle Adetiloye was somehow still living lavishly, complete with a Range Rover vehicle, extended trips to England and an expensive condominium. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006502261270/ 21006502261270 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:54:32 GMT PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State Rep. Robert Watson says he has checked in to in-patient rehabilitation following his second arrest on marijuana possession charges. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006502287268/ 21006502287268 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:52:32 GMT LANSING, Mich. -- A $245 million American Indian casino in downtown Lansing could create about 2,200 jobs and help fund scholarships for area students, according to backers of a plan to open the gambling facility. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006502275221/ 21006502275221 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:06:57 GMT HILO, Hawaii -- A magnitude-5.0 earthquake has struck the island of Oahu in Hawaii. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006498761752/ 21006498761752 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:55:14 GMT MINNEAPOLIS -- Freezing drizzle and rain made roads slick Sunday as a winter weather system moved across portions of the Upper Midwest, and the precipitation was expected to begin changing over into snow that could continue into Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006497611418/ 21006497611418 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:58:50 GMT RENO, Nev. -- The wildfire that destroyed 29 homes near Reno is contained. Thousands of evacuees are back home. And the family of the woman found dead says there's no point in prosecuting the remorseful man who accidentally started it. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006497633010/ 21006497633010 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:51:07 GMT ANTIOCH, Calif. -- Six people, including five teens, were injured when gunfire erupted at a girl's 16th birthday party in the San Francisco Bay area, authorities said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006497586731/ 21006497586731 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:49:06 GMT LAFAYETTE, N.J. -- Investigators say a fast-moving New Jersey barn fire that killed 22 show horses this weekend does not appear to have been deliberately set. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006497574641/ 21006497574641 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:49:54 GMT POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Authorities have released the identity of one of the victims of a fire that tore through a private home being rented by college students in upstate New York, killing three people. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006497579478/ 21006497579478 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:08:10 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Russian tanker that brought fuel to an iced-in Alaska town is heading back to open water -- once it gets through miles of sea ice. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006498769038/ 21006498769038 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:53:58 GMT DETROIT -- The federal government now says a 101-year-old Detroit woman it promised could move back into her foreclosed home four months ago can't return because the building's unsanitary and unsafe. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006497603833/ 21006497603833 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:56:14 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Police have removed more evidence from the Los Angeles apartment of a man whose head, hands and feet were found last week in a hillside park near the famed "Hollywood" sign. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006497617431/ 21006497617431 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:57:21 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- Twenty New Orleans police officers have been charged in a series of probes by the Justice Department's civil rights division since 2010. A retired sergeant who was assigned to investigate deadly police shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina will be the last of those officers to get his day in court. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006497624182/ 21006497624182 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:52:47 GMT DENVER -- Nine years after a sexual assault scandal at the Air Force Academy sent shock waves across the military, the Defense Department last month announced a spike in reported assaults at the school -- and days later the Air Force filed sex-crime charges against three cadets. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006497596716/ 21006497596716 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:58:00 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A British pharmaceutical company is working its way toward FDA approval for the world's first prescription drug developed from raw marijuana instead of synthetic equivalents, a medical milestone that could presage a new era for the plant and the nation's uneasy relationship with it. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006497628040/ 21006497628040 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:51:16 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A few inches of snow coated the Northeast on Saturday in a storm so rare this season in the East that some welcomed it. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006484987631/ 21006484987631 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:51:31 GMT YUMA, Ariz. -- An Arizona couple who committed suicide last month planned to lure sheriff's deputies to their remote, desert home and kill as many as possible before ending their own lives, a top local law enforcement official said, as an eerie series of videos the couple made was released this week. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006488949148/ 21006488949148 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:58:29 GMT BOSTON -- A federal appeals court has upheld multimillion-dollar judgments that found the government liable for the deaths of three people allegedly murdered by James "Whitey" Bulger. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006488990999/ 21006488990999 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:53:07 GMT RENO, Nev. -- An elderly man discarding fireplace ashes accidentally touched off the brush fire that raged south of Reno, destroying 29 homes and forcing thousands of people to flee the flames, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006484998761/ 21006484998761 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:54:51 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Authorities have determined that a dismembered head and other body parts found in a rugged hillside park near the famed "Hollywood" sign are the remains of a man who lived in an a nearby apartment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006485009136/ 21006485009136 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:57:24 GMT DENVER -- A missing 9-year-old girl escaped from an apparent kidnapper and called 911 herself from a convenience store in Colorado Springs on Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006485024447/ 21006485024447 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:56:15 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- Three men were arrested and charged with murder in the fatal beating of a man who had been trying to hail a cab after leaving a bar just a few blocks from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia's historic district, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006485017581/ 21006485017581 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:52:54 GMT HONOLULU -- All six Marines killed in the crash of a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan were based in Hawaii, a Hawaii congresswoman said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480677417/ 21006480677417 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:04:28 GMT MINNEAPOLIS -- The family of an American couple missing in last week's Italian cruise ship wreck say the pair is still unaccounted for. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480746869/ 21006480746869 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:56:17 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Coroner's officials have identified the man whose dismembered head, hands and feet were found in a Hollywood park, but they're not releasing his name as police hunt for his killer. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480697748/ 21006480697748 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:53:44 GMT AKRON, Ohio -- A self-styled chaplain suspected in a deadly scheme to rob people who replied to a Craigslist job ad has been charged with multiple counts of aggravated murder, kidnapping and robbery and could face the death penalty if convicted, according to an indictment announced Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480682463/ 21006480682463 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:11:19 GMT ARLINGTON, Va. -- On the same day that retired Air Force Lt. Col. Luke Weathers Jr. took his resting place among other war and military heroes, his real-life story as a World War II aviator played out on movie screens across the country. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480787977/ 21006480787977 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:02:06 GMT SEATTLE -- A Pacific Northwest storm that brought snow, ice and powerful winds left a mess of fallen trees and power lines Friday as tens of thousands of residents already without power faced the prospect of a cold, dark weekend and flooding became a top region-wide concern. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480732686/ 21006480732686 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:10:20 GMT LOS ANGELES -- One of the world's smallest surviving babies was discharged Friday from the hospital where she spent nearly five months in an incubator -- but not before getting the Hollywood treatment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480782031/ 21006480782031 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:55:35 GMT CHICAGO -- Chicago officials worked Friday to prevent a repeat of last year's "snowmageddon," when a blizzard left hundreds of drivers stranded along one of the city's main thoroughfares for up to 12 hours overnight. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480693547/ 21006480693547 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:51:26 GMT MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. -- Rescuers are hoping for better weather Saturday after a blizzard kept them from searching for four people missing on Washington's Mount Rainier. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480668677/ 21006480668677 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:54:17 GMT CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- A major war crimes trial resumed Friday after lawyers worked on unspecified negotiations for two days, with the prosecution showing outtakes of a "60 Minutes" interview in which a Marine squad leader charged with killing unarmed Iraqis says he felt no emotion and "was essentially like a machine." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480685750/ 21006480685750 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:00:51 GMT EAGLESWOOD TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- An architecture professor arrested after firefighters battling a blaze at his Jersey shore home found a 1970s magazine depicting naked prepubescent girls plans to seek dismissal of the child pornography charge though a pretrial intervention program, his lawyer said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480725198/ 21006480725198 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:52:05 GMT ANIMAS, N.M. -- The U.S. Border Patrol Friday announced it is building an outpost in New Mexico's Bootheel, one of the last unguarded regions between the United States and Mexico. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480672575/ 21006480672575 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:05:12 GMT DENVER -- A missing 9-year-old girl escaped from an apparent kidnapper and called 911 herself from a convenience store in Colorado Springs on Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480751252/ 21006480751252 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:57:06 GMT PHOENIX -- Defense attorneys for two white supremacist brothers accused of bombing a black city official in Scottsdale showed jurors racy photos Friday of a government informant chosen in hopes her good looks would get the men to talk. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480702617/ 21006480702617 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:02:50 GMT DIMOCK, Pa. -- A tanker truck has made its first delivery of fresh water to four homes in a northeastern Pennsylvania village where federal regulators say they found arsenic and chemicals often used in gas drilling in the well water. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006480737073/ 21006480737073 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:40:38 GMT SEATTLE -- The powerful Pacific Northwest storm that swelled Oregon rivers and left Washington state coated in ice that brought much of the state to a standstill was supposed to taper off Friday, but a rainy weekend forecast meant flooding worries would continue for some time. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006476283870/ 21006476283870 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:44:46 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- An Alabama man was arrested late Wednesday in connection with a video appearing to show someone in a University of Alabama jacket abusing an unconscious Louisiana State University fan after Alabama beat LSU for the BCS football championship. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006476308662/ 21006476308662 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:48:43 GMT WASHINGTON -- Facing a storm of protest over online piracy legislation, Senate and House leaders said Friday they will put off further action on the measure. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006476692332/ 21006476692332 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:21:31 GMT DES MOINES, Iowa -- Two men who pleaded guilty to breaking into U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell's southern Iowa farmhouse armed with a BB gun last summer have been sentenced to prison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006478329161/ 21006478329161 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:18:50 GMT NEW YORK -- An elaborate plan to occupy courthouses in cities across the nation started off quietly on Friday, with only a few dozen demonstrators turning out to protest a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that removed most limits on corporate and labor spending in federal elections. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006478313053/ 21006478313053 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:42:00 GMT ALHAMBRA, Calif. -- A Superior Court judge testified in a murder case against a man who posed as an heir to the Rockefeller fortune, saying that more than two decades ago he lent a chain saw to the defendant while the two were living in San Marino. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006476292046/ 21006476292046 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:19:21 GMT PATUXENT RIVER NAVAL AIR STATION, Md. -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. military is committed to developing the Marine Corps version of the next-generation strike fighter jet, but warns the program is "not out of the woods yet." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006478316173/ 21006478316173 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:32:08 GMT ATLANTA -- In an abrupt end to a disturbing saga, a 20-year-old maintenance man apparently killed himself in a Georgia prison two days after pleading guilty to molesting and killing a little girl. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006476232820/ 21006476232820 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:32:56 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A Ukrainian hockey coach accused of having sexual contact with a 14-year-old boy in Pennsylvania is due before a federal magistrate for a detention hearing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006476237636/ 21006476237636 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:33:52 GMT WASHINGTON -- The CIA's top lawyer never approved sending a veteran agency officer to New York, where he helped set up police spying programs, The Associated Press has learned. Such approval would have been required under the presidential order that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said authorized the unusual assignment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006476243236/ 21006476243236 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:34:50 GMT LOS ANGELES -- One of the world's smallest surviving babies is headed home. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006476249086/ 21006476249086 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:36:51 GMT McLEAN, Va. -- One of the world's most popular file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company officials were accused of facilitating millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006472301160/ 21006472301160 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:37:46 GMT ATLANTA -- A 20-year-old maintenance worker who this week pleaded guilty to molesting and killing a 7-year-old girl was found dead of an apparent suicide in his prison cell Thursday, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006472306630/ 21006472306630 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:41:41 GMT WICHITA, Kan. -- Bond was set at $2 million Thursday for a man charged with murder in the 2003 death of a Kansas woman whose drowning was initially ruled an accident, along with several other charges including rape and child sexual exploitation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006472330154/ 21006472330154 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:38:51 GMT RENO, Nev. -- Winds gusting up to 82 mph pushed a fast-moving brush fire south of Reno out of control on Thursday as it burned several homes, threatened dozens more and forced more than 4,000 people to evacuate their neighborhoods. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006472313111/ 21006472313111 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:39:29 GMT LOS ANGELES -- It's the perfect secluded hiking spot for those in the know, celebrities trying to keep clear of the paparazzi and others seeking a close-up view of the "Hollywood" sign or sweeping panoramas of downtown. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006472316924/ 21006472316924 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:36:03 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's new sheriff pleaded not guilty Thursday to domestic violence and other charges stemming from allegations that he mistreated his wife in front of their toddler son and told her not to tell anybody about it. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006472296325/ 21006472296325 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:34:46 GMT ALHAMBRA, Calif. -- A witness in the murder case against a man who posed as an heir to the Rockefeller fortune testified Thursday that he lent the defendant a chain saw while the two were living in San Marino in the 1980s. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006472288636/ 21006472288636 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:42:06 GMT NEW YORK -- A judge has ruled demonstrators don't have a First Amendment right to protest Friday afternoon in front of a New York City federal courthouse that has hosted several major terrorism trials. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006472332679/ 21006472332679 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:40:14 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Education Department wants the public's input to develop guidelines to prevent and detect cheating. The effort comes after several cheating scandals involving teachers. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006472321416/ 21006472321416 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:41:10 GMT CHICAGO -- Hull House, the Chicago social services organization that Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams founded in 1889 to help thousands of immigrants adjust to life in America, will close this spring because of financial reasons, the charity's board chairman said Thursday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006472327016/ 21006472327016 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:35:33 GMT NEW YORK -- A developer and a builder are fighting to keep the public from seeing the details of their settlements with the families of six construction workers killed in a 2008 crane collapse, though a judge has ordered the data released. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006472293343/ 21006472293343 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:26:54 GMT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- People in the Pacific Northwest faced difficult travel conditions and worries about flood waters Thursday after a windy winter storm dropped more than a foot of snow in some places, causing school closures, knocking out power to thousands and leaving hundreds of accidents in its wake. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467921433/ 21006467921433 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:42:07 GMT McLEAN, Va. -- Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006469812733/ 21006469812733 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:20:31 GMT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A Pacific Northwest storm has claimed its first life -- a child whose body was pulled from an Oregon creek where a car was swept away from a grocery store parking lot. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467883181/ 21006467883181 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:14:06 GMT WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. -- From turning out for blood drives to pitching in at homeless shelters, the Minnesota couple missing since last week's cruise ship disaster in Italy could always be counted on to help out, friends say. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467844620/ 21006467844620 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:30:37 GMT ALHAMBRA, Calif. -- Much of the California murder case against a German man who posed as an heir to the Rockefeller fortune hinges on three bags of bones found during the excavation for a swimming pool in wealthy San Marino. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467943746/ 21006467943746 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:24:59 GMT WASHINGTON -- A billionaire history buff is donating the final $7.5 million needed to repair cracks atop the Washington Monument caused by last summer's earthquake that shook the East Coast. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467909980/ 21006467909980 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:16:02 GMT PORTLAND, Maine -- The mother of a toddler reported missing from her father's home in Maine a month ago says she was unable to finish a lie detector test because of a medical condition. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467856269/ 21006467856269 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:42:20 GMT EAGLESWOOD TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A single magazine from the 1970s with pornographic images of pre-pubescent girls was enough to get a New York architecture professor arrested after firefighters found it while battling a blaze in his home at the Jersey shore. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006469814049/ 21006469814049 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:44:18 GMT TOLEDO, Ohio -- A Scotsman released from an American prison after spending two decades on Ohio's death row has been accused of leaving a threatening phone message at the courthouse where he was sentenced to death nearly 25 years ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006469825884/ 21006469825884 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:18:21 GMT CHICAGO -- It seems to defy the logic of committing crimes: Ruffians intentionally recording themselves on video beating and robbing someone, then posting it on YouTube so anyone anywhere can see it, including police. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467870177/ 21006467870177 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:41:13 GMT ATLANTA -- A new government study suggests a lot of teenage girls are clueless about their chances of getting pregnant. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006469807326/ 21006469807326 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:43:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- A low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history is a step closer to a general court-martial after a second Army officer signed off on this step. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006469818051/ 21006469818051 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:22:35 GMT BRENTWOOD, N.Y. -- The accolades continue for a homeless New York teen who's a semifinalist in a prestigious national science contest. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467895564/ 21006467895564 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:29:46 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles police worked to determine the identity of a man whose body was found in parts over the past two days -- first a head on Tuesday, then two hands and two feet on Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467938622/ 21006467938622 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:23:30 GMT EAGLESWOOD TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Authorities say firefighters in southern New Jersey uncovered a cache of child pornography while battling flames in the home of an architecture professor. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467901032/ 21006467901032 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:12:55 GMT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Icy roads, power outages and the dangers of flooding from melting snow greeted people in the Pacific Northwest Thursday after a windy winter storm dropped more than a foot of snow in some places, causing school closures, knocking out electricity to thousands and leaving hundreds of accidents in its wake. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467837565/ 21006467837565 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:28:58 GMT STOCKTON, Utah -- Gary McCloskey may have destroyed more chemical weapons than any man alive, but he barely reacted when the final weapons from the world's largest stockpile of warfare agents came out of an incinerator. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467933883/ 21006467933883 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:19:13 GMT ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Is Kodak's moment past? http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006467875386/ 21006467875386 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:02:30 GMT EL CAJON, Calif. -- The San Diego County district attorney's office says a child has been charged with murder and felony assault in the fatal stabbing of a 12-year-old boy. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006463455097/ 21006463455097 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:59:18 GMT SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- The last of three Massachusetts men charged in the burning of a predominantly black church to protest President Barack Obama's election has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in federal prison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006463435817/ 21006463435817 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:56:15 GMT CHICAGO -- After seven teenagers were arrested Wednesday for a beating recorded on video that went viral online, Chicago's police chief called their actions part of a "national epidemic" of youth violence being posted on the Web. The teens were charged Wednesday in the beating and robbery of a 17-year-old Chicago high school student in an incident that stemmed from a previous altercation last October, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006463417586/ 21006463417586 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:53:52 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles police have discovered two feet in the same area where a severed human head and two hands were found, and investigators are continuing to search for more remains. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006463403212/ 21006463403212 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:56:49 GMT LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Two alleged gang members were charged Wednesday with the shootings deaths of five people in a homeless encampment beneath a Los Angeles-area freeway more than three years ago, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006463420930/ 21006463420930 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:58:38 GMT EL PASO, Texas -- A former Intelligence analyst for Immigration and Customs Enforcement was sentenced to prison Wednesday for his role in an alleged embezzlement scheme, and federal prosecutors announced another former analyst and a former agency contractor have pleaded guilty to related charges. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006463431860/ 21006463431860 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:03:55 GMT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A winter storm that packed winds of 100 mph and dumped more than a foot of snow in the Pacific Northwest could soon give way to another threat: warmer weather and the potential for flooding. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006463463588/ 21006463463588 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:55:38 GMT ALHAMBRA, Calif. -- Evidence presented Wednesday in the California murder case against a German man who posed as an heir to the Rockefeller fortune includes a fractured skull and bones in a bag from Wisconsin, where the defendant had ties. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006463413858/ 21006463413858 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:01:32 GMT NEW YORK -- Greed on Wall Street set a new record, federal authorities said Wednesday as they unveiled a massive insider trading case charging a hedge fund co-founder with engineering a trade that earned a staggering $53 million in profits. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006463449274/ 21006463449274 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:55:00 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- The apparent suicide of a parolee suspected of killing as many as 19 people occurred after a bounty hunter called him earlier in the day with an ominous warning. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006463410057/ 21006463410057 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:05:30 GMT NEW YORK -- The prosecutor who charged Dominique Strauss-Kahn with sexually assaulting a hotel maid said Wednesday he dropped the case because he ultimately wasn't sure what transpired between the two. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006463473029/ 21006463473029 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:23:58 GMT NEW YORK -- January 18 is a date that will live in ignorance, as Wikipedia started a 24-hour blackout of its English-language articles, joining other sites in protesting pending U.S. legislation aimed at shutting down sites that share pirated movies and other content. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458903879/ 21006458903879 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:33:34 GMT TEMPLE, Texas -- A tractor-trailer clipped a school bus full of students Tuesday, flipping the bus onto its side and sending 32 people -- 29 of them children -- to a central Texas hospital. Police said a 9-year-old boy was ejected through the escape hatch in the bus roof, and the bus driver was knocked unconscious. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458961429/ 21006458961429 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:20:34 GMT SEATTLE -- Schools preemptively closed, crews salted down streets and more than two dozen flights into two Pacific Northwest cities were canceled as the region prepared for a potentially major snowstorm on Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458883411/ 21006458883411 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:53:47 GMT WASHINGTON -- A senior Obama administration official says the White House will reject a Canadian company's plan to build an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006461242737/ 21006461242737 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:15:54 GMT FORT WORTH, Texas -- Authorities say that a woman was taken into custody Wednesday after carrying a gun on to an American Airlines plane at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006461375462/ 21006461375462 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:38:30 GMT LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The National Weather Service says at least two people have been injured after powerful spring-like storms spawned tornadoes in Indiana, Kentucky and Mississippi. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458991048/ 21006458991048 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:01:11 GMT LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- A spokeswoman says a suburban Atlanta teacher has resigned after an investigation over third-grade students being assigned math homework with word problems about slavery. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006461287197/ 21006461287197 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:32:21 GMT NEW YORK -- A man who acknowledged killing four people in a rampage of stabbings, carjackings and other crimes is facing 100 years in prison and was scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458954183/ 21006458954183 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:00:07 GMT LOVELAND, Colo. -- Police say no one apparently had a key to the locked movie theater restroom where a 66-year-old Colorado man lay undiscovered for days after he died of a heart attack. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006461280710/ 21006461280710 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:02:10 GMT NEW YORK -- The prosecutor who charged Dominique Strauss-Kahn with sexually assaulting a New York City hotel maid says he dropped the case because he ultimately wasn't convinced he knew beyond a reasonable doubt what had happened. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006461293081/ 21006461293081 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:06:01 GMT CHICAGO -- Chicago police have arrested seven teenagers in the beating and robbery of a 17-year-old high school student that was filmed and posted online. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006459156144/ 21006459156144 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:29:38 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A popular high school soccer player who was apparently lured out of his home and shot to death on his front lawn had been targeted for personal reasons, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458937881/ 21006458937881 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:28:30 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- The latest homeless victim of a suspected serial killer filed a police report the day before he died, saying he feared he was being stalked. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458931087/ 21006458931087 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:26:49 GMT LOS ANGELES -- In 1985, Clark Rockefeller did not exist. The pseudonym, which was one of many fake identities assumed by a German immigrant, would surface years later when he began cutting a swath across high society claiming to be an heir to the Rockefeller fortune. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458920954/ 21006458920954 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:30:54 GMT CANTON, Ga. -- An apartment maintenance man in north Georgia has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to molesting and killing a 7-year-old girl, bringing an unusually swift conclusion to a case that frightened the community just over a month ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458945418/ 21006458945418 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:35:28 GMT SEATTLE -- Seattle, a city more accustomed to rain than snow, prepared Tuesday for a potentially major snowstorm to hit as the city's mayor urged residents to stay off roads. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458972849/ 21006458972849 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:24:48 GMT WILMINGTON, Del. -- A Superior Court judge in Delaware is holding a hearing to put final approval to Gov. Jack Markell's decision to commute the death sentence of a man who was facing execution this week for the murder of his former girlfriend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458908810/ 21006458908810 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:22:39 GMT KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The nation's top agriculture official is expected to announce Wednesday more than $300 million in emergency assistance to 33 states and Puerto Rico to help them recover from an unusually intense year for natural disasters across the U.S. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458895971/ 21006458895971 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:37:00 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Officials for a California utility have acknowledged the company wrongly classified hundreds of miles of natural gas transmission lines of the same type that ruptured in a deadly explosion in a San Francisco suburb. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006458982039/ 21006458982039 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:06:04 GMT CANTON, Ga. -- A maintenance man quietly detailed in court how he lured a 7-year-old girl into a vacant apartment, molested her, beat and stabbed her to death and stuffed her body into a trash bin. The admission Tuesday as the girl's family sobbed in the front row brought an unusually rapid conclusion to a murder case that frightened a north Georgia community just over a month ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006454836430/ 21006454836430 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:58:37 GMT NEW YORK -- A man who killed four people in a rampage of stabbings and carjackings across New York City admitted Tuesday to slashing a subway passenger at the end of his violent spree. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006454791740/ 21006454791740 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:07:38 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A 24-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were arrested for investigation of the murder of a popular high school soccer player who apparently was lured out of his home and gunned down last week, police said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006454845828/ 21006454845828 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:03:42 GMT TEMPLE, Texas -- A tractor-trailer clipped a school bus full of students Tuesday, flipping the bus onto its side and sending 32 people -- 29 of them children -- to a central Texas hospital. Police said a 9-year-old boy was ejected through the escape hatch in the bus roof, and the bus driver was knocked unconscious. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006454822232/ 21006454822232 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:09:54 GMT EL CAJON, Calif. -- A 10-year-old boy suspected of fatally stabbing a close friend got along well with other children in his tight-knit neighborhood, despite struggling to control his anger and occasionally exploding into violent fits. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006454859435/ 21006454859435 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:02:24 GMT NEW YORK -- A federal judge says a trustee trying to recover money for investors in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme can't immediately appeal a ruling limiting how much the New York Mets' owners might lose. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006454814431/ 21006454814431 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:13:21 GMT RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. -- A 15-year-old accused of fatally shooting his older sister at their family's rural Arkansas home stood before a judge by himself Tuesday and was ordered held on $750,000 bond, a prosecutor said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006454880116/ 21006454880116 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:01:32 GMT DOVER, Del. -- Gov. Jack Markell, in an apparent first for Delaware, has spared the life of a man whose execution had been scheduled later this week for the shooting death of his former girlfriend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006454809280/ 21006454809280 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:11:16 GMT NEW YORK -- A Russian man accused of teaming with his son in a cyber ID theft assault on the bank accounts of Americans has pleaded not guilty in New York City. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006454867689/ 21006454867689 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:59:55 GMT SEATTLE -- Seattle, a city more accustomed to rain than snow, prepared for a potentially major snowstorm to hit Wednesday as the city's mayor urged residents to stay off roads and school officials prepared for the worst. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006454799567/ 21006454799567 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:32:27 GMT FRESNO, Calif. -- Police are combing through video footage of a woman who recorded herself smoking methamphetamine before shooting her two young children, their father, a cousin and herself, seeking clues into a weekend tragedy that unfolded in California's Central Valley. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006450674773/ 21006450674773 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:38:21 GMT FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A man who was missing for five days was found dead in a locked movie theater restroom after workers noticed an odor and forced their way in, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006450710171/ 21006450710171 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:05:27 GMT NEW YORK -- A federal judge says a trustee trying to recover money for investors in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme can't immediately appeal a ruling limiting how much the New York Mets' owners might lose. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006453752734/ 21006453752734 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:30:21 GMT EL CAJON, Calif. -- A 10-year-old boy is suspected of fatally stabbing a 12-year-old friend in the chest with a kitchen knife, authorities say. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006450662185/ 21006450662185 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:30:05 GMT CANTON, Ga. -- A 20-year-old maintenance man faces life in prison for beating, raping and killing a 7-year-old north Georgia girl, who disappeared from a playground at her apartment complex and was found in a trash bin. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006452820583/ 21006452820583 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:31:40 GMT YORBA LINDA, Calif. -- Prosecutors in California are expected to file formal murder charges against a Marine veteran in the stabbing killings of four homeless men. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006450670080/ 21006450670080 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:35:09 GMT NEW YORK -- A New York City man who has admitted killing four people in a rampage of stabbings, carjackings and other crimes is due in court for an update on a lingering case: a subway slashing that authorities say came at the end of his violent spree last February. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006450690984/ 21006450690984 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:06:18 GMT NEW YORK -- A New Jersey woman got the morning commute of her life when she gave birth to her first child on a PATH commuter train to New York. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006450517844/ 21006450517844 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:37:19 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- California prosecutors have charged a 23-year-old Iraq War veteran with the murders of four homeless men. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006452503930/ 21006452503930 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:35:59 GMT RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. -- A 15-year-old western Arkansas boy who told police he shot and killed his 16-year-old sister will be charged as an adult with murder, a prosecutor said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006452495978/ 21006452495978 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:37:51 GMT FRESNO, Calif. -- Officials say the four family members involved in an apparent murder-suicide at a California apartment all died from a single gunshot wound to the head. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006452507195/ 21006452507195 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:29:26 GMT SEATTLE -- A 66-year-old snowshoer who had been missing on Mount Rainier since Saturday has been rescued after searchers traversed deep snow and snowshoed up a river valley to pull him from the icy remote backcountry, a national park spokeswoman said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006450656665/ 21006450656665 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:11:19 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Russian tanker and its crew have begun offloading more than a million gallons of fuel to an iced-in city along the western coast of Alaska. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006450547980/ 21006450547980 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:03:11 GMT BRENTWOOD, N.Y. -- A homeless New York teen who's a semifinalist in a prestigious national science contest has been invited to watch President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006451219164/ 21006451219164 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:14:12 GMT WASHINGTON -- The expansion in public prekindergarten programs has slowed and even been reversed in some states as school districts cope with shrinking budgets. As a result, many 3- and 4-year-olds aren't going to preschool. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006450565257/ 21006450565257 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:36:13 GMT WASHINGTON -- The government is setting what it calls an ambitious goal for Alzheimer's disease: Development of effective ways to treat and prevent the mind-destroying illness by 2025. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006450697348/ 21006450697348 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:37:14 GMT WASHINGTON -- Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006450703470/ 21006450703470 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:51:25 GMT FRESNO, Calif. -- The neighbor of the sole survivor of an apparent murder-suicide in California's Central Valley said the man pounded on his door and asked for help before the woman who appears to have stabbed him tried to drag him back outside. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006446108526/ 21006446108526 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:52:05 GMT FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A Colorado man who was missing for five days was found dead in a locked movie theater restroom after workers noticed an odor and forced their way in, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006446112513/ 21006446112513 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:00:02 GMT COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Thousands commemorating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday outside South Carolina's capitol heard a message that wouldn't have been out of place during the halcyon days of the civil rights movement a half-century ago: the need to protect all citizens' right to vote. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006446160258/ 21006446160258 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:53:06 GMT MINNEAPOLIS -- A Minnesota couple missing after a cruise ship capsized off the west coast of Italy are devout Catholics who spend part of almost every day at church, where he teaches religious classes and she hands out baked goods and other sweet treats to parishioners. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006446118643/ 21006446118643 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:50:52 GMT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A 15-year-old described by a neighbor as a "nice young boy" showed up at a sheriff's department in rural Arkansas and told investigators he had shot and killed his 16-year-old sister in his family's home. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006446105210/ 21006446105210 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:50:13 GMT YORBA LINDA, Calif. -- Just months after he was deployed to Iraq in 2008, a Marine veteran now suspected in the deaths of four homeless men in Southern California sent his family a short, upbeat video greeting. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006446101312/ 21006446101312 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:55:58 GMT SEATTLE -- A 66-year-old snowshoer who was missing on Mount Rainier since Saturday was found alive Monday afternoon by a team of three rescuers, a national park spokeswoman said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006446135823/ 21006446135823 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:49:34 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Crews have laid two hoses along a stretch of Bering Sea ice and were hoping Monday to soon begin transferring 1.3 million gallons of fuel from a Russian fuel tanker to the iced-in western Alaska city of Nome. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006446097464/ 21006446097464 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:57:25 GMT PORTLAND, Maine -- The mother of a Maine toddler who went missing before Christmas says she's arranging with investigators for her and others in her family to take polygraph tests regarding the disappearance. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006446144564/ 21006446144564 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:56:42 GMT MEDFORD, Ore. -- The central figure in the long-running legal battles over an Islamic charity that once operated in Southern Oregon is due to report to prison next week to begin serving nearly three years for money-laundering and tax-evasion convictions. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006446140244/ 21006446140244 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:58:33 GMT WILLISTON, N.D. -- Authorities renewed calls Monday for landowners near the northern North Dakota-Montana border to look for signs of a missing Montana teacher's buried body, while documents revealed one of the two suspects in her disappearance has spent time in prison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006446151359/ 21006446151359 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:20:17 GMT NEW YORK -- Dozens of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have marched from the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan to the New York Federal Reserve as part of Martin Luther King Day events. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006443761715/ 21006443761715 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:58:48 GMT ATLANTA -- Officials say a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Costa Rica was diverted to Tampa, Fla., on Sunday evening after a couple from Germany became unruly. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006441472891/ 21006441472891 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:01:53 GMT DENVER -- In a trial of a politically divisive program, U.S. prosecutors in Denver and Baltimore are reviewing thousands of deportation cases to determine which illegal immigrants might stay in the country -- perhaps indefinitely -- so officials can reduce an overwhelming backlog by focusing mainly on detainees with criminal backgrounds or who are deemed threats to national security. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006442571358/ 21006442571358 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:52:00 GMT PHOENIX -- An official with an Arizona Air Force in Tucson says the false report of a hostage taking at the base in September was the result of a misunderstanding. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006442152029/ 21006442152029 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:43:01 GMT ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. -- One central Kentucky city hopes a proposal for a permanent place to drop off unwanted prescription drugs will make the community safer. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006442458189/ 21006442458189 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:41:59 GMT CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The Wyoming Department of Health is reminding women to take steps to reduce their risk of cervical cancer. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006442451953/ 21006442451953 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:02:27 GMT BREWSTER, Mass. -- Authorities say the wreckage of a small plane and the bodies of two occupants have been found on a Massachusetts beach. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006436094799/ 21006436094799 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:04:26 GMT NEW YORK -- A 7-year-old Brooklyn boy died in one of two late-night fires that sent 10 other people to hospitals suffering from smoke inhalation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006436106673/ 21006436106673 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:26:30 GMT FRESNO, Calif. -- Two adults and two children were killed in an apparent murder-suicide Sunday at an apartment building in California's Central Valley, while a fifth person was hospitalized in critical condition, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006437319095/ 21006437319095 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:07:27 GMT AZUSA, Calif. -- A Southern California man has been arrested on suspicion of putting poison in his wife's cereal. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006436124782/ 21006436124782 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:09:26 GMT YORBA LINDA, Calif. -- The 23-year-old man suspected in the serial killings of four homeless men in Southern California is a former Marine who became isolated after returning from Iraq and never got over the death of his best friend in Afghanistan, his brother and a friend said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006436496640/ 21006436496640 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:23:09 GMT SIDNEY, Mont. -- The FBI is asking property owners in parts of North Dakota and Montana to check vacant farmsteads for signs of disturbed soil where the agency says a missing Montana teacher might be buried. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006437298951/ 21006437298951 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:01:37 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The ice that has cut off a remote Alaska town for months will connect it to the world again as crews prepare to build a path over it to carry fuel from a Russian tanker that was moored roughly a half mile from the town's harbor Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006436089740/ 21006436089740 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:03:08 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs may be serving a life-plus-20-year sentence in a Texas prison, but his grip on most of his 10,000 followers doesn't appear to be lessening and some former insiders say he's imposing even more rigid requirements that are roiling the church and splitting its members. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006436098817/ 21006436098817 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:05:54 GMT LAS VEGAS -- A 23-year-old beauty queen from Wisconsin won the Miss America pageant Saturday in Las Vegas after singing opera and strutting in a white bikini and black beaded evening gown. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006436115499/ 21006436115499 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:06:20 GMT MIAMI -- National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read has announced plans to retire June 1. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006427478033/ 21006427478033 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:22:28 GMT SPOKANE, Wash. -- White supremacist Kevin Harpham planted a bomb along the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade here last year, hoping to strike a lethal blow against the unity and multiculturalism represented by the march. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006427574814/ 21006427574814 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:16:45 GMT WASHINGTON -- The State Department estimates that 126 U.S. citizens were aboard the cruise ship that ran aground off the Italian coast, but the U.S. has no reports of injuries so far. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006427540567/ 21006427540567 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:15:39 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Living in Alaska's outer reaches is challenging enough, given the isolation and weather extremes, but at least three remote communities also have experienced weather-related late deliveries of fuel so crucial to their survival during an especially bitter winter. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006427533948/ 21006427533948 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:21:32 GMT STAR, N.C. -- Authorities say the man who shot and killed three co-workers at a North Carolina lumber company has died of a self-inflicted wound. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006427569245/ 21006427569245 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:14:44 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Mourners wept and placed flowers Saturday at the scene of the latest stabbing death of a homeless man in Orange County, and people who knew the victim said he had feared for his safety as police recently sought a serial killer suspected in the slayings. