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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2753 Most Recommended U.S. en-us Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:23:34 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2753 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/deutsche_bank_fire ap/20080821/deutsche_bank_fire AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:49:11 GMT AP - Blocked stairwells, radio confusion and misinformation about the water supply thwarted efforts to put out a blaze at a condemned ground zero skyscraper that killed two firefighters last year, an internal report said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tallest_woman_funeral ap/20080818/tallest_woman_funeral AP Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:00:49 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tallest_woman_funeral"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080813/capt.4d6c15199b5a41e29a47c5e7b2822f94.obit_tallest_woman_ny120.jpg?x=74&y=130&q=85&sig=IO7l5qwWDdBwj4SvL.rLYA--" align="left" height="130" width="74" alt="In this Sept. 2, 1995 file photo, Sandy Allen, poses for a picture with Will Denk, at the library in Shelbyville, Ind. The 7-foot-7 Allen considered the world's tallest woman died early Wednesday Aug. 13, 2008 at a nursing home in her hometown of Shelbyville. She was 53. (AP Photo/Phil Meyers, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sandy Allen, at 7 feet 7 recognized as the world's tallest woman, was remembered at her funeral Monday for her kindness and generosity as much as for her height.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tallest_woman_funeral"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080813/capt.4d6c15199b5a41e29a47c5e7b2822f94.obit_tallest_woman_ny120.jpg?x=74&y=130&q=85&sig=IO7l5qwWDdBwj4SvL.rLYA--" align="left" height="130" width="74" alt="photo" title="In this Sept. 2, 1995 file photo, Sandy Allen, poses for a picture with Will Denk, at the library in Shelbyville, Ind. The 7-foot-7 Allen considered the world's tallest woman died early Wednesday Aug. 13, 2008 at a nursing home in her hometown of Shelbyville. She was 53. (AP Photo/Phil Meyers, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/voting_machines ap/20080821/voting_machines AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:23:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/voting_machines"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080819/capt.82136dcde1344f0c9ede2b0e8430373b.election_junk__ny108.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=12KV3aJpZScqGrT2Z3cIkA--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="In this Dec. 5, 2007 file photo, a message is posted on a Sequoia Voting Systems' electronic voting machine in San Francisco. Beginning last year, states including California, Ohio and Florida abruptly ordered election officials to mothball their electronic machines. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - The maker of the most widely used touch-screen voting machine in Ohio has acknowledged the machines have a programming error that led to votes being dropped in the March primary.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/voting_machines"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080819/capt.82136dcde1344f0c9ede2b0e8430373b.election_junk__ny108.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=12KV3aJpZScqGrT2Z3cIkA--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Dec. 5, 2007 file photo, a message is posted on a Sequoia Voting Systems' electronic voting machine in San Francisco. Beginning last year, states including California, Ohio and Florida abruptly ordered election officials to mothball their electronic machines. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/reservation_deaths ap/20080819/reservation_deaths AP Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:45:03 GMT AP - Rows of rundown houses sit among stunted trees on a bleak, wind-swept plateau. The nearest mountains are a faint smudge on the horizon, and a boarded-up house marks the end of the road. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_confederate_widow ap/20080819/obit_confederate_widow AP Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:55:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_confederate_widow"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080819/capt.69ecea177309412ba5a818fcfb8c63be.obit_confederate_widow_ardj103.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=7pQdE3kY6eoVJsBxI8tsBg--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="In this June 16, 2004, file photo, Maudie White Hopkins, 89, talks about her first husband, a Confederate veteran, William M. Cantrell, during an interview in her Lexa, Ark., home. She married the Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior in 1934. He died in 1937. Hopkins died Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008, at age 93. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_confederate_widow"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080819/capt.69ecea177309412ba5a818fcfb8c63be.obit_confederate_widow_ardj103.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=7pQdE3kY6eoVJsBxI8tsBg--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this June 16, 2004, file photo, Maudie White Hopkins, 89, talks about her first husband, a Confederate veteran, William M. Cantrell, during an interview in her Lexa, Ark., home. She married the Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior in 1934. He died in 1937. Hopkins died Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008, at age 93. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/elephant_fight ap/20080820/elephant_fight AP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:47:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/elephant_fight"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.fb3631b03fef46b9ac0cc2c4889fc611.elephant_fight_dn101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=4cjWmbDn4PoY5u62jdrNqA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Dallas Zoo keepers Gavin Eastep, center, feeds treats to Jenny, an African elephant as zoo keeper Reanna Streater cools her with a spray of water,Tuesday, July 29, 2008. The Dallas Zoo announced Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, that the 9,000-pound pachyderm will remain at her home of 22 years following an intense controversy over plans to send the animal to a wildlife park in Mexico. (AP Photo/ Donna McWilliam) Dallas zoo keepers Gavin Eastep, right, feeds treats to Jenny, an African elephant as zoo keeper Reanna Streater cools her with a spray of water,Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Zoo officials plan to send Jenny to a drive-through park in Mexico that they say would be a perfect place for her to live. But a Dallas city councilwoman and several animal activists say that would be a horrible home for Jenny because she gets frightened by cars and deserves a more peaceful existence. (AP Photo/ Donna McWilliam)" border="0" /></a>AP - Jenny the lonely elephant, whose pending move from the Dallas Zoo to Mexico had angered activists, isn't going anywhere after all.