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Fort Hood shooting suspect to remain hospitalized
A military magistrate has ruled that the Army psychiatrist charged in one of the worst mass shootings on a U.S. military base will be held until trial.
Nov 21, 2009 | 6:00 pm
Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients
A court martial acquitted a former military nurse of murder Saturday after he was accused of giving lethal doses of painkillers to hasten the deaths of three terminally ill patients at the Air Force's largest hospital.
Nov 21, 2009 | 6:00 pm
Calif. fisherman arrested in sea lion shooting
Authorities arrested a Sacramento fisherman Saturday in connection to shooting a sea lion in the head.
Nov 21, 2009 | 6:00 pm
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Democrats seal 60-vote majority to advance health care bill; Landrieu, Lincoln to vote 'yes'
Nov 21, 2009 | 5:10 pm
5 Long Beach students arrested in alleged groping
Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school.
Nov 21, 2009 | 3:55 pm
Suspicious note and package found at Fort Benning
A Fort Benning spokesman says Army officials are investigating whether a suspicious note and package found at the west Georgia post is a viable threat.
Nov 21, 2009 | 2:40 pm
EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells
Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.
Nov 21, 2009 | 1:55 pm
A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US
Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.
Nov 21, 2009 | 1:05 pm
Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers
Police found him sitting on the floor of his old apartment near a bucket of urine, still dressed in his hospital gown.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:30 pm
More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving
The AAA auto club says a few more Americans will be traveling away from home for Thanksgiving this year, though most people are making their holiday treks by car.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:10 pm
NC man gets life in prison for woman's fatal scare
A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death.
Nov 21, 2009 | 11:40 am
Report finds wide disparities in gifted education
When Liz Fitzgerald realized her son and daughter were forced to read books in math class while the other children caught up, she had them moved into gifted classes at their suburban Atlanta elementary school.
Nov 21, 2009 | 11:00 am
AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony
Newly arrived in Moscow on his first foreign assignment, Associated Press correspondent George Krimsky sensed he had a sensational Cold War scoop on his hands and he pounced.
Nov 21, 2009 | 9:45 am
Postal Service to resume North Pole Santa letters
Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all.
Nov 21, 2009 | 8:30 am
Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman
The gunman who carried out Saipan's most violent attack in recent memory ended his life on the same rocky cliffs where numerous Japanese leapt to their deaths to avoid capture by U.S. troops during World War II.
Nov 21, 2009 | 7:00 am
Levin: could be more e-mails from Ft. Hood suspect
WASHINGTON _ The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials.
Nov 21, 2009 | 3:55 am
The nation's weather
Heavy rains was forecast to continue over the Gulf States on Saturday while the Pacific Northwest was expected to see scattered precipitation.
Nov 21, 2009 | 2:50 am
Robbery motive in deaths of 5 in rural Arkansas
Thieves shot to death five Arkansas family members and burned their bodies for the meager bounty of a set of wheel rims and some flat-screen televisions, court documents said Friday.
Nov 21, 2009 | 1:50 am
Porn mogul's son to be tried in girlfriend's death
The son of a late San Francisco pornography mogul will stand trial on accusations that he crushed his ex-girlfriend's skull with a baseball bat.
Nov 21, 2009 | 1:35 am
Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken
A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying…
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:20 am
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