AP - A relative of a 4-year-old South Carolina girl who accidentally shot herself with her grandmother's handgun in a Sam's Club store said Tuesday the family expects the child to be out of the hospital by week's end. -- read full article
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:54:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper who was caught on video ramming a suspect with his patrol car was indicted Tuesday on a federal civil rights charge, the U.S. Justice Department said. -- read full article
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:38:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Online forums where thousands of child-porn images have been posted have been stricken from three Internet providers, including two of the nation's five largest, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday.
AP - The bodies of two girls were found shot to death in rural Oklahoma along a dirt road the best friends walked dozens of times to play and go to sleepovers.
AP - What violates community obscenity standards in the nation's reputed pornography capital? Federal prosecutors think they have a case. -- read full article
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:46:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A man on a Mount Rainier day hike died Tuesday and his wife and another hiker were awaiting rescue after the group got caught in a blizzard, officials at the national park said.
AP - A judge awarded more than $4.2 million to a late Nevada rancher's estate after finding that the U.S. Forest Service engaged in an unconstitutional "taking" of water rights out of hostility to the rancher, a property rights activist. -- read full article
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Fires fed by raging winds raced across parts of Northern California on Tuesday, destroying dozens of homes, threatening hundreds of others and leaving a firefighter severely burned.
AP - Rising rivers wiped out an Iowa railroad bridge Tuesday, flooded Illinois farmland and forced residents along the Mississippi River to prepare for what could be the worst flooding in 15 years.
AP - In his 1 1/2 years as Pentagon chief, Robert Gates has made a mark by sacking leaders of the military services at a pace not seen before in the modern era of the U.S. military.
AP - McCain says Obama bad for small business; Obama challenges McCain's claim ... Senator says former military leaders being considered for Obama's running mate
AP - More than 5,500 miles from Liberia, those who fled the war-ravaged West African nation years ago will get the chance to tell their stories this week to the country's truth commission.