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006427528456/ 21006427528456 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:19:12 GMT EDINBURG, Texas -- Doctors have removed a bullet from the back of a 13-year-old Texas boy shot while trying out for his middle school basketball team in December. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006427555254/ 21006427555254 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:24:18 GMT SOMERSWORTH, N.H. -- New Hampshire police say two dogs ate food that was filled with fish hooks, killing one and injuring the other. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006427585847/ 21006427585847 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:26:47 GMT NEW YORK -- A Malaysian company's plan to build a $4 billion convention center and big-time casino on the outskirts of New York City could be the biggest shot fired yet in a tourism arms race that has seen a growing number of Eastern states embrace gambling as a way to lure visitors and drum up revenue. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006427600798/ 21006427600798 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:37:44 GMT GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Ex-presidential candidate John Edwards has a serious heart condition that will require a medical procedure next month and his illness limits his travel including for an upcoming court case over possible campaign violations, his doctor told a judge, who delayed the trial. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006420466464/ 21006420466464 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:25:40 GMT WASHINGTON -- A quote carved in stone on the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington will be changed after the inscription was criticized for not accurately reflecting the civil rights leader's words. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006420394038/ 21006420394038 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:56:46 GMT HELENA, Mont. -- Law enforcement officers in eastern Montana say two men being questioned in the disappearance of a high school math teacher are being held in the Dakotas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006420580697/ 21006420580697 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:09:43 GMT FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- A Massachusetts police officer who arrested President Barack Obama's uncle on drunken-driving charges has had nine on-duty accidents during his 15 years on the force. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006420658368/ 21006420658368 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:24:49 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- The suspect in a deadly shootout with Utah police used a semi-automatic pistol to methodically gun down six officers from a narcotics strike force inside his house, according to charges filed Friday that could bring the death penalty. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006420388974/ 21006420388974 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:55:51 GMT WYANDOTTE, Mich. -- A 9-year-old Detroit-area girl whose battle with Huntington's disease drew attention after she was taunted online by a neighbor has died. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006420575113/ 21006420575113 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:39:16 GMT INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain Charles Price II, who coordinated friendly relations between President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, died in California, a family spokesman said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006420475666/ 21006420475666 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:19:06 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Prosecutors on Friday charged San Francisco's newly sworn-in sheriff with three misdemeanors, including domestic violence, related to a New Year's Eve incident with his wife. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006420354618/ 21006420354618 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:43:23 GMT MINNEAPOLIS -- Some Somalis in Minnesota have closed their bank accounts, saying Wells Fargo has been unwilling to work with the community in facilitating wire transfers to Somalia. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006420500365/ 21006420500365 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:45:14 GMT CHICAGO -- Dreadlocks, Bob Marley and an unwanted haircut. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006420511413/ 21006420511413 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:38:41 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- California educators and childcare advocates are protesting Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to scrap a new program for children who are no longer old enough for kindergarten. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006420472128/ 21006420472128 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:41:32 GMT LOS ANGELES -- California has declared war on vampires, but this time it's no Hollywood monster flick. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006420489248/ 21006420489248 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:36:30 GMT WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and he would start by trying to merge six major trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, the White House said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006416859022/ 21006416859022 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:33:04 GMT NEW BERN, N.C. -- Three men face the possibility of life in prison Friday for joining a North Carolina terrorism ring that federal agents say plotted attacks on the U.S. Marine Corps base at Quantico and foreign targets. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006415398496/ 21006415398496 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:39:58 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A Southern California woman who called in a bomb threat to keep her husband from boarding a plane at Los Angeles International Airport has pleaded guilty to a federal crime. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006415439855/ 21006415439855 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:43:28 GMT STAR, N.C. -- Police say a gunman who opened fire at a lumber company targeted four of his co-workers, killing three of them and critically injuring the other person. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006417980834/ 21006417980834 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:39:18 GMT KNOX, Ind. -- A man accused of stealing a police cruiser while handcuffed in northwest Indiana, then using the radio to ask police where to find the cigarette lighter, has turned himself in. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006415435848/ 21006415435848 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:38:19 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- Families from a small northeastern Pennsylvania town are planning to confront the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over an abrupt change in plans. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006415429983/ 21006415429983 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:37:03 GMT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The parents of Natalee Holloway, the American teenager who disappeared in Aruba in 2005, say their ordeal hasn't ended with a judge declaring their daughter dead. Their lawyers say they hope a young Dutchman seen leaving a bar with Holloway on the last day she was seen alive might ultimately be brought before a U.S. court on charges stemming from the case. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006415422378/ 21006415422378 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:36:18 GMT LAS VEGAS -- A defense lawyer is seeking probation and prosecutors are seeking almost three years in federal prison for a Roman Catholic priest who admits siphoning $650,000 from his northwest Las Vegas parish to support his gambling habit. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006415417848/ 21006415417848 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:35:15 GMT GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A federal judge in North Carolina will consider whether former presidential candidate John Edwards goes on trial later this month for alleged campaign finance violations. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006415411573/ 21006415411573 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:59:58 GMT FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- A 73-year-old Arkansas woman who was forced into a bank with what she believed was a bomb strapped to her ankle says she's relieved that authorities have made an arrest. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006411959849/ 21006411959849 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:43:19 GMT WASHINGTON -- Pentagon leaders scrambled Thursday to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses -- an act that appears to violate international laws of warfare and further strains U.S.-Afghan relations. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006411859927/ 21006411859927 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:58:32 GMT SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- An investigator has testified that a man on trial for the murders of four Northern California women kept a safe deposit box with photographs of two more women who appear to have been slain and items belonging to yet another who was last seen heading to a Bob Dylan concert in 1992. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006411951295/ 21006411951295 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:59:20 GMT NEW YORK -- An Egyptian man who introduced terrorism inspired by Islamic extremism to U.S. shores when he assassinated an anti-Arab rabbi at a New York City hotel in 1990 has lost his bid for a new trial. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006411956050/ 21006411956050 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:57:52 GMT COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina has struggled with high unemployment for years. Now state officials are making harder for unemployed people to draw benefits. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006411947255/ 21006411947255 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:52:58 GMT STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. -- U.S. immigration officials have scheduled a ceremony Friday in suburban Detroit for a 111-year-old Iranian woman who is becoming a U.S. citizen. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006411917854/ 21006411917854 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:55:00 GMT NEW YORK -- An FBI agent says she deleted potentially sensitive emails covering a five-month period when she was helping investigate a terror suspect. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006411930076/ 21006411930076 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:55:36 GMT CHICAGO -- The city of Chicago has issued the first permit to a group seeking to protest the NATO and G-8 summits this May. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006411933686/ 21006411933686 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:46:05 GMT WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has promised Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai a full investigation of an Internet video that purports to depict four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters -- a video both men condemned Thursday as deplorable. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006409356567/ 21006409356567 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:16:22 GMT WASHINGTON -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday condemned a video depicting what appears to be four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006407018285/ 21006407018285 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:54:34 GMT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- An Alabama judge says he'll sign an order declaring Natalee Holloway legally dead, more than six years after the teenager vanished on the Caribbean island of Aruba. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006409407499/ 21006409407499 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:14:58 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- Police say a Philadelphia man killed three teenagers in an ambush sparked by a feud involving his stepsons. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006407009826/ 21006407009826 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:17:17 GMT RALEIGH, N.C. -- At least 15 people have been hurt in an apparent tornado that struck two counties in western North Carolina. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006407023794/ 21006407023794 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:19:56 GMT PHOENIX -- Attorneys are set to give opening statements Thursday in the federal trial of two white supremacist brothers from Illinois accused of bombing a black city official in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006407039666/ 21006407039666 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:43:56 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is defending the legality of President Barack Obama's recent recess appointment of a national consumer watchdog and other officials from criticism by Republicans. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006409343640/ 21006409343640 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:44:51 GMT JACKSON, Miss. -- An attorney says two women released from a Mississippi prison last year on condition that one donate a kidney to the other were disappointed they weren't among dozens of people receiving full pardons from the governor. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006409349190/ 21006409349190 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:45:27 GMT NEWARK, N.J. -- Female sales representatives for Quest Diagnostics are accusing the diagnostic testing company of gender discrimination in a $100 million federal lawsuit. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006409352780/ 21006409352780 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:13:40 GMT WEST COVINA, Calif. -- Authorities say a 15-year-old boy hid under his bedsheets and called police as a burglar rummaged through his southern California home. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006407002069/ 21006407002069 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:21:03 GMT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- An Alabama judge has scheduled a hearing in Birmingham on whether to sign a court order declaring Natalee Holloway dead more than six years after the 18-year-old woman disappeared in Aruba. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006407046312/ 21006407046312 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:22:12 GMT NEW YORK -- Refugee protesters from New York City's Zuccotti Park have become a band of homeless Occupiers with no place to go. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006407053262/ 21006407053262 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:24:47 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- Divers searched a half-mile stretch of an icy river without finding any sign of a toddler who's been missing for more than three weeks, and authorities said they're continuing to aggressively investigate the hundreds of leads that have poured in from across the country. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006407788798/ 21006407788798 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:18:44 GMT NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley will be in clear view for the first time in nearly 150 years once a truss weighing more than eight tons surrounding it is removed in South Carolina. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006407032461/ 21006407032461 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:57:44 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- Divers searched a half-mile stretch of an icy river Wednesday for any sign of a toddler who's been missing for more than three weeks, and authorities said investigators are considering all possibilities related to the girl's disappearance. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006402946469/ 21006402946469 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:02:51 GMT EAST HARTFORD, Conn. -- Authorities say a teenage boy has drowned in his Connecticut high school's swimming pool during gym class. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006402977156/ 21006402977156 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:41:17 GMT JACKSON, Miss. -- A Mississippi judge has temporarily blocked the release of 21 inmates who'd been given pardons or medical release by Republican Haley Barbour in one of his final acts as governor. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006402847788/ 21006402847788 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:39:34 GMT WASHINGTON -- They were let back into Zuccotti Park, but kicked out of a vacant house in Seattle. In other places, Occupy protesters are in courtrooms fighting evictions. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006402837429/ 21006402837429 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:27:10 GMT LINCOLN, Neb. -- The Nebraska Supreme Court has set a March 6 execution date for a death-row inmate. The execution would be the first in Nebraska since 1997, and its first by lethal injection. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006403123093/ 21006403123093 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:14:13 GMT NEW YORK -- The Denver owner of a hedge fund has been sentenced in New York to a year and a day in prison after he admitted making up to $2.5 million by trading on insider information he got from a friend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006403045327/ 21006403045327 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:02:06 GMT HOUSTON -- A Houston teenager accused of shooting a classmate in the leg at school says he was defending himself from a group of boys who have been bullying him. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006402972659/ 21006402972659 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:05:11 GMT OGDEN, Utah -- A Utah police officer killed in a gunbattle last week with a suspected pot grower has been buried in a tear-filled ceremony that featured a 21-gun salute and the release of about a dozen white doves into the bright blue winter sky. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006402991151/ 21006402991151 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:06:39 GMT RICHMOND, Virginia -- First lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday told military members and veterans that more medical schools are teaming up to boost training and research on brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006402999992/ 21006402999992 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:03:38 GMT IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Iowans will have to wait a little longer to learn the story behind a winning lottery ticket mysteriously turned in minutes before the deadline for a $14.3 million jackpot. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006402981811/ 21006402981811 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:00:41 GMT ABSECON, N.J. -- A mini Yorkshire terrier from New Jersey is now in the Guinness Book of World Records. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006402964110/ 21006402964110 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:08:13 GMT TULSA, Okla. -- An Oklahoma woman says she and her pet kangaroo are moving because she says city workers told her they would take the animal or fine her for violating a local ordinance. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006403009357/ 21006403009357 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:28:16 GMT HOUSTON -- City roads in Houston have flooded and thousands of residents have lost power after powerful thunderstorms plowed through the area, with a possible tornado damaging and shutting down a nearby mall. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006399529618/ 21006399529618 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:59:16 GMT BARNEGAT LIGHT, N.J. -- One person died and a second was rescued after their fishing boat capsized about 10 miles off the New Jersey coast. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006398635690/ 21006398635690 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:31:14 GMT LOGAN, Ohio -- Authorities say family tension over the care of a cancer-stricken woman caused a Logan man to kill his adult son and two sisters-in-law in front of his wife before killing himself. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006398827462/ 21006398827462 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:27:26 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An Alaska community already coping with nearly 15 feet of snow first tried Anchorage and other cities when it ran short of shovels after being pummeled by yet another storm. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006398804619/ 21006398804619 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:01:40 GMT KOUTS, Ind. -- Authorities say a handcuffed man has stolen a police cruiser in northwest Indiana, and he radioed police for help in finding the car's cigarette lighter and a key to unlock his hands. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006398650049/ 21006398650049 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:18:51 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A NASA spacecraft is aiming for an August landing on Mars. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006398753147/ 21006398753147 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:28:20 GMT PHOENIX -- Investigators say they believe a New Hampshire couple found dead in a car in northern Arizona and a sheriff's deputy killed days later in Phoenix were shot by the same gunman -- a U.S. Marine Corps reservist who may have thought the world was going to end. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006398810077/ 21006398810077 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:54:27 GMT TUCSON, Ariz. -- Prosecutors have agreed in principle to unseal some of the case against people accused of killing U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry more than a year ago near the Arizona-Mexico border. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006399326772/ 21006399326772 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:52:14 GMT DALY CITY, Calif. -- Two men have pleaded not guilty to charges they shot at paragliders in the San Francisco Bay area with a high-caliber pellet gun. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006399313479/ 21006399313479 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:05:54 GMT ABSECON, N.J. -- A mini Yorkshire terrier from New Jersey is now in the Guinness Book of World Records. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006398675435/ 21006398675435 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:43:56 GMT LOGAN, Ohio -- An Ohio sheriff says investigators believe a man shot and killed his wife's two sisters and his son before killing himself. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006389903665/ 21006389903665 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:10:57 GMT TACOMA, Wash. -- Top federal officials, fellow park rangers and thousands of well-wishers have gathered in Washington state to celebrate the life of Margaret Anderson, a Mount Rainier National Park ranger who was fatally shot on New Year's Day. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006394385710/ 21006394385710 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:49:07 GMT JACKSON, Miss. -- In his final days as Mississippi governor, Republican Haley Barbour gave pardons or early release to nearly 200 people, including more than two dozen whose crimes were listed as murder, manslaughter or homicide. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006390654761/ 21006390654761 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:47:40 GMT PORTLAND, Ore. -- A 14-year-old La Center, Wash., boy who collapsed during a middle school basketball practice has died in an Oregon hospital. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006389926088/ 21006389926088 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:08:41 GMT NEW YORK -- Two Transportation Security Administration officers who admitted stealing $40,000 from luggage at a New York City airport are going to jail. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006394372163/ 21006394372163 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:09:56 GMT GREENBELT, Md. -- Authorities say a man awaiting trial in the deaths of a nurse and her 20-year-old daughter has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for crimes committed during dozens of armed home invasions and burglaries in the Maryland suburbs of the nation's capital. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006394379688/ 21006394379688 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:06:18 GMT LOGAN, Ohio -- A sister-in-law of an Ohio man who shot three people and then killed himself says he was stressed out over caring for his terminally ill wife and was resentful of other family members. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006394357818/ 21006394357818 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:04:58 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Police say a Los Angeles man has been shot to death while trying to rescue his grandfather during an attempted robbery. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006394349891/ 21006394349891 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:00:46 GMT HUXLEY, Iowa -- The mother of twin baby girls found dead in the trunk of a car in central Iowa has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006394324647/ 21006394324647 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:59:31 GMT SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- A probation officer who searched the Nevada home of an alleged serial killer says he found photographs of nude women posed in "unnatural positions" who appeared dead or unconscious. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006394317140/ 21006394317140 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:03:45 GMT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Authorities say a device removed from the leg of a 73-year-old woman who said she was forced to go to an Arkansas bank was not actually a bomb. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006394342543/ 21006394342543 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:07:41 GMT WASHINGTON -- A group of scientists that tracks the likelihood of a global cataclysm says the world is moving closer to doomsday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006394366129/ 21006394366129 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:49:28 GMT FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Authorities are expected to release more information Tuesday about a possible link between the fatal shooting of a sheriff's deputy near Phoenix and a New Hampshire couple found dead in their car in northern Arizona. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006389936880/ 21006389936880 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:46:54 GMT GREENVILLE, N.C. -- A former U.S. Marine who smuggled dozens of pistols into the United Kingdom is scheduled to be sentenced in a federal court in Greenville, N.C. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006389921470/ 21006389921470 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:32:07 GMT ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Few things feel better in a gambler's paradise than the end of a long losing streak. And that's what Atlantic City has just experienced. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006391992776/ 21006391992776 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:27:29 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court debated whether policing curse words and nudity on broadcast television makes sense in the cable era, with one justice suggesting it's a moot point at a time when broadcast TV seems headed the way of "vinyl records and 8-track tapes." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006391964980/ 21006391964980 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:27:58 GMT GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Authorities investigating the disappearance of a 5-year-old Arizona girl plan to search a landfill south of metropolitan Phoenix in hopes of finding the girl's body and other evidence. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006391967832/ 21006391967832 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:29:19 GMT CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- A former squad mate of a Marine implicated in the deaths of 19 Iraqis in 2005 has told a court-martial that after a roadside bombing the group raced to nearby homes, firing rounds and tossing grenades, even though he heard no gunfire and saw no weapons or Iraqis fleeing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006391975951/ 21006391975951 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:28:29 GMT WEST PLAINS, Mo. -- Howell County authorities say two people have been charged in last week's death of a woman from Caulfield. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006391970981/ 21006391970981 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:44:35 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Residents of two Alaska communities are seeking outside help after an exceptionally harsh winter left one buried in snow and the other iced in and facing a fuel shortage. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006389907592/ 21006389907592 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:50:57 GMT SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- Prosecutors are scheduled to present their case against Joseph Naso, who is charged with killing four northern California women with matching initials. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006389945755/ 21006389945755 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:52:38 GMT CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- Military prosecutors say a sergeant saw the charred remains of a fellow Marine killed by a roadside bomb only moments before he instructed his squad to "shoot first, ask questions later" in what has become one of the Iraq war's most horrific episodes of civilian deaths. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006389955888/ 21006389955888 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:45:55 GMT JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri teenager who told authorities that she strangled, cut and stabbed a 9-year-old neighbor because she wanted to know what it felt like has pleaded guilty in the girl's death. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006390635540/ 21006390635540 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:44:47 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- A Texas abortion law passed last year that requires doctors to show sonograms to patients can be enforced while opponents challenge the measure in court, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006390628786/ 21006390628786 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:50:11 GMT TRENTON, N.J. -- The New Jersey Assembly's top Republican leader has died at the Statehouse on the final day of the legislative session. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006389941170/ 21006389941170 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:51:49 GMT AUSTIN, Texas -- Jurors will soon be asked by Texas prosecutors to award the state $1 billion in a lawsuit that accuses Johnson & Johnson of overstating the safety of an anti-psychotic drug and influencing its use in the state's Medicaid program. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006389950948/ 21006389950948 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:56:55 GMT WASHINGTON -- Is health-care relief finally in sight? http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006389981561/ 21006389981561 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:55:03 GMT WASHINGTON -- A new side effect seems to be emerging for those cholesterol-lowering wonder drugs called statins: They may increase some people's chances of developing Type 2 diabetes. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006389970353/ 21006389970353 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:37:38 GMT CONWAY, Ark. -- Authorities say an Arkansas woman who adopted her granddaughter after her son's death in Iraq stabbed the 7-year-old girl in the chest and then set fire to their home in a murder-suicide. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006385905821/ 21006385905821 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:20:19 GMT WASHINGTON -- Is health-care relief finally in sight? http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006385801927/ 21006385801927 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:31:33 GMT NORCROSS, Ga. -- Suburban Atlanta school officials are deciding whether to discipline teachers who gave third-grade students math homework with word problems about slavery. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006385869398/ 21006385869398 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:35:35 GMT HOUSTON -- City roads in Houston have flooded and thousands of residents have lost power after powerful thunderstorms plowed through the area, with a possible tornado damaging and shutting down a nearby mall. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006385893591/ 21006385893591 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:24:08 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration Monday rejected Iran's charge that a young Iranian-American man used a family trip to Iran as cover for espionage, after the Tehran government issued the first death penalty against a U.S. citizen since the Islamic Revolution 33 years ago. The U.S. suggested the decision was a political ploy. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006385824889/ 21006385824889 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:25:29 GMT WASHINGTON -- Young elementary school pupils should use the proper names for body parts and know by the end of fifth grade that sexual orientation is "the romantic attraction of an individual to someone of the same gender or a different gender," according to sexual education guidelines released Monday by health and education groups. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006385832936/ 21006385832936 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:19:18 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration argued Monday that Guatemalans unknowingly exposed to sexually transmitted diseases by U.S. researchers in the 1940s cannot sue the United States, no matter how shameful and unethical the studies were. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006385795817/ 21006385795817 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:39:07 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court is considering arguments that challenge the planned use of treated wastewater to make snow at an Arizona ski resort. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006385914725/ 21006385914725 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:40:39 GMT TOLEDO, Ohio -- A Roman Catholic priest convicted of killing a nun inside an Ohio hospital chapel a day before Easter in 1980 won't get a new trial. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006385923954/ 21006385923954 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:37:07 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- One town is buried in snow. Another is iced in. This year's winter is being meaner than usual for at least two Alaska communities. Now, residents are looking for outside help. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006385902772/ 21006385902772 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:39:50 GMT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A judge in Alabama is ordering a decades-old Navy plane to be forfeited to federal authorities because it was brought into the country illegally from France. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006385919035/ 21006385919035 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:35:42 GMT TUCSON, Ariz. -- After a year of struggling to re-learn how to walk and speak, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords confidently climbed the steps on an outdoor stage on Sunday and led a crowd of hundreds in the Pledge of Allegiance, her words ringing out on a cold Tucson night just one year after she survived a gunshot to the head. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006376894223/ 21006376894223 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:45:08 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is warning patients about a potential mix-up between powerful prescription pain drugs and common over-the-counter medications like Excedrin and Gas-X made at a Novartis manufacturing plant. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006382710891/ 21006382710891 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:28:50 GMT MISSOULA, Mont. -- Authorities are looking to a passenger bus' black box to learn more about what caused it to crash on an icy Montana highway. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006383333085/ 21006383333085 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:47:30 GMT KINGS POINT, N.Y. -- Eight of the 42 U.S. Merchant Marine Academy students who were hospitalized after carbon monoxide was found to be leaking at the Long Island facility have returned to the school. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006381645018/ 21006381645018 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:15:44 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration says it will step up testing for a fungicide that has been found in low levels in orange juice. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006383614497/ 21006383614497 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:25:53 GMT WASHINGTON -- Several conservative members of the Supreme Court criticized the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday for heavy-handed enforcement of rules affecting homeowners after the government told an Idaho couple they can't challenge an order declaring their future home site a "protected wetlands." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006383315336/ 21006383315336 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:49:15 GMT BILLINGS, Mont. -- Hundreds of people in Montana showed up to help in the search for a Sidney High School math teacher who didn't return from a run. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006381655555/ 21006381655555 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:48:11 GMT COALINGA, Calif. -- Investigators say arson is suspected in a blaze that destroyed 14 big-rig tractors and several trailers at California's Harris Farms cattle operation, the state's largest cattle feeder, beef processor and beef marketer. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006381649171/ 21006381649171 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:26:31 GMT NEW YORK -- A new lawsuit seeks to force the U.S. government to make public the videotapes of harsh interrogation carried out on a Guantanamo Bay detainee nearly a decade ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006383319138/ 21006383319138 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:27:25 GMT JACKSON, Miss. -- Relatives of crime victims say Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has pardoned at least three convicted murderers who worked as inmate trusties at the Governor's Mansion. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006383324577/ 21006383324577 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:37:43 GMT PHOENIX -- Authorities are investigating whether a sheriff's deputy shot to death while answering a burglary call and a New Hampshire couple found dead in their car in Arizona were killed by the same gunman. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006381586393/ 21006381586393 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:45:08 GMT WASHINGTON -- Despite suffering severe injuries in the worst air race accident in the U.S. in more than a half a century, some victims have told their lawyer they would like to attend future races. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006381630871/ 21006381630871 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:52:33 GMT WASHINGTON -- The family of an American man sentenced to death in Iran for allegedly being a CIA spy says he was visiting relatives and was not spying for the CIA. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006381675327/ 21006381675327 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:46:33 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Dozens of National Guard troops have arrived to help an Alaska fishing town dig out from massive snows that have collapsed roofs, trapped some people in homes, and triggered avalanches. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006381639353/ 21006381639353 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:45:48 GMT SAN DIEGO -- A jury of battle-hardened Marines will judge the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops in the Iraq war. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006381634865/ 21006381634865 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:40:33 GMT WASHINGTON -- Fending off pressure from the mining industry and congressional Republicans, the Obama administration is moving forward with a plan to ban new uranium mining claims on 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006381603361/ 21006381603361 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:38:43 GMT TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Along with ski resort operators and snowmobile vendors, the unusually mild winter has been rough on makers of a cold-climate delicacy called ice wine. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006381592394/ 21006381592394 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:39:40 GMT FULTON, Texas -- Raising its slim, white neck out of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, one of the world's last surviving whooping cranes hungrily searches a Texas marsh for the blue crabs and berries it devours during its annual migration to the Gulf Coast. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006381598072/ 21006381598072 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:21:05 GMT TUCSON, Ariz. -- Bells rang out across Tucson on Sunday to mark exactly one year since a bloody morning when a gunman's deadly rampage shook a community and shocked a nation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006374286562/ 21006374286562 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:33:24 GMT MISSOULA, Mont. -- A bus crashed Sunday on an icy interstate highway in southwestern Montana, killing two people and sending more than 30 others to area hospitals, officials said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006376880484/ 21006376880484 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:32:29 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The small Alaska fishing town of Cordova is used to dealing with excessive snow -- but not like this. Residents have turned to the state to help them dig out of massive snow levels that have collapsed roofs, triggered avalanches and even covered doors, trapping some people in their homes. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006376874957/ 21006376874957 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:37:36 GMT PHOENIX -- A sheriff's deputy was shot and killed while answering a burglary call in the north Phoenix community of Anthem early Sunday, and other deputies shot the suspect, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006376905639/ 21006376905639 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:38:24 GMT JACKSON, Miss. -- A second man has died from injuries sustained in the southern Mississippi wreck of a motorhome carrying a group of friends from Georgia to New Orleans to attend the national college football championship game, authorities said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006376910471/ 21006376910471 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:34:17 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Court of Appeals has refused to dismiss charges against a couple accused of killing their baby in 2006 by sleeping with him -- their second child to die in bed with them. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006376885772/ 21006376885772 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:40:11 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- One of six officers shot during a drug raid in Utah last week has been released from the hospital, and another officer's condition has improved. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006376921112/ 21006376921112 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:42:15 GMT LAFAYETTE, Colo. -- A bomb that seriously injured two people in a Colorado town was left beside their car in a paper bag with their names written on it, police said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006376933549/ 21006376933549 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:41:15 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's new sheriff has been sworn into office amid controversy over a domestic abuse investigation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006376927589/ 21006376927589 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:39:28 GMT HOUSTON -- It didn't take long -- mere seconds, in fact -- to create a new hole in the skyline of Houston's medical district. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006376916894/ 21006376916894 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:36:30 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Interior Department is moving forward with a plan to ban new mining claims on 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon, even as congressional Republicans try to block efforts to limit mining operations in an area known for high-grade uranium ore. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006376899098/ 21006376899098 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:37:56 GMT DALLAS -- A Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia in May after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was returned to the United States and remains at the center of an international mystery over how a minor could be sent to a country where she is not a citizen. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006363947684/ 21006363947684 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:47:26 GMT MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. -- Rangers and volunteers somberly embraced as Mount Rainier National Park reopened to the public Saturday for the first time since an Iraq War veteran shot and killed a park ranger there on New Year's Day. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006368324637/ 21006368324637 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:45:56 GMT INDIANAPOLIS -- Four soldiers with an Indiana-based National Guard unit were killed in Afghanistan and a fifth was injured when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb as they were working to clear a supply route of the improvised bombs, guard officials said Saturday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006368315677/ 21006368315677 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:42:03 GMT ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency abruptly changed its mind Saturday about delivering fresh water to residents of a northeastern Pennsylvania village where residential wells were found to be tainted by a natural gas drilling operation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006368292348/ 21006368292348 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:45:10 GMT YAPHANK, N.Y. -- Police have released a composite sketch of an unidentified victim whose remains were among those of 11 people found along a remote New York beach highway last year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006368311029/ 21006368311029 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:43:12 GMT JUNEAU, Alaska -- Charges against the sole survivor of a deadly 2010 Coast Guard helicopter crash off the Washington coast should be dismissed, an investigating officer has determined. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006368299222/ 21006368299222 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:40:54 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court has refused to reinstate the conviction of an Arizona man accused of planning a Super Bowl massacre, saying his rambling "manifesto" did not constitute a threat to people. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006368285429/ 21006368285429 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:39:18 GMT SEATTLE -- Seattle police are calling the case an attempted arson and have released surveillance photos of a person they say may have left a firebomb found under an ATM inside a foyer at a Chase bank branch. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006363955832/ 21006363955832 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:40:25 GMT HOUSTON -- The National Weather Service says 2011 was Texas' driest year on record as well as its second hottest. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006363962597/ 21006363962597 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:40:43 GMT NEW YORK -- As the U.S. economy recovers and adds more jobs, Americans are paying the price at the gas pump. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006369364349/ 21006369364349 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:40:50 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Russian tanker carrying fuel for an iced-in Alaska city that without a delivery could run out of crucial supplies before winter's end encountered ice early Friday in the eastern Bering Sea. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006363965078/ 21006363965078 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:48:21 GMT FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga. -- A 59-year-old Tennessee man told his estranged wife and her mother "they'd be sorry" before he pulled a handgun from his coat pocket and fatally shot both women at a Georgia hospital while people watched in the waiting room, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006368330165/ 21006368330165 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:53:32 GMT CASEYVILLE, Ill. -- A new Illinois law is letting people with a furbearer license salvage pelts or even food from roadkill. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006368361234/ 21006368361234 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:54:10 GMT HONOLULU -- Two Hawaiian monk seals were found bludgeoned to death on a remote coast of Molokai -- one was killed in mid-November and the other shortly before Christmas. Earlier this month, a dead seal showed up on Kauai. A fourth possible killing on Molokai is also under investigation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006368365021/ 21006368365021 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:25:51 GMT VALPARAISO, Ind. -- Three freight trains derailed in northwest Indiana on Friday, leaving several mangled train cars on their sides along the tracks and forcing nearby residents to temporarily leave home as smoke billowed from the wreckage. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360275183/ 21006360275183 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:27:40 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- The suspect in the shooting of six Utah police officers remains under guard at an Ogden hospital awaiting likely charges, a jail official said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360286050/ 21006360286050 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:19:15 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Wherever Dorothee and Harry Burkhart went, trouble followed the mother-and-son duo. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360235519/ 21006360235519 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:28:42 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Authorities arrested three Philippine nationals on charges of violating arms import laws by selling a grenade launcher, mortar launcher, rocket propelled grenade and other weapons to an undercover officer. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360292252/ 21006360292252 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:55:33 GMT DETROIT -- A judge on Friday postponed the sentencing of a Nigerian who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner but said passengers who can't make the new date can speak publicly to the man known as the underwear bomber at court later this month. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360093386/ 21006360093386 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:22:23 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A California lawmaker pleaded no contest Friday to stealing leather pants and other merchandise from a Neiman Marcus store in an incident her attorney blamed on a benign brain tumor. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360254334/ 21006360254334 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:13:43 GMT WASHINGTON -- A former D.C. councilmember pleaded guilty Friday to embezzling more than $350,000 in government funds earmarked for youth sports and arts programs and admitted that he spent the money on a luxury SUV, travel to exclusive golf courses and clothing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360202376/ 21006360202376 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:17:05 GMT SEATTLE -- Seattle police released surveillance images Friday of a person they suspect may have left a firebomb under an ATM inside a foyer at a Chase bank branch. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360222515/ 21006360222515 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:57:43 GMT HONOLULU -- A boat carrying a group of scientists on a University of Hawaii Marine Center research trip was headed back to shore Friday after it began taking on water 60 miles north of Oahu. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360106387/ 21006360106387 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:23:29 GMT DALLAS -- A Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was back in the United States on Friday and at the center of an international mystery over how a minor could be sent to a country where she is not a citizen. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360260961/ 21006360260961 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:05:09 GMT DEARBORN, Mich. -- The U.S. Energy Department won't follow through on a planned $730 million loan to the North American arm of one of Russia's largest steel companies to modernize its Detroit-area plant. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360150986/ 21006360150986 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:15:01 GMT CHICAGO -- Chicago's Cardinal Francis George is apologizing for remarks comparing an annual gay rights parade to a Ku Klux Klan rally. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360210162/ 21006360210162 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:26:44 GMT ALABASTER, Ala. -- Children used to clamor to get into Danny Acker's classes, and he was so popular he was once named his elementary school's Teacher of the Year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006360280422/ 21006360280422 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:04:25 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- For some physicians at a Santa Barbara hospital it wasn't the arrest of Dr. Julio Diaz on federal drug trafficking charges that surprised them, but the time it took for authorities to make the move. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355466579/ 21006355466579 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:03:38 GMT AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- The Air Force Academy says three cadets have been charged with unrelated sexual assaults just weeks after the Colorado institution released a report showing a rise in such cases from the previous year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355461834/ 21006355461834 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:53:55 GMT EL PASO, Texas -- A 15-year-old Texas girl who was deported in May to South America after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was headed back to the United States on Friday, Colombian and U.S. officials said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355403546/ 21006355403546 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:49:02 GMT ROBBINS, Ill. -- A former suburban Chicago high school football player who was paralyzed from the neck down when he was tackled during a game in 2000 has died. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355374298/ 21006355374298 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:02:48 GMT GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- As an ATF senior special agent, John Capano traveled the world, from Afghanistan to Iraq, Peru to Paraguay, sharing his expertise investigating the aftermath of bombings. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355456881/ 21006355456881 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:00:58 GMT OGDEN, Utah -- A Utah police officer who died in a shootout that wounded five colleagues and the suspect had long-dreamed of a life in law enforcement, despite the risks of the job, family members said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355445854/ 21006355445854 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:05:39 GMT NEW YORK -- Lily, her firstborn, was her "angel," her "life." Sarah was her "little whippersnapper, loved and lovable and full of love." While her twin, Grace, "fearless," often asked her mother if she was going to die before her. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355473913/ 21006355473913 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:00:04 GMT MIDLAND, Texas -- A North Carolina soldier who was arrested after a powerful, military-grade explosive was found in his carry-on luggage at a Texas airport could learn Friday whether he'll be released from federal custody. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355440475/ 21006355440475 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:49:54 GMT BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- The Rev. Jorge Gomez was counseling worried parents and frightened students late into the night the day police fatally shot an eighth-grader brandishing what appeared to be a handgun inside his South Texas school. The parents said their children weren't eating, some were running fevers, and needed to talk to someone. