Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2755 Most Viewed - U.S. en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:26:03 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2755 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_victim_vignettes ap/20091107/us_fort_hood_victim_vignettes AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:26:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_victim_vignettes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.df08e76e15884f3b8e76165f32ae4a5f.fort_hood_victim_ny115.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=pGlZtbAph3aneuQ999yz4w--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="In this combo, victims killed during a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas on Nov. 5, 2009 are shown. From top left, Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Frederick, Okla., Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis., Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah, Michael Grant Cahill, 62, of Cameron, Texas, Pfc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn., Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow, 32, of Evans, Ga. From bottom left, Pfc. Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook, Ill., Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wis., Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago, Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, of Williston, N.D., and Major L. Eduardo Caraveo, 52, of Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo)" border="0" /></a>AP - The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, a father of three with ties to Laos whose family had a history of military service, a civilian who had returned to work a week after suffering a heart attack, and a psychiatric nurse who arrived at Fort Hood a day before the shootingHere is a look at some of the victims.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_victim_vignettes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.df08e76e15884f3b8e76165f32ae4a5f.fort_hood_victim_ny115.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=pGlZtbAph3aneuQ999yz4w--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this combo, victims killed during a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas on Nov. 5, 2009 are shown. From top left, Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Frederick, Okla., Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis., Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah, Michael Grant Cahill, 62, of Cameron, Texas, Pfc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn., Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow, 32, of Evans, Ga. From bottom left, Pfc. Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook, Ill., Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wis., Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago, Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, of Williston, N.D., and Major L. Eduardo Caraveo, 52, of Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_orlando_office_shooting ap/20091107/us_orlando_office_shooting AP business Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:19:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_orlando_office_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.573b4d1741fc4426819e8d350323d284.orlando_office_shooting_florl105.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=YETE3odlz8gFqnT1tqLCIQ--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Jason Rodriguez makes his first appearance before Circuit Judge Walter Komanski at the Orange County Jail, on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Orlando, Fla. The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five others at the firm where he once worked is 'very mentally ill' and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney said Saturday. Rodriguez, 40, was ordered held without bail at the Orange County Jail, where he is under suicide watch after Friday's shooting. (AP Photo/Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda, Pool)" border="0" /></a>AP - Jason Rodriguez's marriage long ago went sour, his home taken in foreclosure, his job lost to incompetence, his finances sunk in bankruptcy. It was a "stress overload" for the man accused of a deadly shooting rampage at his former office, his lawyer said Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_orlando_office_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.573b4d1741fc4426819e8d350323d284.orlando_office_shooting_florl105.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=YETE3odlz8gFqnT1tqLCIQ--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="Jason Rodriguez makes his first appearance before Circuit Judge Walter Komanski at the Orange County Jail, on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Orlando, Fla. The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five others at the firm where he once worked is 'very mentally ill' and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney said Saturday. Rodriguez, 40, was ordered held without bail at the Orange County Jail, where he is under suicide watch after Friday's shooting. (AP Photo/Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda, Pool)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting_officers ap/20091107/us_fort_hood_shooting_officers AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:18:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting_officers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r1861309669.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=pV498cM7MWSNDkpAKtVXtQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="United States Army Specialist Ryan Hill (R) lights a candle with the help of his daughter Emma, 3, at the Fort Hood Army Post in Fort Hood, Texas November 7, 2009. Hill has friends whom he has not been able to get in touch with since the shooting. Investigators searched on Friday for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling U.S. Army base in Texas, in which an Army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people. The suspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was shot four times by police, a base spokesman said. He was unconscious but in stable condition. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (UNITED STATES MILITARY CRIME LAW CONFLICT)" border="0" /></a>AP - One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before kicking the man's weapon away, handcuffing him and ending the nation's worst killing spree on a military base.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting_officers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r1861309669.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=pV498cM7MWSNDkpAKtVXtQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="United States Army Specialist Ryan Hill (R) lights a candle with the help of his daughter Emma, 3, at the Fort Hood Army Post in Fort Hood, Texas November 7, 2009. Hill has friends whom he has not been able to get in touch with since the shooting. Investigators searched on Friday for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling U.S. Army base in Texas, in which an Army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people. The suspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was shot four times by police, a base spokesman said. He was unconscious but in stable condition. