AP - A fire engulfed a two-story building in the downtown Garment District early Thursday, gutting a labyrinth-like collection of small stores and sending flames and smoke pouring through the roof. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:09:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Gay and lesbian couples around California are planning their nuptials following a refusal by the state's highest court to delay its decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
AP - Authorities were searching Thursday morning for a man accused of shooting two law enforcement officers, killing one, a local prosecutor said. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:39:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a statewide drought after two years of below-average rainfall, low snowmelt runoff and a court-ordered restriction on water transfers.
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