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355379452/ 21006355379452 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:59:19 GMT BILLINGS, Mont. -- A dog that was feared dead after he was swept away in a weekend avalanche that killed his owner showed up four days later at the Montana motel where his owners had stayed the night before going backcountry skiing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355435952/ 21006355435952 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:54:57 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration plans a rule change to help reduce the time illegal immigrant spouses and children are separated from citizen relatives while they try to win legal status in the United States, a senior administration official said Thursday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355409740/ 21006355409740 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:02:02 GMT WASHINGTON -- If you earn less than $200,000 a year, there's a strong chance you don't have to worry about an Internal Revenue Service audit. But if you make more than $1 million annually, the odds have been rising that you'll be hearing from the tax man. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355452256/ 21006355452256 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:57:21 GMT FARGO, N.D. -- When a powerful blizzard ripped through North Dakota last winter, hundreds of drivers were stranded as white-out conditions shuttered interstates spanning the state. Snow whipped up by wind marred the lines between pavement and grassy drop-offs, leaving some scared motorists unsure what to do. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006355424197/ 21006355424197 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:15:03 GMT CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The North Carolina woman sentenced to prison for killing her 10-year-old disabled stepdaughter has also pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006351210349/ 21006351210349 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:10:23 GMT McALESTER, Okla. -- An Oklahoma inmate who recently attempted suicide was put to death Thursday evening for killing a man during a knife fight nearly two decades ago, marking the nation's first execution this year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006351182326/ 21006351182326 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:14:21 GMT BROWNING, Mont. -- A pair of rare winter wildfires fueled by 60 mph gusts burned buildings and forced hundreds from their homes overnight on Montana's Blackfeet Indian Reservation, but better weather conditions on Thursday helped firefighters get a handle on the blazes. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006351206111/ 21006351206111 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:13:18 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A grand jury has indicted a California woman accused of cutting off a man's penis after tying him to a bed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006351199835/ 21006351199835 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:09:46 GMT WASHINGTON -- In a probe of arms trafficking during the George W. Bush administration, a federal prosecutor said it was wrong that law enforcement agents had allowed hundreds of guns to go into Mexico and into the hands of drug dealers, according to documents the Justice Department turned over to Congress on Thursday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006351178641/ 21006351178641 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:41:28 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A 26-year-old Navy veteran who served as a medic in Afghanistan pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he injected two Alaska teens with drugs on separate occasions, giving one of them a fatal dose. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006351008824/ 21006351008824 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:11:45 GMT LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Federal prosecutors say a Kentucky woman has been indicted on charges of threatening former President George W. Bush and U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006351190539/ 21006351190539 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:11:12 GMT EL PASO, Texas -- The grandmother of a Dallas teen who was deported to Colombia is hoping the 15-year-old can come back soon and says federal officials should have done more to identify the girl after she gave a fake name and claimed to be an adult. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006351187241/ 21006351187241 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:12:50 GMT ELY, Nev. -- Making fire is easy. But making snow when temperatures in eastern Nevada are a balmy 60 degrees? Not so much. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006351197043/ 21006351197043 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:59:09 GMT OGDEN, Utah -- Gunfire erupted as anti-drug police served a search warrant in an Ogden neighborhood, fatally wounding one officer and injuring five other police and a suspect, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006346794968/ 21006346794968 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:55:04 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Harry Burkhart's problems didn't start when he allegedly ignited more than 50 fires that terrorized Los Angeles last week. He's under investigation in Germany for a house fire near Frankfurt, and investigators searching his Hollywood apartment turned up news articles about the Los Angeles fires and a series of car blazes in Germany last year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006346770451/ 21006346770451 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:58:06 GMT COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Investigators might have had no leads on a missing mother and child if the woman hadn't crashed her car on Christmas Eve. But even after questioning Zinah Jennings in custody, police don't know what's happened to her 18-month-old son. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006346788699/ 21006346788699 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:29:26 GMT BROWNING, Mont. -- A pair of rare winter wildfires fueled by 60 mph gusts burned buildings and forced hundreds from their homes overnight on Montana's Blackfeet Indian Reservation, but better weather conditions on Thursday helped firefighters get a handle on the blazes. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006348776630/ 21006348776630 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:09:33 GMT PORTLAND, Maine -- A total of 19 people from seven states have become sick from salmonella linked to ground beef sold by Hannaford supermarket. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006349017321/ 21006349017321 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:56:24 GMT BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- The parents of an eighth grader who was fatally shot by police inside his South Texas school are demanding to know why officers took lethal action, but police said the boy was brandishing -- and refused to drop -- what appeared to be a handgun and that the officers acted correctly. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006346778477/ 21006346778477 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:28:16 GMT WASHINGTON -- D.C. Councilman Harry Thomas Jr. was charged Thursday with stealing more than $350,000 in government funds and filing false tax returns. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006348769638/ 21006348769638 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:28:54 GMT AKRON, Ohio -- A judge in Ohio has refused to halt the corruption trial of a former county official who claims two indictments against him amount to double jeopardy, or being prosecuted twice for the same crime. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006348773417/ 21006348773417 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:30:11 GMT MILWAUKEE -- A former close aide to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker during his time as Milwaukee County executive is among three people who've been arrested and charged with felonies as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006348781156/ 21006348781156 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:15:16 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- A bodybuilder who was shot in the head during a carjacking outside a Nevada casino -- then drove herself to get help -- was released from a Salt Lake City hospital just days after the shooting, which authorities said figured in a two-state crime spree. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006346891690/ 21006346891690 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:14:24 GMT NEW YORK -- Three young girls who died along with their grandparents in a Christmas morning fire in Stamford, Conn., will be remembered at a funeral in New York City. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006346886432/ 21006346886432 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:10:45 GMT BLANCHARD, Okla. -- Authorities don't plan to file charges against an Oklahoma woman who fatally shot a New Year's Eve intruder at her house while she had a 911 dispatcher on the phone, but the intruder's alleged accomplice has been charged in the death. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006346864555/ 21006346864555 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:12:17 GMT SECAUCUS, N.J. -- Train delays should be gone in time for rush hour commuters now that a New Jersey bridge that got stuck in the open position while allowing marine traffic to pass has been fixed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006346873733/ 21006346873733 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:09:40 GMT SAN DIEGO -- Mexican drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix stood attentively in court, acknowledging his guilt as a federal judge read a plea agreement that detailed his role at the helm of one of the world's most powerful cartels in the 1990s. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006346858092/ 21006346858092 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:08:36 GMT SAN DIEGO -- The two Navy fighter-jet pilots were in their prime, having made the cut into one of the military's most competitive programs. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006346851636/ 21006346851636 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:02:43 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A suburban Philadelphia-area mother is being sentenced Thursday for a fraud scheme that prompted her to stage a hoax kidnapping before fleeing with her daughter to Disney World. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006346816319/ 21006346816319 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:04:31 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A California doctor linked to a string of drug deaths and dubbed the "Candy Man" was arrested by federal agents on charges of trafficking huge quantities of powerful painkillers, prosecutors said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006347547146/ 21006347547146 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:10:25 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A German man was charged Wednesday with 37 counts of arson in connection with a rash of fires that terrorized Los Angeles over the New Year's weekend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006342542512/ 21006342542512 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:06:18 GMT BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- Police shot and killed an eighth-grader in the hallway of his middle school Wednesday after the boy brandished what looked like a handgun and pointed it at officers. It turned out to be a pellet gun that closely resembled the real thing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006342517821/ 21006342517821 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:05:31 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Police used helicopters and armored SWAT vehicles to search for a parolee suspected of shooting his parole officer in the Lake View Terrace area of Los Angeles on Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006342513156/ 21006342513156 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:06:49 GMT SAN DIEGO -- Mexican drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering and conspiracy to launder money, avoiding the spectacle of a trial for the leader of a cartel that once smuggled hundreds of tons of cocaine and marijuana into the United States and dissolved bodies of its rivals in vats of lye. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006342520914/ 21006342520914 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:12:26 GMT SAN DIEGO -- A New Year's Day shooting that left four people dead at a condominium near San Diego was a murder-suicide involving a 25-year-old Navy pilot who killed himself, officials said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006342554651/ 21006342554651 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:14:14 GMT LOS ANGELES -- The resignation of a Los Angeles bishop who fathered two children has shocked the nation's most populous Roman Catholic archdiocese, where Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala grew up and was an outspoken supporter of causes dear to the huge Hispanic population. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006342565455/ 21006342565455 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:37:44 GMT ATLANTA -- The number of twins born in the U.S. soared over the last three decades, mostly the result of test-tube babies and women waiting to have children until their 30s, when the chances of twins increase. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006342346477/ 21006342346477 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:08:11 GMT NEW YORK -- Robert Carter, a lawyer who was an integral member of the team led by Thurgood Marshall that turned to the courts to battle segregation, has died. He was 94. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006342529113/ 21006342529113 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:09:20 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Voters in a tiny Native village increasingly eroded by storms on Alaska's northwest coast have overwhelmingly said yes to building a new school 7 miles away, a step some hope will eventually lead to the seemingly impossible task of relocating the remote community. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006342536068/ 21006342536068 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:02:58 GMT SEATTLE -- Mount Rainier National Park in Washington will reopen to the public on Saturday, and all services with the exception of snow play will be available this weekend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006338177836/ 21006338177836 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:00:27 GMT SAN DIEGO -- David and Karen Reis came from a tight-knit, religious family and seemed inseparable at times. They died together at David's condominium, two of four people killed in a New Year's Day shooting. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006338162759/ 21006338162759 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:58:36 GMT JOLIET, Ill. -- A northern Illinois man is accused of gouging his uncle's eyes out during a fight over a remote control. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006338151614/ 21006338151614 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:07:08 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A Philadelphia woman has avoided prison after admitting she posted a Facebook offer of $1,000 for someone to kill her baby's father. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006338202898/ 21006338202898 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:02:57 GMT HARTFORD, Conn. -- A prominent former advertising executive was sentenced Wednesday to 70 years in prison for kidnapping his ex-wife, holding her hostage for hours and burning down the Connecticut home they once shared. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006339977785/ 21006339977785 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:03:35 GMT SAN DIEGO -- San Diego County prosecutors have charged current and former officials of a local school district with taking bribes to award hundreds of millions of dollars worth of construction contracts. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006339981566/ 21006339981566 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:02:25 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has moved to limit the use of an antibiotic that is injected into livestock before slaughter, saying it could increase antibiotic resistance in humans. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006339974584/ 21006339974584 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:05:14 GMT GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- Street smarts, judgment, discretion. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006338191456/ 21006338191456 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:47:19 GMT BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- Police have shot and killed an armed 15-year-old student at a middle school in South Texas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006338803989/ 21006338803989 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:48:32 GMT LOS ANGELES -- The suspect in a string of arsons in the Los Angeles area is also under investigation in his home country of Germany for a house fire last fall, a prosecutor said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006338811294/ 21006338811294 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:51:08 GMT FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- A northern Indiana magistrate entered a not guilty plea Wednesday for a man accused of bludgeoning and dismembering a 9-year-old girl whose sick mother had entrusted her to his care. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006338826871/ 21006338826871 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:08:23 GMT BELMAR, N.J. -- A homeless New Jersey man whose videotaped beating was posted on YouTube has voluntarily entered a rehabilitation program in Pennsylvania. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006338210385/ 21006338210385 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:49:23 GMT STORRS, Conn. -- The University of Connecticut is launching a national search for its next athletic director and expects to make its choice within three months. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006338816382/ 21006338816382 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:59:05 GMT GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Two men are being held after one of the suspects told investigators he shot a man because he wanted to see him die. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006338874547/ 21006338874547 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:06:58 GMT LOS ANGELES -- It was another night of firefighters scrambling across the nation's second largest city to snuff out a series of arson attacks when a tip came in about a German man who matched the description of someone with a shoulder-length ponytail captured on a surveillance video near where a car fire was reported. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006329201890/ 21006329201890 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:25:46 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Harry Burkhart watched as his mother was arrested last week on fraud charges from their native Germany, and a day later he exploded in an expletive-laced rant against the U.S. at her court hearing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006333634623/ 21006333634623 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:16:26 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A State Department official says a German man was identified as a suspect in the Los Angeles arson spree because his mother was the subject of a provisional arrest request by Germany. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006331418673/ 21006331418673 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:05:44 GMT SEATTLE -- Staff at Mount Rainier National Park gathered Tuesday to grieve the loss of a ranger fatally shot on New Year's Day -- and to wonder what led the gunman, heavily armed and carrying a bulletproof vest, to that rugged, remote spot as he fled another shooting 100 miles away. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006329194463/ 21006329194463 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:59:49 GMT DRY RIDGE, Ky. -- Police say eight people have been injured in a 41-vehicle pileup that shut southbound Interstate 75 for hours on a day when scattered snow showers pelted northern Kentucky. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006329158938/ 21006329158938 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:15:44 GMT SAN DIEGO -- A military spokeswoman says two Navy pilots were among four people found dead in a New Year's Day shooting at a tony Coronado condominium on San Diego Bay. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006331414451/ 21006331414451 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:08:05 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- A Nevada rancher who spotted a man and woman walking in a desolate area Tuesday while surveying his cattle from the air led police to arrest the suspects in the killing an elderly Utah couple in a crime spree that spanned two states. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006329208586/ 21006329208586 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:13:29 GMT MIDLAND, Texas -- A soldier charged with trying to bring explosives on an airplane told investigators he used them in Afghanistan but didn't realize any were in a bag he brought back to the U.S. and apparently carried on a flight from North Carolina to Texas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006331400976/ 21006331400976 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:32:51 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Smoldering embers blamed for a Christmas morning house fire that killed three girls and their grandparents had been taken out of a fireplace so the children would not worry about Santa Claus coming down the chimney, two officials told The Associated Press Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006333677130/ 21006333677130 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:31:51 GMT NEW YORK -- A man hurled crude firebombs at an Islamic cultural center in part because he wasn't allowed to use its bathrooms and targeted four other New York-area sites on New Year's Day because of personal grievances, a law enforcement official said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006333671122/ 21006333671122 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:42:17 GMT JACKSON, Miss. -- A Mississippi judge has thrown out a $322 million lawsuit verdict that had been hailed as the largest asbestos award for a single plaintiff in U.S. history. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006333733793/ 21006333733793 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:41:22 GMT PITTSBURGH -- An accounting-director-turned-government witness was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for faking the financial records of the defunct Pennsylvania soft drink maker Le-Nature's, and the only executive to maintain his innocence in the $800 million fraud scheme was given a 15-year term. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006333728267/ 21006333728267 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:29:26 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A man who was slurring his speech and appeared intoxicated was found dead on New Year's Day at a controversial center in Anchorage where chronic street alcoholics are allowed to keep drinking. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006333656647/ 21006333656647 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:34:57 GMT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A police dispatcher last seen alive leaving a party with her boyfriend shortly before Christmas was slain, authorities said Tuesday after confirming that a body found in the wilderness over the weekend was hers. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006333689778/ 21006333689778 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:40:24 GMT MILWAUKEE -- The corpses' faces are mostly bloated, their skin pale and discolored. One man's lips are stiffened into a grim frown and he stares with half-open eyes. Another man appears to be sleeping, his color natural enough that he almost looks alive. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006333722414/ 21006333722414 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:27:02 GMT SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California has met the first target set by federal courts to reduce its inmate population as a way to improve health care in the nation's largest state prison system, prison officials said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006333642280/ 21006333642280 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:37:08 GMT NEW YORK -- Prosecutors said Tuesday they are dropping a rare self-abortion case against a woman arrested after her fetus was found among trash. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006333702824/ 21006333702824 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:34:15 GMT WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah -- A stray cat that survived two trips to a Utah animal shelter's gas chamber now has a new home. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006333685579/ 21006333685579 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:15:04 GMT NEW YORK -- A former Miss Russia is getting what a judge calls her "last chance" at resolving her New York drug case with treatment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006331410473/ 21006331410473 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:04:40 GMT MIDLAND, Texas -- A member of the U.S. military allegedly found with explosives in his airport luggage on New Year's Eve is expected to make his first court appearance. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006329188027/ 21006329188027 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:14:25 GMT NEW YORK -- A Columbia University student who sold marijuana as part of a campus drug-dealing ring is beginning about a year of drug treatment that could get his charges dismissed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006331406581/ 21006331406581 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:03:16 GMT TORRANCE, Calif. -- A woman who expected her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid to be her dream car wants Honda to pay for not delivering the high mileage it promised. But rather than joining other owners in a class-action lawsuit, she is going solo in small claims court, an unusual move that could offer a bigger payout if it doesn't backfire. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006329179622/ 21006329179622 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:58:51 GMT NEW YORK -- Police kept watch over a globally prominent Islamic cultural center that was firebombed as they investigated other possibly linked attacks that also could be bias crimes. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006329153194/ 21006329153194 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:52:43 GMT YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- An Ohio airport says a plane that arrived from Florida with up to 150 people on board skidded off a runway and got stuck in grass. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006329116386/ 21006329116386 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:55:50 GMT LAS VEGAS -- The fight to fully legalize online gambling in the U.S. is now less about whether Americans will be able to play and more about who will bring the action to them -- and when. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006329135015/ 21006329135015 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:16:25 GMT MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. -- An armed Iraq War veteran suspected of killing a Mount Rainier National Park ranger managed to evade snowshoe-wearing SWAT teams and dogs on his trail for nearly a day. He couldn't, however, escape the cold. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006322778586/ 21006322778586 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:53:40 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Authorities arrested a man Monday in connection with dozens of suspected arson attacks that destroyed parked cars, scorched buildings and rattled much of the nation's second-largest city over the New Year's weekend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006323362034/ 21006323362034 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:03:55 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- Three children trapped in an upturned car after it skidded into a river were released Monday from a hospital, two days after they were saved by several passers-by. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006323063530/ 21006323063530 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:15:46 GMT CORONADO, Calif. -- Authorities on Monday identified two of the four people found dead in an early morning New Year's shooting at a California condominium as members of the Navy. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006323134636/ 21006323134636 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:22:56 GMT NEW YORK -- An off-duty federal law enforcement agent who died while confronting a pharmacy robber was picking up his elderly father's cancer medication, a New York congressman said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006320657691/ 21006320657691 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:58:18 GMT NEW YORK -- A man in Texas is serving a 35-year prison sentence for spitting at a police officer -- because he has the virus that causes AIDS and his saliva was deemed a deadly weapon. In Michigan, an HIV-positive man who allegedly bit a neighbor during an argument faced a bioterrorism charge. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006322669865/ 21006322669865 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:57:22 GMT SEAFORD, N.Y. -- A funeral Mass is scheduled for this week for an off-duty federal agent shot to death during a pharmacy holdup on New York's Long Island. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006322664244/ 21006322664244 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:09:19 GMT NEW YORK -- Authorities say they are investigating four fire attacks in New York City, including one at an Islamic center. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006320575959/ 21006320575959 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:12:31 GMT CAMP SPRINGS, Md. -- The party's over in the Eastern U.S. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006320595149/ 21006320595149 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:24:01 GMT ATLANTA -- Former U.S. Rep. Ed Jenkins, a Democrat who represented north Georgia in Congress from 1977 to 1993, died Sunday after a long illness. He was 78. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006320664182/ 21006320664182 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:14:32 GMT LOS ANGELES -- The cruise to the moon took 3 1/2 months and covered 2 1/2 million miles -- far longer than the direct three-day flight by Apollo astronauts. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006320607215/ 21006320607215 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:15:55 GMT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- With much of the Southwest struggling with drought, many ranchers and dairy farmers are having difficulty finding enough hay for their livestock and making tough choices: pay up to twice as much as last year and ship it in from hundreds of miles away or do without and sell off some of their herd. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006320615512/ 21006320615512 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:51:56 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- The father of a missing Maine toddler says he hopes to tell whoever has her that "they have no right" to have taken her. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006321191625/ 21006321191625 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:54:30 GMT NEW YORK -- A South Carolina man who entered the New York City subway system with two loaded weapons has been arrested. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006321567077/ 21006321567077 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:55:33 GMT BILLINGS, Mont. -- Scientists say in a new study that the return of gray wolves has dramatically altered the landscape in portions of Yellowstone National Park by curbing foraging elk herds that prevented new aspen, willow and cottonwood trees from taking root. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006321573335/ 21006321573335 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:23:18 GMT HONOLULU -- President Barack Obama is spending New Year's Day remembering his family's history in Hawaii. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006315259878/ 21006315259878 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:30:22 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Police in Los Angeles distributed DVDs on Sunday featuring surveillance video of a man wanted for questioning in connection with a rash of suspicious car fires in the city. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006315302251/ 21006315302251 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:19:51 GMT MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. -- A Mount Rainier National Park ranger died in a shooting Sunday following a routine traffic stop, and authorities closed the 368-square-mile park in Washington state as they searched for the armed gunman, a park spokeswoman said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006315239112/ 21006315239112 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:27:45 GMT MIDLAND, Texas -- Authorities have charged a member of the U.S. military who was arrested after trying to go through a security checkpoint at a Texas airport with explosives in military-grade wrapping, the FBI said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006315286546/ 21006315286546 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:25:13 GMT CORONADO, Calif. -- An early morning New Year's shooting has left four people dead at a condominium near San Diego, authorities said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006315271383/ 21006315271383 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:20:50 GMT NORTON, Mass. -- An off-duty state trooper who was hunting in southeast Massachusetts shot and wounded a 66-year-old woman who was out walking her two dogs when he mistook her pets for a deer. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006315245047/ 21006315245047 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:28:39 GMT SEATTLE -- Here's another reason for holdouts to join the social media site Facebook: It's a great place to find a kidney. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006315291924/ 21006315291924 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:51:17 GMT NEW YORK -- The crowds are getting thicker in Times Square, hours in advance of the big New Year's Eve bash. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006306787732/ 21006306787732 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:32:43 GMT NEW YORK -- Times Square was awash in hopeful sentiments as it began to welcome hordes of New Year's Eve revelers looking to cast off a rough year and cheer their way to something better in 2012. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006303436319/ 21006303436319 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:48:47 GMT LOS ANGELES -- On what would already be one of their busiest nights of the year, police and firefighters Saturday will be patrolling neighborhoods, taking hotline phone calls and scrambling to identify who was behind the arson fires that have spooked the Hollywood area for two straight nights and were making it an uneasy New Year's Eve in Los Angeles. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006307492798/ 21006307492798 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:50:32 GMT MIDLAND, Texas -- A man was detained Saturday after trying to go through a security checkpoint at a Texas airport with explosives in military-grade wrapping, federal and local officials said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006306423283/ 21006306423283 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:45:21 GMT McDONALD, Ohio -- The latest in a series of minor earthquakes in northeast Ohio hit on Saturday, sending some stunned residents running for cover as bookshelves shook and pictures and lamps fell from tables. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006306392180/ 21006306392180 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:51:47 GMT PORTLAND, Maine -- A day after police declared a 20-month-old Maine girl's disappearance a crime, her grandfather is pleading for her safe return. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006307510744/ 21006307510744 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:04:02 GMT NEW YORK -- An off-duty federal law enforcement agent who died while confronting a pharmacy robber was picking up his elderly father's cancer medication, a New York congressman said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006307944242/ 21006307944242 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:56:22 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco Zoo officials are stepping up security after a male squirrel monkey was stolen from an exhibit. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006307538266/ 21006307538266 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:53:57 GMT MIAMI -- For decades, it was common for officials around the country to approve foster parents by room and board criteria: Did they pass a background check? Is their home clean? Are their dogs safe and vaccinated? http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006307523736/ 21006307523736 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:47:54 GMT HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, Ark. -- Investigators were working Saturday to identify a body found in a forest a few miles from a missing police dispatcher's home, but the dispatcher's family said they were all but certain it was her. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006307487482/ 21006307487482 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:54:55 GMT ATLANTA -- It was the year of the test cheating scandal. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006307529528/ 21006307529528 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:49:27 GMT WASHINGTON -- Chief Justice John Roberts said Saturday that he has "complete confidence" in his colleagues' ability to step away from cases where their personal interests are at stake, and noted that judges should not be swayed by "partisan demands." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006307496765/ 21006307496765 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:52:31 GMT YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- Two weeks after Yellowstone opened for the winter season, enough snow has fallen to allow snowmobile and snow coach travel. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006307515156/ 21006307515156 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:33:48 GMT PORTLAND, Maine -- Crime scene investigators returned to the central Maine home from which a 20-month-old girl disappeared as police announced that they believe foul play was involved. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006303442833/ 21006303442833 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:33:08 GMT LOS ANGELES -- One of two NASA spacecraft bound for the moon is about to arrive. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006303438816/ 21006303438816 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:18:58 GMT ANNONA, Texas -- Eight people, including three children, have been killed in a fiery, two-vehicle crash in East Texas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299393859/ 21006299393859 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:12:32 GMT FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- A trusted family friend who confessed to police that he bludgeoned to death a 9-year-old Indiana girl in his care then dismembered her just days before Christmas was formally charged Friday in the killing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299355292/ 21006299355292 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:27:00 GMT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Dawna Natzke planned to have her family over for Christmas to open gifts and feast on steaks. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299442058/ 21006299442058 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:58:48 GMT LOS ANGELES -- An arsonist swept through the Hollywood area under the cover of dark early Friday, torching vehicles whose flames ignited nearby houses, including one once occupied by Doors frontman Jim Morrison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299272867/ 21006299272867 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:03:45 GMT WASHINGTON -- A federal court Friday put on hold a controversial Obama administration regulation aimed at reducing power plant pollution in 27 states that contributes to unhealthy air downwind. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299302584/ 21006299302584 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:05:41 GMT KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Two federal agencies say there is no evidence that four cases of a rare bacterial infection in babies are related, and there is no need to recall infant formula. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299314161/ 21006299314161 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:59:36 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- Heads of iceberg lettuce are being removed from grocery store shelves in at least seven states after salmonella was found in an Arizona field adjacent to the grower's property. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299277644/ 21006299277644 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:16:33 GMT MADISON, Wis. -- A prosecutor asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday to reopen his lawsuit challenging Gov. Scott Walker's contentious collective bargaining law, contending a justice who voted to dismiss the suit earlier this year got free legal help from the firm defending the law. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299379346/ 21006299379346 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:02:22 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Voters in one of Alaska's most storm-eroded coastal villages will decide next week whether to build a new school seven miles away -- a project one local official believes could hasten efforts to relocate the crumbling community. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299294248/ 21006299294248 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:13:34 GMT ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A pair of eastern Pennsylvania homes structurally damaged by a massive sinkhole may have to be demolished. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299361489/ 21006299361489 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:14:47 GMT HELENA, Mont. -- The Montana Supreme Court restored the state's century-old ban on direct spending by corporations on political candidates or committees in a ruling Friday that interest groups say bucks a high profile U.S. Supreme Court decision granting political speech rights to corporations. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299368744/ 21006299368744 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:14:16 GMT CHICAGO -- Chicago police are asking for help in finding the men who shot and killed an off-duty police officer at a West Side convenience store. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299365624/ 21006299365624 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:25:02 GMT MINNEAPOLIS -- Somalis caught off guard when more than a dozen Minnesota businesses stopped accepting wire transfers said Friday they were scrambling to find a way to get money to relatives in East Africa and options mentioned by the U.S. Treasury weren't realistic. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299430264/ 21006299430264 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:15:58 GMT WASHINGTON -- Authorities say two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death of a viable fetus. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006299375847/ 21006299375847 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:25:15 GMT BOSTON -- Massachusetts public health officials are urging consumers not to eat some brands of cheese because they may be contaminated with potentially fatal listeria. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294751594/ 21006294751594 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:02:08 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A federal grand jury indicted six foreign nationals on charges that they defrauded hundreds of customers out of more than $4 million in bogus Internet car sales, federal prosecutors said Thursday http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006295332862/ 21006295332862 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:06:25 GMT BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Montana Highway Patrol says four people were killed and another was injured in a head-on crash on an Interstate 90 frontage road on the Crow Indian Reservation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006295358526/ 21006295358526 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:19:23 GMT LOS ANGELES -- An arsonist swept through the Hollywood area under the cover of dark early Friday, torching vehicles whose flames ignited nearby houses, including one once occupied by Doors frontman Jim Morrison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006297236368/ 21006297236368 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:44:42 GMT WORCESTER, Mass. -- A Massachusetts judge has denied a request to dismiss charges against a woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting the unborn baby from her womb. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294868236/ 21006294868236 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:05:40 GMT DENVER -- A man has acknowledged planting a homemade bomb at a Colorado mall on the 12th anniversary of the Columbine shootings. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006297154046/ 21006297154046 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:04:49 GMT FRESNO, Calif. -- California has released the first statewide flood-control plan, and it calls for $14 billion to $17 billion in repairs and other investments. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006297148929/ 21006297148929 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:04:15 GMT WASHINGTON -- A politically connected financial firm and its founder have pleaded guilty to taking part in fraud and bid-rigging conspiracies related to the municipal bond business. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006297145549/ 21006297145549 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:35:38 GMT NEW YORK -- Two years after the glitzy Tavern on the Green restaurant in Central Park closed, New York City officials are looking to open a scaled-down version. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294813828/ 21006294813828 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:34:37 GMT WORCESTER, Mass. -- A Roman Catholic diocese in Massachusetts has asked the Vatican to defrock a priest who is facing charges of possessing child pornography and stealing from his parish. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294807799/ 21006294807799 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:33:25 GMT NEW YORK -- Ten disabled people who were fraudulently adopted by a woman in New York City and subjected to years of abuse are proposing a $68 million settlement in their lawsuit over the adoptions. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294800580/ 21006294800580 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:43:27 GMT ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A coroner may decide soon whether to move dozens of graves threatened by a sinkhole in Allentown. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294860723/ 21006294860723 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:41:32 GMT DETROIT -- Before passing comment on someone's "baby bump," take a pregnant pause. Likewise, give up promoting "shared sacrifice." And if you're tempted to proclaim your desire to "win the future," you've lost it here in the present. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294849257/ 21006294849257 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:42:39 GMT ALBANY, N.Y. -- New registered nurses would have to earn bachelor's degrees within 10 years to keep working in New York under a bill lawmakers are considering as part of a national push to raise educational standards for nurses, even as the health care industry faces staffing shortages. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294855922/ 21006294855922 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:45:33 GMT PORTLAND, Maine -- The mayor of Maine's largest city has undergone cancer treatment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294873327/ 21006294873327 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:46:43 GMT NEW YORK -- The weeping, cash-strapped relatives of a woman torched in the elevator of her apartment building said Thursday that she was kindhearted and helped a homeless man and paid with her life. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294880387/ 21006294880387 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:47:39 GMT LINCOLN, Neb. -- A Lincoln man has pleaded no contest to charges he tried to poison kittens with antifreeze. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294885953/ 21006294885953 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:49:15 GMT FRESNO, Calif. -- California officials say they will ask a federal judge to stay his ruling that blocks the state from enforcing the first-in-the-nation mandate for cleaner, low-carbon fuels. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294895580/ 21006294895580 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:51:38 GMT SAN DIEGO -- U.S. troops are increasingly using an easy-to-get herbal mix called "Spice," which mimics a marijuana high and can bring on hallucinations that last for days. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006294909898/ 21006294909898 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:44:25 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- Two men died and 61 other people were injured Thursday in a pre-dawn pileup involving about 40 cars, vans and other vehicles on a busy interstate that crosses New Orleans, closing the route for hours both ways, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006290906567/ 21006290906567 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:37:07 GMT DES MOINES, Iowa -- Police arrested more than a dozen Occupy protesters Thursday in Iowa who are targeting Democrats and Republicans just days before the state's closely watched lead-off presidential caucuses. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006290862794/ 21006290862794 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:38:04 GMT NEW YORK -- The weeping, cash-strapped relatives of a woman torched in the elevator of her apartment building said Thursday that she was kindhearted and helped a homeless man and paid with her life. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006290868458/ 21006290868458 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:38:44 GMT HONOLULU -- Members of a group suspected of hauling items out of a Hawaii toy store who claim they stole the toys as gifts for their children are also suspects in a theft two days prior of two flat-screen televisions, Honolulu police said Thursday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006290872439/ 21006290872439 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:46:10 GMT HOUSTON -- Texas prison officials are investigating whether convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs violated his telephone privileges with calls to a relative on Christmas Day that may have been broadcast to an audience. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006290917064/ 21006290917064 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:39:32 GMT LAS VEGAS -- A second wrongful death lawsuit was filed Thursday in a Nevada court against the Las Vegas-based operator of a sightseeing tour helicopter that crashed and killed five people earlier this month. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006290877235/ 21006290877235 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:45:32 GMT NEW YORK -- Work on a planned museum at the World Trade Center has ground to a halt because of a financial dispute, and there is now no possibility it will open on time next year, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006290913284/ 21006290913284 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:41:21 GMT FRESNO, Calif. -- A federal judge blocked California from enforcing its first-in-the-nation mandate for cleaner, low-carbon fuels on Thursday, saying the rules favor biofuels produced in the state. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006290888116/ 21006290888116 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:43:42 GMT CLAREMONT, Calif. -- Vandalism of a church's Nativity display that includes depictions of gay and lesbian couples was being investigated as a hate crime, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006290902235/ 21006290902235 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:42:51 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court on Thursday said a 2008 law that granted telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the National Security Agency with an email and telephone eavesdropping program is constitutional. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006290897197/ 21006290897197 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:42:14 GMT MINNEAPOLIS -- Money-transfer businesses that cater to Somali immigrants in Minnesota stopped accepting money bound for the famine-stricken East African country Thursday, a day before a key bank was due to stop processing the transactions. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006290893430/ 21006290893430 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:52:36 GMT DALLAS -- One of the victims of a Christmas Day shooting in Texas that left seven dead sent text messages before her uncle opened fire on the gathering saying he was there dressed as Santa Claus and wanted to be "all fatherly," police said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006286275677/ 21006286275677 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:00:56 GMT SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- A California man pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempted murder in the homecoming party shooting of an Afghanistan war veteran. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006286325656/ 21006286325656 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:53:18 GMT MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Four months and a day after Tropical Storm Irene inundated Vermont, officials are planning to mark the reopening of the last stretch of highway that was closed by the storm -- a major east-west artery that was reconstructed in an amazing 119 days. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006286279885/ 21006286279885 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:04:22 GMT TUCSON, Ariz. -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, other survivors of the Tucson shooting rampage and countless others will come together in the close-knit southern Arizona city on Jan. 8 to commemorate the one-year mark of that tragic day and remember those who died. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006288506247/ 21006288506247 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:03:47 GMT WASHINGTON -- The District of Columbia has been ordered to pay more than $1 million in attorneys' fees as a result of a historic gun case that was ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006288502782/ 21006288502782 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:55:07 GMT RICHMOND, Va. -- The owner of the largest trove of artifacts salvaged from the Titanic is putting the vast collection up for auction as a single lot in 2012, the 100th anniversary of the world's most famous shipwreck. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006286290759/ 21006286290759 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:16:54 GMT SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Police in Georgia say a fast-food worker grabbed his gun and shot and killed a man suspected of robbing the restaurant near Savannah. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006286781489/ 21006286781489 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:15:05 GMT BREMERTON, Wash. -- A Bainbridge Island tugboat captain from Washington state has died from injuries suffered during a Christmas day beating in Mexico. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006286770531/ 21006286770531 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:01:54 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- The mother of a 20-month-old girl who went missing nearly two weeks in Maine is appealing to the toddler's father to contact her. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006287051460/ 21006287051460 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:00:13 GMT DULUTH, Minn. -- A man who died in custody after displaying flu-like symptoms had been denied an extra blanket and cough medicine by the staff of the St. Louis County Jail in northern Minnesota where he was detained, according to the man's father, sister and a friend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006287041391/ 21006287041391 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:51:21 GMT SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A San Jose mother accused of tossing her toddler son out a second-story apartment window on Christmas Day has been charged with child abuse and child endangerment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006286988191/ 21006286988191 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:52:02 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- Safety concerns have led federal authorities to shut down a bus company that took passengers from several cities to New York City. