AP - When record flooding ravaged much of the Midwest in 1993, the earthen wall protecting one of the nation's poorest cities stood fast against the Mississippi River.
AP - Amid the battle to hold back the swollen Mississippi River, some towns got an unwelcome surprise Saturday as river levels rose higher than projected.
AP - Authorities are investigating whether a Catholic charity violated state and federal law by helping a 16-year-old illegal immigrant who was in the organization's care get an abortion. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:32:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - The thousands of National Guardsmen sent to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border two years ago have almost completely withdrawn, despite pleas from border-state governors once skeptical of using soldiers to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:01:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A civil liberties group filed a lawsuit Friday seeking an injunction against the District of Columbia police department's vehicle checkpoint program, calling the "military-style" initiative unconstitutional and ineffective. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:46:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Now that gays and lesbians can legally marry in California, a retired Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister is again challenging her denomination's position on same-sex marriage by officiating the wedding of two women. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:04:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A woman with a blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit for driving backed over her mother and left the scene even though loved ones yelled, "You killed grandma," police said. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:17:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Two cars veered onto crowded sidewalks in two separate accidents Friday in Manhattan, striking a total of nearly 20 people and seriously injuring two of them. -- read full article
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:38:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - The Army's top officer said Friday it will take three to four years to put the Army back in balance after seven years of war. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:52:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that juveniles have a constitutional right to a jury trial, a surprise decision that could influence courts in other states and force local prosecutors to retry hundreds of open cases. -- read full article
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:30:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - The owner of a clinic has been charged with posing as a doctor to perform abortions, some of them unsuccessful or resulting in severe complications and hospitalization, prosecutors said Friday. -- read full article
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:51:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Gay rights advocates asked California's highest court Friday to keep off the November ballot a citizens' initiative that would again ban same-sex marriage.
AP - A fast-moving fire erupted Friday along the Northern California coast, burning homes, forcing hundreds of residents to flee and backing up traffic for miles on a scenic highway.
AP - The little boy's body was a study in pain. He was covered in cigarette burns, including to his genitals. He couldn't fully open his hand because it had been burned on a stove. His tooth was broken with a nerve exposed. And he had been made to sit in his own urine and feces, authorities say.
