AP - Abortion opponents have moved their planned memorial service away from the now-shuttered Kansas clinic run by slain abortion provider George Tiller.
AP - Connecticut officials were repeatedly warned about the dangers posed by a chimpanzee who later mauled and blinded a woman and were urged more than three years before the attack to take action, but failed to do so, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.
AP - Tank cars loaded with thousands of gallons of highly flammable ethanol exploded and blazed through the night after a freight train derailed, killing one person in a car at a crossing.
AP - Longtime New Mexico cattle rancher Judy Keeler is keenly aware of how tough it is to raise livestock in the dusty desert near the U.S.-Mexico border.
AP - Eric Mongerson's kids couldn't meet his partner of two years, much less join the couple for ice cream. His friends couldn't cheer on the children at concerts or Little League games. -- read full article
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:54:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Like the house across the street gone missing and the one at the corner stripped of its front door, the weathered brown bungalow at 1430 Jane Ave. bided its time, edging nearer to a meeting with a wrecking crew.
AP - Sentencing has been put off until September for five Miami men convicted of plotting terror attacks against Chicago's Sears Tower and several FBI offices. -- read full article
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:33:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - With California slipping into a financial sinkhole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save more than $180 million by cutting short the sentences of thousands of immigrants in the state's prisons and turning them over to federal authorities for deportation.
AP - Tobacco advocates used to being on the defensive in their own country are fuming over a Canadian proposal they say could essentially ban some American leaf often used in cigarettes sold across the northern border. -- read full article
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:21:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Attorneys for HealthSouth shareholders asked an Alabama judge Friday to freeze the assets of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy so they can begin collecting a nearly $2.9 billion judgment against him. -- read full article
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:04:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - An autopsy for slain toddler Caylee Anthony shows duct tape was placed on the girl's face before her body began to decompose. -- read full article
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:53:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - U.S. Sen. Roland Burris won't face a perjury charge over statements he made to state lawmakers investigating how he got his job, but the junior senator still faces the task of salvaging his political future and shaking the stigma of his link to the disgraced former governor who put him in office.
AP - Family, friends and colleagues on Friday remembered a guard who was gunned down at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last week as the victim of an evil and barbaric act that contrasted starkly with his love for life.