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006286992298/ 21006286992298 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:22:11 GMT COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho -- A Washington state man faces felony marijuana trafficking charges after an officer found 3.3 pounds of marijuana wrapped up as Christmas gifts during a traffic stop in northern Idaho. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006286813142/ 21006286813142 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:21:16 GMT NEW YORK -- Activists upset at police efforts to spy on Muslims plan to skip Mayor Michael Bloomberg's annual year-end interfaith breakfast, saying Bloomberg shouldn't be defending the tactics. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006286807630/ 21006286807630 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:54:04 GMT STAMFORD, Conn. -- An uncle of three girls killed with their grandparents in a Christmas morning house fire said Wednesday family members are devastated by the tragedy but comforted by each other and an outpouring of public sympathy. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006281964483/ 21006281964483 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:06:26 GMT HONOLULU -- Four unemployed, single mothers surrendered to police after they were seen on surveillance footage taking items from a Hawaii toy store before Christmas, Honolulu police said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006282038628/ 21006282038628 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:50:01 GMT SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. -- A Vermont airport responded to two emergency landings in one day Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006281940183/ 21006281940183 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:10:29 GMT SAN DIEGO -- A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to pay $17.8 million to a Korean family that lost four members when a Marine Corps fighter jet crashed into their San Diego home in 2008. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006279902993/ 21006279902993 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:44:18 GMT QUINTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- State police shot and wounded a southern New Jersey man after he allegedly threw an ax at three troopers and charged at them while reaching for a dagger. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006282265835/ 21006282265835 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:55:09 GMT SOMERVILLE, N.J. -- An educator using a secretly installed camera videotaped teenage boys in the shower at a Catholic high school for nearly three years, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006281970969/ 21006281970969 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:51:23 GMT NEW YORK -- Officials at the Sept. 11 Memorial in New York City say they plan to announce Thursday that the site has had 1 million visitors since opening to the public this year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006281948353/ 21006281948353 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:54:21 GMT PORTSMOUTH, Ohio -- A southern Ohio judge has ordered the continued closure of a medical clinic described by authorities as little more than a drug house. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006282326195/ 21006282326195 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:52:23 GMT NEW YORK -- Several Muslim leaders have declined invitations to the mayor's annual year-end interfaith breakfast, saying they're upset at police department efforts to infiltrate mosques and spy on Muslim neighborhoods. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006281954384/ 21006281954384 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:58:41 GMT PERRIS, Calif. -- An experienced Canadian skydiver died at a Southern California drop zone after landing hard while attempting a high-speed maneuver known as "swooping," authorities said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006281992188/ 21006281992188 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:00:47 GMT HONOLULU -- A Hawaii man was charged with four counts of assault after allegedly attacking a group of men with what is believed to be a cow's thighbone, police on the Big Island said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006282004753/ 21006282004753 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:31:00 GMT NEW MARKET, Tenn. -- A fire broke out inside a zinc mine in Tennessee on Wednesday, trapping three miners inside for about three hours before they were rescued, authorities said. Two other miners below ground were injured by smoke inhalation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006280026016/ 21006280026016 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:39:29 GMT DEARBORN, Mich. -- Michigan authorities have announced the recall of two cheese products of Green Cedar Dairy in Dearborn because of possible contamination with Listeria bacteria and say they know of two people becoming infected. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006277556963/ 21006277556963 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:48:17 GMT FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- To assist her dying father, Tarah Souders made a choice: She moved her three young girls to a run-down trailer park in rural Indiana to help take care of him as his lungs rotted from emphysema. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006277609770/ 21006277609770 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:55:37 GMT NEW YORK -- Last-minute shoppers gave merchants a solid lift during the final week before Christmas, a mall trade group said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006278013760/ 21006278013760 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:40:49 GMT SAN DIEGO -- A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. government to pay $17.8 million to a Korean family that lost four members when a Marine Corps fighter jet crashed into their San Diego home in 2008. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006280444936/ 21006280444936 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:09:57 GMT STAMFORD, Conn. -- Five family members who were killed in a Christmas morning house fire in Stamford died of smoke inhalation, the Connecticut medical examiner said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006279899751/ 21006279899751 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:12:41 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- When the Federal Emergency Management Agency mailed out 83,000 debt notices this year to victims of Hurricane Katrina and other 2005 storms, one of the letters showed up in David Bellinger's mailbox. Bellinger, who is blind, needed a friend to read it and break the news that FEMA wants him to pay back more than $3,200 in federal aid he received after Katrina. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006279916181/ 21006279916181 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:13:26 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- An Oakland homicide victim is giving people in dire need of organ transplants new leases on life this holiday season. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006279920681/ 21006279920681 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:55:41 GMT UNDATED -- One Oregon police chief was killed when a man allegedly took the officer's gun and shot him in the head. A policeman in Arizona was fatally shot when he went to a suburban Phoenix apartment complex to help a probation officer. And two South Dakota officers were killed in a shootout after a traffic stop. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006277654123/ 21006277654123 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:11:03 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A suburban Philadelphia school district has settled another lawsuit over its alleged spying on students through laptop webcams. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006279906328/ 21006279906328 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:49:09 GMT SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Rescue firefighters responded to a Southwest Airlines flight in distress after two tires blew on the runway Tuesday evening, leaving the jet and its passengers grounded. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006277614947/ 21006277614947 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:51:26 GMT NEW YORK -- The skies above New York City were clogged with planes waiting to land in winds gusting up to 50 mph Tuesday night, forcing long delays at two of the three major metropolitan airports and causing some flights to be diverted to other cities. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006277628669/ 21006277628669 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:41:16 GMT STAMFORD, Conn. -- A Christmas morning fire that killed a couple and three of their grandchildren was devastating to firefighters who rushed into the engulfed home twice frantically looking for the victims before they were beaten back by the flames. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006277567614/ 21006277567614 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:52:18 GMT NEW YORK -- Three security contractors including two Americans were released by Iraqi Army forces Tuesday after they were held for more than two weeks, the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security announced as he demanded a full report on the episode. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006277633822/ 21006277633822 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:57:57 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah police have filed charges against a 33-year-old man they say held a woman and her 17-month-old son hostage for five days until rescuers were tipped off by her plea for help on Facebook. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006278387756/ 21006278387756 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:40:26 GMT BATON ROUGE, La. -- A program designed to help some senior citizens avoid quick return trips to the hospital is expanding from the Baton Rouge area to Lafayette, Hammond and Covington. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006277562672/ 21006277562672 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:53:38 GMT WASHINGTON -- Starting in 2012, the government will charge a new fee to your health insurance plan for research to find out which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best. But what will Americans do with the answers? http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006277641894/ 21006277641894 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:46:47 GMT JACKSON, Miss. -- The Department of Justice has issued a report critical of the care Mississippi provides for the mentally ill. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006277960778/ 21006277960778 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:47:56 GMT PHOENIX -- Some outraged donors are threatening to pull their support for the Humane Society after it euthanized the beloved cat of a former heroin addict hours after he brought it in for medical treatment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006277967636/ 21006277967636 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:45:25 GMT SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- The lawyer for the 19-year-old California man charged with the attempted murder of an Afghanistan war veteran said his client was under attack when gunfire rang out. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006277952527/ 21006277952527 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:52:19 GMT SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- A California man was charged on Tuesday with attempted murder in the shooting of an Afghanistan war veteran at a homecoming party during what authorities said was a fight over football teams. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006273673989/ 21006273673989 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:41:55 GMT DETROIT -- Detroit police fear a killer may be targeting escorts after learning that three of four women found dead in car trunks within blocks of each other had placed sex-related ads on the same website. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006273251552/ 21006273251552 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:49:42 GMT GRAPEVINE, Texas -- A 56-year-old suburban Dallas man facing marital and financial problems killed his estranged wife, two teenage children and three other family members on Christmas Day while dressed as Santa Claus before turning the gun on himself, authorities said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006273658258/ 21006273658258 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:31:14 GMT JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Three New Jersey brothers have been charged with the Christmas Day beating death of their sister's husband. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006273547457/ 21006273547457 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:45:33 GMT CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Officials in Chattanooga say a church-run nightclub where nine people were shot and wounded has been the scene of violent incidents in the past. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006273273354/ 21006273273354 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:37:36 GMT STAMFORD, Conn. -- Two of the little sisters who died in a furious house fire early Christmas morning lost their way as a family friend tried to lead them to safety. Their other sister died just feet from escape, trapped inside as her grandfather perished during his rescue attempt. Outside, their mother frantically tried to direct firefighters to her doomed family. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006273585677/ 21006273585677 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:39:28 GMT WASHINGTON -- Military officials have not ruled out disciplinary action as a result of the cross-border attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, but no one has been punished to date, the Pentagon said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006273236867/ 21006273236867 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:49:06 GMT NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- A lawsuit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in Massachusetts who committed suicide after relentless bullying, was settled for $225,000. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006273654645/ 21006273654645 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:07:10 GMT KANEOHE, Hawaii -- The five women and a man seen in surveillance video taking items from a Hawaii toy store are making arrangements to turn themselves in, and the stolen items have been handed over to police. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006273403071/ 21006273403071 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:40:41 GMT NEW YORK -- It's almost 2012 -- with nearly 3,000 crystal triangles sparkling on the New Year's ball ready to drop in Times Square. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006273604133/ 21006273604133 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:50:57 GMT DENVER -- Insurance company Kaiser Permanente Colorado is offering cash to Coloradans to lose weight and keep it off. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006273665754/ 21006273665754 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:51:38 GMT BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- Officials says a moving melee involving scores of juveniles at the Mall of America took police and security officers over an hour to control as shoppers packed the sprawling shopping center the day after Christmas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006272589815/ 21006272589815 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:34:31 GMT GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Investigators in suburban Fort Worth are trying to piece together the history of a family targeted in a Christmas Day shooting that police believe was carried out by a relative dressed in a Santa Claus suit. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006268887197/ 21006268887197 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:59:00 GMT LYNCHBURG, S.C. -- Authorities say masked men fleeing a South Carolina convenience store fatally shot a Florida man and injured another customer. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006271554065/ 21006271554065 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:50:39 GMT FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Police in Indiana say a babysitter bludgeoned a 9-year-old to death with a brick then dismembered her with a hacksaw. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006269703939/ 21006269703939 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:37:20 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A soldier who survived a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan continues to fight for his life after he was critically wounded at his Southern California homecoming party. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006268904015/ 21006268904015 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:41:53 GMT HOUSTON -- The Texas man whose case led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that granted privacy rights to gay men and lesbians has died at age 68. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006268931348/ 21006268931348 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:40:46 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A former journalist who became the subject of a Hollywood movie after he was caught fabricating articles in the late 1990s is fighting to become a lawyer in California over the objections of a state bar committee. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006268924633/ 21006268924633 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:57:48 GMT RAPID CITY, S.D. -- State health officials say South Dakota has exceeded more than 500 cases of gonorrhea for the first time in 25 years. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006269746825/ 21006269746825 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:33:03 GMT VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- Larger vessels sailing along the Atlantic Seaboard are being reminded to slow down for right whales. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006268878350/ 21006268878350 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:41:15 GMT LAWRENCE, Mass. -- A Massachusetts judge has ruled that the more than $178,000 stashed inside a safe found in an empty lot belongs to the state. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006269647535/ 21006269647535 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:43:27 GMT PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former Rhode Island stripper has filed a federal lawsuit against a police chief who is accused of stealing $714 from her purse after an August car chase. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006269660712/ 21006269660712 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:56:23 GMT VICTORIA, Texas -- An estimated 68,000 Texans have the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS, about an 8 percent increase over the past two years. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006269738360/ 21006269738360 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:41:11 GMT RICHMOND, Va. -- Richmond, Va., police have arrested a man sought in the abduction of a 2-year-old boy from the scene of a double homicide. The boy later was found safe in the back seat of a stolen SUV. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006264607118/ 21006264607118 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:34:24 GMT SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Police on Monday arrested the suspect in a shooting that critically wounded a soldier at his Southern California homecoming party after he survived a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006264566462/ 21006264566462 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:48:55 GMT MIRA LOMA, Calif. -- Authorities say a 12-year-old girl was struck and killed on a Southern California freeway as she ran through traffic while attempting to retrieve clothing from the roadway. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006264653578/ 21006264653578 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:30:03 GMT FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- FBI agents joined the search for a missing 9-year-old Indiana girl with physical and emotional problems on Monday, descending on the mobile home park where she lived that's a known haven for registered sex offenders. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006264540347/ 21006264540347 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:01:10 GMT DETROIT -- Detroit police say three of four women recently found dead in car trunks had promoted themselves as escorts through the same website. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006264727062/ 21006264727062 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:44:56 GMT GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. -- A Colorado man who found $10,000 before boarding a flight in Las Vegas says he returned the money to the owner because he wanted to show his children it was "the right thing to do." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006264629614/ 21006264629614 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:59:00 GMT GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Police in a quiet Fort Worth suburb worked Monday to piece together a family history after a man dressed in a Santa Claus suit apparently shot six relatives and himself on Christmas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006264714028/ 21006264714028 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:04:00 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- A 20-month-old girl who vanished a week before Christmas after being put to bed in her father's home was taken away and didn't walk out on her own, investigators said Monday as they announced the largest reward ever offered in the state to help find a missing person. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006264744020/ 21006264744020 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:33:24 GMT STAMFORD, Conn. -- A department store Santa Claus who died with his wife and three grandchildren in a Christmas morning house fire in Connecticut spent a long career trying to prevent danger as safety chief at a liquor company in Kentucky. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006264560492/ 21006264560492 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:49:31 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah woman used Facebook to seek help after she and her 17-month-old son were held hostage at a residence for nearly five days, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006264657126/ 21006264657126 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:47:57 GMT HOUSTON -- The Texas man whose case led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that granted privacy rights to gay men and lesbians has died at age 68. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006264647746/ 21006264647746 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:45:54 GMT FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A goat that apparently didn't want to be part of a Minnesota Nativity scene has headed for greener pastures. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006264635427/ 21006264635427 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:38:06 GMT LONDON -- The loose-knit hacking movement "Anonymous" claimed Sunday to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor. One hacker said the goal was to pilfer funds from individuals' accounts to give away as Christmas donations, and some victims confirmed unauthorized transactions linked to their credit cards. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006255948622/ 21006255948622 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:33:38 GMT CINCINNATI -- Officials briefly evacuated the Cincinnati airport after a fire alarm went off, requiring a few hundred passengers to leave and go through security again. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006261321832/ 21006261321832 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:21:14 GMT GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Investigators believe that seven people who were found dead Christmas Day were cleaning up holiday wrapping paper when they were shot inside a suburban Fort Worth apartment, but a motive remains unclear. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006259807466/ 21006259807466 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:34:16 GMT GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Six members of a Texas family apparently opened Christmas presents just before a relative dressed as Santa Claus showed up, opened fire and killed them before killing himself, police said Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006261325678/ 21006261325678 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:23:22 GMT RICHMOND, Va. -- Richmond, Va., police have identified the two people slain on Christmas Eve that led to a search for a 2-year-old boy abducted from the scene who was later found safe in the backseat of an SUV. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006259820293/ 21006259820293 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:02:15 GMT NEW YORK -- Drug companies are working to develop a pure, more powerful version of a highly abused medicine, which has addiction experts worried that it could spur a new wave of abuse. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006262573570/ 21006262573570 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:00:47 GMT HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. -- Police say a would-be robber who demanded money from a store clerk got a fistful. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006262564726/ 21006262564726 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:20:13 GMT QUANTICO, Va. -- Call it a playground for Bambi and G-Men, where imaginary criminals are hunted and deer are the spectators. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006259801334/ 21006259801334 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:29:01 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- When winter comes to Utah and atmospheric conditions trap a soup of pollutants close to the ground, doctors say it turns every resident in the Salt Lake basin into the equivalent of a cigarette smoker. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006259854149/ 21006259854149 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:55:26 GMT PITTSBURGH -- An 18-year-old Pittsburgh man is accused of burglarizing a market with three teens, then posted pictures on his Facebook page showing the suspects mugging with some of the loot. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006261092640/ 21006261092640 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:54:19 GMT HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. -- Police say a would-be robber who demanded money from a store clerk got a fistful. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006261085979/ 21006261085979 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:58:20 GMT LOS ANGELES -- After a roundabout journey, two unmanned probes the size of washing machines are heading for the moon and are poised to enter orbit over the New Year's weekend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006261110042/ 21006261110042 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:36:57 GMT DENVER -- Santa Claus set records Christmas Eve as he raced across the globe on his traditional holiday mission. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006255941722/ 21006255941722 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:30:24 GMT HONOLULU -- President Barack Obama exchanged gifts with his family, sang carols and attended church services as he celebrated Christmas in Hawaii. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006255902435/ 21006255902435 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:21:53 GMT GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Seven people believed to be related had opened their Christmas gifts and started cleaning up the wrapping paper when they were shot to death in a suburban Fort Worth apartment, police said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006255851377/ 21006255851377 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:26:28 GMT STAMFORD, Conn. -- Fire tore through a house in a tony neighborhood along the Connecticut shoreline on Christmas morning, killing five people, including three children, but sparing two whom firefighters managed to rescue. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006255878857/ 21006255878857 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:23:18 GMT PALERMO, Maine -- Maine State Police say a Christmas Day traffic accident was the state's deadliest this year, taking the lives of four people. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006255859887/ 21006255859887 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:33:21 GMT McARTHUR, Ohio -- A hospital says a third person has died after a single-engine plane crashed near a small airport in rural southeastern Ohio. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006255920132/ 21006255920132 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:25:33 GMT RICHMOND, Va. -- Richmond, Va., police have identified the two people slain on Christmas Eve that led to a search for a 2-year-old boy abducted from the scene who was later found safe in the backseat of an SUV. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006255873330/ 21006255873330 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:35:43 GMT NEW YORK -- The New York Police Department has launched a probe into why internal affairs investigators were initially kept in the dark about an off-duty police officer who was suspected of drunken driving in a car crash that seriously injured a passenger, a spokesman said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006255934311/ 21006255934311 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:34:32 GMT SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- A decorated Army soldier recovering from injuries suffered in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan has been shot at his homecoming party, and family members say he's paralyzed and in critical condition. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006255927249/ 21006255927249 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:32:30 GMT NEW YORK -- More than 1,600 people who filed lawsuits claiming that their health was ruined by dust and smoke from the collapsed World Trade Center must decide by Jan. 2 whether to keep fighting in court, or drop the litigation and apply for benefits from a government compensation fund. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006255915094/ 21006255915094 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:29:41 GMT SEATTLE -- Fights, vandalism and arrests marked the release of Nike's new Air Jordan basketball shoes as a shopping rush on stores across the United States led to unrest that nearly turned into rioting. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006256258163/ 21006256258163 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:29:30 GMT It's that time for caroling, eggnog, holiday cheer -- and for some, a frantic dash to the mall. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006246177077/ 21006246177077 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:36:30 GMT DENVER -- Santa's piling up more than presents this year. The big man's trackers at NORAD say Santa Claus is also breaking records this Christmas Eve. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006246219030/ 21006246219030 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:33:55 GMT FORT HOOD, Texas -- All but a few soldiers in the last U.S. combat brigade to leave Iraq are back home just in time for Christmas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006246203530/ 21006246203530 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:28:33 GMT McARTHUR, Ohio -- Authorities say two people were killed and a third was flown to a hospital after a single-engine plane crashed near a small airport in rural southeastern Ohio. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006246171311/ 21006246171311 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:32:56 GMT RENO, Nev. -- An American Airlines jetliner with 134 passengers aboard was forced to return to Reno-Tahoe International Airport shortly after takeoff because of an electrical malfunction. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006246197634/ 21006246197634 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:41:34 GMT NEW YORK -- It may be only a few months old, but Occupy Wall Street is already collectible. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006246249416/ 21006246249416 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:30:54 GMT BEDFORD, N.H. -- A New Hampshire couple says Southwest Airlines flight attendants put the couple's terminally ill son at risk by ordering him out of a safety seat and into a regular passenger seat. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006246185435/ 21006246185435 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:32:20 GMT SAN ANTONIO -- A blind dog that was lost and believed to be dead is reunited with his San Antonio family for Christmas, thanks to Craigslist, a teacher and an animal care agency. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006246194066/ 21006246194066 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:38:45 GMT LAKEWOOD, N.J. -- Bias intimidation and harassment charges have been filed in New Jersey against five people accused of pelting two Orthodox Jewish teenagers with eggs and calling them derogatory names. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006246232571/ 21006246232571 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:39:51 GMT HONOLULU -- Hawaii officials say more tiny coqui frogs have been hitching rides on boats and planes from the Big Island to Oahu, raising the risk that the harmful invasive species could become established on the island that's home to Honolulu, Waikiki, and most of the state's human population. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006246239117/ 21006246239117 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:40:48 GMT PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- A Marine who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor has returned to the USS Arizona -- divers placed the urn holding Frank Cabiness' cremated remains inside the battleship sunk by the Japanese 70 years ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006246244820/ 21006246244820 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:22:38 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A preliminary report released Friday by the city administrative officer estimates the nearly two-month Occupy LA encampment at City Hall cost the budget-strapped city at least $2.3 million, but officials said the sum is expected to grow by the hundreds of thousands of dollars. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006238935859/ 21006238935859 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:11:08 GMT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Heavy snow from a winter storm blanketed parts of the West on Friday, stranding motorists throughout New Mexico, and delaying holiday travelers who were trying to fly in and out of Albuquerque and Denver. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006236706819/ 21006236706819 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:20:02 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Firefighters scrambled Friday to replace toys lost when the city's biggest blaze in more than seven years left more than 40 people homeless at the height of the holiday season. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006238920272/ 21006238920272 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:21:07 GMT COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Occupy Columbia protesters have removed their tents and camping gear from the Statehouse, but not before leaving a tent as a holiday present for South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who fought for more than a month to kick them off the capitol grounds. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006238926764/ 21006238926764 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:17:52 GMT PHOENIX -- A judge dealt another setback to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration enforcement efforts by barring sheriff's deputies from detaining people based solely on a belief that they're in the country illegally. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006238907227/ 21006238907227 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:12:20 GMT SEATTLE -- Scuffles broke out and police were brought in to quell unrest that nearly turned into riots across the nation Friday following the release of Nike's new Air Jordan basketball shoes -- a retro model of one of the most popular Air Jordans ever made. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006238874086/ 21006238874086 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:25:45 GMT COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Several more national retailers have joined Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in pulling a batch of powdered infant formula from their shelves after a Missouri newborn who consumed it apparently died of a rare bacterial infection, the companies said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006238954551/ 21006238954551 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:14:56 GMT NEW YORK -- A federal judge on Friday barred the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission from issuing permits for taxicabs unless they're accessible to people who use wheelchairs, a decision that was praised by advocates for the disabled as a milestone that could have national implications. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006238889697/ 21006238889697 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:15:46 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A seventh person has come forward with allegations she was sexually abused by former Philadelphia Daily News sports columnist Bill Conlin. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006238894649/ 21006238894649 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:18:48 GMT PHOENIX -- It will be a special Christmas for the family of a 21-year-old University of Arizona student who was nearly taken off life support before awaking from a coma. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006238912834/ 21006238912834 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:24:51 GMT WASHINGTON -- The CIA said Friday its internal watchdog found nothing wrong with the spy agency's close partnership with the New York Police Department. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006238949176/ 21006238949176 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:23:53 GMT HONOLULU -- More than 200 employees at a pair of bankrupt hospitals in Hawaii are getting notices that they're losing their jobs on Christmas Eve. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006238943392/ 21006238943392 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:40:34 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A team of firefighters was spending the early hours Thursday dealing with any hot spots left in a San Francisco apartment fire that left as many as 60 people homeless, fire officials said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006234363432/ 21006234363432 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:32:11 GMT ROME, Ga. -- Authorities say at least seven people were injured in Georgia as powerful storms roared across the state, damaging homes, downing trees and zapping power. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006234313185/ 21006234313185 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:39:28 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Gusty Santa Ana winds are expected to through Friday morning across Southern California into the start of the holiday weekend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006234356843/ 21006234356843 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:41:31 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- The search for a 20-month-old girl advanced toward its first full week as police intensified their focus on the house where Ayla Reynolds was living, while continuing to look through local fields and waterways and running down leads from the public. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006234369111/ 21006234369111 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:35:50 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles coroner's office says the cause of death for the 18-year-old son of former NFL quarterback Erik Kramer was a heroin overdose. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006234335067/ 21006234335067 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:12:33 GMT COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Records show that the last alleged pill mill in an Ohio county hit hard by drug addiction was a perpetually busy drug house where tens of thousands of painkillers were dispensed in just a few months. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006236715315/ 21006236715315 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:13:37 GMT ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Just before Christmas, New Jersey casino regulators made way for some girls on Santa's naughty list. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006236721739/ 21006236721739 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:11:39 GMT WEBSTER, N.Y. -- Authorities say a 15-year-old boy accused of setting fire to his home in upstate New York, killing his father and two brothers, has been indicted on murder and arson charges. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006236709956/ 21006236709956 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:37:31 GMT PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- A Marine who survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor will be interred at the USS Arizona. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006234345131/ 21006234345131 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:42:33 GMT NEW YORK -- More Americans are expected to take long trips this holiday season -- and in many parts of the country it looks to be smooth sailing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006234375327/ 21006234375327 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:13:34 GMT LITHONIA, Ga. -- At least four people were arrested in a mad dash by customers hoping to purchase a pair of the new Nike Air Jordan basketball shoes at a suburban Atlanta shopping mall. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006235281479/ 21006235281479 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:22:17 GMT WEBSTER, N.Y. -- Authorities say a 15-year-old boy accused of setting fire to his home in upstate New York, killing his father and two brothers, has been indicted on murder and arson charges. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006235333737/ 21006235333737 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:10:14 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A student at a Boston conservatory left a rare violin worth $172,000 on a bus after arriving in Philadelphia, and police are asking for the public's help in getting it back. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006235261427/ 21006235261427 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:36:39 GMT NEW YORK -- When New York undercover officers and informants were infiltrating a mosque in Queens in 2006, they failed to notice the increasingly radical sentiments of a young man who prayed there. Police also kept tabs on a Muslim student group at Queens College, but missed a member's growing anti-Americanism. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006234339991/ 21006234339991 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:16:34 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco firefighters have controlled a five-alarm apartment building blaze that left up to 60 residents homeless. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006230259470/ 21006230259470 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:17:38 GMT TUCSON, Ariz. -- Police say one man has died after a shooting in a Tucson, Ariz., arts district that left another man wounded. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006230265894/ 21006230265894 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:17:06 GMT NEW YORK -- A federal judge has signed a default judgment finding Iran, the Taliban and al-Qaida liable in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006230262684/ 21006230262684 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:18:18 GMT ATLANTA -- Strong storms that moved through Georgia caused at least two injuries from flying glass and damaged several homes and businesses, mostly in the northwestern part of the state. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006230269875/ 21006230269875 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:36:18 GMT NEW YORK -- A prosecutor in a case against a North Carolina woman accused of snatching a newborn from a New York City hospital more than two decades ago says a plea deal may be in the works. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006230377827/ 21006230377827 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:35:17 GMT LEBANON, Mo. -- Wal-Mart and health officials awaited tests Thursday on a batch of powdered infant formula that was removed from more than 3,000 stores nationwide after a Missouri newborn who consumed it apparently died from a rare infection. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006225331728/ 21006225331728 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:41:59 GMT FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A college student was released from the hospital Thursday after surviving what she said was a nine-day ordeal of being stuck in her car in the snow with no heavy coat, blankets or gloves and only two candy bars for food. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006230411942/ 21006230411942 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:36:59 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- "Show me the money" indeed: A bench warrant has been authorized for the sports agent who was the inspiration for the movie "Jerry Maguire" after he failed to appear in court in a case involving a $1.4 million debt. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006230381999/ 21006230381999 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:38:30 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- Nurses in California went on strike Thursday -- some for the second time in three months -- in the latest dispute between nurses and hospital management over health care costs, staffing levels and sick leave. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006230391072/ 21006230391072 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:02:40 GMT MARYSVILLE, Ohio -- A West Virginia National Guard pilot performing air maneuvers for recertification was killed in a plane crash at a central Ohio airport. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006230176015/ 21006230176015 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:07:26 GMT DETROIT -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. Rep. John Conyers joined religious and civil rights leaders Thursday to promise protests and possible civil disobedience against Michigan's new emergency manager law that could lead to a takeover of Detroit government. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006230204620/ 21006230204620 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:57:49 GMT LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Tiera Washington's workload doubled during the holiday rush at UPS' largest air hub, where seemingly endless streams of packages are sorted and shipped as the peak season puts the package delivery company to the test. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006225106982/ 21006225106982 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:59:09 GMT NEW YORK -- Pentagon officials say they have transferred eight soldiers to another base amid allegations that they mistreated one of their comrades shortly before he committed suicide in a guardhouse in Afghanistan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006225114931/ 21006225114931 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:56:42 GMT CHICAGO -- As Americans watch yet another political drama play out on Capitol Hill -- this time over whether to extend the payroll tax cut and jobless benefits -- they have a question for Congress: Can't you all just get along? For once? http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006225460230/ 21006225460230 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:00:55 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- More than 60 people prayed for hope at a candlelight vigil for a missing 20-month-old girl in Maine, as tips poured in and the search was expanded Wednesday to include trails and more waterways. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006225125594/ 21006225125594 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:02:55 GMT WESTERVILLE, Ohio -- Reports of lightning-related fires and gas leaks in at least a dozen states have sparked concerns about the use of flexible gas lines made of corrugated stainless steel tubing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006225137570/ 21006225137570 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:52:57 GMT ARLINGTON, Va. -- Arlington National Cemetery will report to Congress on its review into the accuracy of its gravestones and burial sites. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006225077748/ 21006225077748 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:02:10 GMT NEW YORK -- Even before the Army sent him to Afghanistan, supporters say, Pvt. Daniel Chen was fighting a personal war. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221533067/ 21006221533067 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:16:12 GMT INDIANAPOLIS -- A woman grieving the shooting deaths of her son and granddaughter is now trying to come to grips with news that one of the accused is a longtime family friend whom the 7-year-old victim affectionately called "Uncle Mike." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221257275/ 21006221257275 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:28:17 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- The area being searched for a missing 20-month-old girl in Maine is being expanded to include trails and more waterways, and investigators are painstakingly checking out all tips, which now total more than 160, police said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221329714/ 21006221329714 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:00:02 GMT BOSTON -- Two former state workers will be charged in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found two days after she drowned in a murky Massachusetts swimming pool, a prosecutor announced Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221520278/ 21006221520278 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:45:46 GMT PHOENIX -- A man found unresponsive in a jail cell after fighting with deputies at a Phoenix jail over the weekend has died after being taken off life support, an attorney representing his family said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221434622/ 21006221434622 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:51:12 GMT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Rescuers Wednesday pulled a Texas family from a car that had been buried in a snowdrift for nearly two days on a rural New Mexico highway. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221467233/ 21006221467233 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:00:35 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles federal judge has upheld former "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redman's extradition to Mexico to face charges in his wife's death. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221523553/ 21006221523553 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:17:45 GMT FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- An Arizona State University student packed a water bottle with snow, and let it melt under the sun for drinking water while stranded for more than a week, authorities said Wednesday after the 23-year-old was discovered in a remote area of east-central Arizona. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221266517/ 21006221266517 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:27:04 GMT PHOENIX -- Dozens of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail officers lined up at a news conference in Phoenix to ceremoniously hand in their federal credentials a week after they were stripped of the ability to verify the immigration status of inmates. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221322447/ 21006221322447 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:41:45 GMT MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The U.S. Justice Department has tapped New York-based BDO Consulting to audit the handling of billions of dollars in damage claims that arose from the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221410554/ 21006221410554 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:15:37 GMT LEXINGTON, Ky. -- An AirTran Airways flight from Chicago to Atlanta made an emergency landing in Lexington after the plane had engine trouble. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221253775/ 21006221253775 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:47:00 GMT MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- The pilot of a small plane that crashed on a New Jersey highway and killed all five people on board told air traffic controllers he was accumulating ice as he ascended, federal investigators said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221442065/ 21006221442065 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:29:52 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- A truck driver who won a Lamborghini worth about $300,000 in a convenience store contest crashed the sports car six hours after he got it, and he now plans to sell the 640-horsepower convertible because he can't afford the insurance or taxes. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006221339214/ 21006221339214 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:24:14 GMT MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- After a normal takeoff and a routine conversation with air traffic controllers about potential icing conditions, a small plane carrying two investment bankers and three others to Georgia headed off into the skies over New Jersey on Tuesday morning. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217705455/ 21006217705455 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:31:20 GMT NEW YORK -- The U.S. Army says eight American soldiers have been charged in connection with the Oct. 3 death of a fellow soldier in southern Afghanistan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217748030/ 21006217748030 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:19:46 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- Thousands of nurses at nine San Francisco Bay area hospitals are planning a one-day strike over contract talks with Sutter Health. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217318687/ 21006217318687 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:45:49 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- As the FBI stepped up its efforts to find a 20-month-old girl who disappeared from her father's home over the weekend, investigators combed through trash bins, drained a stream and pored over more than 100 leads offered by the public. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217474994/ 21006217474994 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:19:02 GMT SANTA FE, N.M. -- A New Mexico woman gave birth in the front seat of a truck as it sped down an icy highway in a snowstorm. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217314247/ 21006217314247 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:20:03 GMT SANTA FE, N.M. -- Former Albuquerque real estate executive Doug Vaughan is due in court Wednesday to plead guilty to charges stemming from allegations he ran Ponzi scheme that swindled some 600 investors out of $74 million. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217680345/ 21006217680345 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:29:34 GMT VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- A Navy tradition caught up with the repeal of the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" rule on Wednesday when two women sailors became the first to share the coveted "first kiss" on the pier after one of them returned from 80 days at sea. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006219537492/ 21006219537492 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:30:10 GMT HOUSTON -- Medical experts for jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford continued making their case Wednesday that he is not competent to be tried next month on charges he bilked investors out of $7 billion in a massive Ponzi scheme. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006219541063/ 21006219541063 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:28:55 GMT ATLANTA -- Georgia authorities say they have solved a decades-old slaying by using DNA to identify the remains of a girl. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006219533547/ 21006219533547 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:19:26 GMT HARTFORD, Connecticut -- Visiting a shopping mall to share Christmas wishes with Santa had always been too much for 10-year-old Ben Borre, due to the autism that makes the noise, lights and crowds an unbearable torment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217676611/ 21006217676611 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:45:10 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Federal Aviation Administration is imposing new rules aimed at preventing airline pilots from flying while dangerously fatigued, a move safety advocates have been urging for more than two decades. