School bus sorority: Tradition of ‘girls night' has grown over almost two decades

By: CHRISTINE WON christine.won@journaltimes.com

RACINE - The Friday before Thanksgiving is a time of family, friendship and fun for more than 70 women. 

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Senator: USPS to resume North Pole Santa letters

By: By RACHEL D'ORO

North Pole elves have good reason to celebrate again, thanks to a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to resume a Santa Claus letter program that's thrilled children from around the world for decades.

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:40 pm

Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote

By: By DAVID ESPO

Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:35 pm

2 Pa. judges given partial immunity in civil suit

By: By MARK SCOLFORO

Two former county judges accused of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send juveniles to private detention facilities are partially immune from civil lawsuits, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Friday.

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:35 pm

Robbery motive in deaths of 5 in rural Arkansas

By: By JON GAMBRELL

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 20, 2009 | 7:35 pm

Levin: Fort Hood probe may reveal more e-mails

By: By PAMELA HESS and ANNE GEARAN

There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee said Friday.

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:30 pm

US to drop shooting case against Blackwater guard

By: By MATT APUZZO

The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:30 pm

Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken

By: By ALYSIA PATTERSON

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 20, 2009 | 7:30 pm

GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care

By: By LAURIE KELLMAN

Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care _ and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:30 pm

Wyoming challenges Yellowstone snowmobile rules

By: By BEN NEARY

The state of Wyoming filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking to block the National Park Service from further restricting snowmobile numbers in Yellowstone National Park.

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:30 pm

Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin

By: By ARIEL DAVID

A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud be…

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:30 pm

Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:30 pm

Army relents, will allow media at Palin book event

By: By MIKE BAKER

The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week when the military wanted the event closed out of fears it would prompt political grandstanding against President Barack Obama.

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:25 pm

Police: 3rd arrest made in Vegas officer's death

By: By KEN RITTER

Police say they have arrested a third person in the shooting death of an off-duty Las Vegas police officer in his garage.

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:15 pm

Plea deal reached in store scuffle case

By: By JIM SALTER

A black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace has agreed a plea deal with prosecutors convicting her of two misdemeanor counts.

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:15 pm

Cops: Woman smuggled drugs to Pa. inmate with kiss

A western Pennsylvania woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges she passed a drug-filled balloon to a state prison inmate while kissing him. State police said guards at the State Correctional Institution-Mercer became suspicious when an inmate appeared to swallow something after a…

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:10 pm

CA man allegedly paid teens to spit in his face

A 39-year-old Southern California man has been arrested for misdemeanor child annoyance after allegedly paying a teenager $31 to spit in his face. The Ventura County Sheriff's Department says Charles Hersel was arrested Wednesday in a sting operation at a mall in Thousand Oaks. He's free …

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:10 pm

Eye doc may lose license after calling patient fat

A North Carolina doctor could lose his medical license after a patient complained he made cutting criticisms, including telling her she was fat. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported the North Carolina Medical Board will decide if Dr. Earl Sunderhaus of Asheville overstepped the bou…

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:10 pm

Man who claimed disability spotted on TV show

California tax officials say an interior designer's false disability claim was uncovered when he was spotted on a home improvement television show.

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:10 pm

Mich. police nab wrong-way driver twice in 3 days

Authorities in western Michigan arrested a person twice in three days for driving the wrong way down the highway Kalamazoo County deputies said they were alerted about 1:30 a.m. Friday after several people called 911 when they passed the unidentified driver traveling south on northbound U…

Nov 20, 2009 | 7:10 pm