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Senator: USPS to resume North Pole Santa letters
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Teen pleads guilty in Border Patrol agent killing
A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal immigrants in the mountains east of San Diego.
Nov 20, 2009 | 7:05 pm
Oregon court says teacher can't take gun to class
The Oregon Court of Appeals has rejected a request by a high school English teacher to carry a handgun at school, the latest legal setback for the teacher who says she needs the gun for protection from her former husband.
Nov 20, 2009 | 6:55 pm
Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman
After going on a shooting rampage that left a trail of victims on the Pacific resort island of Saipan, the gunman drove to a scenic, rocky cliff where untold numbers of Japanese men, women and children plunged to their deaths to avoid capture during World War II, according to police and w…
Nov 20, 2009 | 6:25 pm
FAA says equipment outage caused 819 flight delays
The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights.
Nov 20, 2009 | 5:50 pm
Couple pleads guilty in Cuban spying case
A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a decades-long plot to spy for Cuba pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him behind bars for the rest of his life but gives her a chance at freedom in six years.
Nov 20, 2009 | 5:30 pm
Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland
Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.
Nov 20, 2009 | 5:20 pm