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217471051/ 21006217471051 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:29:39 GMT SPOKANE, Wash. -- A federal judge was not swayed by the last-ditch attempt from an Army veteran with extensive ties to white supremacists to change his guilty plea in a plot to bomb a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217737961/ 21006217737961 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:28:55 GMT MILWAUKEE -- A Wisconsin factory worker worried about layoffs became a dairy farmer. An employee at a Minnesota nonprofit found an escape from her cubicle by buying a vegetable farm. A nuclear engineer tired of office bureaucracy decided to get into cattle ranching in Texas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217733598/ 21006217733598 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:50:49 GMT TOPEKA, Kan. -- Holiday travelers were breathing a sigh of relief Wednesday after a snowstorm that closed interstates across the Great Plains moved out of the region, allowing crews to plow away snow drifts and let stranded motorists leave roadside hotels. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217504970/ 21006217504970 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:22:17 GMT NEW YORK -- Former Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd is taking a leave of absence from the hedge fund he runs less than a week after being charged in connection with the 2008 financial crisis. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217333730/ 21006217333730 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:21:16 GMT FORT MEADE, Md. -- Lawyers for the Army intelligence analyst blamed for the biggest national security leak in American history briskly presented evidence in his defense Wednesday, a year-and-half after the young private allegedly handed a trove of classified data to WikiLeaks. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217327671/ 21006217327671 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:17:59 GMT CHICAGO -- A 21-year-old Chicago man faces abuse charges after he allegedly posted a photograph on Facebook that shows his daughter's hands, legs and mouth apparently bound with blue tape. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217307998/ 21006217307998 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:40:12 GMT ATLANTA, Mich. -- After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving the gray wolf, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf-protection business, leaving it to individual states -- and the wolves themselves -- to determine the future of the legendary predator. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006217441227/ 21006217441227 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:30:20 GMT TOPEKA, Kan. -- A deadly storm that halted travel throughout the Great Plains weakened Tuesday as it headed east into Missouri and toward the Great Lakes, and officials reopened interstates in areas where motorists had been forced to adjust holiday plans mid-trip. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006211622054/ 21006211622054 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:43:43 GMT NEW YORK -- A former youth minister who admitted he sexually abused five girls who attended his New York City church but then tried to take back his guilty plea has been sentenced to 22 years in prison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006212782356/ 21006212782356 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:00:29 GMT SPOKANE, Wash. -- An Army veteran with extensive ties to white supremacists was sentenced to 32 years in prison Tuesday for planting a poison-laced bomb along a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in what he said was meant to be an attack against the cultural diversity celebrated by the event. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006212882989/ 21006212882989 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:14:07 GMT AUBURN, Maine -- A man who accused former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine of molesting him pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually abusing a teenage boy in an agreement that caps his sentence at just over three years in prison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006212964746/ 21006212964746 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:54:03 GMT CHICAGO -- Attorneys told a federal judge Tuesday that a Lebanese immigrant accused of placing a backpack he thought held a bomb near Chicago's Wrigley Field will plead guilty under an agreement worked out with prosecutors -- a deal experts say may reflect the enormous odds the 23-year-old would face at trial. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006212844391/ 21006212844391 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:25:07 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- Investigators combed through trash bins, drained a stream and pored over more than 100 leads offered by the public in the search for a 20-month-old girl who disappeared from her father's home over the weekend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006213030787/ 21006213030787 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:47:17 GMT FREDERICKSBURG, Ohio -- A man cleaning his muzzle-loading rifle shot the gun into the air, accidentally killing a 15-year-old Amish girl driving a horse-drawn buggy more than a mile away, a sheriff said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006212803729/ 21006212803729 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:23:24 GMT WASHINGTON -- Air Force Secretary Michael Donley is expanding his review of the disciplinary actions taken as a result of the mishandling of body parts at the Dover, Del., military mortuary. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006213020413/ 21006213020413 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:12:51 GMT CHICAGO -- Chicago police say detectives are investigating a man who allegedly posted a photograph on Facebook that shows his daughter's hands, legs and mouth apparently bound with duct tape. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006212957145/ 21006212957145 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:25:09 GMT LA GRANGE, Texas -- An attorney says a Texas jury has awarded the largest verdict he has ever heard of -- $150 billion to the family of a man who died years after being set afire as an 8-year-old. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006212670981/ 21006212670981 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:50:18 GMT DEQUINCY, La. -- A rare December tornado struck the southwest Louisiana city of DeQuincy, causing some property damage and forcing the city's hospital to evacuate patients. No one was injured. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006212821881/ 21006212821881 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:35:39 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A Northern California utility says the first of two power outages at Candlestick Park during the nationally televised Monday Night Football game was caused when the splice connecting two electrical wires outside the stadium failed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006212733935/ 21006212733935 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:05:26 GMT CLEVELAND -- Twelve members of a breakaway Amish group were charged with federal hate crimes in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in eastern Ohio farm country, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006212912632/ 21006212912632 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:22:34 GMT NEW YORK (AP) -- Deloris Gillespie was a fun-loving, fast-talking mother of four who helped anyone she could in her Brooklyn neighborhood and at the post office where she worked for years. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006208695484/ 21006208695484 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:14:14 GMT SPOKANE, Wash. -- A judge on Tuesday rejected a last-minute request from a man who sought to withdraw his guilty plea in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade bomb plot, just hours before his scheduled sentencing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006210445442/ 21006210445442 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:36:54 GMT OKLAHOMA CITY -- An Oklahoma City company is recalling 875 pounds of turkey filets that are mislabeled as center cut steaks. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006210581495/ 21006210581495 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:16:23 GMT NEW BERN, N.C. -- Two brothers who watched as their father transformed their rural North Carolina family home into a base camp to launch violent jihad will spend years in prison, even after cooperating with federal prosecutors. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006210458399/ 21006210458399 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:15:47 GMT WASHINGTON -- The contingent of National Guard troops working at the Mexican border will be cut from 1,200 to about 300 in the coming year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006210454771/ 21006210454771 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:13:43 GMT HARDING, N.J. -- A small plane headed for Georgia crashed Tuesday on one of the New York City area's busiest highways, spiraling out of control and losing a section of the aircraft before hitting the wooded median strip, skidding into the roadway and exploding. All five people aboard were killed, but no one on the ground was injured. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006210442340/ 21006210442340 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:36:48 GMT WASHINGTON -- Several Occupy D.C. protesters will likely face charges after they were arrested in a protest outside the White House. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006208780828/ 21006208780828 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:20:56 GMT HARDING, N.J. -- A small plane headed for Georgia crashed Tuesday on one of the New York City area's busiest highways, spiraling out of control and losing a section of the aircraft before hitting the wooded median strip, skidding into the roadway and exploding. All five people aboard were killed, but no one on the ground was injured. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006209765561/ 21006209765561 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:16:30 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- Police said they were considering all possible scenarios in the search for a missing 20-month-old girl, whose disappearance unleashed a flood of leads from a concerned public. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006208659023/ 21006208659023 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:21:11 GMT LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Four days after a gunman opened fire on his co-workers before committing suicide at a utility office east of Los Angeles, investigators struggled to find a motive for the rampage. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006208687177/ 21006208687177 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:07:05 GMT FORT MEADE, Md. -- Lawyers for the Army intelligence analyst blamed for the biggest leak of U.S. secrets in the nation's history are employing a three-pronged defense: The troubled young private should never had access to classified material, his workplace security was inexplicably lax, and the data in question caused little damage to national security anyhow. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006208602563/ 21006208602563 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:14:14 GMT WASHINGTON -- A special lighting ceremony is planned for the National Hanukkah Menorah near the White House on the first night of the eight-day Jewish holiday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006208645497/ 21006208645497 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:17:25 GMT NEW BERN, N.C. -- Two brothers who pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to support terrorists will learn their sentences Tuesday in North Carolina for their roles in a home-grown terror cell federal prosecutors say plotted attacks under their father's leadership. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006208664518/ 21006208664518 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:20:17 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Southern California Edison is reaching out to hundreds of thousands of customers who were left without electricity -- some for as long as a week -- during a devastating windstorm last month. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006208681747/ 21006208681747 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:19:21 GMT UNDATED -- For more than 90 years, the coal-fired power plant in Glen Lyn, Va., has been churning out electricity and contributing to local prosperity. Of late, it has generated nearly a quarter of the revenue for the $1 million budget of the town. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006208676163/ 21006208676163 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:24:01 GMT HARTSDALE, N.Y. -- Life is good again -- and death is looking better -- for animal lovers in New York who want to be buried with their Persians, Pomeranians or potbellied pigs. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006208704140/ 21006208704140 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:45:37 GMT VENTURA, Calif. -- A teen who fatally shot a gay junior high classmate in the back of the head during a computer lab nearly four years ago was sentenced Monday to 21 years in state prison, capping an emotional case that focused attention on how schools deal with sexual identity. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006204153714/ 21006204153714 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:38:18 GMT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A late-autumn snowstorm lumbered into the Great Plains on Monday, unleashing snow and fierce winds that turned roads to ice, reduced visibility to zero and jeopardized thousands of holiday motorists' travel plans just two days before the official start of winter. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006204109825/ 21006204109825 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:40:45 GMT FREDRICKSBURG, Ohio -- Police say a teenage girl driving a horse and buggy in an Amish area of northeast Ohio has been shot in the head and has died. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006204124557/ 21006204124557 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:11:03 GMT NEW YORK -- A man accused of spraying gasoline on a 73-year-old woman and setting her ablaze in an elevator was charged Monday with murder and arson, appearing in court with the left side of his face blistered and burned, his upper lip swollen. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006201786399/ 21006201786399 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:23:55 GMT PHOENIX -- The Homeland Security Department will use 50 immigration agents to screen jail inmates in Arizona's most populous county after it revoked the sheriff's authority to access its systems, the agency said Monday in a letter to U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006204023528/ 21006204023528 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:28:07 GMT DETROIT -- An Iranian-American from Michigan who appeared on Iran's state TV is not a CIA spy as authorities in that country claim and was visiting relatives when he was detained, his father said Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006204048776/ 21006204048776 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:49:28 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A mentally disabled man said he had nowhere else to go in 2001 when he and his high school sweetheart moved in with a paroled killer -- who had starved a man to death in her closet. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006204176820/ 21006204176820 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:57:17 GMT INDIANAPOLIS -- All but one of 65 claimants have accepted Indiana's settlement offers over the State Fair stage collapse. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006204223786/ 21006204223786 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:01:39 GMT NEW YORK -- A political operative convicted of bamboozling Mayor Michael Bloomberg out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced to prison Monday in a case that brought the billionaire politician to the witness stand and gave the public a behind-the-scenes look at his campaign and City Hall. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006204249912/ 21006204249912 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:58:47 GMT LINCOLN, Neb. -- A federal judge in Nebraska has blocked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from imposing fines on Union Pacific related to drug smuggling on trains that enter the country from Mexico. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006204232798/ 21006204232798 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:00:33 GMT HONOLULU -- Two Southern California women filed a lawsuit Monday against a Hawaii bed and breakfast, saying the business denied them a room because they are gay. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006204243350/ 21006204243350 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:48:12 GMT SEATTLE -- The Seattle City Council voted Monday to ban single-use plastic bags from groceries and other retail stores, joining a growing trend among cities that embrace green values. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006204169247/ 21006204169247 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:22:13 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska State Troopers say a 94-year-old Homer woman has died in a crash on an icy road on the Kenai Peninsula. Another person was injured. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006204013355/ 21006204013355 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:47:18 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Many in the largest Korean enclave in the United States took word of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il with disbelief, saying it was a day they thought they'd never see. But when their shock wore off, most in Los Angeles's Koreatown shifted to quiet concern for the future of their native country and its neighbor to the north. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006199843883/ 21006199843883 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:59:01 GMT VENTURA, Calif. -- A Southern California teenager was sentenced on Monday to 21 years in state prison for killing shooting a gay student in the back of the head during a computer lab class three years ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006201714154/ 21006201714154 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:59:49 GMT BABYLON, N.Y. -- A New York police officer killed during a botched robbery in Brooklyn was being laid to rest Monday in his Long Island community -- a veteran with 12 medals and more than 200 career arrests. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006199918993/ 21006199918993 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:09:52 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- Disturbing photographs of four mentally disabled adults rescued from a Philadelphia basement show deep gashes, wounds and scars on many parts of their bodies. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006201779220/ 21006201779220 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:12:34 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The police department in suburban East Haven engaged in a pattern of discrimination against Latino residents, according to investigators from the U.S. Justice Department, who said Monday that their probe was complicated by efforts to interfere with witnesses and a "blue wall of silence." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006201795479/ 21006201795479 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:11:58 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco Bay-area man who gives away his sperm for free to childless couples is facing scrutiny from federal regulators who want him to halt the practice. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006201791874/ 21006201791874 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:11:46 GMT EAST WASHINGTON, Pa. -- Authorities are searching for the man they say fatally shot a Pennsylvania police officer and wounded another in a shootout following a late-night traffic stop. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006199990696/ 21006199990696 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:45:45 GMT NEW YORK -- A political operative was poised to find out whether he'd go to prison after being convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Mayor Michael Bloomberg. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006199834547/ 21006199834547 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:07:30 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- The mother of a missing 20-month-old girl filed paperwork seeking sole custody of the toddler a day before the girl went missing from the father's home, and she said she wants answers from "the last man to see my daughter." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006199965065/ 21006199965065 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:50:14 GMT FORT MEADE, Md. -- When digital-crimes investigator David Shaver combed through two work computers used by an Army private accused of spilling hefty U.S. secrets, he got an eyeful, according to his testimony to a military hearing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006199861468/ 21006199861468 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:51:41 GMT VENTURA, Calif. -- A Southern California teenager faces 21 years in state prison when he's sentenced Monday for killing a gay student during a computer lab class three years ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006199870149/ 21006199870149 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:58:44 GMT WASHINGTON -- The FBI said Monday that violent and property crimes reported to police continue to drop despite tough economic times. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006200632428/ 21006200632428 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:55:31 GMT MINNEAPOLIS -- The Humane Society of the United States says it's under attack by a new group that's trying to starve it of funding by urging donors to send money to local animal shelters instead. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006199893196/ 21006199893196 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:44:38 GMT WASHINGTON -- The National Zoo is preparing to announce a major gift that will fund its giant panda program for five more years. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006199827877/ 21006199827877 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:04:05 GMT FORT HOOD, Texas -- Staff Sgt. Elama Palemene held his two young daughters and kissed his wife early Sunday after returning to Fort Hood with about 300 other soldiers, among the last U.S. combat troops returning from Iraq in time for the holidays. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006194184550/ 21006194184550 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:18:09 GMT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The National Weather Service says a major winter storm is headed for the southwestern Great Plains, with blizzard conditions expected by mid-day Monday in parts of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006194268949/ 21006194268949 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:13:11 GMT ARLINGTON, Texas -- Seven people suffered minor injuries when a runaway electric cart raced unmanned from an end zone to midfield and plowed into several people after a high school football playoff game in Texas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006194239180/ 21006194239180 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:06:32 GMT FORT HOOD, Texas -- One Texas woman got some good news from her husband during a surprise 3 a.m. phone call. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006194199226/ 21006194199226 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:11:50 GMT NEW YORK -- A man charged with dousing a woman in flammable liquid and tossing a Molotov cocktail on her in an elevator told police he set her on fire because he was angry that she owed him $2,000, authorities said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006194231078/ 21006194231078 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:14:31 GMT WATERVILLE, Maine -- Police in Maine are appealing to the public for help in locating a 20-month-old girl who was last seen Friday night. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006194247120/ 21006194247120 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:05:20 GMT GREENSBORO, N.C. -- As the last U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq on Sunday, friends and family of the first and last American fighters killed in combat cherished their memories rather than dwelling on whether the war and their sacrifice was worth it. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006194192085/ 21006194192085 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:09:57 GMT FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Plans for a solstice fireworks show in downtown Fairbanks have been scrapped this year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006194219722/ 21006194219722 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:16:28 GMT MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The likely death of a planned nuclear waste site at Nevada's Yucca Mountain has left federal agencies looking for a possible replacement. A national lab working for the U.S. Department of Energy is now eying granite deposits stretching from Georgia to Maine as potential sites, along with big sections of Minnesota and Wisconsin where that rock is prevalent. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006194258823/ 21006194258823 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:07:44 GMT FORT MEADE, Md. -- A military hearing for the Army private charged with spilling a mountain of secrets to WikiLeaks focused Sunday on why Pfc. Bradley Manning remained entrusted with highly sensitive information after showing hostile behavior to those around him. A supervisor who might have shed light on that question refused to testify. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006194206414/ 21006194206414 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:32:03 GMT CHARLES CITY, Iowa -- Investigators are trying to determine what caused 13 train cars to derail in Iowa. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006186792390/ 21006186792390 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:35:23 GMT NEW YORK -- Family members and a witness say a New York City fourth grader choked on meatballs during lunch earlier this month while school cafeteria workers stood by. The boy later died. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006186812335/ 21006186812335 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:36:51 GMT OAK BEACH, N.Y. -- Bones found in a coastal wetland on New York's Long Island this week are the remains of missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert, investigators confirmed Saturday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006186821163/ 21006186821163 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:38:16 GMT NEW YORK -- Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Saturday after they scaled a chain-link fence or crawled under it to get to an Episcopal church-owned lot they want to use for a new camp site. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006186829659/ 21006186829659 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:40:18 GMT RALEIGH, N.C. -- Police say at least six protesters taking part in an anti-Wall Street march in North Carolina's capital are facing charges after their arrest. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006186841846/ 21006186841846 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:44:09 GMT PONTIAC, Ill. -- A burst of gunfire sent Annelise Fiedler running out of her home to see what the noise was. In the yard next door, she saw 30-year-old Sara McMeen hovering over her baby as if she had dropped her. Fiedler asked McMeen if everything was all right. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006186864955/ 21006186864955 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:46:36 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Authorities say all lanes of a vital Southern California freeway are now open, three days after a shutdown was forced by a huge tanker truck fire that left an overpass badly damaged. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006186879694/ 21006186879694 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:29:04 GMT WASHINGTON -- A Nebraska meatpacker recalled more than 40,000 pounds of ground beef products distributed in 16 states after a test confirmed the presence of E. coli, the Agriculture Department said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006182454444/ 21006182454444 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:30:09 GMT LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas police had a plan to end an hour-long standoff with an unarmed Gulf War veteran: One officer would fire a non-lethal beanbag shell at the window of the man's Cadillac, and another officer would follow-up with pepper spray to force the man from the car. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006182460991/ 21006182460991 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:31:13 GMT IRWINDALE, Calif. -- Terrified employees hid under desks and barricaded themselves behind locked doors after a utility company office worker went on a shooting rampage, killing two co-workers and critically wounding two others before taking his own life, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006182467373/ 21006182467373 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:35:38 GMT CHICAGO -- Attorneys for impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich have asked a judge for an emergency evidentiary hearing on what they say is potential misconduct by the foreman at his corruption retrial. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006182493845/ 21006182493845 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:34:05 GMT FORT MEADE, Md. -- The prosecution is laying out its charges against the young soldier blamed for the largest leak of classified material in American history in a case that may hinge on whether the U.S. government overzealously stamped "secret" on material posing no national security risk. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006182484590/ 21006182484590 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:33:15 GMT COUPEVILLE, Wash. -- At times, Colton Harris-Moore's two years on the run were euphoric -- the nights of beatific solitude in the woods, the soaring adrenalin rush of his first moments airborne in the cockpit of a stolen plane. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006182479580/ 21006182479580 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:32:26 GMT LOS ANGELES -- After three days of frustration for both Southern California motorists and construction crews, officials hoped to have the fire-damaged Pomona Freeway reopened on Saturday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006182474625/ 21006182474625 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:38:28 GMT EMINGTON, Ill. -- A family of five, including a baby and two other children, was found shot to death in the small eastern Illinois farming town of Emington, a county official said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006178550877/ 21006178550877 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:40:00 GMT IRWINDALE, Calif. -- Three people were killed and two more injured Friday in a California office complex shooting, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006178560028/ 21006178560028 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:43:30 GMT COUPEVILLE, Wash. -- The youthful thief who rocketed to international notoriety as the "Barefoot Bandit" while he evaded police in pilfered cars, boats and planes during a two-year crime spree was sentenced Friday to more than seven years in a Washington state prison after pleading guilty to dozens of charges. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006178581088/ 21006178581088 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:29:47 GMT LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas police said Friday that a patrol officer fired seven shots with a military-style AR-15 assault rifle into an immobilized car, killing an unarmed Gulf War veteran in a shooting that has drawn calls for a federal investigation of department policies and practices. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006178498798/ 21006178498798 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:29:07 GMT WASHINGTON -- A Nebraska meatpacker recalled more than 40,000 pounds of ground beef products distributed in 16 states after a test confirmed the presence of E. coli, the Agriculture Department said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006178494777/ 21006178494777 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:42:54 GMT BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- An Iraqi man who had claimed he was innocent of terrorism-related charges did an abrupt about-face Friday, pleading guilty in a Kentucky courtroom to trying to funnel weapons and cash to al-Qaida operatives in his home country. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006178577478/ 21006178577478 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:40:40 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal judge on Friday dismissed a Utah company's $1 billion federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict in a case so important to the computer giant that it put Bill Gates on the stand for two days last month. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006178564095/ 21006178564095 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:34:59 GMT HONOLULU -- An infant's ashes that were stolen from a Hawaii home have been found at a beach and returned to the baby's mother, who thinks their careful positioning on some rock steps shows the burglar felt guilty and wanted to do the right thing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006178529991/ 21006178529991 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:44:30 GMT CLEVELAND -- Part of a deck of a parking garage for a new Cleveland casino has collapsed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006178587028/ 21006178587028 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:36:07 GMT SEATTLE -- Inadequate supervision and training have led Seattle police officers to grab weapons such as batons and flashlights too quickly and to escalate confrontations even when arresting people for minor offenses, the U.S. Justice Department said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006178536790/ 21006178536790 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:25:23 GMT MONTPELIER, Vt. -- A University of Vermont fraternity whose members are accused of circulating a survey that asked who they would like to rape has been closed indefinitely. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006178472372/ 21006178472372 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:19:19 GMT GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- Two New York athletes have been suspended by school administrators for organizing several "kneel-downs" in tribute to NFL sensation Tim Tebow, who said Friday that while he appreciates their boldness, the students have to obey their elders. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006178435972/ 21006178435972 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:46:49 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- Cameron International, the maker of the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer that failed to stop last year's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has agreed to pay $250 million to BP under a legal settlement, BP said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173200969/ 21006173200969 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:50:27 GMT GRAND MARAIS, Minn. -- A defendant in a sexual misconduct trial opened fire in a small northern Minnesota courthouse, injuring three people -- including the local prosecutor, who underwent surgery for multiple gunshot wounds, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173582790/ 21006173582790 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:42:06 GMT SEATTLE -- Kyle Ater remembers the three-letter chalk message left on the floor of his Orcas Island grocery store after it was burglarized for the second time by the Barefoot Bandit. Next to cartoonish drawings of footprints was written, "C-YA!" http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173532687/ 21006173532687 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:58:37 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Police said they have arrested a man in relation to a Thursday afternoon shooting outside the Chinese Consulate building in downtown Los Angeles. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173631747/ 21006173631747 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:37:17 GMT WASHINGTON -- A man accused of firing shots at the White House in an alleged assassination attempt of President Barack Obama is due in court. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173503776/ 21006173503776 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:41:09 GMT PHOENIX -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio's boundary-pushing foray into Arizona's immigration enforcement over the last six years met its most bruising criticism when the U.S. Justice Department said the lawman's office carried out a blatant pattern of discrimination against Latinos and held a "systematic disregard" for the Constitution. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173526929/ 21006173526929 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:39:02 GMT WASHINGTON -- Nine states will share $500 million in grant money won in a high profile competition intended to jumpstart improvements in often-overlooked early childhood programs, The Associated Press has learned. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173514268/ 21006173514268 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:40:08 GMT LOS ANGELES -- The physician son of Bermuda's ex-premier faces up to nearly 17 years in prison when he's expected to be sentenced Friday for fondling female patients during inappropriate breast and pelvic exams. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173520859/ 21006173520859 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:44:24 GMT MONTEBELLO, Calif. -- Traffic delays will stretch through Friday for commuters on a major Los Angeles freeway after crews demolishing a damaged bridge hit a snag. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173546485/ 21006173546485 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:43:12 GMT FORT MEADE, Md. -- The U.S. military is making its case for why Army Pfc. Bradley Manning should be court-martialed on charges of endangering national security by stealing and leaking an enormous trove of government secrets. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173539290/ 21006173539290 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:46:06 GMT BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A Canadian sports doctor with a high-profile client list faces up to 18 months in prison when he is sentenced Friday for bringing unapproved and mislabeled drugs into the United States. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173556646/ 21006173556646 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:49:37 GMT OMAHA, Neb. -- After a Good Samaritan helped her pay off the layaway bill she'd accumulated to buy Christmas gifts for her grandchildren, Lori Stearnes planned to collect her paycheck Friday and head to Kmart anyway. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173577714/ 21006173577714 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:47:14 GMT LUBBOCK, Texas -- The worst drought in Texas' history has led to the largest-ever one-year decline in the leading cattle-state's cow herd, raising the likelihood of increased beef prices as the number of animals decline and demand remains strong. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006173563422/ 21006173563422 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:27:10 GMT BAGHDAD -- There was no "Mission Accomplished" banner. No victory parade down the center of this capital scarred and rearranged by nearly nine years of war. No crowds of cheering Iraqis grateful for liberation from Saddam Hussein. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006168043029/ 21006168043029 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:26:20 GMT GRAND MARAIS, Minn. -- A gunman opened fire at small northern Minnesota courthouse on Thursday, shooting and injuring the local prosecutor and two other people, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006170198075/ 21006170198075 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:23:28 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Police are looking for a man with a gun who witnesses say fired shots at the Chinese Consulate building in downtown Los Angeles. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006170180823/ 21006170180823 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:25:42 GMT WATERLOO, Ind. -- The knock on the door in the middle of a rainy night seemed innocent enough: a request for help from a man and woman who said their car had wound up in a nearby ditch. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006170194254/ 21006170194254 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:24:22 GMT PHOENIX -- A small plane crashed in the front yard of a northeast Phoenix home and exploded Thursday, killing the pilot who was trapped inside and seriously injuring a passenger. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006170186213/ 21006170186213 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:11:15 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Police say an Alaska man twice called in bomb threats to a probation office to avoid urine tests. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006170467538/ 21006170467538 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:03:02 GMT LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- President Barack Obama is standing by his award of the Medal of Honor to a Marine in the Afghanistan war despite a published report Thursday charging exaggerations of the battle. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006170418215/ 21006170418215 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:12:40 GMT NEW YORK -- A well-preserved 2,000-year-old scroll of the Ten Commandments discovered in a cave is going on display in the city for the first time beginning Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006170476075/ 21006170476075 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:03:44 GMT HONOLULU -- A ceramic urn holding an infant's ashes was among the items stolen during a quick burglary of a Hawaii home, and the owner hopes it will be returned. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006170422491/ 21006170422491 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:09:51 GMT PHOENIX -- A scathing U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday found that Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office carried out a blatant pattern of discrimination against Latinos and held a "systematic disregard" for the Constitution amid a series of immigration crackdowns that have turned the lawman into a prominent national political figure. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006170459164/ 21006170459164 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:29:49 GMT WASHINGTON -- Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans -- nearly 1 in 2 -- have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006170218921/ 21006170218921 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:39:52 GMT MULLAN, Idaho -- Seven miners were pulled from more than a mile below the surface after an accident at a northern Idaho silver mine where two workers died in separate mishaps this year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165599292/ 21006165599292 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:38:11 GMT WASHINGTON -- When someone is talking to you, your brain is listening, processing and thinking about what's being said -- even if you're in the driver's seat trying to concentrate on traffic. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165589150/ 21006165589150 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:48:27 GMT FORT MEADE, Md. -- The military intelligence complex an hour outside Washington where the WikiLeaks case goes to court this week is known as a cloak-and-dagger sanctum off-limits to the public -- a reputation that's only party true. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165650751/ 21006165650751 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:33:42 GMT LOS ANGELES -- At birth, Melinda Star Guido was so tiny she could fit into the palm of her doctor's hand. Weighing just 9 1/2 ounces (.26 kilograms), she is among the smallest babies ever born in the world. Most infants her size don't survive, but doctors are preparing to send her home by New Year's. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165562212/ 21006165562212 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:31:07 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- The United Nations' top climate change official is in San Francisco to join California Gov. Jerry Brown at a conference addressing the costs associated with preparing for the effects of a warming world. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006167346711/ 21006167346711 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:30:32 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- A Chinese drywall manufacturer has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to resolve court claims by thousands of Gulf Coast property owners who say the product corroded pipes and wires and otherwise wrecked their homes, the largest settlement of its kind so far. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006167343240/ 21006167343240 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:29:59 GMT HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. -- In a split with police commanders, a New York prosecutor said Thursday that he isn't convinced that a lone killer is responsible for 10 sets of human remains discovered along a seaside parkway. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006167339949/ 21006167339949 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:32:04 GMT NEW YORK -- Facebook and Greenpeace are calling a truce over a clean energy feud that had the environmental group using the social network's own platform to campaign against it. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165552416/ 21006165552416 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:47:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- A day after facing a stunning public rebuke from his closest colleagues, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko faces another grilling as lawmakers continue to probe the nuclear agency's operations. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165642029/ 21006165642029 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:45:02 GMT COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The Army has suspended the first woman to lead its drill sergeant school while it investigates an undisclosed personnel matter. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165630232/ 21006165630232 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:35:12 GMT NEW YORK -- Authorities say a daughter of Malcolm X is being held without bail after violating terms of her probation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165571280/ 21006165571280 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:06:29 GMT CALDWELL, Ohio -- A teenager accused in a deadly robbery scheme that lured victims with a phony Craigslist job ad will be tried as an adult. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006166118982/ 21006166118982 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:07:25 GMT WASHINGTON -- A prestigious scientific group says chimpanzees should hardly ever be used for medical research anymore. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006166124537/ 21006166124537 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:23:45 GMT ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania man admitted repeatedly punching and kicking his wife's 2-year-old daughter because he believed the girl was a spoiled princess who needed to be toughened up. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165862593/ 21006165862593 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:28:05 GMT RALEIGH, N.C. -- Federal regulators are blocking Duke Energy's planned acquisition of Progress Energy to form the country's largest electric company, ruling the companies haven't done enough to protect competition in their North Carolina and South Carolina home markets. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165528570/ 21006165528570 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:31:28 GMT PHOENIX -- Federal authorities plans to announce their findings Thursday in a civil rights investigation of an Arizona sheriff's office accused of using discriminatory tactics in its signature immigration patrols. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165548838/ 21006165548838 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:26:22 GMT LAS VEGAS -- The NAACP in Las Vegas wants a federal probe and the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada is calling for an independent investigation of Las Vegas police practices after a police shooting that killed an unarmed Gulf War veteran behind the wheel of his car in a condominium complex. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165518287/ 21006165518287 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:44:13 GMT WASHINGTON -- Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans -- nearly 1 in 2 -- have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165625374/ 21006165625374 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:42:18 GMT FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Hurricane forecaster William Gray will wait until spring to predict how many storms will form in the Atlantic. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165613870/ 21006165613870 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:41:19 GMT NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Southern Baptist Convention's bookstores are recalling pink Bibles, saying some of the money raised through their sale was being given to Planned Parenthood. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006165607955/ 21006165607955 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:48:45 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Ren Bishop is one of many American drivers who texts, tweets and talks on her cellphone while she's behind the wheel -- and thinks it should be up to drivers to use their discretion when it comes to safety. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157012577/ 21006157012577 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:47:56 GMT CHICAGO -- Rod Blagojevich's attorneys have asked to have him placed in a drug abuse program when he starts his 14-year prison sentence for corruption, though they aren't saying if the former Illinois governor has a problem or if it's a legal move. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006161327652/ 21006161327652 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:46:58 GMT ST. GEORGE, Utah -- Thousands of migratory birds are dead or injured after they apparently mistook a Wal-Mart parking lot, football fields, highways and other areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeted to the ground. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006161321829/ 21006161321829 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:03:58 GMT LAS VEGAS -- The 43-year-old Gulf War veteran gunned down by Las Vegas police in a weekend parking lot confrontation felt like his life was spiraling out of control and sought help from a veterans advocate days before he was killed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006152423890/ 21006152423890 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:00:18 GMT NEW YORK -- More than 300 people arrested during Occupy Wall Street demonstrations are expected to pack a New York City courtroom this week to answer the charges. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157081862/ 21006157081862 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:49:25 GMT WASHINGTON -- Is there any downside to extending federal jobless benefits, as Congress is about to do? The benefits are a crucial lifeline to the longtime unemployed. But they also can be a disincentive to looking for work and prolong joblessness, economists say, as lawmakers weigh shortening them. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006161336564/ 21006161336564 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:48:48 GMT SAN DIEGO -- The U.S. government should pay $56 million to a family that lost four members when a military jet crashed into their San Diego home in 2008, an attorney told a judge Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006161332861/ 21006161332861 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:50:34 GMT SAN ANTONIO -- A mother who shot her two children before killing herself in a Texas welfare office was found a year ago with a gun on a beach and told authorities her children were bathing at a gas station, according to a police report released Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006161343471/ 21006161343471 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:51:12 GMT WASHINGTON -- The United States will hold talks with North Korea in Beijing Thursday on the possibility of providing food aid to the impoverished country, the State Department said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006161347242/ 21006161347242 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:52:39 GMT CANTON, Ga. -- A sheriff says a deputy and a trainee are facing discipline for failing to report seeing what appeared to be blood during the search for a missing 7-year-old north Georgia girl who later was found dead. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006161355950/ 21006161355950 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:53:15 GMT RAINIER, Wash. -- A recent West Point grad, two aviators with extensive experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a man with a pregnant wife were killed when two helicopters crashed at a Washington state base, the Army said Wednesday as investigators tried to determine the cause of the collision. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006161359576/ 21006161359576 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:43:56 GMT ATLANTA -- An Atlanta-area school district is suspending all marching band activities over concerns of "inappropriate physical activity" between students. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006158783660/ 21006158783660 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:05:12 GMT RAINIER, Wash. -- The parents of one of the four Army aviators killed when two helicopters crashed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord say their son was a veteran of tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157111297/ 21006157111297 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:03:44 GMT FORT MEADE, Md. -- The document in which Pfc. Bradley Manning allegedly confessed to giving classified information to WikiLeaks also includes a rationale that has made him a hero among peace and anti-secrecy activists worldwide: "I want people to see the truth." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157102434/ 21006157102434 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:54:55 GMT NEW YORK -- Jim Boeheim initially insisted two former Syracuse ball boys were lying when they accused his longtime assistant of molesting them. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157049598/ 21006157049598 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:50:03 GMT LIBERTY, N.Y. -- A 12-year-old upstate New York boy may be wishing that his dog ate his homework. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157020386/ 21006157020386 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:51:16 GMT CLEVELAND -- An Ohio man who had two towels left in his body after surgery at a veterans hospital has won a $275,000 settlement from the federal government. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157027676/ 21006157027676 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:53:28 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- The federal government is holding the first auction of offshore petroleum leases in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster last year, despite a lawsuit challenging the sale. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157040857/ 21006157040857 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:22:13 GMT NEW YORK -- The Fire Department says a person has been killed in an elevator accident in New York City. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157573351/ 21006157573351 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:20:01 GMT WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has set a new court date to hear more evidence about the mental health of a man accused of firing shots at the White House in November. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157560134/ 21006157560134 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:20:59 GMT CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A lawsuit against The Citadel charges the South Carolina military college was "grossly negligent" in its handling of a sex abuse complaint four years ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157565974/ 21006157565974 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:57:34 GMT WASHINGTON -- The number of young adults lacking medical coverage has shrunk by 2.5 million since the new health care overhaul law took effect, according to a new analysis the Obama administration is to release Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157065495/ 21006157065495 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:59:21 GMT SAN DIEGO -- Don Yoon wiped his eyes and struggled to speak on the witness stand as his lawyers showed him a handful of family photos -- the only items firefighters were able to salvage from his home after a U.S. military jet crashed into it, setting it ablaze. His 36-year-old wife, two baby daughters and mother-in-law all perished. