AP - Minnesota transportation officials have closed three busy bridges since March, hoping motorists will put up with the hassle to avoid the possibility of another deadly bridge collapse. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:43:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A day after Barack Obama sealed the Democratic nomination for president, a corruption scandal involving a fundraiser who helped bankroll his past campaigns resurfaced to slightly dampen the festivities.
AP - Forecasters said the Midwest and the Great Plans could face a series of storms Thursday as devastating as those on a deadly day in 1974 when 39 tornadoes touched down. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:50:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Two astronauts stepped outside the international space station Thursday for a spacewalk to spruce up the orbiting outpost's newest room — a $1 billion Japanese lab.
AP - Hispanic workers die at higher rates than other laborers, with 1 in 3 of these deaths occurring in the construction industry, a government study reported Thursday. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:46:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Police released chilling surveillance video of a hit-and-run accident in hopes of catching the unidientified driver who ran down a 78-year-old pedestrian, paralyzing him, and to show the callousness of bystanders who did nothing to help. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:38:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Jack Lucas, who at 14 lied his way into military service during World War II and became the youngest Marine to receive the Medal of Honor, died Thursday in a Hattiesburg, Miss., hospital. He was 80.
AP - On the afternoon of March 23, two superiors took a 21-year-old Marine, Lance Cpl. Dustin Canham, into a tent at Camp Lemonier, a U.S. base in the rocky desert of the Horn of Africa. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:58:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a different task altogether: saving the dead. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:55:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A state senator accused of attempting to grope one woman and of making lewd comments to another said Thursday he would not seek re-election in the fall. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:43:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Authorities were searching mountainous terrain Thursday in an "all-out manhunt" for a fugitive accused of fatally shooting a deputy and wounding another officer as they tried to take him into custody.
AP - A lawyer for a man once considered one of the world's most prolific e-mail spammers urged the Virginia Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down a state anti-spam law, arguing it violates free speech protections under the First Amendment. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:42:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
