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• Lieberman: Senate to investigate Ft. Hood shooting (AP)
• La. Gov. declares emergency ahead of Hurricane Ida (AP)
• Ill. prosecutors seek journalism students' grades (AP)
• Expanding drug treatment: Is US ready to step up? (AP)
• Utah girl's pierced nose: US-Indian culture clash (AP)
• Suspect in Vail bar shooting faces murder charge (AP)
• Killings remain unsolved as sniper execution nears (AP)
• Suspect identified in Seattle police killing (AP)
• House votes strict ban on abortion subsidies (AP)
• Ground broken for Flight 93 memorial in Pa. (AP)
• Funeral services held for slain New Mexico nun (AP)
• Murder case a glimpse into stresses of caretaking (AP)

Lieberman: Senate to investigate Ft. Hood shooting (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 05:18 PM PST AP - A key U.S. senator said Sunday he would begin an investigation into whether the Army missed signs that the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood had embraced an increasingly extremist view of Islamic ideology.

La. Gov. declares emergency ahead of Hurricane Ida (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 04:45 PM PST AP - Hurricane Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded Sunday toward the Gulf Coast with 105 mph winds, bringing the threat of flooding and storm surges.

Ill. prosecutors seek journalism students' grades (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:52 AM PST AP - A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 1978 killing of a security guard believe they have evidence that shows prosecutors put the wrong man behind bars. But in the quest to prove his innocence, they may have to defend themselves, too.

Expanding drug treatment: Is US ready to step up? (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:32 AM PST AP - Based on the rhetoric, America's war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation's readiness to turn the talk into reality.

Utah girl's pierced nose: US-Indian culture clash (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:01 AM PST AP - To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah's school, it was a dress-code violation worthy of a suspension.

Suspect in Vail bar shooting faces murder charge (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:52 AM PST AP - A 63-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting one person and wounding three others in a Vail bar has been arrested in what authorities say was an apparently random shooting.

Killings remain unsolved as sniper execution nears (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:27 AM PST AP - It galled her to do it, but Sarah Dillon was desperate for answers, so she wrote letters to convicted snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo: If you murdered my son, please confess, she wrote.

Suspect identified in Seattle police killing (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:33 AM PST AP - Police described a suspect in the shooting death of a Seattle policeman as a "lone domestic terrorist" and said he was also suspected of firebombing four police vehicles.

House votes strict ban on abortion subsidies (AP) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 01:24 AM PST AP - A bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats would establish to compete with private insurers.

Ground broken for Flight 93 memorial in Pa. (AP) Posted: 07 Nov 2009 07:26 PM PST AP - With the words "Let's roll" — the command issued by United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer to lead the passenger revolt — U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and 39 victims' relatives and dignitaries turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday for a permanent national memorial.

Funeral services held for slain New Mexico nun (AP) Posted: 07 Nov 2009 10:39 PM PST AP - A slain Catholic nun who lived and worked on the Navajo Indian reservation was remembered Saturday for her passion for the poor at funeral services.

Murder case a glimpse into stresses of caretaking (AP) Posted: 07 Nov 2009 11:35 PM PST AP - The scenes seared into the minds of those who know Bobby Yurkanin differed only in place: Whether in the pool, around the dinner table or at the bowling alley, he was the 50-something man whose life had long before been handed over to the sickness of his parents. Always his father was by his side.

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