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157076124/ 21006157076124 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:01:31 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Russ Stanton, who led the Los Angeles Times to three Pulitzer Prizes in the midst of massive staff layoffs, has stepped down as editor and executive vice president, the newspaper announced Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157089134/ 21006157089134 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:09:12 GMT LANSING, Mich. -- More teens are turning to pot and see it as less of a risk at the same time alcohol use among the same age group has dipped to historic lows, according to an annual national survey of drug use released Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006157135284/ 21006157135284 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:33:48 GMT NEW YORK -- A convict accused in the cold-blooded slaying of a New York Police Department officer already was wanted in a non-fatal shooting in North Carolina but remained on the streets because arrest warrants didn't require his return there, NYPD officials said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006152242835/ 21006152242835 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:51:08 GMT WASHINGTON -- Texting, emailing or chatting on a cellphone while driving is simply too dangerous to be allowed, federal safety investigators declared Tuesday, urging all states to impose total bans except for emergencies. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006152346887/ 21006152346887 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:38:27 GMT SAN DIEGO -- Don Yoon burst into tears as soon as he took the witness stand and was asked to state Tuesday's date. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006152270787/ 21006152270787 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:39:42 GMT OMAHA, Neb. -- Several new problems have been found at a Nebraska power plant that suffered flood damage earlier this year, federal regulators said Tuesday, so inspectors will be watching the plant north of Omaha even more closely as repairs from flooding are made. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006152278231/ 21006152278231 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:07:59 GMT AUSTIN, Texas -- Attorney General Eric Holder is vowing to fully enforce civil rights protections in next year's elections. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006152447964/ 21006152447964 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:36:39 GMT TRENTON, N.J. -- Some New Jerseyans want the name of a political cartoonist who created the images of Santa Claus and Uncle Sam scratched from the state Hall of Fame's list of nominees because he also drew unflattering caricatures of the Irish. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006152259932/ 21006152259932 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:40:47 GMT WASHINGTON -- A financial-exchange executive said Tuesday that Jon Corzine might have known that MF Global tapped clients' money to lend to a European affiliate of the firm. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006152284775/ 21006152284775 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:51:51 GMT HONOLULU -- A group of Pearl Harbor survivors say they were disrespected by the crew of the CBS drama "Hawaii Five-O" during a visit to Honolulu's National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006152351184/ 21006152351184 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:34:57 GMT SEATTLE -- The tycoons of cyberspace are looking to bankroll America's resurgence in outer space, reviving "Star Trek" dreams that first interested them in science. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006152249793/ 21006152249793 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:17:56 GMT RAINIER, Wash. -- Two Army helicopters crashed Monday night at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in an accident that killed four soldiers, a military spokesman said late Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006148187638/ 21006148187638 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:06:50 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- Heady with their successful attempts to block trucks and curb business at busy ports up and down the West Coast, some Occupy Wall Street protesters plan to continue their blockades and keep staging similar protests despite requests to stop because they're hurting wage earners. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006148121083/ 21006148121083 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:35:45 GMT CHICAGO -- A federal judge has agreed to delay the start of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's prison term. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006149734558/ 21006149734558 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:36:32 GMT LAS VEGAS -- Federal investigators are looking at unexpected turns and a sudden climb that a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter made moments before a crash that killed the pilot and four passengers who were marking marriage milestones. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006149739217/ 21006149739217 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:02:39 GMT WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Postal Service has agreed to delay the closing of 252 mail processing centers and 3,700 local post offices until mid-May. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006150255962/ 21006150255962 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:37:14 GMT DENVER -- Colorado will require energy companies to disclose the concentrations of all chemicals in hydraulic fracturing and also ask drillers to make public some information about ingredients considered trade secrets. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006149743464/ 21006149743464 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:12:23 GMT BALTIMORE -- Occupy Baltimore demonstrators who spent 10 weeks protesting economic disparity were removed peacefully from a downtown plaza near the Inner Harbor tourist district during a pre-dawn raid Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006148154333/ 21006148154333 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:16:26 GMT MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook is making it easier for people who express suicidal thoughts on the social networking site to get help. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006148178668/ 21006148178668 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:11:05 GMT WASHINGTON -- It's the kind of stuff that gives moms nightmares: a machete near a play area, household chemicals accessible to preschoolers, and instructors teaching without a criminal background check. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006148146525/ 21006148146525 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:14:27 GMT MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A new report by an advocacy group says Alabama is worst in the nation for child homelessness. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006148166791/ 21006148166791 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:09:16 GMT WASHINGTON -- 'Tis the season for dancing sugarplums, goodwill toward all -- and sometimes emergency-room trips for holiday decorating injuries. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006148855635/ 21006148855635 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:07:05 GMT NEW YORK -- Eight former Siemens senior executives and agents have been charged in a $100 million foreign bribery scheme. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006148842589/ 21006148842589 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:18:59 GMT DENVER -- A prototype of the next generation of GPS satellites has arrived in Colorado for testing at Lockheed Martin. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006148193948/ 21006148193948 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:13:31 GMT EDINBURG, Texas -- Two middle school students were wounded by gunfire Monday afternoon while trying out for a basketball team, and authorities suspect hunters may to be blame. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006143481122/ 21006143481122 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:15:38 GMT NEW YORK -- A 22-year veteran police officer responding to a break-in Monday was shot in the face and killed by one of the suspects hiding inside the apartment when officers arrived, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006143493882/ 21006143493882 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:58:32 GMT SAN DIEGO -- Lawyers for an extended family that lost four members when a military jet crashed into their San Diego home in 2008 said Monday they will be seeking millions of dollars for the accident that the Marine Corps acknowledged was caused by a string of errors. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006143751259/ 21006143751259 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:52:51 GMT FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Authorities in Indiana say they were alerted to the shooting deaths of a woman and two men after someone thousands of miles away called police about a chilling posting on Facebook. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006143717135/ 21006143717135 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:13:03 GMT WASHINGTON -- Weary after a year of partisan bickering, lawmakers reached a tentative agreement Monday on a sprawling $1 trillion-plus spending bill that chips away at military and environmental spending but denies conservatives many of the policy changes they wanted on social issues, government regulations and health care. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006143478316/ 21006143478316 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:49:45 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A jury condemned a Connecticut man to death Friday for killing a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror inside their suburban home, rejecting defense attorneys' request to spare his life in light of the abuse he suffered as a boy. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006115978524/ 21006115978524 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:47:54 GMT WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner predicted Monday that the House will approve legislation that renews a payroll tax cut and curtails extra benefits for the long-term unemployed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006143687422/ 21006143687422 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:03:54 GMT NEWARK, N.J. -- Not quite the "War Of The Worlds" broadcast of a Martian invasion in New Jersey, a Verizon "emergency" alert Monday that the company texted to its wireless customers still jangled some nerves and triggered hundreds of calls from concerned residents to local and state offices. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006143783448/ 21006143783448 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:18:31 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- More than 1,000 Occupy Wall Street protesters blocked cargo trucks at some of the West Coast's busiest ports Monday, forcing terminals in Oakland, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Longview, Wash., to halt operations. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006143511130/ 21006143511130 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:41:32 GMT BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- A sleepy country town better known for fly fishing than courtroom drama takes center stage Tuesday for a face-to-face encounter between a disgraced Penn State coach and the young men who say he sexually assaulted them as children in showers and campus locker rooms. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006143649228/ 21006143649228 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:11:24 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- David Frias works two minimum-wage jobs to squeak by in one of the most expensive cities in America. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006139148427/ 21006139148427 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:28:02 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on Arizona's controversial law targeting illegal immigrants. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006139248257/ 21006139248257 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:05:33 GMT RICHMOND, Va. -- The family of the man authorities say shot and killed a Virginia Tech police officer has offered condolences and prayers to the slain officer's family. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006139113350/ 21006139113350 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:10:31 GMT SAN DIEGO -- A family that lost four members when a military jet crashed into their San Diego home in 2008 is suing the U.S. government for compensation for an accident that the Marine Corps has acknowledged was caused by a mechanical failure and a string of errors. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006139143178/ 21006139143178 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:03:16 GMT BERNE, N.Y. -- A 6-year-old boy in upstate New York is being hailed as a hero for using his mother's cellphone to call 911 after her car crashed down a 150-foot embankment outside of Albany. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006139099665/ 21006139099665 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:09:15 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- Anti-Wall Street protesters along the West Coast joined an effort Monday to blockade some of the nation's busiest docks, with the idea that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006139135548/ 21006139135548 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:15:57 GMT QUANTICO, Va. -- Police deployment of sonic blasters at Occupy Wall Street and G-20 protest rallies are fueling sales and criticism of the devices, which emit beams of sound with laser-like intensity. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006139175734/ 21006139175734 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:02:47 GMT MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- A former bookkeeper is accused of embezzling more than $1.2 million in horse racing funds over a five-year period at West Virginia's Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort, federal prosecutors said Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006140176753/ 21006140176753 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:01:29 GMT ARLINGTON, Va. -- The security firm once known as Blackwater is changing its name for a second time as its owners continue to reshape the company they bought from its founder a year ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006140168979/ 21006140168979 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:12:41 GMT FARGO, N.D. -- On the day after Christmas last year, a drunken Roman Cavanaugh Jr. beat up his 11- and 12-year-old sons, punching both in the face. The older boy was hit so hard he couldn't speak for a full day because his jaw was swollen shut. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006139156149/ 21006139156149 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:18:43 GMT ST. LOUIS -- An Illinois farmer made so much money this year he made loan payments on one tractor a year in advance and exchanged some older ones for newer models. An Iowa farmer upgraded his combine and also paid off debt, while an elderly Oregon farmer poured into retirement funds a bundle of his $2 million take from a well-timed sale of much of his turf and equipment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006139192354/ 21006139192354 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:17:27 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- An exceedingly rare 1787 gold Brasher doubloon has been sold for $7.4 million, one of the highest prices ever paid for a gold coin. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006139184762/ 21006139184762 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:20:13 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Obamas are celebrating the holiday season with musical stars Justin Bieber, Cee Lo Green and Jennifer Hudson at the annual "Christmas in Washington" concert. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006134881345/ 21006134881345 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:31:57 GMT RADFORD, Va. -- The man who authorities say killed a Virginia Tech police officer had visited a shooting range this year but hadn't gone for several months because he didn't have bullets for his gun, according to a friend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006134951752/ 21006134951752 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:25:31 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Police have arrested dozens of people during a raid of an Occupy San Francisco encampment outside the Federal Reserve building early Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006134913177/ 21006134913177 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:24:13 GMT GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- An engine shut down on a United Airlines jetliner Sunday, forcing it to make an emergency landing in western Colorado with 125 passengers and crew on board. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006134905357/ 21006134905357 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:30:03 GMT MONTPELIER, Vt. -- With more illegal immigrants moving beyond the border states and a lack of federal immigration reform, some states and communities are coming up with their own enforcement policies. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006134940378/ 21006134940378 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:20:57 GMT JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A former rural Missouri sheriff's deputy is suspected of killing his ex-wife and her new boyfriend before leading officers on a high-speed chase that ended with a shootout at an upscale hotel hosting a Christmas party for hundreds of doctors, nurses and their families, authorities said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006134885715/ 21006134885715 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:28:56 GMT NEW YORK -- The New York City police department is investigating whether police officers made offensive comments on a Facebook page devoted to the annual West Indian Day parade in Brooklyn. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006134933687/ 21006134933687 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:22:42 GMT CLEVELAND -- An Ohio 16-year-old charged with murder in a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme says in a letter to his father that he believes God will keep him from a long incarceration. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006134896221/ 21006134896221 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:26:43 GMT WASHINGTON -- Mary Power is 92 and worried about surviving another frigid New England winter because deep cuts in federal home heating assistance benefits mean she probably can't afford enough heating oil to stay warm. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006134920314/ 21006134920314 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:28:11 GMT COLUMBUS, Ohio -- For eager energy companies and Republican Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sihk), surging interest in the gas and oil stores beneath Ohio is an unbeatable opportunity for the state's struggling economy. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006134929171/ 21006134929171 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:42:22 GMT CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. -- The widow of a slain Virginia Tech police officer says he was the love of her life and that they had exchanged text messages about an hour before he was fatally shot by a man he apparently didn't know. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006126014284/ 21006126014284 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:52:21 GMT KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas sheriff said Saturday that investigators have no idea why a man "came out of nowhere" and fatally shot a veteran police officer in the head before killing himself. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006126074123/ 21006126074123 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:54:10 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Authorities on Saturday identified the gunman who was shot and killed by police after he fired at passing cars on a Hollywood street, wounding one driver while screaming that he wanted to die. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006126085059/ 21006126085059 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:55:41 GMT NOGALES, Ariz. -- A 15-year-old Arizona high school girl is recovering after being bitten by a police dog that somehow got out of a patrol vehicle. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006126094157/ 21006126094157 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:56:25 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Moon watchers in the western U.S., Hawaii and elsewhere across the globe were treated Saturday to a rare celestial phenomenon: a total lunar eclipse. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006126098591/ 21006126098591 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:57:45 GMT CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Massachusetts authorities say a former police officer suspected of shooting to death three family members in Cambridge has committed suicide. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006126106552/ 21006126106552 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:58:57 GMT ARLINGTON, Va. -- Volunteers have laid tens of thousands of holiday wreaths at tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006126113721/ 21006126113721 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:59:53 GMT BOSTON -- Police officers swept through Dewey Square early Saturday, tearing down tents at the Occupy Boston encampment and arresting dozens of protesters, bringing a peaceful end to the 10-week demonstration. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006126119371/ 21006126119371 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:01:33 GMT CANTON, Ga. -- Hundreds gathered for a public service to mourn a slain Georgia girl. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006126129374/ 21006126129374 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:15:00 GMT BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The young man who killed a Virginia Tech police officer walked up to the patrolman he did not know and fired, then took off for the campus greenhouses, ditching his pullover, wool cap and backpack. He made his way to a nearby parking lot and when a deputy spotted him, he took his own life, leaving fresh questions on a campus still coping with the nation's worst mass slaying in recent memory. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006116490090/ 21006116490090 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:46:02 GMT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Two of the four people who died in a plane crash near the Sioux Falls, S.D., Regional Airport have been identified. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117756254/ 21006117756254 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:07:24 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A member of a jury that condemned a Connecticut man to death for a brutal home invasion says all the jurors wept over the five days they deliberated the sentence. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117884481/ 21006117884481 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:48:21 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A gunman walked down the middle of the street in the heart of Hollywood shouting "kill me" and "I'm gonna die" Friday, firing on passing cars and wounding a driver before police shot and killed him. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117770147/ 21006117770147 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:30:47 GMT OKEMAH, Okla. -- A three-year-long hunt for a suspect in the fatal shootings of two young girls in eastern Oklahoma ended Friday when authorities announced murder charges against a man who claimed he fired at two monsters on a rural road. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006118024715/ 21006118024715 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:49:52 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- A 1-year-old boy who was shot in the head during the filming of a rap music video in Oakland was taken off life support Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117779215/ 21006117779215 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:14:36 GMT NEW YORK -- A mother who tossed her toddler into the Hudson River thought she'd heard a dog speaking to her and another voice telling her to jump in the water, prosecutors said Friday as they agreed to let her resolve the attempted-murder case by agreeing to possible psychiatric hospitalization. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117927654/ 21006117927654 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:16:52 GMT LAREDO, Texas -- In one of the poorest counties in the U.S., neighbors still pitied Rachelle Grimmer and her children. Grimmer would walk down the highway after midnight and beg closing crews at restaurants for food they planned to throw away. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117941212/ 21006117941212 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:08:21 GMT MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama's governor said Friday he's working to clarify and simplify Alabama's tough immigration law, which critics say has damaged the state's international reputation and caused hardships for legal residents. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117890168/ 21006117890168 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:17:54 GMT SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- She split her own lip with a pin, scraped her knuckles with sandpaper and had her friend punch her in the face. Investigators say she even ripped open her blouse, then wet her pants to give the appearance she had been knocked unconscious. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117947425/ 21006117947425 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:13:37 GMT NEWARK, N.J. -- A New Jersey woman who police say injected a man's penis with silicone, resulting in his death, has been charged with manslaughter. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117921748/ 21006117921748 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:06:13 GMT GLOBE, Ariz. -- Dana and Elizabeth Davis had spent nearly five grueling days stranded in their car in the rugged Arizona mountains during a snowstorm when they finally realized they needed to venture out for help. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117877392/ 21006117877392 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:12:29 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has blocked the use of Texas state legislative and congressional district maps that were drawn by federal judges to boost minorities' voting power. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117914993/ 21006117914993 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:50:41 GMT JUNEAU, Alaska - A military hearing for the sole survivor of a Coast Guard helicopter crash ended Friday, with the defense arguing that the Guard had "set a trap" by not marking the power lines hit by the aircraft. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117784191/ 21006117784191 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:11:08 GMT NEW YORK -- A rank-and-file policeman at the George Washington Bridge has made more than $200,000 so far this year, along with dozens of other police officers for the agency that patrols New York City's airports, the tunnels under the Hudson River and the new World Trade Center site. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117906837/ 21006117906837 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:45:08 GMT WASHOUGAL, Wash. -- The owner of a southwest Washington home that burned this week as a gunman kept firefighters away was under investigation for sex crimes, authorities said Thursday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006117750832/ 21006117750832 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:44:13 GMT BROADDUS, Texas -- Authorities say three children have died after a fire destroyed their mobile home in East Texas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006113785396/ 21006113785396 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:42:53 GMT LAS VEGAS -- Delwin and Tamara Chapman were in Las Vegas to renew their wedding vows after 25 years of marriage when a luxury helicopter tour of the twinkling Las Vegas Strip and the iconic Hoover Dam caught their attention. Delwin loved to fly. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006113777314/ 21006113777314 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:41:46 GMT CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency draft finding that it may have detected groundwater pollution resulting from a controversial technique that plays a huge role in modern oil and gas development isn't settled science yet. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006113770616/ 21006113770616 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:20:03 GMT WASHINGTON -- The National Labor Relations Board on Friday officially dropped its high-profile case challenging Boeing's decision to open a nonunion aircraft manufacturing plant in South Carolina. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006115080330/ 21006115080330 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:48:14 GMT JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- The Army has offered a northern New Jersey family over $7,300 to compensate for damages from wayward artillery shell shrapnel that crashed through their roof in 2008, causing the death of their cat. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006114169438/ 21006114169438 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:49:59 GMT OKEMAH, Okla. -- A 25-year-old man was charged Friday with first-degree murder in the fatal shootings of two young girls found on a dirt road near Weleetka in 2008. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006115979999/ 21006115979999 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:36:31 GMT NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Prosecutors offered the former Rutgers student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man a plea deal that would have kept him out of prison and sought to prevent his deportation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006113739172/ 21006113739172 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:53:03 GMT UTICA, N.Y. -- Authorities in upstate New York say none of the nearly 370 people aboard a "Polar Express" holiday train were injured when three cars derailed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006113838325/ 21006113838325 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:39:47 GMT NEW YORK -- New York University plans to offer two classes next semester on the Occupy Wall Street movement. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006113758746/ 21006113758746 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:35:22 GMT BOSTON -- A diminished Occupy Boston encampment held its ground early Friday after police decided not to immediately enforce a midnight deadline Mayor Thomas Menino had set for them to leave a city square. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006113732243/ 21006113732243 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:49:25 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A Yemeni national who pounded on a cockpit door on an American Airlines flight from Chicago as it was descending to San Francisco has been ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006114176577/ 21006114176577 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:39:48 GMT BLACKSBURG, Va. -- A gunman killed a police officer in a Virginia Tech parking lot Thursday and then apparently shot himself to death nearby in a baffling attack that shook up the campus nearly five years after it was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006107638868/ 21006107638868 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:59:41 GMT LAS VEGAS -- Rescue crews completed the difficult process of recovering bodies Thursday from a remote canyon outside Las Vegas after the crash of a tour helicopter belonging to a company with repeated aviation violations. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109198120/ 21006109198120 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:02:34 GMT GARDNERVILLE, Nev. -- A man whose wife had recently died was only a few feet away from his own tombstone in a family burial plot when he pointed a loaded gun at a deputy and was fatally shot, authorities said Thursday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109215481/ 21006109215481 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:05:55 GMT WASHOUGAL, Wash. -- Police said Thursday they found two bodies in the rubble of a house that burned to the ground as a man inside shot multiple rounds from rifles and handguns for 90 minutes and kept fire crews at bay. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109235589/ 21006109235589 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:53:29 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- The lawyer for the family of a 1-year-old Oakland boy hit by gunfire during filming for a rap music video says the family has decided to take the child off life support. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109160945/ 21006109160945 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:05:22 GMT CHICAGO -- Rod Blagojevich has one last hope to reduce his harsh 14-year sentence: an appeal. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109232271/ 21006109232271 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:54:23 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A retired Philadelphia police captain arrested in uniform during Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City has received written warnings from police and union officials. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109166313/ 21006109166313 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:31:20 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- The sponsors of California's gay marriage ban have renewed their effort to disqualify a federal judge because of his same-sex relationship -- the first time a jurist's sexual orientation has been cited as grounds for overturning a court decision. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109028032/ 21006109028032 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:33:04 GMT SEATTLE -- U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen fired three staffers who apparently chronicled their on-the-job drinking exploits, including taking shots of Jack Daniels at their desks, via Twitter. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109038466/ 21006109038466 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:04:13 GMT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed a nearly $50 million verdict for farmers who say they lost money because a company's genetically altered rice seeds contaminated the food supply and drove down crop prices. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109225316/ 21006109225316 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:55:11 GMT CONCORD, N.H. -- The president of New Hampshire's Plymouth State University has told students they don't have to come to class Friday because activists may appear on campus with loaded guns to protest the school's ban on weapons on campus. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109171193/ 21006109171193 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:34:37 GMT WASHINGTON -- Recently passed Senate legislation would make sodomy and sex with animals legal under military law, ending long-standing prohibitions and triggering cries of perversion from conservative groups. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109047767/ 21006109047767 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:03:34 GMT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a death row inmate's murder conviction and said he deserves a new trial because one juror slept and another tweeted during court proceedings. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109221426/ 21006109221426 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:01:23 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- Occupy Wall Street protesters want to shut down ports up and down the West Coast on Monday in a bid to gum up the engines of global commerce. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109208360/ 21006109208360 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:04:48 GMT PHOENIX -- They spent 60 years together and traveled to Africa, China, South America and other parts of the world. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006109228830/ 21006109228830 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:35:47 GMT CANTON, Ga. -- A 20-year-old maintenance worker from Canton is being held without bond on charges stemming from the beating death of 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera, who disappeared from her apartment complex last week. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006106894781/ 21006106894781 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:27:04 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A plane headed to Las Vegas had to make an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006105042476/ 21006105042476 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:58:02 GMT WASHINGTON -- Virginia Tech police chief Wendell Flinchum is arguing there were no signs following the shooting of two students in a dormitory in 2007 to indicate there was an additional safety threat to the campus in southwest Virginia. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006105588262/ 21006105588262 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:24:51 GMT WASHINGTON -- It's the morning after and the controversy over how to sell emergency contraception still looms. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006105029164/ 21006105029164 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:31:08 GMT WAUPUN, Wis. -- With her identity still a mystery, sheriff's deputies and staff in the medical examiner's office have become the family of sorts for a slain girl whose body was found three years ago partially submerged in a freezing Wisconsin lake. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006105066853/ 21006105066853 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:41:17 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- The number of major U.S. companies covering the cost of gender reassignment surgery for transgender workers has more than doubled in the past year, according to a new scorecard compiled by the nation's largest gay rights group. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006105127753/ 21006105127753 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:13:40 GMT ST. LOUIS -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined that romaine lettuce from a single farm is likely to blame for an E. coli outbreak in Missouri and nine other states. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006105682080/ 21006105682080 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:05:52 GMT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a death row inmate's murder conviction and said he deserves a new trial because one juror slept and another tweeted during court proceedings. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006105635253/ 21006105635253 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:26:15 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- Maureen Faulkner waited nearly 30 years for her husband's murderer to be executed. But following a seemingly endless cycle of legal appeals, she said she realized it would never happen. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006105037576/ 21006105037576 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:33:43 GMT WASHINGTON -- New federal safety data shows texting while driving increased 50 percent last year, despite a rush by states to ban the practice. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006105082317/ 21006105082317 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:04:53 GMT RICHMOND, Va. -- Smithfield Foods Inc., the world's largest pork producer, said Thursday it plans to end the practice of keeping pregnant hogs at the company's farms in small metal crates. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006105629317/ 21006105629317 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:45:36 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- At least 85 people were arrested as police cleared San Francisco's Occupy encampment early Wednesday, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100473625/ 21006100473625 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:48:38 GMT CHICAGO -- The Rod Blagojevich who once challenged a prosecutor to face him like a man, the glad-handing politician who took to celebrity TV shows to profess his innocence, was nowhere to be found Wednesday as he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100491813/ 21006100491813 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:42:20 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- The family of a 1-year-old California boy who was shot in the head when gunfire erupted during the filming of a rap music video issued a public plea Wednesday to keep him on life support. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100454012/ 21006100454012 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:51:47 GMT NEW YORK -- Nearly 100 people formed a check fraud ring that systematically exploited a banking loophole to steal more than $450,000 by depositing bogus checks and withdrawing the money before they bounced, prosecutors said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100510754/ 21006100510754 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:21:32 GMT CANTON, Ga. -- A 20-year-old maintenance man who passed a background check to be hired was arrested Wednesday in the beating death of a 7-year-old north Georgia girl who was abducted at her apartment complex where he worked and her body left in a trash bin. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100689277/ 21006100689277 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:50:59 GMT LEWISTOWN, Mont. -- A Montana man who has spent nearly 29 years behind bars was released from prison Wednesday pending a new murder trial, in a case that has been closely watched across the state. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100505993/ 21006100505993 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:01:46 GMT SEATTLE -- One of two men charged with planning to attack a Seattle military recruiting station last summer has agreed to plead guilty. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100570622/ 21006100570622 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:47:02 GMT LOS ANGELES -- The state Public Utilities Commission said Wednesday it was investigating the mass power outages in Southern California following last week's windstorm. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100482233/ 21006100482233 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:35:13 GMT HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A bank has filed a mortgage foreclosure action against a property owned by the mayor of Pennsylvania's financially troubled capital. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100411375/ 21006100411375 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:39:41 GMT SAN ANTONIO -- The grandmother of two children shot by their mother inside a Texas welfare office said Wednesday her former daughter-in-law had a history of mental problems leading up to the standoff in a state building where the struggling family had been denied food stamps. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100438152/ 21006100438152 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:33:35 GMT TULSA, Okla. -- The worst police scandal to roil this law-and-order town of 390,000 in more than a generation could continue to haunt the city even after four officers sentenced on corruption-related charges this week head to prison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100401583/ 21006100401583 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:50:08 GMT KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A federal appeals court agreed Wednesday to take another look at whether a St. Louis suburb can enforce a funeral protest ordinance drafted in response to the picketing of an anti-gay Kansas church -- a move that could push the issue closer to the U.S. Supreme Court. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100500895/ 21006100500895 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:41:24 GMT LOS ANGELES -- NASA's lone surviving Mars rover has been busy exploring its surroundings since it rolled up to its latest crater destination four months ago. Now the solar-powered, six-wheel Opportunity is in search of a place to hunker down for the winter. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100448434/ 21006100448434 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:40:16 GMT A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that a Montana woman sued for defamation was not a journalist when she posted online that an Oregon lawyer acted criminally during a bankruptcy case, a decision with implications for bloggers around the country. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100441697/ 21006100441697 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:57:00 GMT NEW YORK -- A judge says a 12-year-old boy accused of pushing a shopping cart onto a woman from four stories up at a New York City mall had racked up a half-dozen school suspensions, some for fighting and stealing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006100542040/ 21006100542040 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:00:45 GMT CHICAGO -- Rod Blagojevich, the ousted Illinois governor whose three-year battle against criminal charges became a national spectacle, was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday, one of the stiffest penalties imposed for corruption in a state with a history of crooked politics. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096604589/ 21006096604589 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:35:09 GMT PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- About 120 survivors of the Pearl Harbor bombing commemorated the Japanese attack and the thousands who lost their lives that day 70 years ago by observing a moment of silence on Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006098970981/ 21006098970981 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:37:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The sudden resignation of its chief leaves the Federal Aviation Administration in the hands of Deputy Administrator Michael Huerta, who's a well-regarded manager but lacks his predecessor's insider knowledge of the nation's airlines. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096462015/ 21006096462015 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:33:41 GMT CANTON, Ga. -- A 20-year-old maintenance worker was arrested in the beating death of a 7-year-old north Georgia girl who was abducted and killed at an apartment complex and her body left in a trash bin, authorities said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006098242176/ 21006098242176 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:33:03 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Police gave protesters at San Francisco's Occupy encampment five minutes to gather belongings before taking down about 100 tents and arresting 70 people as officers dismantled the camp in an overnight raid. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006098238383/ 21006098238383 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:48:45 GMT ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A Fairfax, Va., man accused of secretly receiving millions of dollars from Pakistan's spy service while he lobbied Congress on the disputed Kashmir territory is expected to plead guilty to federal charges. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096532513/ 21006096532513 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:32:10 GMT PITTSBURGH -- Bedbugs aren't just sleeping with you. They're sleeping with each other. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006098233055/ 21006098233055 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:31:21 GMT NEW YORK -- At least 20 offensive comments made on a Facebook page about the city's annual West Indian Day Parade may have come from police officers, and the department is seeking computer records, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006098228113/ 21006098228113 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:38:36 GMT OAK BEACH, N.Y. -- Police investigating a suspected serial murder on New York's Long Island have resumed their search in the area where a prostitute went missing 18 months ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096471694/ 21006096471694 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:40:08 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A Philadelphia jury has awarded three women $72.6 million in compensatory damages over their use of a hormone replacement drug, and more could be coming when punitive damages are determined. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096480894/ 21006096480894 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:31:22 GMT WASHINGTON -- More than four years after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the horrors of that day on the Virginia Tech campus are about to be relived in court. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096428236/ 21006096428236 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:59:47 GMT PASADENA, Calif. -- Utility crews continued to work around the clock to restore power to thousands of San Gabriel Valley residents still in the dark one week after a ferocious windstorm wreaked havoc on the region as anger over the prolonged outages grew. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096598790/ 21006096598790 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:15:04 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- The district attorney announced Wednesday that prosecutors will no longer pursue the death penalty against former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, meaning he will spend the rest of his life in prison for gunning down a white police officer nearly 30 years ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006097050457/ 21006097050457 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:33:23 GMT WASHINGTON -- The government is considering whether it's OK for young teenagers to buy emergency contraception without a prescription. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096440342/ 21006096440342 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:47:09 GMT CANTON, Ga. -- A funeral home in north Georgia has announced that services for a 7-year-old girl who police say was abducted and killed have been set for this weekend. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096522928/ 21006096522928 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:46:30 GMT NEW YORK -- A transit official has admitted that subway passengers left stranded on a train for hours during last year's blizzard had been forgotten. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096519016/ 21006096519016 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:50:16 GMT RENO, Nev. -- The baggage handling contractor that fired a Reno airport worker in a dispute over transporting an unhealthy dog has offered the woman her job back with back pay, and the company's president praised her courage to stand up for the animal. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096541657/ 21006096541657 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:48:09 GMT CHICAGO -- The two things that have brought Michael and Roslyn Lieb closer together couldn't be more different: Parkinson's disease and dance, one slowly taking away, the other giving back in ways they never imagined. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096528932/ 21006096528932 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:41:04 GMT PITTSBURGH -- Bedbugs aren't just sleeping with you. They're sleeping with each other. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006096486467/ 21006096486467 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:32:43 GMT WASHINGTON -- FAA administrator Randy Babbitt resigned Tuesday as head of the Federal Aviation Administration following his arrest over the weekend on charges of drunken driving. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006091036352/ 21006091036352 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:54:22 GMT NEW YORK -- With age come such things as catheters, colostomy bags and adult diapers. Now add another indignity to getting old -- having to drop your pants and show these things to a complete stranger. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006083606248/ 21006083606248 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:17:07 GMT COLUMBIA, S.C. -- After a 67-year-old Florida woman was found beaten, strangled and hidden beneath the Christmas presents in her home, authorities charged a younger woman who had been befriended by the victim. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006092022742/ 21006092022742 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:25:44 GMT GREENEVILLE, Tenn. -- An Indiana man who was the subject of a billboard-aided manhunt in 2009 was sentenced Tuesday to 26 life prison sentences for 13 robberies in six states. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006092074489/ 21006092074489 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:11:25 GMT DALLAS -- Investigators say a gunman who was fatally shot aboard an Amtrak train by Dallas police didn't fire any shots during the confrontation that also injured an undercover officer and innocent bystander. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006091988542/ 21006091988542 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:57:09 GMT DETROIT -- The father of a 2-year-old Detroit girl believes police are looking at him as "suspect number one" in her disappearance. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006091902951/ 21006091902951 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:27:43 GMT INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana officials have found an extra $300 million that went untouched even as lawmakers made deep cuts to education and slashed vacant government jobs while it weathered the Great Recession. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006092086334/ 21006092086334 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:17:59 GMT SEATTLE -- The Occupy Wall Street protests are moving into the neighborhood. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006092027916/ 21006092027916 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:15:46 GMT RENO, Nev. -- The baggage handling contractor that fired a Reno airport worker in a dispute over transporting an unhealthy dog offered the woman her job back with back pay Tuesday, and the company's president praised her courage to stand up for the animal. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006092014617/ 21006092014617 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:52:29 GMT CONCORD, N.H. -- A burglary suspect who escaped from a New Hampshire jail and vowed revenge on two people in Maine was caught Tuesday after five days on the lam, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006091874941/ 21006091874941 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:56:12 GMT PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Carolers singing "O Christmas Tree" crashed Rhode Island's Statehouse tree lighting on Tuesday after Gov. Lincoln Chafee unwrapped a holiday hubbub by calling the 17-foot spruce a "holiday" tree. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006091897227/ 21006091897227 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:50:46 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A judge has refused to grant Lenny Dykstra a temporary restraining order against a man the former baseball player claims is threatening his finances and freedom. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006091864655/ 21006091864655 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:54:27 GMT SAN DIEGO -- One of San Diego's most prominent real estate developers said Tuesday that he completed his purchase of the city's dominant newspaper, becoming its third owner in less than three years. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006091886740/ 21006091886740 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:31:59 GMT CHICAGO -- Rod Blagojevich was clearly the ringleader of the schemes for which he was convicted, and lied about his actions on the witness stand, a judge said Tuesday at the ousted Illinois governor's sentencing on charges that include trying to sell an appointment to President Barack Obama's former Senate seat. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006089591962/ 21006089591962 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:52:29 GMT BAYONNE, N.J. -- Four people, including a baby, have been shot and killed in Bayonne in an apparent murder-suicide. A fifth person is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006087554936/ 21006087554936 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:00:01 GMT TULSA, Okla. -- A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former Tulsa police Cpl. Harold R. Wells to 10 years in prison for his role in a police corruption scandal that led to dozens of convictions being overturned. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006089760168/ 21006089760168 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:25:24 GMT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A severe winter blast has struck most of New Mexico, closing schools and shutting down major highways across the state. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006087392459/ 21006087392459 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:16:27 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A Connecticut jury was deliberating for a second day on whether a man convicted of killing a woman and her two daughters in a brutal home invasion should get the death penalty or life in prison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006089498775/ 21006089498775 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:16:58 GMT LAREDO, Texas -- A mother who had been denied welfare benefits killed herself and shot her two children after a seven-hour standoff at a government social services office, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006089501861/ 21006089501861 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:18:31 GMT WASHINGTON -- Federal lawmakers are calling for an inspector general's investigation into how long it takes for veterans to get treatment for mental health disorders after they return from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006089511142/ 21006089511142 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:17:45 GMT NEW YORK -- A 13-year-old had a history of troubling behavior -- from trying to run down schoolmates on his bicycle to hitting his mother's cat -- before he helped push a shopping cart that fell on a woman from a fourth-floor mall walkway, officials said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006089506525/ 21006089506525 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:51:05 GMT WASHINGTON -- Transportation Department officials are deciding how to handle Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt's weekend arrest on charges of drunken driving in suburban northern Virginia. