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. The city is considering creating a special ambulance whose crew would rush to collect the newly deceased and preserve the body so that the organs might be taken for transplant. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:14:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A state senator arrested this week for attempting to grope one woman and making lewd comments to a second was admitted to a psychiatric hospital Thursday. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:54:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Stung by an outbreak of violence, including eight killings last weekend alone, police are taking the unusual step of establishing vehicle checkpoints in a crime-ridden neighborhood in the nation's capital.
AP - The U.S. military intercepted a ballistic missile Thursday in the first such sea-based test since a Navy cruiser shot down an errant satellite earlier this year.
AP - A Tennessee man who has spent 22 years on death row is expected to appear in court Friday for a bail hearing that could set him free. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:22:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but appear to do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back into traffic. A man on a scooter slowly circles the victim before zipping away.
AP - A prominent Denver-area pastor accused of falsifying insurance documents to funnel money to church groups he controlled pleaded guilty Thursday to felony theft and was sentenced to serve probation and pay restitution. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:13:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A flight attendant who pleaded not guilty Thursday to setting a bathroom fire aboard a jet was also on a plane whose lavatory caught fire about five weeks earlier, a federal prosecutor said. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:24:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - The Air Force on Thursday said the first crash of a B-2 stealth bomber was caused by moisture in sensors and estimated the loss of the aircraft at $1.4 billion.
AP - Tornadoes dropped onto the Great Plains on Thursday after forecasters warned of a potentially historic outbreak, causing some damage and spooking a pair of circus elephants in Kansas that escaped their enclosure and roamed a town before being captured.
AP - Federal prosecutors may have charged Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III in one of the largest stock-option backdating cases in U.S. history, but it was allegations that the billionaire drugged his business cohorts, hired prostitutes and maintained a drug warehouse that grabbed headlines.