AP - Black leaders who organized an anti-crime march that drew tens of thousands to St. Louis last weekend are recruiting "street teams" to mobilize in high-crime neighborhoods. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:49:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy and wounding another officer died Friday morning after authorities say he shot himself at the end of a daylong manhunt.
AP - A Manhattan skyscraper that is home to The New York Times became the site of twin daredevil stunts Thursday, with two men scaling the 52-story office tower within a matter of hours.
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.
AP - A suspect in the 1975 slaying of a 9-year-old Girl Scout, who disappeared while delivering Girl Scout cookies, has been indicted by a grand jury, prosecutors announced Friday. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:54:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A new counterterrorism training facility operated by military security contractor Blackwater Worldwide echoed with the grunts of Navy sailors, a day after a federal judge ordered the city to let classes begin.
AP - A Marine sniper has been charged with two counts of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of two civilians in Iraq, his attorney said Friday. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:49:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A judge has set bond at half a million dollars for a man who is being retried on a murder charge after spending 22 years on Tennessee's death row.
AP - A cordon of police officers and private security stood guard Friday in front of The New York Times building after two daredevils scaled the skyscraper in midtown Manhattan within hours of each other.
AP - Eastern Michigan University has agreed to pay $350,000 in fines for covering up the rape and killing of a student in her dorm room by telling reporters and her parents there were no signs of foul play. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:41:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name with the help of volunteers.
AP - Teachers hoisting protest signs and yelling into bullhorns skipped class Friday in the nation's second-largest school district to protest a state budget they contend will cost their district $353 million and lead to cutbacks. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:09:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - West Virginia University President Mike Garrison said Friday he will resign in September to end the controversy surrounding the improper awarding of a master's degree to the governor's daughter.
AP - A strong storm packing at least one tornado raked a half-mile-wide "path of destruction" in northwestern Minnesota, ripping up roofs and trees and pushing cars off the road Friday, the National Weather Service said. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:34:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News