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006087546512/ 21006087546512 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:50:04 GMT DETROIT -- Stepping gingerly among mounds of discarded tires, piles of soggy clothing and nail-pierced wood boards, Makibla Gideon's head swept from side to side in search of a purple toddler's jacket or pink shirt -- any remnant that could have been worn by a 2-year-old Detroit girl whose father claims was taken during carjacking. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006087540435/ 21006087540435 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:48:59 GMT CANTON, Ga. -- Autopsy results will be released Tuesday after authorities in Georgia found a body in a trash container believed to be that of a missing 7-year-old girl. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006087533946/ 21006087533946 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:45:33 GMT NEW ORLEANS -- Scores of police officers marched into an encampment of protesters and homeless people across from City Hall before dawn Tuesday, forcing the dozens of occupants out and removing tents in a peaceful eviction that drew loud, sometimes raucous complaints but did not result in violence. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006087513351/ 21006087513351 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:43:30 GMT CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia coal mine blast that killed 29 men has yielded a wide-ranging and historic $210 million settlement proposal to compensate victims' families, pay fines and improve underground safety in response to the worst U.S. coal mining disaster in decades, an attorney with knowledge of the settlement told The Associated Press on Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006087501078/ 21006087501078 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:47:01 GMT CLEVELAND -- Cleveland is tearing down the home where a serial killer dumped the remains of the 11 women he murdered. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006087522168/ 21006087522168 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:02:51 GMT SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A California man who was once known as the nation's worst serial killer was again denied parole Monday after he admitted his guilt for the first time before the parole board. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006083297194/ 21006083297194 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:58:37 GMT FRESNO, Calif. -- A Sikh man waiting for a plane at Fresno Yosemite International Airport has been stabbed in a seemingly unprovoked attack, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006083271749/ 21006083271749 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:54:16 GMT PASADENA, Calif. -- Southern Californians were struggling Monday to clean up millions of dollars in damage and restore power to thousands of people still left in the dark nearly a week after one of the worst windstorms in years ripped through the region. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006083245692/ 21006083245692 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:57:32 GMT SALEM, Ore. -- Oregon officials say guards at the state penitentiary fired warning shots and used chemical spray to break up multiple fights involving about 50 inmates in the prison yard. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006083265252/ 21006083265252 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:05:11 GMT NEW YORK -- Utility bills are paid, legal briefs are filed and the Christmas shopping all gets done online. But for magazines, clothing catalogues and movies, the mail still matters. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006083311158/ 21006083311158 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:34:22 GMT WASHINGTON -- The United States said Monday it is troubled by recent court rulings in Thailand inconsistent with international standards of freedom of expression. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006083126225/ 21006083126225 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:24:55 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Customers who purchased tickets through Ticketmaster are getting notices that tell them they'll soon receive credits for fees they were charged over the past decade. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006083429523/ 21006083429523 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:22:11 GMT NEWARK, N.J. -- The Transportation Security Administration says its inspector found five inert grenades in a passenger's checked bag at Newark Liberty Airport. But the agency does not believe they were part of any terror plot. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006083413125/ 21006083413125 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:56:41 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Scientists are marveling at new views of the massive asteroid Vesta. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006083260151/ 21006083260151 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:23:06 GMT HONOLULU -- Clarence Pfundheller was standing in front of his locker on the USS Maryland when a fellow sailor told him they were being bombed by Japanese planes. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006083418629/ 21006083418629 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:01:27 GMT SILVERTON, Colo. -- All four people aboard a small plane were killed when it crashed in the southwest Colorado mountains, authorities said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006078608711/ 21006078608711 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:52:41 GMT FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- A fire that burned a gas station near Denali National Park was apparently started by an explosion inside the convenience store, Alaska State Troopers said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006078556146/ 21006078556146 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:54:28 GMT SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A California man who once was the nation's worst known serial killer is up for parole, four decades after the mutilated bodies of 25 farmworkers were unearthed in orchards north of Sacramento. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006078566884/ 21006078566884 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:26:41 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Transportation Department says Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt is on a leave of absence and his employment is being reviewed following his arrest over the weekend for drunken driving. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006080920136/ 21006080920136 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:28:14 GMT CANTON, Ga. -- Authorities searching for a missing Georgia girl say they have found a body in a nearby trash container. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006080929427/ 21006080929427 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:27:43 GMT DEVENS, Mass. -- The hedge fund founder handed the longest prison term ever given for insider trading has reported to a federal facility in Massachusetts to begin serving his 11-year sentence. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006080926358/ 21006080926358 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:27:11 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Supreme Court has tossed out the murder conviction and death sentence of a Los Angeles gang leader who authorities believe was the "shot caller" for as many as 60 killings. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006080923130/ 21006080923130 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:45:21 GMT FREEHOLD, N.J. -- The New Jersey man charged with killing his 2-year-old daughter and leaving her in a park creek, still strapped into her car seat, is due in a New Jersey courtroom on Monday afternoon. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006078512183/ 21006078512183 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:49:09 GMT PAINESVILLE, Ohio -- A family in northeast Ohio says burglars have stolen their Christmas. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006078534999/ 21006078534999 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:48:12 GMT ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- The Rev. Billy Graham's recovery from pneumonia is looking better after a restful night in a North Carolina hospital. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006078529279/ 21006078529279 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:50:29 GMT BROCKPORT, N.Y. -- A 10-year-old upstate New York boy's message in a bottle dropped in the Atlantic as part of a school project has been retrieved across the ocean in the Azores. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006078542929/ 21006078542929 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:59:57 GMT CHICAGO -- Teen sexting of nude photos online or via cellphone may be far less common than people think, new research suggests. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006078599713/ 21006078599713 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:55:32 GMT WASHINGTON -- A chance encounter with Vice President Dick Cheney at a shopping center in Colorado allowed Steven Howards to express his disgust with the Iraq war and touch Cheney on the shoulder. It also led to Howards' arrest by Secret Service agents. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006078573272/ 21006078573272 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:56:22 GMT HONOLULU -- Survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 are gathering in Hawaii to remember the event that brought the U.S. into World War II 70 years ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006078578265/ 21006078578265 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:57:31 GMT LAKE LEELANAU, Mich. -- A state thirsting for good economic news is toasting the success of an up-and-coming industry: winemaking. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006078585184/ 21006078585184 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:15:07 GMT SILVERTON, Colo. -- Authorities say searchers have found one body amid the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in the southwest Colorado mountains and are trying to find three other people who were aboard. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006072930743/ 21006072930743 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:16:38 GMT WASHINGTON -- U.S. Park Police are arresting Occupy D.C. protesters who are refusing to dismantle an unfinished wooden structure erected in a D.C. park overnight. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006072939854/ 21006072939854 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:33:05 GMT CAMARILLO, Calif. -- The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has dropped 9 cents over the past two weeks. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006073038547/ 21006073038547 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:35:53 GMT WASHINGTON -- Facing bankruptcy, the U.S. Postal Service is pushing ahead with unprecedented cuts to first-class mail next spring that will slow delivery and, for the first time in 40 years, eliminate the chance for stamped letters to arrive the next day. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006073055393/ 21006073055393 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:39:52 GMT NEW YORK -- Prosecutors and a defense lawyer have agreed to delay having a grand jury weigh in on a terrorism case against a man accused of assembling a homemade bomb to try to blow up targets ranging from police cars to post offices, his lawyer said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006073079271/ 21006073079271 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:41:38 GMT SANTA FE, N.M. -- At Los Alamos National Laboratory, officials are moving forward with final design and initial construction plans for a new $6 billion nuclear lab. But questions continue to swirl about exactly what kind of nuclear and plutonium research will be done there, whether the lab is really necessary, and -- perhaps most important -- will it be safe, or could it become New Mexico's equivalent of Japan's Fukushima? http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006073089824/ 21006073089824 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:36:49 GMT PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- The pastor at a Kentucky church says he will nullify a vote taken by members of his congregation that bans interracial couples. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006073060944/ 21006073060944 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:38:33 GMT PORTLAND, Maine -- A convoy of tractor-trailers loaded with wreaths is leaving Maine bound for Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006073071386/ 21006073071386 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:37:33 GMT NEW YORK -- A tiny Bronx church is hoping the Supreme Court will overturn a ruling that says holding its Sunday service in a public school is unconstitutional. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006073065356/ 21006073065356 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:40:36 GMT HELENA, Mont. -- In Montana, convicted killer Barry Beach has gained a long list of supporters who are adamant that he is wrongfully imprisoned. Yet there are many, including the current Montana Supreme Court Chief Justice, who argue Beach indeed killed schoolmate Kim Nees on a festive summer night in 1979. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006073083675/ 21006073083675 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:11:30 GMT WASHINGTON -- Virginia Tech says it acted appropriately in alerting the campus that bloody spring day in 2007 during what turned out to be the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006062469095/ 21006062469095 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:04:34 GMT BROWNSTOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- A suburban Detroit man said letting his 9-year-old daughter drive him around after he had been drinking was a bad idea that grew out of good memories from his youth. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006065667469/ 21006065667469 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:06:47 GMT CONCORD, N.H. -- Dartmouth College is turning to an unlikely source for help with its national initiative to reduce binge drinking: engineering students. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006065680731/ 21006065680731 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:06:03 GMT GROESBECK, Texas -- Imperiled towns around drought-ravaged Texas are finding short-term fixes to water supply problems, and some are coming just in time to avert a crisis. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006065676397/ 21006065676397 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:03:18 GMT EPHRATA, Wash. -- Nearly eight years have passed since police found the battered body of 13-year-old Craig Sorger in a central Washington park, the victim of a beating and stabbing so brutal the tip of a knife was left in his skull. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006065659845/ 21006065659845 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:07:18 GMT WASHINGTON -- The coming year-end spending spree after so much debate over budget deficits shows just how hard it is to stem the government's flow of red ink. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006062443844/ 21006062443844 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:05:15 GMT CHICAGO -- Rod Blagojevich's demeanor when he steps before a sentencing judge may partly determine how long he spends in prison for corruption. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006065671515/ 21006065671515 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:05:44 GMT LAS VEGAS -- A battle of perceptions is being waged over whether Nevada's economy is recovering or still falling four years after the collapse of its housing, tourism and construction industries. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006062434418/ 21006062434418 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:05:16 GMT ASHEVILLE, North Carolina -- Evangelist Billy Graham slept well at a North Carolina hospital where he continues battling pneumonia. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006062431684/ 21006062431684 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:52:45 GMT TEMPLE CITY, Calif. -- As the hurricane-force winds that pummeled the West eased Friday, Diane Johnson stood knee high in leaves and branches, surveying a fallen tree trunk at eye level and trying to decide just how to begin the big cleanup. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006058036541/ 21006058036541 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:49:49 GMT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern was hospitalized Friday after he fell and hit his head on the pavement outside of a library bearing his name, where he was set to be interviewed on C-SPAN. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006058018932/ 21006058018932 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:00:22 GMT DENVER -- A former Colorado lawman who was once named the nation's sheriff of the year was charged Friday with drug and prostitution offenses after authorities said he offered methamphetamine to a man in exchange for sex. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006058082286/ 21006058082286 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:12:46 GMT PITTSBURGH -- Authorities have found 19 containers of cremated human remains in an abandoned funeral home in Pittsburgh, along with many animal remains. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006058156627/ 21006058156627 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:46:03 GMT DECATUR, Ga. -- An attorney for the wife of Bishop Eddie Long says she is moving forward with plans to end her 21-year marriage to the embattled Georgia megachurch pastor. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006057996389/ 21006057996389 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:51:17 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department on Friday provided Congress with documents detailing how department officials gave inaccurate information to a U.S. senator in the controversy surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, the flawed law enforcement initiative aimed at dismantling major arms trafficking networks on the Southwest border. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006058027729/ 21006058027729 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:01:08 GMT COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Department of Agriculture tentatively plans to begin medical tests Dec. 15 on three leopards, two primates and a young grizzly bear kept at a zoo since their owner released dozens of exotic animals at his farm and killed himself, a department spokeswoman said Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006058086876/ 21006058086876 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:02:42 GMT EL CAJON, Calif. -- A 91-year-old woman pleaded guilty Friday to failing to file federal tax returns for her company that made and sold suicide kits. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006058096287/ 21006058096287 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:08:21 GMT YORK, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania couple is seeking a new trial following their conviction in the death of a 7-year-old boy adopted from Russia. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006058130192/ 21006058130192 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:01:05 GMT ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A Virginia man is expected to enter a plea bargain on charges he helped produce an Internet video for a Pakistani terrorist group. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006053046534/ 21006053046534 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:20:39 GMT RICHMOND, Va. -- Two formerly conjoined toddlers from the Dominican Republic have left a Richmond hospital after recovering from separation surgery. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006054963915/ 21006054963915 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:21:08 GMT DETROIT -- Detroit police are searching for a 2-year-old girl who has been missing since her father was carjacked and the thief drove away with her strapped into a seat. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006054966857/ 21006054966857 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:27:27 GMT CINCINNATI -- GE Aviation has abandoned efforts to keep alive development of its alternative engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006055004719/ 21006055004719 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:58:55 GMT NEW YORK -- For anyone who needed official word, a new study confirms that many of us -- and the majority of young adults -- go online for no good reason at all. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006053033516/ 21006053033516 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:57:27 GMT MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A heavy police presence at a nearby mall for the holidays and a rapid response by employees helped save lives when a gunman armed with several pistols opened fire at Montgomery's main post office, postal officials said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006053024773/ 21006053024773 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:56:00 GMT DENVER -- A Denver man has been arrested over allegations he supplied methamphetamine to former Arapahoe County Sheriff Patrick Sullivan Jr., which led to the Colorado lawman's arrest. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006053016060/ 21006053016060 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:54:46 GMT ATHENS, Ohio -- An Ohio sheriff says he doesn't plan to pursue charges against a homeowner who subdued and hogtied an alleged robber. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006053008642/ 21006053008642 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:18:07 GMT WASHINGTON -- The threat of a costly national railroad strike during the busy holiday season has been averted after the freight rail industry settled labor disputes with two of its unions and agreed to extend talks with a third. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006053148766/ 21006053148766 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:09:06 GMT COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A new court date has been set to determine if an Ohio teen charged in a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme should be tried as an adult. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006053814663/ 21006053814663 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:08:24 GMT BOSTON -- The mother of a Boston first-grader says her son is being investigated for possible sexual harassment for punching another boy in the groin. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006053810476/ 21006053810476 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:09:51 GMT MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The man accused of firing shots inside the main post office in Alabama's capital city was a postal employee who was carrying three guns when he reported for his shift. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006053819191/ 21006053819191 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:28:29 GMT OMAHA, Neb. -- The U.S. Labor Department is proposing new rules for child farm workers that would keep many from driving tractors, using big equipment and working with livestock. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006053210997/ 21006053210997 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:42:51 GMT WASHINGTON -- An American businessman detained for four months after the presumed death of his traveling companion in Aruba said Thursday he had nothing to do with her disappearance. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006047537171/ 21006047537171 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:49:32 GMT LOS ANGELES -- The most powerful winds to tear across California in years kept 9-year-old Dalen Guyton up late into the night. Then, around midnight, came the boom. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006047577262/ 21006047577262 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:01:52 GMT SAN DIEGO -- The investigation into the largest marijuana bust at a cross-border tunnel followed a familiar timeline. It began in May and ended in November. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006047651297/ 21006047651297 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:29:17 GMT BAY CITY, Texas -- Laura Gonzalez was happy to be back at work after three weeks away that included a stay at a battered women's shelter. She saw it as the beginning of a new life. One without her husband and the father of her four children, she told co-workers. She wasn't going back to him this time, she said, and left for home. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006048895758/ 21006048895758 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:25:11 GMT HOUSTON -- A Houston teenager who went missing four decades ago has been identified as one of at least 28 young men and boys who were kidnapped, tortured and killed by a serial killer. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006048871111/ 21006048871111 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:30:26 GMT HONOLULU -- The Transportation Security Administration said Thursday that it is investigating allegations that screeners at Honolulu International Airport have targeted Mexican travelers for extra screening. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006048902671/ 21006048902671 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:23:03 GMT WASHINGTON -- The nation's freight railroad industry averted a potentially costly strike on Thursday after resolving differences with two of its unions and agreeing to extend talks with a third. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006048858338/ 21006048858338 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:31:05 GMT BOSTON -- Federal authorities suspended trading by seven firms and filed criminal charges Thursday against corporate executives, lawyers and stock promoters who allegedly used fraud to spur investments in small companies known as penny stocks. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006048906568/ 21006048906568 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:23:55 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that most bone marrow donors can be paid, overturning the government's interpretation of a decades-old law making such compensation a crime punishable by up to five years in prison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006048863535/ 21006048863535 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:58:10 GMT HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. -- One person is dead and several are injured in a chain-reaction crash by 45 vehicles on a foggy highway near Nashville during the morning rush hour. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006045109051/ 21006045109051 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:02:32 GMT TRENTON, N.J. -- The longtime commander of New Jersey's National Guard is resigning after being caught having inappropriate relations with a woman who works for him, government officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006046935214/ 21006046935214 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:13:42 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Burger King has joined McDonald's in charging for kids meal toys to comply with San Francisco's ban. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006045202235/ 21006045202235 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:30:12 GMT CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- A former Colorado lawman with a record so distinguished he was once honored as the nation's sheriff of the year now finds himself in a jail that was named for him, accused of offering methamphetamine in exchange for sex from a male acquaintance. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006045301245/ 21006045301245 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:37:43 GMT SAN DIEGO -- The investigation into the largest marijuana bust at a cross-border tunnel followed a familiar timeline. It began in May and ended in November. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006044626313/ 21006044626313 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:28:51 GMT AKRON, Ohio -- Texas authorities allowed a man now linked to a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme to be temporarily released from an Ohio jail earlier this year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006046373191/ 21006046373191 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:28:12 GMT BAY CITY, Texas -- A man who shot four young children and their mother at their southeastern Texas home before killing himself was the woman's husband and children's father, whom she had recently accused of assault, police said Thursday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006046369293/ 21006046369293 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:42:31 GMT NEW YORK -- A man accused of stabbing his stepfather and two others to death, fatally running down a pedestrian, carjacking and other violence in a 28-hour rampage across the city this year unexpectedly pleaded guilty Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006044655160/ 21006044655160 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:28:36 GMT WASHINGTON -- An American businessman detained for four months after the presumed death of his traveling companion in Aruba said Tuesday he had nothing to do with her disappearance. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006044571691/ 21006044571691 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:35:52 GMT CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- A former Colorado lawman with a record so distinguished he was once honored as the nation's sheriff of the year now finds himself in a jail that was named for him, accused of offering methamphetamine in exchange for sex from a male acquaintance. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006044615237/ 21006044615237 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:45:46 GMT SAN DIEGO -- Arthur Morgan III, the New Jersey man accused of killing his 2-year-old daughter by leaving her in a park creek still strapped into her car seat, is due to appear in a San Diego courtroom Thursday morning. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006044674693/ 21006044674693 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:47:54 GMT NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped light the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree on Wednesday night, putting a spotlight on a small-town spruce from Pennsylvania and ringing in the holiday season. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006044687463/ 21006044687463 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:41:01 GMT NEW YORK -- City health officials said Thursday they are recommending that any person living with HIV be offered AIDS drugs as soon as they are diagnosed with the virus, an aggressive move that has been shown to prolong life and stem the spread of the disease. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006044646154/ 21006044646154 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:33:09 GMT CARTERSVILLE, Ga. -- A Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman says the retailer will pay for any valid medical expenses for customers harmed as a result of syringes found in clothing at one of its north Georgia stores. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006044598919/ 21006044598919 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:46:34 GMT YAPHANK, N.Y. -- When four bodies were found last December strewn along a remote barrier beach south of New York's Long Island, police figured they were dealing with a serial killer. When the remains of six others were uncovered later, they widened the possibility to multiple killers using the same dumping ground. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006044679430/ 21006044679430 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:29:33 GMT PITTSBURGH -- Police say it's a very naughty list, sometimes checked twice. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006044577373/ 21006044577373 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:30:24 GMT YORK, Pa. -- A central Pennsylvania woman is behind held without bail in the poisoning death of her 90-year-old grandmother three years ago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006044582458/ 21006044582458 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:33:48 GMT SAN DIEGO -- Federal prosecutors in San Diego want an 85-year-old woman to spend more than three years in prison for smuggling migrants to the United States illegally. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006044602891/ 21006044602891 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:06:08 GMT NEW YORK -- Blending governing with re-election politics, President Barack Obama roused a cheering northeast Pennsylvania crowd Wednesday as he warned of a "massive blow to the economy" if Republicans block a payroll tax extension. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040116893/ 21006040116893 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:20:49 GMT CHICAGO -- Rod Blagojevich deserves a sentence of 15 to 20 years in prison on his multiple corruption convictions for misusing the power of his office "from the very moment he became governor," federal prosecutors said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040204997/ 21006040204997 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:11:06 GMT PHOENIX -- An Arizona jury on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing nine people during a spree that terrorized the Phoenix area, rejecting the man's pleas for mercy and denials of guilt and agreeing with prosecutors that the killings were especially cruel. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040146691/ 21006040146691 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:18:27 GMT TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- The Environmental Protection Agency proposed stricter requirements Wednesday for cleaning ballast water that keeps ships upright in rolling seas but enables invasive species to reach U.S. waters, where they have ravaged ecosystems and caused billions of dollars in economic losses. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040190742/ 21006040190742 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:01:55 GMT SAN DIEGO -- Tis the season for finding cross-border drug tunnels. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040091576/ 21006040091576 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:14:21 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A group hoping to place a measure before Los Angeles voters that would require porn actors to wear condoms during film shoots said Wednesday it has gathered more than 64,000 valid voter signatures, about 23,000 more than the law requires for the June ballot. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040166167/ 21006040166167 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:05:39 GMT STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State students say they're glad the university held a forum for them to discuss the child sex abuse charges against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040113916/ 21006040113916 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:12:20 GMT YAPHANK, N.Y. -- When four bodies were found last December strewn along a remote barrier beach south of New York's Long Island, police figured they were dealing with a serial killer. When the remains of six others were uncovered later, they widened the possibility to multiple killers using the same dumping ground. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040154023/ 21006040154023 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:16:02 GMT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Japanese man temporarily working at Honda's car factory in east Alabama became the second foreign auto worker charged under the state's law on illegal immigration, the company said Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040176286/ 21006040176286 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:04:20 GMT OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee have filed a petition with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration asking the agency to reclassify marijuana so doctors can prescribe it and pharmacists can fill the prescription. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040106062/ 21006040106062 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:03:31 GMT NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has helped light the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, putting a spotlight on a small-town spruce from Pennsylvania. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040101122/ 21006040101122 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:24:32 GMT LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A tiny all-white Appalachian church in rural Kentucky has voted to ban interracial couples from joining its flock, pitting members against each other in an argument over race. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040227234/ 21006040227234 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:24:04 GMT LOS ANGELES -- In a massive show of force, 1,400 police officers, some in riot gear, stormed the Occupy Los Angeles camp early Wednesday, driving protesters from the park and arresting more than 200 who defied orders to leave. Similar raids in Philadelphia led to 50 arrests, but the scene in both cities was relatively peaceful. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006035544438/ 21006035544438 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:14:55 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is considering tightening restrictions for the levels of arsenic allowed in apple juice after consumer groups pushed the agency to crack down on the contaminant. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006040169581/ 21006040169581 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:29:05 GMT MIAMI -- A U.S. businessman who had been jailed in Aruba on suspicion of involvement in the presumed death of his traveling companion is heading to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006037374592/ 21006037374592 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:25:40 GMT TULSA, Okla. -- Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006036274022/ 21006036274022 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:30:25 GMT TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey prosecutors say they will move quickly to extradite a man suspected of killing his 2-year-old daughter by tossing her into a creek while she was still strapped in her car seat. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006035582593/ 21006035582593 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:29:50 GMT SAN DIEGO -- U.S. authorities have discovered a major cross-border tunnel, the latest in a spate of secret passages found to smuggle drugs from Mexico. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006035579035/ 21006035579035 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:03:58 GMT DECATUR, Ga. -- Hundreds of mourners gathered at a sprawling church for the funeral of a Florida A&M University band member who died from suspected hazing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006036503879/ 21006036503879 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:25:53 GMT MINNEAPOLIS -- American universities send tens of thousands of students to study abroad every year, thrusting them into one of the most exciting periods of their lives with a heavy dose of maternal advice: Mix with the locals, but be careful. Don't get in any tight spots. Avoid protests. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006035555339/ 21006035555339 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:27:35 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A $1 billion solar energy project that lost a federal loan in the wake of the Solyndra bankruptcy and related investigations is back on track to nearly double the number of panels on residential rooftops in the U.S. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006035565558/ 21006035565558 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:49:52 GMT RICHMOND, Va. -- States have cut funding for tobacco prevention programs 12 percent this year, to the lowest level since 1999, according to a new report that a coalition of public health groups released Wednesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006035699265/ 21006035699265 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:47:32 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- Police have cleared the Occupy Philadelphia encampment near City Hall and sanitation crews are standing by to begin cleaning it. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006035685221/ 21006035685221 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:46:13 GMT WASHINGTON -- Attorneys for the man who shot President Ronald Reagan will be asking a judge to let him spend more time away from a Washington mental hospital with the goal of eventually allowing him to live outside the facility full-time. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006035677351/ 21006035677351 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:31:35 GMT RIVERWOODS, Ill. -- Three people are dead after a plane transporting a medical patient crashed in the backyard of a suburban Chicago home. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006026949547/ 21006026949547 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:56:29 GMT SAN DIEGO -- U.S. authorities said they discovered a new cross-border tunnel Tuesday, the latest in a spate of secret passages found to smuggle drugs from Mexico. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006031418963/ 21006031418963 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:54:41 GMT WASHINGTON -- The House on has voted unanimously to allow military travelers on official duty to get a special preference to move through airport security checks faster. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006031408165/ 21006031408165 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:53:03 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- Police on Tuesday searched for multiple suspects who opened fire into a group of people recording a rap music video in a parking lot and wounded seven, including a toddler and two adults who were critically hurt. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006031398366/ 21006031398366 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:53:39 GMT ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- A Canadian has been sentenced to more than five years in a U.S. prison for his role in a smuggling ring that brought drugs to Michigan aboard small planes. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006031401913/ 21006031401913 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:43:03 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- A hail of gunfire along an Oakland street has left eight people wounded, including a 1-year-old boy who authorities say was taken to the city's Children's Hospital in critical condition. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006026658396/ 21006026658396 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:42:24 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Occupy Wall Street protesters who defied a deadline to remove their weeks-old encampment on the Los Angeles City Hall lawn stood their ground Tuesday as they faced uncertainty over when or if police would push them out of the park -- and if an eviction could happen without the kind of violence that has engulfed the removal of protest sites in other cities. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006026654465/ 21006026654465 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:39:38 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A man charged with killing his ex-wife and seven others in a shooting rampage at a Southern California hair salon was due back in court Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006026637886/ 21006026637886 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:49:39 GMT WASHINGTON -- The knockoff designer bags look close enough to the real thing that few would notice at a casual glance. Same goes for the imitation replica football jerseys or popular boots. And the online prices seem too good to pass up. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006026697920/ 21006026697920 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:51:12 GMT WASHINGTON -- Nonmilitary government agencies operate more aircraft than the world's largest airline but are subject to little federal safety oversight -- a situation accident investigators say has contributed to air crashes and deaths. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006026707281/ 21006026707281 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:38:42 GMT CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A new report says some mine operators are avoiding paying fines for safety violations because the Mine Safety and Health Administration's collection system is flawed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006026632233/ 21006026632233 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:17:57 GMT ZANESVILLE, Ohio -- Four Ohio men will face trial early next year on charges they tried to steal the carcass of a lion that was one of many exotic animals set free by a suicidal owner. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006026867759/ 21006026867759 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:17:18 GMT BOSTON -- The Massachusetts attorney general's office has announced that a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland has agreed to pay $52 million to settle allegations that it played a role in the state's subprime mortgage crisis. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006026863872/ 21006026863872 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:37:33 GMT CLEVELAND -- The case of an 8-year-old boy taken from his family because he weighs more than 200 pounds (90 kilograms) has renewed a U.S. debate on whether parents should lose custody if a child is severely obese. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006026625352/ 21006026625352 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:40:38 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Eight in 10 pet owners have taken their animals to the vet in the past year, with an overall average expenditure of $505, according to a new AP-Petside.com poll. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006026643855/ 21006026643855 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:16:26 GMT WASHINGTON -- A U.S. military account of a NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers over the weekend suggests the deaths resulted from a case of mistaken identity, The Associated Press learned Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022538679/ 21006022538679 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:13:34 GMT ATLANTA -- Police officers shot and killed a woman in an Atlanta home when she didn't comply with orders to stop stabbing her young daughter, who also died, authorities said Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022521472/ 21006022521472 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:18:00 GMT LOS ANGELES -- For now, Wall Street protesters camped out on the Los Angeles City Hall lawn still have their tent city after defying a deadline to pack up and clear out. "Still occupied," read the sign of a protester up in a tree. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022548079/ 21006022548079 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:25:49 GMT CLEVELAND -- The case of an 8-year-old third-grader weighing more than 200 pounds has renewed a debate on whether parents should lose custody if a child is severely obese. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022594921/ 21006022594921 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:32:25 GMT WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday raised significant concerns about requiring military custody for captured suspected terrorists, arguing that the divisive provision in a sweeping defense bill could harm ongoing terrorism investigations. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022634583/ 21006022634583 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:10:27 GMT OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Marine Corps veteran who was struck in the head during a clash between police and Occupy Oakland protesters says he expects to recover completely but he is still having trouble speaking. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022502725/ 21006022502725 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:19:42 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A man convicted of getting a free ride from New York to Los Angeles using an expired boarding pass with someone else's name on it will be freed from federal prison having already spent five months behind bars. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022558228/ 21006022558228 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:22:49 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The head of a militia group accused of conspiring to buy illegal firearms to have on hand for overthrowing the government failed Monday to convince a federal judge to dismiss the case against him and two members of the Alaska Peacekeeper Militia. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022576914/ 21006022576914 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:21:21 GMT NEW YORK -- A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges in New York City, admitting his role in trades that reaped more than $1 million in illegal profits. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022568157/ 21006022568157 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:17:21 GMT NEW YORK -- Months after Montana copper mining heiress Huguette Clark died in New York comes a big surprise: a will in which she leaves almost everything to her relatives -- and another in which they get nothing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022544143/ 21006022544143 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:29:50 GMT WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and his immediate predecessors, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, will join anti-AIDS advocates Thursday in a panel discussion to observe World AIDS Day. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022619058/ 21006022619058 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:22:13 GMT MAXATAWNY, Pa. -- Police in eastern Pennsylvania say an elderly driver has lost control of her car, crashed through the front of a thrift store and run over two toddlers. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022573392/ 21006022573392 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:27:11 GMT NEW YORK -- A man accused of punching out a JetBlue flight attendant during a drunken tirade on a New York City-bound flight was released Monday on $200,000 bail. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022603173/ 21006022603173 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:20:40 GMT PORTLAND, Ore. -- Fire investigators in Portland, Ore., are trying to figure out how cleaning a pan of tofu could cause an explosion that broke out a window and resulted in $15,000 of damage. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022564016/ 21006022564016 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:24:22 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Lawyers representing convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan argue in newly filed court documents that a bullet was switched in evidence at his trial and new forensic details show he is innocent of the 1968 killing of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022586247/ 21006022586247 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:27:41 GMT PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- New mothers in Rhode Island will no longer leave the hospital with a free goody bag of infant formula. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022606134/ 21006022606134 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:14:23 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Wall Street protesters declared a minor victory Monday when they defied a midnight deadline to leave their tent city encampment around City Hall and police withdrew after surrounding the camp for six hours without moving in. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006017846347/ 21006017846347 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:01:59 GMT WASHINGTON -- A preliminary psychiatric screening has found that a man accused of firing shots at the White House in an attempt to kill President Barack Obama is competent to stand trial. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006021371932/ 21006021371932 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:19:13 GMT BOSTON -- A Utah man who police allege viewed child pornography on his laptop during a flight from Salt Lake City to Boston is facing arraignment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006018235353/ 21006018235353 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:44:58 GMT SAN DIEGO -- A Mexican trucker has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison for his role in two major drug tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006021989890/ 21006021989890 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:47:19 GMT SNELLVILLE, Ga. -- Police say they've arrested a woman after a brawl last week that injured a teenage bystander at a suburban Atlanta nail salon. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006022003927/ 21006022003927 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:45:27 GMT CHICAGO -- The federal judge who will sentence Rod Blagojevich had harsh words for the former Illinois governor's attorneys as he denied a request Monday to play new federal wiretap tapes in court. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006021992731/ 21006021992731 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:06:55 GMT GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- The last of 20 students accused in a college entrance exam cheating ring in an affluent New York suburb surrendered to authorities on Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006021401516/ 21006021401516 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:58:24 GMT MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- Testimony has concluded for the day in the trial of a former church janitor accused of killing a New Jersey priest. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006021350492/ 21006021350492 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:51:52 GMT BOSTON -- A former friend of a Massachusetts man accused of conspiring to help al-Qaida testified Monday that they traveled overseas with a third friend to try to get into a terrorist training camp. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006021311295/ 21006021311295 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:13:56 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Deadlines for Wall Street protesters to leave their encampments came and went in two cities with no arrests in Philadelphia but four people taken into custody in Los Angeles several hours after the midnight deadline passed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006018203676/ 21006018203676 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:42:58 GMT PIERRE, S.D. -- Prosecutors have charged a South Dakota bar owner with raping a 12-year-old and two 14-year-old girls after plying them with drinks last month. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006021257884/ 21006021257884 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:04:07 GMT NEW YORK -- A passenger accused of punching a JetBlue flight attendant who tried to stop him from drinking will be facing a judge in New York City. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006018144779/ 21006018144779 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:01:24 GMT WALSENBURG, Colo. -- Two siblings accused in a series of crimes across multiple states are due in court in southern Colorado. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006018488494/ 21006018488494 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:21:22 GMT PHOENIX -- The mother of a missing 5-year-old Arizona girl has been released from jail after no charges were filed against her. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006020408279/ 21006020408279 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:22:16 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A Connecticut man facing a possible death sentence for killing three people in a home invasion grew up in a religious environment in which he was taught the end of the world was near, his former girlfriend testified Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006020413697/ 21006020413697 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:24:13 GMT ASBURY PARK, N.J. -- A 2-year-old girl whose smile was so widely known among congregants that they dubbed her "the church baby" was laid to rest Monday, a week after she was tossed into a creek, still strapped into her car seat. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006020425381/ 21006020425381 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:23:13 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration says BP and two other companies are likely to face new citations for alleged safety and environmental violations stemming from last year's Gulf oil spill. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006020419377/ 21006020419377 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:12:51 GMT CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. -- An American Airlines flight from New York City has made an emergency landing in Buffalo. