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U.S. / NEWS Sun Feb 21, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Sam Hamilton, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, died Saturday, authorities announced... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 15, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A Sunday church service in Richmond, California, erupted into chaos when three gunmen opened fire on congregants, injuring two teens, according to police... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 11, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Snowfall is expected to taper off Thursday in the mid-Atlantic region, which has been battered by record-breaking blizzard conditions, forecasters said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 5, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- An Amtrak train traveling from New York to Washington struck and killed a 14-year-old girl Tuesday morning, disrupting passenger train service in the Northeast corridor, authorities said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 24, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A large swath of the nation's midsection is under a winter storm warning early Christmas Eve. The National Weather Service includes all of Minnesota in its warning... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 5, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A fast-moving wildfire in the San Bernadino National Forest in Southern California is forcing hundreds of evacuations and has already destroyed at least three homes, according to U.S. Forest Service officials Sunday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 13, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The U.S. Postal Service has just entered "The Twilight Zone.".. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 7, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Besides the cause of Michael Jackson's death, another question mark surrounded the pop icon's public memorial service on Tuesday: How many people would come to Los Angeles, California, for the remembrance?.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 1, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A panel of New York National Guard officers has recommended that an Iraq war veteran who admitted his homosexuality must leave the service, his supporters said Tuesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 2, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- When Gregg Wenzel died six years ago in Ethiopia, the obituaries said he was a U.S. Foreign Service officer killed by a drunken driver on the streets of Addis Ababa... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 4, 2008 @ 8:11am neoform

CNN -- At least one tornado ripped through central Arkansas Thursday evening, savaging a mobile home park and sending National Weather Service forecasters into a bunker as the storm roared overhead. "There's pretty extensive damage in the Little Rock area," said.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 7, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- A woman who disappeared while on a hunting trip in Oregon almost two weeks ago was found alive Thursday afternoon, just two days before a memorial service was to take place. Ora Doris Anderson, 76, was found "in extremely rough terrain deep in a canyon" i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 27, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

FOX News -- The House on Tuesday prodded parks officials to reopen the crown of the Statue of Liberty to the public — a step the government says is too dangerous. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., for the second year in a row added an amendment to a spending bill giv.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun May 13, 2007 @ 3:56pm neoform

CNN -- The new U.S. Postal Service rates that go into effect Monday have people living in Alaska's remotest villages worried about more than just paying 2 cents more for a stamp. The Postal Service also is bumping up rates for Alaska's one-of-a-kind discount.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 30, 2007 @ 8:27pm neoform

New York Times -- Deborah Jeane Palfrey has not been at all shy about it: for more than a decade she ran an escort service that catered to upscale clients in the nation’s capital, sending college-educated women to men’s homes or hotel rooms. For about $300, she prom.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 10:25am neoform

Reuters -- Two Secret Service officers were injured on Tuesday after a gun held by another Secret Service officer accidentally fired inside the White House gate, according to a spokesman, Darrin Blackford. Their injuries are non-life threatening, the spokesman sa.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 2:45pm neoform

USA Today -- —The Army paid more than $1 billion last year in bonuses to attract and keep soldiers in the service, more than three times the total amount of bonuses paid before the Iraq war began. Higher bonuses show the increasing costs of maintaining the troop s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 8:38am neoform

thomas.loc.gov -- To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induc.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 23, 2007 @ 2:02pm neoform

Yahoo News -- An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein's execution that "they hanged the wrong man" got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was threatening President Bush... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 29, 2006 @ 1:08am neoform

P.E.E.R. -- Orders to Cater to Creationists Makes National Park Agnostic on Geology. Washington, DC — Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration app.. Read More