Category - National News
FAA says equipment outage caused 819 flight delays
Posted - 11/20/2009 at 3:57PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights. The agency told employees in a briefing memo Friday that air travelers experie...
US to drop shooting case against Blackwater guard
Posted - 11/20/2009 at 3:17PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - 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, prosecutor...
NYC TV newsman guilty of attempted assault on wife
Posted - 11/20/2009 at 2:56PM
SUFFERN, N.Y. (AP) - A judge has convicted an influential New York City television newsman of attempting to assault his wife. The Rockland County district attorney's office issued a one-sentence stat...
Teen pleads guilty in July murder of border agent
Posted - 11/20/2009 at 12:54PM
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A 17-year-old Mexican immigrant has pleaded guilty in San Diego to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in July. The U.S. attorney's office said Christian Daniel ...
Court filing: Cuba spy suspect to plead guilty
Posted - 11/20/2009 at 12:44PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government says an accused spy for Cuba has agreed to plead guilty. Retired State Department official Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and wife Gwendolyn were caught in an undercover F...
Atty: Hospital hearing set for Fort Hood suspect
Posted - 11/20/2009 at 12:40PM
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - An attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room on Saturday. Maj. Nidal Malik...
CA man allegedly paid teens to spit in his face
Posted - 11/20/2009 at 12:04PM
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) - 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 Sher...
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in North Carolina
Posted - 11/20/2009 at 11:57AM
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu. It's the first cluster of that many cases seen in ...
Wrongfully convicted NYC man freed after 17 years
Posted - 11/20/2009 at 11:50AM
NEW YORK (AP) - A prison system official says a New York City man is free after spending nearly two decades behind bars for murder before a judge declared him innocent. Fernando Bermudez was released...
NY man convicted in hot-car death of father
Posted - 11/20/2009 at 10:58AM
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. (AP) - A New York state man has been convicted of reckless endangerment after leaving his 85-year-old father in a car on a hot day and finding him dead three hours later. Theodore Pre...