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006018197159/ 21006018197159 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:02:27 GMT ATLANTA -- More parents are opting out of school shots for their kids. In eight states now, more than 1 in 20 public school kindergartners aren't getting all the vaccines required for attendance, an Associated Press analysis found. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006019214787/ 21006019214787 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:08:05 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A man who pleaded guilty to a stowaway charge for boarding a cross-country flight by using an expired boarding pass with someone else's name is scheduled to be sentenced in a Los Angeles federal courtroom Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006018168586/ 21006018168586 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:07:14 GMT SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- A Mexican trucker faces a long prison sentence for his role in two major drug tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006018163468/ 21006018163468 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:11:37 GMT LINTHICUM, Md. -- Officials say a woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy in a restroom at a Maryland airport shortly after getting off her flight. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006018189737/ 21006018189737 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:03:18 GMT ANKENY, Iowa -- An Ankey man will be giving away one of his kidneys for a transplant, following the example his wife set earlier this year. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006018139835/ 21006018139835 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:05:22 GMT WARNER ROBINS, Ga. -- The Tuskegee Airmen exhibit has a new and upgraded home in a museum at a central Georgia Air Force base. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006018152274/ 21006018152274 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:09:04 GMT GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A young wolf from Oregon has become a media celebrity while looking for love, tracing a zigzag path that has carried him hundreds of miles nearly to California, while his alpha male sire and a sibling that stayed home near the Idaho border are under a death warrant for killing cattle. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006018174453/ 21006018174453 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:54:12 GMT ST. LOUIS -- The last of the three American students to arrive home after being arrested amid Cairo's tumultuous protests described his first hours in custody as "probably the scariest night of my life ever," saying the youths were hit, forced to lay for hours in the dark nearly in a fetal position and threatened with guns. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006013765276/ 21006013765276 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:53:16 GMT SPARKS, Okla. -- Another small earthquake has been reported in Oklahoma. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006013759677/ 21006013759677 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:43:13 GMT NEW YORK -- An off-duty New York City police officer subdued and handcuffed an intoxicated passenger who attacked a flight attendant during a scuffle on board a JetBlue plane. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006014779347/ 21006014779347 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:49:07 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- A deadline set by the city for Occupy Philadelphia to leave the plaza it has occupied for some two months came and went sans scuffles and arrests as police watched nearly 50 demonstrators lock arms and sit at the entrance of Dilworth Plaza. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006013734786/ 21006013734786 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:55:05 GMT CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. -- Authorities say four people are dead after a small plane crashed into a field near the northwestern Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006013770520/ 21006013770520 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:55:53 GMT BOSTON -- Police say a Utah man who was viewing child pornography on a Delta flight from Salt Lake City to Boston has been arrested. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006013775336/ 21006013775336 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:50:52 GMT WALL, N.J. -- The search for a central New Jersey man charged with murder in the death of his 2-year-old daughter has gone nationwide. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006013745231/ 21006013745231 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:49:50 GMT More Americans hunted for bargains over the weekend than ever before as retailers lured them online and into stores with big discounts and an earlier-than-usual start to the holiday shopping season. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006013739079/ 21006013739079 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:52:36 GMT WASHINGTON -- Medicare's prescription coverage gap is getting noticeably smaller and easier to manage this year for millions of older and disabled people with high drug costs. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006013755688/ 21006013755688 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:30:46 GMT WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has pitched in to help small businesses get into the holiday shopping season. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006005704686/ 21006005704686 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:57:30 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- At least one of three American students arrested during protests in Cairo arrived back in the U.S. Saturday evening, nearly three days after an Egyptian court ordered their release. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006005145041/ 21006005145041 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:51:42 GMT COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A body found in a shallow grave in northeast Ohio was identified Saturday as that of a missing man whose father said answered a Craigslist ad similar to one police say was used in a deadly robbery scheme. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006005110281/ 21006005110281 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:53:09 GMT SALEM, Ore. -- A condemned inmate who was scheduled to be executed next month is slamming Gov. John Kitzhaber for giving him a reprieve, saying the governor didn't have the guts to carry out the execution. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006005118963/ 21006005118963 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:55:08 GMT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Aaron Schmidt seemed to have disappeared. The University of South Dakota freshman wasn't responding to emails or cellphone messages, and his family hadn't heard from him in days. It wasn't until police were called that a clue turned up: a credit card purchase for a bus ticket to New York City. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006005130813/ 21006005130813 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:00:49 GMT ATLANTA -- Police say a Georgia couple is accused of locking a 3-year-old boy inside a bedroom by nailing the door shut. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006005164952/ 21006005164952 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:03:05 GMT LOS ANGELES -- With the clock winding down on a midnight deadline to abandon their weeks-old Occupy Los Angeles protest, hundreds of demonstrators weren't going anywhere Sunday, as they made plans instead to hold an "eviction block party." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006005178546/ 21006005178546 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:04:28 GMT WASHINGTON -- The government is investigating new fires involving the lithium-ion batteries in General Motors Co.'s Chevrolet Volt to assess the fire risk in the electric car after a serious crash. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21006005186841/ 21006005186841 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:10:37 GMT NEW YORK -- Thousands of shoppers lined up at Macy's, Best Buy and other stores nationwide to buy everything from toys to tablets on Black Friday despite the economic downturn and some planned protests of the shopping holiday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005991543790/ 21005991543790 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:12:36 GMT WASHINGTON -- It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the White House. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005995515665/ 21005995515665 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:07:54 GMT TUCSON, Ariz. -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords helped serve a Thanksgiving meal to service members and retirees at a military base in her hometown. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005985407469/ 21005985407469 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:22:36 GMT AUSTIN, Texas -- A federal court refused late Friday to block a congressional redistricting map it drew up for Texas, rejecting a request from the state's attorney general just hours after the Republican accused the court of "undermining the democratic process." http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005996655638/ 21005996655638 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:19:46 GMT CHICAGO -- A housekeeping employee suspected in the fatal shooting of a co-worker inside a hospital parking garage, which prompted an hours-long lockdown, was arrested during a Friday traffic stop, police said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005996638671/ 21005996638671 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:21:15 GMT WASHINGTON -- One of the prosecutors who investigated the Iran-Contra affair concluded two decades ago that neither Ronald Reagan nor George H.W. Bush was criminally liable in the scandal that tarnished the presidencies of both men, according to reports made public Friday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005996647512/ 21005996647512 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:20:18 GMT GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A 17-year-old boy shot during a rampage in North Carolina has died, bringing the death toll from the massacre to six, including the shooter. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005996641849/ 21005996641849 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:51:53 GMT FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Authorities say gunfire erupted at a North Carolina mall as holiday shoppers gathered, though there are no reports of any injuries. No evacuation was ordered, but several shoppers left the mall and some smaller stores closed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005993231379/ 21005993231379 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:56:44 GMT PHOENIX -- Friends and acquaintances are lending support to an Arizona mother who lost her three children and her ex-husband in a plane crash in the Superstition Mountains. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005992900437/ 21005992900437 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:21:12 GMT CHICAGO -- Police have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman at a Chicago hospital. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005992327229/ 21005992327229 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:40:17 GMT FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Authorities say gunfire erupted at a North Carolina mall as holiday shoppers gathered, though there are no reports of any injuries. No evacuation was ordered, but several shoppers left the mall and some smaller stores closed. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005992081765/ 21005992081765 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:44:00 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Authorities say 20 people had minor injuries when a woman shot other customers with pepper spray during a Black Friday sale. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005992104088/ 21005992104088 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:44:46 GMT PHOENIX -- Crews hunted through crags and outcroppings of a mountaintop area just east of Phoenix, searching for victims of a fiery plane crash that killed all six people aboard, including the pilot and his three young children. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005992108619/ 21005992108619 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:46:33 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Anti-Wall Street demonstrators in encampments around the country spent Thanksgiving serving turkey, donating time in solidarity with the protest movement and, in some cases, confronting police. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005992119389/ 21005992119389 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:47:20 GMT WASHINGTON -- CIA officers are asking people to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of the first American killed in the Afghan war by donating to help the children of their fellow fallen. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005992124068/ 21005992124068 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:41:58 GMT BOLTON, Mass. -- Authorities say a Massachusetts hunter and his mother had to be rescued from the Stow River after the hunter got swept away trying to rescue his dog from the fast-moving water. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005992091879/ 21005992091879 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:40:59 GMT ERIE, Pa. -- Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, sentenced to life in prison for a bizarre bank robbery plot in which a Pennsylvania pizza delivery driver was killed by a bomb locked around his neck, says she has filed her own appeal for a new trial. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005992085932/ 21005992085932 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:49:14 GMT PHOENIX -- A small airplane slammed into a sheer cliff in the mile-high mountains east of Phoenix and exploded, killing the six people onboard, including the pilot and his three young children who were to spend the Thanksgiving weekend with him, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005983495475/ 21005983495475 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:17:59 GMT ATLANTA -- As often as she can, Pat Solomon spends a few hours with the throng at the top of the escalator where all arriving passengers emerge at the Atlanta airport. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005987987917/ 21005987987917 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:15:11 GMT PRAGUE, Okla. -- A small earthquake hit central Oklahoma just in time for Thanksgiving dinner. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005987971150/ 21005987971150 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:17:02 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A California woman surrendered to the FBI Wednesday on charges that she called an airline to report a fake terrorist threat hours before her ex-lover was to board an international flight, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005984022286/ 21005984022286 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:10:07 GMT NEW YORK -- A festive mood prevails as the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade makes its way through the crowded streets of Manhattan. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005983980774/ 21005983980774 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:50:48 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Most Americans are spending Thanksgiving snug inside homes with families and football. But others are using the holiday to give thanks alongside strangers at outdoor Occupy encampments. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005985664822/ 21005985664822 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:49:56 GMT DETROIT -- Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks recently served as a guest spelling-test presenter for a fifth-grade class, and afterward invited the students to ask questions. Amid the usual queries about weapons and uniforms came one from a girl that reminded him how hard the southern Michigan town has been hit by the disappearance of three young boys who would have attended the school. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005985659646/ 21005985659646 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:11:59 GMT LOS ANGELES -- An American Airlines flight has made a safe emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport after the crew reported the smell of smoke aboard the aircraft. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005983991965/ 21005983991965 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:08:57 GMT CHICAGO -- In an era where there are television networks devoted to home cooking and dietitians warn against the dangers of processed foods, the love of canned cranberry seems to be a bit of dietary discord. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005983973760/ 21005983973760 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:38:37 GMT JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The mother of one of three American students arrested in Cairo says news of their pending release is the best Thanksgiving gift. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005984151730/ 21005984151730 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:36:04 GMT PHOENIX -- Arizona is taking on immigration once again, with state lawmakers collecting donations from the public to put fencing along every inch of the state's porous Mexican border in a first-of-its-kind effort. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005984136496/ 21005984136496 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:06:53 GMT GARDEN GROVE, Calif. -- A California woman could face up to 12 years in prison if convicted of letting her infant son suffocate in a pile of clothes. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005983961392/ 21005983961392 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:06:12 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A California woman who helped recruit patients to undergo unnecessary surgeries as part of a $154 million medical insurance fraud scheme has been sentenced to 12 years in state prison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005983957252/ 21005983957252 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:05:22 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Los Angeles and San Francisco are seeking long-term solutions to the entrenched encampments by anti-Wall Street protesters, hoping to end the drain on resources and the frayed nerves among police and politicians. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005983952269/ 21005983952269 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:07:47 GMT MILLERSBURG, Ohio -- Members of the Amish community in three states have been frightened by recent hair-cutting attacks in Ohio, making fearful calls to authorities and arming themselves with pepper spray and shotguns, a sheriff said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005983966768/ 21005983966768 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:13:05 GMT LONGVIEW, Wash. -- Police say a 59-year-old woman chased down a purse snatcher who was fleeing on a bicycle in Longview, Wash., pulled him to the ground and grabbed back her purse. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005983998541/ 21005983998541 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:14:18 GMT AUSTIN, Texas -- Minorities will make up the majority of voters in three additional Texas congressional districts under a proposed redistricting map released by a federal court Wednesday, but the Republican attorney general immediately said he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block the maps. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005984005864/ 21005984005864 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:29:02 GMT CHICAGO -- Holiday travel got off to a soggy start in parts of the country Wednesday as millions of Americans undeterred by costlier gas and airfare set out for Thanksgiving celebrations, but few major problems were reported. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005974374274/ 21005974374274 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:07:11 GMT NEW YORK -- A survey by The Associated Press shows the Occupy movement has cost local taxpayers nationwide at least $13 million since the protests began. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005975323159/ 21005975323159 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:28:31 GMT TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The longtime director of Florida A&M University's famed marching band was fired Wednesday as the fallout from a drum major's suspected hazing death deepened. Florida's governor said state investigators would join the probe and the college announced an independent review led by a former state attorney general. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005979411165/ 21005979411165 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:23:37 GMT McALLEN, Texas -- A Texas judge who was secretly recorded beating his daughter in a video that has been viewed millions of times online was barred Wednesday from visiting his younger daughter without supervision. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005979381719/ 21005979381719 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:29:30 GMT FREEHOLD, N.J. -- The fugitive father of a 2-year-old girl found dead in a car seat in a creek was charged with murder Wednesday after an autopsy showed she had drowned. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005979417075/ 21005979417075 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:46:01 GMT NEW YORK -- There'll be some monkeying around at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade when Paul Frank's sock puppet-inspired simian Julius makes its debut in front of millions of spectators Thursday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005977356184/ 21005977356184 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:25:27 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- With anti-Wall Street protesters entrenched in encampments in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the cities are desperate for long-term solutions to end the drain on their resources. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005979392722/ 21005979392722 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:45:29 GMT NEWARK, N.J. -- A New Jersey man on Wednesday was acquitted of locking five teenagers in an abandoned home in 1978 and burning them to death in retaliation for stealing marijuana, ending a case that went cold until 2008 because no bodies were ever found. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005977352989/ 21005977352989 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:07:54 GMT TOLEDO, Ohio -- An employee at an Ohio Big Boy restaurant is charged with pouring animal medication into customer coffee with the intent to poison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005975327477/ 21005975327477 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:26:22 GMT MILLERSBURG, Ohio -- The leader of a breakaway Amish group allowed the beatings of those who disobeyed him, made some members sleep in a chicken coop and had sexual relations with married women to "cleanse them," federal authorities said Wednesday as they charged him and six others with hate crimes in hair-cutting attacks against other Amish. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005979398285/ 21005979398285 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:44:55 GMT HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Federal bankruptcy Judge Mary D. France has ruled that Pennsylvania's capital city of Harrisburg may not seek bankruptcy protection, calling such a filing illegal. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005977349535/ 21005977349535 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:46:49 GMT AUSTIN, Texas -- Minorities will make up the majority of voting age people in three additional congressional districts under a proposed redistricting map released by a federal court. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005977360939/ 21005977360939 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:06:26 GMT CHAPTICO, Md. -- Authorities say 20 people have been treated at the hospital for injuries after a three-vehicle accident in southern Maryland involving a school bus full of students, a car and a truck whose driver has been charged with driving under the influence. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005975318649/ 21005975318649 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:59:54 GMT PITTSBURGH -- A leaking tanker truck dropped a sticky substance over a nearly 40-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, disabling more than 100 cars that had their tires covered in the gooey muck. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005975279477/ 21005975279477 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:58:15 GMT SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Federal authorities say reports that hacking caused a water pump failure in Illinois' capital city aren't true. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005975269556/ 21005975269556 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:02:48 GMT SNELLVILLE, Ga. -- A teenage girl's teeth were shattered when a large porcelain bowl struck her in the face during a brawl inside a suburban Atlanta nail salon that may have been touched off by a dispute over pricing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005975296818/ 21005975296818 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:05:43 GMT SALEM, Ore. -- Haunted by regret for allowing two men to be executed more than a decade ago, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber now says it'll never happen again on his watch. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005975314332/ 21005975314332 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:03:47 GMT WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohio -- The head of a central Ohio school district concedes that administrators "fell short" in responding to complaints that a developmentally disabled student was being bullied by school staff. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005975302736/ 21005975302736 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:04:49 GMT DAVIS, Calif. -- The University of California, Davis chancellor has defended herself from criticism brought by the campus police force's pepper spraying of peaceful demonstrators, as students demands more answers about what led to the confrontation last week. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005975308958/ 21005975308958 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:05:11 GMT NEW YORK -- A new lawyer for a New York City man charged with crafting homemade bombs in a terror plot against police stations and post offices says a confidential informant in the case also has legal trouble. A person familiar with the matter says it's a minor marijuana charge. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005970991114/ 21005970991114 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:09:20 GMT TUCSON, Ariz. -- A federal judge in Arizona on Tuesday denied a request from lawyers for the Tucson shooting suspect that all of his competency interviews be videotaped. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005971016093/ 21005971016093 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:45:06 GMT HOUSTON -- A small plane abandoned with about 100 pounds of marijuana onboard after skidding off the runway at a small private airstrip was recently sold at auction or in an estate sale following the death of its registered owner, authorities said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005970870626/ 21005970870626 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:47:10 GMT DALLAS -- Dallas police honored a man on Tuesday whose "keen observation skills and strong sense of civic duty" led them to Lee Harvey Oswald, who had crept into the back of a darkened movie theater to hide on Nov. 22, 1963, shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005970883055/ 21005970883055 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:07:54 GMT SALEM, Ore. -- Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber on Tuesday imposed a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term, saying he's morally opposed to capital punishment and has long regretted allowing two men to be executed in the 1990s. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005971007426/ 21005971007426 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:10:16 GMT LAS VEGAS -- Those lucky enough to have a brush with Prince Harry during his first visit to Las Vegas say he was as down-to-earth as any other 27-year-old who appreciates a Harley, a night out with friends, and a cheap beer. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005971021688/ 21005971021688 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:06:20 GMT ATLANTA -- Death penalty defendants in Georgia will have to prove they are mentally disabled beyond a reasonable doubt to avoid execution, the most stringent legal standard in the nation, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005970998049/ 21005970998049 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:07:06 GMT CINCINNATI -- Pleas of not guilty have been entered for an Ohio mother and a nurse charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of the mother's 14-year-old daughter, who had cerebral palsy and weighed only 28 pounds. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005971002633/ 21005971002633 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:03:48 GMT HONOLULU -- An anonymous letter to the University of Hawaii is raising allegations that football players are involved in a point-shaving scheme, and police are investigating. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005970982883/ 21005970982883 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:39:29 GMT NEW YORK -- The mother of a "lone wolf" accused of plotting to attack police stations and post offices with homemade bombs apologized to New Yorkers on Monday, even as questions arose about why federal authorities -- who typically handle terrorism cases -- declined to get involved in what city officials called a serious threat. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005961116966/ 21005961116966 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:15:00 GMT COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Animal advocates are trying to find out why someone apparently left dozens of rabbits along a road in Colorado Springs. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005967090079/ 21005967090079 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:02:43 GMT WASHINGTON -- Shoppers awaiting this week's traditional kick-off of the holiday shopping season should find plenty of safe toys for children, but consumer advocates say some dangers still lurk. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005967016318/ 21005967016318 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:04:11 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Occupy Wall Street protesters who left New York two weeks ago for a 240-mile march to Washington have arrived in the nation's capital. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005968825164/ 21005968825164 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:28:23 GMT DAVIS, Calif. -- The riot-clad police officer who pepper sprayed a row of peaceful Occupy Wall Street protesters at a California university last week is a retired U.S. Marine sergeant who has been honored for his police work on campus, but also has figured in a previous discrimination suit against the university. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005969690370/ 21005969690370 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:50:14 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A Southern California teenager who shot a gay classmate to death during a computer lab class three years ago avoided a retrial by pleading guilty to second-degree murder, a deal that will send him to prison for 21 years. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005966581496/ 21005966581496 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:45:10 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Connecticut prosecutors will try to send a man suspected in rape cases along the East Coast to Virginia, a prosecutor said Tuesday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005966551086/ 21005966551086 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:00:35 GMT PHOENIX -- A court document released Tuesday says the teenage sister of a missing 5-year-old Arizona girl told police that her mother instructed her to lie about the girl's disappearance, that her mother kept the girl in a closet, and that the girl had black eyes, cuts, and bruises before she was reported missing. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005968803563/ 21005968803563 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:01:16 GMT MINEOLA, N.Y. -- Thirteen more current and former high school students from an affluent community on New York's Long Island were charged Tuesday in a widening college entrance exam cheating scandal, bringing the total to 20. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005968807623/ 21005968807623 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:59:35 GMT CHICAGO -- More than three years after businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko was convicted of corruption in a trial that laid bare Illinois' pay-to-play political culture and presaged notorious cases that battered the state's reputation, a judge finally will mete out his punishment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005966637594/ 21005966637594 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:03:06 GMT HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- Supporters of an Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking classified material to WikiLeaks say the defense hopes to call as many as 50 witnesses at his military hearing next month. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005968818616/ 21005968818616 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:02:24 GMT CHICAGO -- A former top fundraiser for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich, convicted of pressuring firms for kickbacks as part of a political pay-to-play scheme, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 1/2 years in prison but will get credit for time served. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005968814429/ 21005968814429 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:48:28 GMT QUITMAN, Ark. -- A small earthquake has been reported in an area of central Arkansas that has become prone to tremors. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005966570835/ 21005966570835 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:35:42 GMT FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A study by Congress' investigative arm shows investigators have linked 30 fires that erupted in a five-year period in Arizona's border region to people who crossed into the United States illegally -- a finding Sen. John McCain said backs up earlier statements he made about illegal immigrants and wildfires. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005966854248/ 21005966854248 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:37:43 GMT BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A federal judge has sentenced woman to 3 1/2 years in prison for stealing more than $1 million from the Mark Twain House & Museum in Connecticut. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005966866396/ 21005966866396 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:06:49 GMT SALT LAKE CITY -- Microsoft's Bill Gates returns to the witness stand Tuesday to defend his company against a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit that claims the software giant tricked a competitor into huge losses and soared onto the market with Windows 95. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005966680937/ 21005966680937 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:49:28 GMT WASHINGTON -- At one office of the Department of Motor Vehicles in the U.S. capital, motorists can get a driver's license, temporary road tax stickers and something wholly unrelated to the road: a free HIV test. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005966576846/ 21005966576846 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:47:32 GMT DAVIS, Calif. -- Students have again put up tents near the site where University of California, Davis police used pepper spray on seated protesters in a conflict that has sparked outrage and calls for the school chancellor's resignation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005966565260/ 21005966565260 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:51:06 GMT ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A Vietnamese war refugee who survived a 1977 pirate attack that separated him from his wife and infant child reunited with his grown son in upstate New York on Monday after nearly 34 years apart. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005966586631/ 21005966586631 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:47:08 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- The University of California, Davis said Monday that it has placed its police chief on administrative leave amid outrage over widely circulated videos of officers dousing pepper spray on student Occupy protesters. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005961162899/ 21005961162899 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:52:18 GMT WASHINGTON -- A man who shot an assault rifle at the White House is one of only a handful of people ever accused of trying to assassinate the president, and if the past is any guide he could spend many years in prison or a mental hospital if convicted. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005962273884/ 21005962273884 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:49:06 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A Southern California teenager pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder for killing a gay student during a computer lab class three years ago that will send him to prison for 21 years and avoid a retrial, authorities said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005962254643/ 21005962254643 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:01:00 GMT RENO, Nev. -- One of the worst fires in state history was a nearly perfect storm of unfortunate luck, and unfavorable circumstances and conditions. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005962326035/ 21005962326035 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:46:32 GMT NEW YORK -- Media organizations want to meet with city officials to talk about their concerns over how police have handled journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street protests. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005962239237/ 21005962239237 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:48:29 GMT SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Syracuse Police say it will take several weeks to investigate allegations by two former ball boys who said they were molested more than 25 years ago by a Syracuse University assistant basketball coach. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005962250974/ 21005962250974 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:49:42 GMT NEW YORK -- A pain management doctor whose patients included a man who killed four people in a pharmacy robbery made a practice of peddling prescriptions to addicts and drug dealers, and at least 10 of his patients went on to die of overdoses, authorities said Monday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005962258269/ 21005962258269 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:47:37 GMT CANDIA, N.H. -- Prosecutors say a New Hampshire architect diagnosed with suspected early onset Alzheimer's disease told police he fatally beat his visiting sister with a baseball bat and a sledgehammer after she overstayed her welcome and started talking about money. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005962245717/ 21005962245717 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:45:48 GMT NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A U-Haul official said Monday that it was "reckless" for an attorney who represents the driver of a rented truck that struck and killed a woman at the Yale-Harvard football game to claim that the vehicle malfunctioned while police are still investigating. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005962234879/ 21005962234879 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:54:29 GMT TUCSON, Ariz. -- The suspect in the deadly shooting that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords filed an appeal Monday that challenges a federal court's decision allowing prison doctors to forcibly medicate him. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005962286920/ 21005962286920 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:50:23 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska's Cook Inlet beluga whales were correctly listed as endangered, a federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting a state lawsuit that claimed the listing will hurt economic development. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005962262354/ 21005962262354 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:53:22 GMT ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A Vietnamese war refugee who survived a 1977 pirate attack that separated him from his wife and infant child reunited with his grown son in upstate New York on Monday after nearly 34 years apart. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005962280244/ 21005962280244 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:11:38 GMT JACKSON, Miss. -- A Jackson, Miss., police detective has been charged with felony child abuse following the death of a 1-year-old girl. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005957349874/ 21005957349874 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:12:17 GMT RENO, Nev. -- The fire in southwest Reno that forced thousands to flee and destroyed 32 homes is fully contained. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005957353796/ 21005957353796 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:19:45 GMT LOS ANGELES -- A large chunk of a Los Angeles street and the coastal bluff it sat on have crumbled into the ocean amid heavy rains. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005957398587/ 21005957398587 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:13:09 GMT TOLEDO, Ohio -- An employee at an Ohio Big Boy restaurant is charged with pouring animal medication into customer coffee with the intent to poison. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005957358946/ 21005957358946 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:14:06 GMT WASHINGTON -- The CIA's operations in Lebanon have been badly damaged after Hezbollah identified and captured a number of U.S. spies recently, current and former U.S. officials told The Associated Press. The intelligence debacle is particularly troubling because the CIA saw it coming. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005957364645/ 21005957364645 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:14:52 GMT SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Lisa Gesik hesitates to log into her Facebook account nowadays because of unwanted "friend" requests, not from long-ago classmates but from the ex-husband now in prison for kidnapping her and her daughter. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005957369213/ 21005957369213 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:15:27 GMT SAN DIEGO -- A vanishing lake figures large in a court battle over how Southern California gets it water, a high-stakes dispute with consequences that could ripple throughout the western United States. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005957372759/ 21005957372759 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:17:27 GMT MILWAUKEE -- The season of giving has started, with schools, churches and businesses kicking off food drives that have become annual holiday traditions. But many food banks are asking donors to think twice before dropping ramen noodles and frosted cereals in donation barrels. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005957384767/ 21005957384767 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:18:23 GMT PHILADELPHIA -- Four white-collar defendants hope to avoid prison Monday when they are sentenced for conducting unapproved medical trials that left three patients dead. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005957390314/ 21005957390314 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:13:35 GMT STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State University police say they've referred another previous incident of indecent assault to the Attorney General's Office. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005953401525/ 21005953401525 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:03:51 GMT ELGIN, Ill. -- Authorities say one person is dead after a small plane crashed near an airport in suburban Chicago. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005952263154/ 21005952263154 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:18:10 GMT IRWINDALE, Calif. -- Ready Pac Foods has recalled more than 5,000 cases of bagged salad because of a possible E. coli contamination. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005953429067/ 21005953429067 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:07:39 GMT BREVARD, N.C. -- Authorities say three Boy Scouts who were separated from their troop during a mountain hike did exactly what scouts are told to do if they get lost: They pitched a tent, stayed warm in sleeping bags and set out in the morning to find their rescuers. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005952285938/ 21005952285938 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:02:35 GMT GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Deputies in North Carolina say a gunwoman has killed one person and wounded five more before killing herself. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005952255513/ 21005952255513 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:12:25 GMT NEW YORK -- This year's Rhodes Scholars include an aspiring anthropologist and a fluent Arabic speaker who works with orphans in Egypt, though another comes from an already famous pedigree: Ronan Farrow. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005952314527/ 21005952314527 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:24:24 GMT HARTFORD, Conn. -- A rented U-Haul that struck and killed a Massachusetts tailgater at a Yale-Harvard football game malfunctioned as a Yale undergraduate drove the vehicle into a crowded parking lot, the student's attorney said Sunday. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005943386478/ 21005943386478 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:07:08 GMT WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- Two inmates who tried to sweeten their love letters, quite literally, by adding a sprinkling of sugar to the envelopes accidentally touched off a hazardous-materials scare at a prison in upstate New York. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005944722880/ 21005944722880 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:04:34 GMT MINNEAPOLIS -- McDonald's and Target dropped one of the nation's largest egg suppliers after an animal rights group released an undercover video of the egg producer's farms in three states. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005944707429/ 21005944707429 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:07:55 GMT RENO, Nev. -- Nevada authorities say it's likely the worst is over but the threat isn't completely gone from a wildfire fueled by fierce gusts. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005940767567/ 21005940767567 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:01:43 GMT RICHMOND, Va. -- Hundreds of Virginia sex offenders who already served their prison sentences are held behind bars for months -- and some for years -- while waiting to see if they'll be sent to a psychiatric center indefinitely for treatment. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005941090310/ 21005941090310 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:03:33 GMT WASHINGTON -- The first visit to Myanmar in a half-century by the top U.S. diplomat will open a door for that nation's military-dominated government to reduce its international isolation and dependence on China, a staunch but mistrusted ally. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005941101392/ 21005941101392 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:06:51 GMT PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- A self-help author's acknowledgement that he was responsible for the deaths of three people in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony was something the victims' family members had hoped for long ago. But the court action wasn't about apologies for them; it was about accountability. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005941121181/ 21005941121181 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:47:04 GMT CALDWELL, Ohio -- When a South Carolina man answered a Craigslist ad seeking a farmhand in Ohio, there was no job waiting for him. There was a freshly dug grave. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005936322430/ 21005936322430 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:27:37 GMT BEND, Ore. -- The judge called it bizarre, and the victim's sister fled the courtroom in disgust. The prosecutor said they were the words of a sociopath. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005936205753/ 21005936205753 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:25:31 GMT NEW YORK -- A 12-year-old has admitted a role in dropping a shopping cart that fell onto a woman's head from a fourth-floor walkway at a New York City shopping center. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005936193140/ 21005936193140 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:28:18 GMT TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- A German manager with Mercedes-Benz is free after being arrested for not having a driver's license with him under Alabama's new law targeting illegal immigrants, authorities said Friday, in an otherwise routine case that drew the attention of Gov. Robert Bentley. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005936209862/ 21005936209862 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:26:53 GMT SANTA FE, N.M. -- A high-ranking New Mexico official and several other motorists unknowingly drove over the body of a man who had been struck moments earlier on a pitch-black highway, shocking drivers who didn't find out until later that they had run over a person. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005936201371/ 21005936201371 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:45:33 GMT LINTHICUM, Md. -- A Florida company that hopes to offer charter flights from Baltimore to Cuba is being scrutinized by federal officials for promoting its plans before receiving the necessary approval. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005936313336/ 21005936313336 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:31:33 GMT RALEIGH, N.C. -- The warden of North Carolina's Central Prison has stepped down following an internal review of critical conditions for inmates with mental illness under his supervision. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005936229328/ 21005936229328 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:47:42 GMT CUB RUN, Ky. -- An Amish teenager in Kentucky has died after his small buggy was struck from behind by a sport-utility vehicle on a rural road. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005936326223/ 21005936326223 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:48:30 GMT HOUSTON -- A federal judge in Houston has ruled that authorities need a search warrant to obtain cellphone records that can be used to track a person's movements. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005936331018/ 21005936331018 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:29:12 GMT SANTA ANA, Calif. -- The sale of the Crystal Cathedral to the Catholic church could mark an end to the storied televangelist ministry broadcast around the world that came crashing down in hard times. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005936215296/ 21005936215296 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:30:56 GMT NEW YORK -- Occupy Wall Street protesters have clogged streets and tied up traffic around the United States to mark two months since the movement's birth and signal they aren't ready to quit despite the breakup of many of their encampments by police. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005927585696/ 21005927585696 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:59:12 GMT NEW YORK -- Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets, the New York Stock Exchange and the subways to raise their voices against what they say is corporate excess. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005930635238/ 21005930635238 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:37:11 GMT MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Occupy Memphis member Mallory Pope had just finished telling a group of about 75 tea party followers Thursday night that politicians should not allow themselves to be influenced by lobbyists and unions when she received an unexpected invitation. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005931583163/ 21005931583163 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:37:50 GMT CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The Wyoming family was driving to a doctor's appointment when a distraught teenager saw his chance in their headlights, authorities say. Matthew Denton throttled his SUV to 97 mph, steered into the opposite lanes, and kept his foot off the brake. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005931587070/ 21005931587070 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:38:34 GMT FAIRBORN, Ohio -- Investigators believe outdoor excavation work led to an explosion that destroyed a home in western Ohio, killing a man and injuring eight others. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005931591431/ 21005931591431 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:39:35 GMT WASHINGTON -- Top international climate scientists and disaster experts meeting in Africa have a sharp message for the world's political leaders: Get ready for more dangerous and unpredictable weather caused by global warming. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005931597592/ 21005931597592 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:40:09 GMT DENVER -- A man accused of driving around Denver with a dead friend, running up a bar tab and withdrawing money from the friend's credit card at a strip club ATM has pleaded not guilty. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005931600929/ 21005931600929 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:40:49 GMT GRANITE CITY, Ill. -- Mike Meyer was nervous about letting an obsessed acquaintance anywhere near his sprawling collection of Superman treasures. When the man finally talked his way into his home, Meyer got a real-life lesson in truth, justice and the American way. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005931604982/ 21005931604982 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:41:23 GMT WASHINGTON -- Teachers and principals' own report cards are getting a lot more attention. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005931608355/ 21005931608355 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:42:21 GMT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Rice growers who lost sales after genetically modified rice seed mistakenly entered the U.S. market five years ago have until Monday to sign on to a $750 million settlement proposed by the company blamed for the problem. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005931614156/ 21005931614156 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:46:45 GMT BOISE, Idaho -- An Idaho man accused of firing an assault rifle at the White House believed he was Jesus and thought President Barack Obama was the anti-Christ. He had become increasingly agitated with the federal government, and at one point suggested the president was planning to implant computer tracking chips into children, according to court documents and those who knew him. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005925520560/ 21005925520560 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:32:32 GMT MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- All 13 people arrested during a protest of Alabama's tough immigration law have been released from jail. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005927595283/ 21005927595283 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:38:45 GMT ROCK HILL, S.C. -- Survivors told of cowering in closets or running for a sturdy bathroom a day after a tornado-spawning storm system passed through the Southeast, flattening homes and killing at least six people in three states. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005924752528/ 21005924752528 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:52:48 GMT VALLEJO, Calif. -- Authorities say a police officer in Vallejo, Calif., has been shot and killed after a pursuit of a bank robbery suspect. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005927716829/ 21005927716829 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:53:25 GMT MADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin couple who were worried that their infant daughter would become obese starved her for months, causing the girl to gain just 5 pounds in the 14 months after her birth, prosecutors allege. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005927720526/ 21005927720526 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:28:40 GMT CINCINNATI -- An Ohio mother and three nurses were charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter in the death of the woman's 14-year-old daughter, who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds, a prosecutor said. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005927572085/ 21005927572085 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:47:39 GMT LOS ANGELES -- Police are making arrests at the Bank of America Plaza where some Occupy Wall Street sympathizers have set up tents. http://www.wsvn.com/rss/read/news/articles/national/21005927685923/ 21005927685923