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/elephant_fight"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.fb3631b03fef46b9ac0cc2c4889fc611.elephant_fight_dn101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=4cjWmbDn4PoY5u62jdrNqA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Dallas Zoo keepers Gavin Eastep, center, feeds treats to Jenny, an African elephant as zoo keeper Reanna Streater cools her with a spray of water,Tuesday, July 29, 2008. The Dallas Zoo announced Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, that the 9,000-pound pachyderm will remain at her home of 22 years following an intense controversy over plans to send the animal to a wildlife park in Mexico. (AP Photo/ Donna McWilliam) Dallas zoo keepers Gavin Eastep, right, feeds treats to Jenny, an African elephant as zoo keeper Reanna Streater cools her with a spray of water,Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Zoo officials plan to send Jenny to a drive-through park in Mexico that they say would be a perfect place for her to live. But a Dallas city councilwoman and several animal activists say that would be a horrible home for Jenny because she gets frightened by cars and deserves a more peaceful existence. (AP Photo/ Donna McWilliam)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/duncan_slayings ap/20080820/duncan_slayings AP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:53:16 GMT AP - A 9-year-old boy who was tortured and killed by a convicted pedophile in front of his younger sister might have been able to survive a shot to the abdomen had he been taken to a hospital, a doctor told a jury that will decide whether the man gets the death penalty. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/birthday_robbery ap/20080821/birthday_robbery AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:01:07 GMT AP - Police in Wisconsin say a woman celebrated her birthday by helping her teenage son rob two gas stations. Officers in the Milwaukee suburb of Greenfield say the 37-year-old woman acted as the getaway driver while her 17-year-old son robbed the stations at gunpoint. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/auctionrate_bondealers_dc nm/20080821/auctionrate_bondealers_dc Reuters Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:04:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/auctionrate_bondealers_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080821/2008_08_20t222421_450x341_us_auctionrate_bondealers.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=U3TIxCcTy7Ce6f6rcgKSlw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (R), points towards Deven Sharma, president of Standard and Poor's, as he announces an agreement made with three rating agencies -- Moody's Investors Service, Standard and Poor's and Fitch Ratings -- to change their practices regarding residential mortgage-backed securities, in New York, June 5, 2008. (Chip East/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - New York's state attorney general office on Wednesday intensified its probe into auction-rate debt focusing on Bank of America Corp, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank AG, while issuing a warning to brokerages.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/auctionrate_bondealers_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080821/2008_08_20t222421_450x341_us_auctionrate_bondealers.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=U3TIxCcTy7Ce6f6rcgKSlw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (R), points towards Deven Sharma, president of Standard and Poor's, as he announces an agreement made with three rating agencies -- Moody's Investors Service, Standard and Poor's and Fitch Ratings -- to change their practices regarding residential mortgage-backed securities, in New York, June 5, 2008. (Chip East/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/1985_slaying_arrest ap/20080821/1985_slaying_arrest AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:12:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/1985_slaying_arrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.903b824b60da4a8b8342c3ce84bdbe4b.1985_slaying_arrest_pajm101.jpg?x=84&y=130&q=85&sig=6VesAPfnD38jgYaI.tX32w--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="Joseph Geiger, 43, of Pottsville, Pa., center, is escorted by Cpl. Robert Betnar from the Pennsylvania State Police station in Schuylkill Haven, Pa. Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, after Geiger was arrested in the 1985 homicide of David Reed. Reed, whose remains were found in a wooded area just outside of Cressona, Pa., four months after he was reported missing, was 13 at the time of his death. (AP Photo/Jimmy May)" border="0" /></a>AP - Police arrested a man Thursday in the 1985 killing of a 13-year-old boy whose body was found months after he left home on a bicycle. The fatal beating was apparently sparked by an argument over stolen marijuana plants, authorities said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/1985_slaying_arrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080821/capt.903b824b60da4a8b8342c3ce84bdbe4b.1985_slaying_arrest_pajm101.jpg?x=84&y=130&q=85&sig=6VesAPfnD38jgYaI.tX32w--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="photo" title="Joseph Geiger, 43, of Pottsville, Pa., center, is escorted by Cpl. Robert Betnar from the Pennsylvania State Police station in Schuylkill Haven, Pa. Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, after Geiger was arrested in the 1985 homicide of David Reed. Reed, whose remains were found in a wooded area just outside of Cressona, Pa., four months after he was reported missing, was 13 at the time of his death. (AP Photo/Jimmy May)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/olympics_gymnastics_liukin_dc nm/20080819/olympics_gymnastics_liukin_dc Reuters Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:57:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/olympics_gymnastics_liukin_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080818/capt.d9d682e1a75844f0844bb6b430ebf97e.beijing_olympics_gymnastics_women_olygy137.