AP - A suspect was shot to death and a sheriff's deputy was injured after an hour-long standoff near an elementary school in north Georgia Monday, authorities said. -- read full article
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:27:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A federal judge on Monday upheld a gun ban at the world's busiest airport, dealing a blow to gun rights groups who argued a new Georgia law authorized them to pack heat in certain parts of the Atlanta airport.
AP - Officials performing an autopsy Monday noticed an indication of cyanide poisoning, leading police to cordon off streets as they investigated at the downtown hotel where the man's body was found. -- read full article
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:42:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Like others returning from a religious festival in Missouri, Hoang Vu stopped at the spot where a charter bus carrying fellow Vietnamese Catholics on the pilgrimage had crashed and killed 17 people.
AP - Scott Charlson became a firefighter to earn college money and become a sports journalist. At his memorial service Monday, six days after the 25-year-old died in a helicopter crash during a forest fire in Northern California, his best friend recalled his competitive streak. -- read full article
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:04:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A Utah man accused of failing to report that his cousin produced and possessed the deadly poison ricin pleaded guilty Monday to the felony charge.
AP - The number of women in state government leadership positions is on the rise, with the percentage nearly mirroring their representation in the general population in six states, a study has found. -- read full article
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:22:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A man charged with kidnapping his daughter in Boston is a German who lived in the guesthouse of a Los Angeles-area couple who disappeared in 1985, a sheriff's spokesman said Monday.
AP - A prosecutor on Monday accused Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of violating his bond in an assault case by spending time over the weekend with his sister, one of 11 witnesses listed by authorities.
AP - The family of a central Louisiana man who died after a police officer repeatedly jolted him with a Taser filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Monday, on the eve of a grand jury's probe of the case. -- read full article
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:33:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Jury selection began Monday for the retrial of a woman accused of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven. -- read full article
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:37:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Prosecutors said Monday they plan to seek the death penalty against a man charged in the kidnapping and fatal shooting of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson. -- read full article
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:05:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News