AP - Jaylynn Banks and her family have moved four times since the Cedar River burst its banks last June and flooded a huge swath of Cedar Rapids, including their neighborhood.
AP - The nation's largest doctors group isn't sold on President Barack Obama's call for a public health plan and could be a hurdle to his reform efforts. -- read full article
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:16:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A union official says he requested that U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum guards be equipped with protective vests during contract negotiations two years ago, but they were never issued. -- read full article
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:15:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - As early as last August, the swine flu virus may have been spreading among people long before it was first recognized in April, scientists reported Thursday. -- read full article
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:50:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A former New York City police officer convicted of shooting an unarmed man to death while off duty has been sentenced to one to three years in prison. -- read full article
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:55:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Police in Philadelphia say two men with lengthy criminal records were fleeing police when they caused an accident in which a car jumped a curb, slammed into a crowd, and killed four people, including an infant two days short of her first birthday.
AP - A convicted scam artist was able to pull off a lavish bar mitzvah for his son featuring kosher catered food and more than 60 guests at a New York City jail. -- read full article
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:48:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A union official says he asked for protective vests for guards at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum two years ago, but they never got them. -- read full article
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:33:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - An 88-year-old white supremacist was charged with murder Thursday, a day after he left a signed anti-Semitic screed in his car outside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum, then gunned down a security guard who opened the door to let him in, officials said.
AP - Searchers on Thursday reached a hiker who was in a state police helicopter that went down Tuesday night on snowy, 12,000-foot Santa Fe mountain peak, but state police refused to release details about her. -- read full article
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:57:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - In the state that gave the world Facebook, Google and the iPod, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says forcing California's students to rely on printed textbooks is so yesterday. -- read full article
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:57:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Cursing and belligerent, the great-grandmother refused to sign her speeding ticket, got out of her truck and dared a deputy to shock her with a Taser.
AP - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to reconsider its decision that denied wolverines protection under the Endangered Species Act. -- read full article
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:24:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A potential compromise emerged Wednesday on one of the most vexing issues of the health care overhaul debate whether to create a new government-sponsored health plan to compete with private insurers.