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=YybHpCoj3YCzHOJ83o090Q--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="U.S. gymnast Nastia Liukin, right, is hugged by her father and coach Valeri during the uneven bars apparatus finals at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug 18, 2008. Liukin won the silver medal. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - American gymnast Nastia Liukin finished the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday by taking home more medals than any other gymnastics competitor and surpassing the haul of her own father in the process.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/olympics_gymnastics_liukin_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080818/capt.d9d682e1a75844f0844bb6b430ebf97e.beijing_olympics_gymnastics_women_olygy137.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=YybHpCoj3YCzHOJ83o090Q--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. gymnast Nastia Liukin, right, is hugged by her father and coach Valeri during the uneven bars apparatus finals at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug 18, 2008. Liukin won the silver medal. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/patient_death ap/20080820/patient_death AP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:39:59 GMT AP - A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to cut off the facility's funding. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/salmonella_peppers ap/20080819/salmonella_peppers AP Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:52:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/salmonella_peppers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080725/capt.1e16400e2ee445e8893a01344014479f.mexico_salmonella_peppers_mxgb102.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=3Rlha_DSmfJiqArNs2GbxQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Jalapeno peppers sit for sale in a market in Mexico City, Friday, July 25, 2008. Only jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico are implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak in the United States, the government announced Friday in clearing the U.S. crop. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)" border="0" /></a>AP - Federal inspectors at U.S. border crossings repeatedly turned back filthy, disease-ridden shipments of peppers from Mexico in the months before a salmonella outbreak that sickened 1,400 people was finally traced to Mexican chilies.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/salmonella_peppers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080725/capt.1e16400e2ee445e8893a01344014479f.mexico_salmonella_peppers_mxgb102.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=3Rlha_DSmfJiqArNs2GbxQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Jalapeno peppers sit for sale in a market in Mexico City, Friday, July 25, 2008. Only jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico are implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak in the United States, the government announced Friday in clearing the U.S. crop. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/thriving_amish ap/20080820/thriving_amish AP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:07:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/thriving_amish"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.8f2cc96a9e5647f98a967f6527136fcd.addition_thriving_amish_kyer102.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=hJ3.CN7rJ9ebIZ_RZbt3vg--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="* ADDS KENTUCKY POPULATION FIGURES ** A group of Amish women and children pass the opening of an underpass as they make their way home along a winding road near English, Ky., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. The Amish are expanding their presence in states far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country as they search for affordable farmland to accommodate a population that has nearly doubled in the past 16 years. Kentucky's Amish population jumped 200 percent, from 2,835 to 8,505, over the past 16 years..(AP Photo/Ed Reinke)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Amish are expanding their presence in states far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country as they search for affordable farmland to accommodate a population that has nearly doubled in the past 16 years, a new study found.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/thriving_amish"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.8f2cc96a9e5647f98a967f6527136fcd.addition_thriving_amish_kyer102.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=hJ3.CN7rJ9ebIZ_RZbt3vg--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="* ADDS KENTUCKY POPULATION FIGURES ** A group of Amish women and children pass the opening of an underpass as they make their way home along a winding road near English, Ky., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. The Amish are expanding their presence in states far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country as they search for affordable farmland to accommodate a population that has nearly doubled in the past 16 years. Kentucky's Amish population jumped 200 percent, from 2,835 to 8,505, over the past 16 years..(AP Photo/Ed Reinke)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hospital_fines ap/20080819/hospital_fines AP Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:10:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hospital_fines"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080807/capt.f6ed0c701bb7432cb6445358755c948b.health_care_fraud_la108.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=9QBIop.JVpDHV5kDYW35OQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="City of Angels Medical Center, seen here Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008, in Los Angeles, along with Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center and Tustin Hospital and Medical Center, were served search warrants Wednesday the FBI said, in a scheme to enlist Los Angeles homeless for unnecessary health care. