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Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
Queen leads Britain’s Remembrance day ceremony
Queen Elizabeth II has led Britain’s annual ceremony for the country’s war dead, joining thousands of troops, veterans and civilians in a traditional two-minute silence.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
1 killed, 3 injured in shooting near Vail
Gunfire erupted inside a bar near the ski town of Vail Saturday night, leaving one man dead and three others wounded, police said. A 63-year-old suspect was quickly arrested.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
House narrowly passes health care bill
In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
Caller claims responsibility for Pakistan bombing
A purported Taliban commander has claimed responsibility for a market bombing in northwestern Pakistan that killed an anti-Taliban mayor and 11 others.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
Fort Hood suspect told ‘There’s something wrong with you’
There was the classroom presentation that justified suicide bombings. Comments to colleagues about a climate of persecution faced by Muslims in the military. Conversations with a mosque leader that became incoherent.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
High court to look at life in prison for juveniles
Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
2010 elections: Democratic fears, Republican hopes
Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm elections. It was just three years ago that the GOP lost the House and Senate as well as governors’ races in a cross-country Democratic wave.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
Alleged Ohio serial killer rare among mass killers
Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them — most by strangulation — and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
Book smart and street smart, Arum at top of boxing
The most powerful man in boxing is a Harvard-educated tax lawyer and a street-savvy businessman, a Talmudic scholar with a penchant for four-letter expletives.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
Iran, North Korea top Clinton’s overseas agenda
Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
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House passes health care bill in close vote
WASHINGTON — In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
House burns in Soddy-Daisy
A Soddy-Daisy resident escaped his house with only minor burns after rescuing his five dogs from his burning house, officials said.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Office shooting suspect’s life spiraled downward
Jason Rodriguez’s marriage long ago went sour, his home taken in foreclosure, his job lost to incompetence, his finances sunk in bankruptcy. It was a “stress overload” for the man accused of a deadly shooting rampage at his former office, his lawyer said Saturday.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Ida hurricane watch for Mexico’s Caribbean coast
Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico’s Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
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House, Senate health care bills detailed
Here is a comparison of the three health care bills before Congress, including one by House Democrats and an alternative by House Republicans.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
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Obama appeals for health care votes
President Barack Obama made a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation Saturday as the House voted to advance debate on a bill to expand coverage to millions of the uninsured.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
House opens debate on health care overhaul bill
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s landmark health care overhaul moved toward a vote in the House today after anti-abortion lawmakers won a chance to knock out language that would let federally subsidized health care plans cover abortions.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Ida spurs tropical storm warning for Grand Cayman
MIAMI — A tropical storm warning has been issued for Grand Cayman Island as Ida gains strength over Caribbean waters.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
In Europe, most swine flu shots by invitation only
In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor’s offices aren’t swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy corporations or healthy people who don’t really need it.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
But for heroes, bloodbath could have been worse
Pfc. Marquest Smith, on his way to Afghanistan in January, was completing routine paperwork about a bee-sting allergy when the sounds erupted. A loud, popping noise. Moans. The sudden, urgent shout of “Gun!”
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Decision day for health care in the House
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is traveling to Capitol Hill on Saturday to try to close the sale on his signature health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote in the House certain to be seen as a test of his presidency.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Fort Hood suspect said methodical goodbyes
As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the killing spree that left 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, dead.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
What recovery? Unemployment shoots past 10 percent
Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only the second time since World War II and warnings that next year will be even worse than previously thought.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Obama calls holdouts on health care
Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, offering fresh concessions to abortion opponents and working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Suspect in Orlando office shooting had money woes
A man so broke that he said he didn’t have the money to visit his son 30 minutes away opened fire Friday at the engineering firm that fired him two years ago, killing one person and wounding five, authorities said.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
New Mexico city prepares for salt cavern collapse
The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren’t right in Carlsbad.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
World leaders needed at talks to cut climate deal
After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world’s rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenhagen.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Brown: UK staying in Afghanistan but wants reform
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Washington’s closest ally in Afghanistan, toughened his tone Friday with this harsh message for the Afghan leadership: Clean up your act — for real this time — or risk a cutoff of support.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Abbas’ move reflects deep Palestinian despair
By saying he wants to step down as president, Mahmoud Abbas has highlighted a deep Palestinian despair rooted in decades of failed peace initiatives and fruitless violence.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Pennsylvania locals, Flight 93 families united by tragedy
Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earlier, she couldn’t stop crying.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Ohio town to toast forgotten Vietnam veterans
The floor of VFW Post 291 has been scuffed by the shoes and boots of veterans who fought in wars going back nearly a century, to World War I. The setting is a comfort for Willis Cochran, who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Judge stops 2 Web sites from selling Beatles songs
A federal judge has temporarily blocked two music-sharing Web sites from selling songs by The Beatles and other artists for 25 cents apiece.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Joe Jackson seeks stipend from Michael’s estate
Michael Jackson’s father is seeking an allowance from his son’s estate to help cover expenses that exceed $15,000 a month, according to court documents filed Friday.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
13 injured in Grambling State bus crash in Arkansas
A dozen students and a bus driver are being treated for injuries after three buses carrying members of the renowned Grambling State University marching band were involved in a traffic crash in southern Arkansas.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Capitol Christmas tree to be cut from Arizona forest\
An 85-foot blue spruce soon will embark on a long journey from the mountains of northeastern Arizona to Washington, D.C., to stand as the Capitol Christmas tree.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Fort Hood suspect said methodical goodbyes
As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Officer praised for taking down suspected Fort Hood gunman
A civilian police officer is being praised for taking down a man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood when she shot him in the torso.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Lawmakers told 38 wounded in Fort Hood attack
Three lawmakers say Army briefers told them 38 people were wounded in the Fort Hood rampage — eight more than previously reported.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Arizona: 'Honor killing' victim just wanted to be normal
Noor Faleh Almaleki just wanted to be a normal American woman.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Ohio man who killed family, self had money woes
Police say an Ohio man sent a letter to a business associate saying his family would soon be dead and then fatally shot his wife, son and himself.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Former employee opens fire at Orlando office tower
A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Stocks post modest gains as job losses slow
Investors added to the week's strong gains in the stock market after finding some positives in a surprisingly weak jobs report.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
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SEC fines Meyer $30,000 for criticizing officials
Urban Meyer of Florida became the first coach to be disciplined under the Southeastern Conference's new policy regarding criticizing officials.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Details emerge about Fort Hood suspect's history
He was by turns caring and contentious, a man quick to say "I am blessed" in casual greeting yet one who seemed to stew in discontent that he could not always keep to himself.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Veteran admits faking paralysis to avoid Iraq
Sentencing will be in February for an Army veteran who plotted with his wife to bilk the U.S. government by faking paralysis to get disability benefits and avoid being deployed to Iraq.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Neighbor: Fort Hood suspect emptied his apartment
An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his apartment and left a phone message saying goodbye to a friend in the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead, neighbors said Friday.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Poll: One-third can find, get swine flu vaccine
Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Bama-LSU might be another defensive struggle
Forget the coaches. The defenses of Alabama and LSU are taking center stage for Saturday's SEC West showdown.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Alabama: Funeral home owner sued after body found in hearse
The son of a woman whose decomposed body was found in the back of a hearse more than a year after she died has sued the funeral home operator.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Troubling portrait emerges of Fort Hood suspect
His name appears on radical Internet postings.
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