AP - Had this been like most nominations for federal judgeships, the chief lawyer with Corrections Corporation of America might have been packing up his office and heading for the courthouse by now. -- read full article
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:00:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042, according to new government projections. That's eight years sooner than previous estimates, made in 2004. -- read full article
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:03:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - It's a long-cherished perk of Massachusetts police unions: the roadside construction detail. But now state officials are proposing replacing police officers at some state projects with civilian flaggers dressed in orange safety vests. -- read full article
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:22:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Jurors began deliberations Thursday in a lawsuit alleging that the wife of megachurch pastor Joel Osteen physically and verbally abused a flight attendant a claim rejected by Victoria Osteen's lawyer as a made-up story concocted to land a courtroom payday.
AP - Firefighters doused hot spots Thursday after a towering fire ripped through a luxury apartment complex built on the once blighted riverfront and left 375 people without homes. -- read full article
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:09:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A couple is trying to get their two children out of the Republic of Georgia after the Russian invasion of the country trapped the girls at their grandparents' farm. -- read full article
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:25:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A former tough-on-crime Pennsylvania lawmaker has adopted a new and unpopular cause, taking into his home three sex offenders who couldn't find a place to live a stand that has angered neighbors, drawn pickets and touched off a zoning dispute. -- read full article
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:54:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - The man who fatally shot the chairman of the state Democratic Party after he lost his job had a Post-it note at home with the victim's last name and phone number along with 14 guns, antidepressants and a last will and testament, according to court documents.
AP - A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a man throwing rocks at agents near the U.S.-Mexico border in the San Diego area, authorities said Wednesday.
AP - A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead?
AP - Another deadline will pass Thursday without a new emergency siren system going into service around the Indian Point nuclear power plant, just 35 miles north of midtown Manhattan. -- read full article
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:01:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News