U.S. News

Judge: Corps' negligence caused Katrina flooding

U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval sided with five residents and one business who argued the Army Corps’ shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward and neighboring St. Bernard Parish.

Posted: 3 days ago

Ark. police officer uses Taser on 10-year-old girl

A police officer in a small Arkansas town used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission to do so. Now the town’s mayor is calling for an investigation into whether the Taser use was appropriate.

Posted: 3 days ago

Dad accused of forcing son into field, killing him

A 37-year-old father irate over hearing his 15-year-old son had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death despite pleas from the boy and his mother, a relative said.

Posted: 3 days ago

University of Calif. headed to 32 percent fee hike

University of California voted Wednesday to increase student fees by 32 percent over the next two years, and students were not happy about it.

Posted: 3 days ago

Wild turkey on NJ Turnpike captured

A wild turkey that has been playing chicken along the New Jersey Turnpike won’t have to dodge Thanksgiving traffic.

Posted: 3 days ago

Woman leaves $40,000 at Md. shrine for safekeeping

A woman quietly left $40,000 worth of rare U.S. coins near a Catholic shrine for safekeeping so the Virgin Mary could watch over her life savings while she was out of town, and apparently it worked: The money was returned to her when she got back a week later.

Posted: 3 days ago

Feds: Leader of Islamic group killed in raid

The U.S. attorney’s office in Detroit says Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah refused to surrender during an FBI raid Wednesday and was killed in an exchange of gunfire.

Posted: 24 days ago

Jury seated in Texas polygamist raid trial

Eight men and four women have been seated on a jury to hear the first criminal case stemming from the raid of a polygamist group’s West Texas ranch last year.

Posted: 24 days ago

Farm states may copy Ohio vote on livestock rules

Ohio voters will decide next week whether to create a board overseeing livestock care in a move that could give farmers in rural America a blueprint for battling animal rights groups intent on outlawing cramped cages for chickens and hogs.

Posted: 24 days ago

Florida man claims he is too fat to kill his son-in-law

Edward Ates, who is 5 feet 8 and 285 pounds, claims he was too fat to shoot his son-in-law. Ates said his asthma, sleep apnea and other obesity-related ailments also would prevent him from making a fast get away after the crime.

Posted: 24 days ago