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)" border="0" /></a>AP - Eighteen hospitals in California were fined for state health code violations in which patients received shoddy care that in some cases led to deaths.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hospital_fines"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080807/capt.f6ed0c701bb7432cb6445358755c948b.health_care_fraud_la108.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=9QBIop.JVpDHV5kDYW35OQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="City of Angels Medical Center, seen here Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008, in Los Angeles, along with Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center and Tustin Hospital and Medical Center, were served search warrants Wednesday the FBI said, in a scheme to enlist Los Angeles homeless for unnecessary health care. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/pilot_watch_list ap/20080820/pilot_watch_list AP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:46:20 GMT AP - A commercial airline pilot and convert to Islam who says his name is on the U.S. government's secret terrorist watch list has fought back, filing a federal lawsuit against the Homeland Security Department and various other federal agencies. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_security_checkpoints_dc nm/20080820/usa_security_checkpoints_dc Reuters Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:59:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_security_checkpoints_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080820/2008_08_20t010449_450x345_us_usa_security_checkpoints.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=z8FahKDiCiZzByyRkLYXLg--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="A U.S Customs Officer checks the identification papers of a driver entering the U.S. from Canada at the Detroit-Windsor tunnel in Detroit, January 31, 2008. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The U.S. government has been using its border checkpoints to collect information on citizens that will be stored for 15 years, raising concern among privacy advocates, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_security_checkpoints_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080820/2008_08_20t010449_450x345_us_usa_security_checkpoints.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=z8FahKDiCiZzByyRkLYXLg--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="photo" title="A U.S Customs Officer checks the identification papers of a driver entering the U.S. from Canada at the Detroit-Windsor tunnel in Detroit, January 31, 2008. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/aarp_discrimination ap/20080819/aarp_discrimination AP Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:50:24 GMT AP - AARP, the national advocacy group for older Americans, is being accused of age discrimination. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/polygamist_retreat ap/20080821/polygamist_retreat AP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:52:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/polygamist_retreat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.1c7dce6432bf455f85d8a753c9ccc4de.polygamist_retreat_dn103.jpg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=t_GT9FZcDxmdSOxOQi5Mrg--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="This undated booking file photo provided by the Mohave County Sheriff's Office shows polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs in Arizona. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints documents disclosed as part of a separate child custody case show that about 20 underage girls, a few as young as 12, are identified in the documents as married to jailed sect leader Warren Jeffs or one of his followers. (AP Photo/Mohave County Sheriff's Office, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A West Texas grand jury is meeting again to consider possible charges against members of a polygamist group.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/polygamist_retreat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.1c7dce6432bf455f85d8a753c9ccc4de.polygamist_retreat_dn103.jpg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=t_GT9FZcDxmdSOxOQi5Mrg--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="photo" title="This undated booking file photo provided by the Mohave County Sheriff's Office shows polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs in Arizona. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints documents disclosed as part of a separate child custody case show that about 20 underage girls, a few as young as 12, are identified in the documents as married to jailed sect leader Warren Jeffs or one of his followers. (AP Photo/Mohave County Sheriff's Office, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/train_derail ap/20080820/train_derail AP Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:05:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/train_derail"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.608c59f9217e4230afeefe6350f52dfb.train_derail_ny122.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=enPNU6XjO3i6WcdH6Gtagg--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Juan Alvarez enters the courtroom for his sentencing in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, in Los Angeles. Alvarez, convicted of causing a deadly commuter rail crash that he blamed on an attempt to commit suicide was sentenced Wednesday to 11 consecutive life terms by a judge who denounced him as a remorseless killer. (AP Photo/Annie Wells, Pool)" border="0" /></a>AP - A man convicted of causing a deadly commuter rail crash that he blamed on an attempt to commit suicide was sentenced Wednesday to 11 consecutive life terms by a judge who denounced him as a remorseless killer.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/train_derail"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080820/capt.608c59f9217e4230afeefe6350f52dfb.train_derail_ny122.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=enPNU6XjO3i6WcdH6Gtagg--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="photo" title="Juan Alvarez enters the courtroom for his sentencing in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, in Los Angeles. Alvarez, convicted of causing a deadly commuter rail crash that he blamed on an attempt to commit suicide was sentenced Wednesday to 11 consecutive life terms by a judge who denounced him as a remorseless killer. (AP Photo/Annie Wells, Pool)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)