AP - New rules requiring passports or new high-tech documents to cross the United States' northern and southern borders are taking effect Monday, as some rue the tightening of security and others hail it as long overdue.
AP - The Connecticut General Assembly won't take up a bill this session banning a long list of wild and potentially dangerous animals as pets. -- read full article
Sat, 30 May 2009 19:01:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows.
AP - We first heard the term decades ago: The "Sun Belt" was just starting a run of phenomenal growth and no wonder. It conjured a sunny state of mind as well as a balmy place on the map.
AP - It's a police officer's nightmare scenario: Confronting someone who appears to be an armed suspect and opening fire, only to discover that person was actually an officer not in uniform.
AP - Hundreds of same-sex couples and their supporters marched Saturday through dusty California farm towns, pushing for gay marriage in the state's conservative center.
AP - Prince Harry reminded New Yorkers on Saturday how much his mother had loved their city, then climbed onto a pony for a rousing game of polo to raise money for impoverished children in Africa.
AP - It's a police officer's nightmare scenario: Confronting someone who appears to be an armed suspect and opening fire, only to discover that person was actually an officer not in uniform. -- read full article
Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A woman accused of staging an abduction hoax that began near Philadelphia and ended at Florida's Walt Disney World was returned to Pennsylvania in police custody on Friday and was held on $1 million bail.
AP - The official manual of South Carolina's Legislature continues to label some of the state's former politicians as "Negro" or "scalawag" apparent remnants of disgruntlement over Reconstruction that are drawing fresh scrutiny. -- read full article
Sat, 30 May 2009 14:47:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - The bronze likeness of Confederate Lt. Dick Dowling has survived two hurricanes in the last five years, as against the odds as the few dozen rebel Texas soldiers he led to victory against a huge Union force almost 150 years ago. -- read full article
Sat, 30 May 2009 16:56:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Barack Obama has just named his pick for the Supreme Court and is still filling out the ranks of his administration. But it's another casting process, also being conducted in the strictest secrecy, that's really got them whispering in Washington.
AP - There's more troubling news about hormone therapy for menopause symptoms: Lung cancer seems more likely to prove fatal in women who are taking estrogen-progestin pills, a study suggests. -- read full article
Sat, 30 May 2009 18:08:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News