U.S. / Breaking News

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 17, 2010 @ 3:01pm neoform

CNN -- Another brick is falling from the Bush administration's highly touted "virtual wall" that was intended to keep illegal immigrants from entering the United States... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 17, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Casey Anthony is headed back to court in Orlando, Florida on Thursday -- this time to tell a judge she has run out of money and needs state funding for costs associated with her upcoming murder trial... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 17, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Plummeting enrollment is forcing another city to close classrooms. Detroit will shut 44 schools. Last week, Kansas City, Missouri, voted to close 26 schools... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 17, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Reports of sexual assaults among U.S. military service members rose 11 percent last year, according to a study released by the Pentagon on Tuesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 17, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- The remains of an Air Force major missing since the Vietnam War have been identified after years of searches, the Department of Defense said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 17, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- For the first time since 1972, the number of state prisoners in the United States has dropped, albeit only slightly, the Pew Center on the States reported Wednesday in a survey... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 17, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing for a quick legal decision, hoping to save a high school prom that was allegedly canceled because two lesbians wanted to attend it together... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 17, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- The Department of Defense has launched an investigation into whether a $24 million contract to gather information about developments in towns and villages in Afghanistan and Pakistan may have been inappropriately used instead to run an ad hoc spy ring, according to U.S. military officials... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 17, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Red River at Fargo, North Dakota, is 11 feet over flood stage and rising. A few more inches of water will push the river to what officials call major flood stage... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 16, 2010 @ 3:02pm neoform

CNN -- Two people were arrested and 12 others were taken into custody Tuesday following a police chase in Phoenix, Arizona, in what authorities described as a human smuggling incident... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 16, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Tiger Woods says he will play at the Masters in April after being sidelined from golf by a sex scandal. He also said he still has "work to do" in his personal life... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 16, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A tour bus carrying at least 35 people rolled over Tuesday near Campbellton, Texas, killing two people and injuring more than a dozen, an official told CNN... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 16, 2010 @ 9:02am neoform

CNN -- A trendy California sushi restaurant charged by federal authorities with serving whale meet offered an apology Monday, saying it "ignored its responsibilities" to endangered species... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 16, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- A gun recovered from this month's shooting at the Pentagon was once in the possession of the Memphis Police Department, a law enforcement official told CNN... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 16, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Romel Joseph calls it his second life... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 16, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- A Florida woman accused in the death of a lottery millionaire pleaded not guilty at a court hearing Monday in Hillsborough County, CNN affiliate Bay News 9 reported... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 16, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A federal judge sentenced an Illinois man to two and a half years in prison Monday for taping ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews in the nude... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 16, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattled Southern California early Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 16, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Facing rising waters, Red River communities in Minnesota and North Dakota raced to shore up levees and dikes early Tuesday, officials said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 15, 2010 @ 3:01pm neoform

CNN -- Dave Pries stands near a decades-old weather siren in his hometown of Minneiska, Minnesota, worrying about when the next tornado will hit. Along with the weather, the city clerk voices another big concern here: slow Internet connections... Read More