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (UNITED STATES MILITARY CRIME LAW CONFLICT)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting ap/20091107/us_fort_hood_shooting AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:18:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.2c983a9de1d447e2899862d7b336d653.fort_hood_shooting_txps103.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=P_nvzMFrwkpCX6puhi771Q--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Flowers are left outside the entrance of Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers during a rampage that left 13 people dead and 30 injured on Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - There was the classroom presentation that justified suicide bombings. Comments to colleagues about a climate of persecution faced by Muslims in the military. Conversations with a mosque leader that became incoherent.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.2c983a9de1d447e2899862d7b336d653.fort_hood_shooting_txps103.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=P_nvzMFrwkpCX6puhi771Q--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="Flowers are left outside the entrance of Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers during a rampage that left 13 people dead and 30 injured on Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_immigrant_hate_crimes ap/20091107/us_immigrant_hate_crimes AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:17:49 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_immigrant_hate_crimes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.83358f30baca4563b2b0a1b0eb01c8dc.hate_crime_stabbing_nyr101.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=BDZcoH65uUwCNElu_1To3A--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 28, 2009, Nicholas Hausch appears in court in Riverhead, N.Y. where he and six other Long Island teenagers are accused in the stabbing death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero. Hausch pleaded guilty Thursday, Nov. 2, 2009 to gang assault and hate crime charges. The agreement requires him to testify against the six other defendants. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, Pool. File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The high school buddies who trolled the streets looking for Hispanics to attack called it "beaner hopping."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_immigrant_hate_crimes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.83358f30baca4563b2b0a1b0eb01c8dc.hate_crime_stabbing_nyr101.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=BDZcoH65uUwCNElu_1To3A--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 28, 2009, Nicholas Hausch appears in court in Riverhead, N.Y. where he and six other Long Island teenagers are accused in the stabbing death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero. Hausch pleaded guilty Thursday, Nov. 2, 2009 to gang assault and hate crime charges. The agreement requires him to testify against the six other defendants. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, Pool. File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_uss_new_york ap/20091107/us_uss_new_york AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:31:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_uss_new_york"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.a68bb9ed7dbe4c3cadb379a700bdf1f5.aptopix_uss_new_york_nydg101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=2w.hwI0kknDNCEgjxEnRCw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Port Authority Sgt. Christopher Bergman, center, a 9/11 first responder who lost friends in the attack, looks on as the USS New York, a Navy amphibious assault ship containing 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, gets formally commissioned in New York Saturday Nov. 7, 2009. The $1 billion warship was built near New Orleans by workers who survived Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/David Goldman)" border="0" /></a>AP - The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into Navy service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_uss_new_york"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.a68bb9ed7dbe4c3cadb379a700bdf1f5.aptopix_uss_new_york_nydg101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=2w.hwI0kknDNCEgjxEnRCw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Port Authority Sgt. Christopher Bergman, center, a 9/11 first responder who lost friends in the attack, looks on as the USS New York, a Navy amphibious assault ship containing 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, gets formally commissioned in New York Saturday Nov. 7, 2009. The $1 billion warship was built near New Orleans by workers who survived Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/David Goldman)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_muslims_in_the_military ap/20091107/us_fort_hood_muslims_in_the_military AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:20:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_muslims_in_the_military"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.f3fb4fb687a842d1a2d069fc27f7edb8.islam_us_military_gfx903.jpg?x=50&y=130&q=85&sig=10vZDRdpqWj0cTeA9wefqQ--" align="left" height="130" width="50" alt="Graphic shows the number of active duty U.S. soldiers of the Islam faith as of Aug. 2009; includes other faiths and Islam faith by U.S. military branch" border="0" /></a>AP - Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's family says he confided in them that he felt harassed as a Muslim in the U.S. military &mdash; and wasn't treated as an American and soldier should be.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_muslims_in_the_military"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.f3fb4fb687a842d1a2d069fc27f7edb8.islam_us_military_gfx903.jpg?x=50&y=130&q=85&sig=10vZDRdpqWj0cTeA9wefqQ--" align="left" height="130" width="50" alt="photo" title="Graphic shows the number of active duty U.S. soldiers of the Islam faith as of Aug. 2009; includes other faiths and Islam faith by U.S. military branch" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_flight93_memorial ap/20091107/us_flight93_memorial AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:28:54 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_flight93_memorial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.d66a72498fcd49109e6a6d47fbfeef95.flight_93_memorial_pagp101.jpg?x=118&y=130&q=85&sig=LIfjb2RaUza.oxLu4SIcrA--" align="left" height="130" width="118" alt="Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, right rear, and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, left rear, lead the ground breaking for the Flight 93 National Memorial Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Shanksville, Pa. From foreground left, are Campbell Peterson, and Peyton Peterson, grandsons of Flight 93 passengers Donald Peterson and Jean Hoadley Peterson, and Sarah Wainio, sister of Flight 93 passenger Honor Elizabeth Wainio. Plans are for the memorial to be dedicated on Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)" border="0" /></a>AP - With the words "Let's roll" &mdash; the command issued by United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer to lead the passenger revolt &mdash; 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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_flight93_memorial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.d66a72498fcd49109e6a6d47fbfeef95.flight_93_memorial_pagp101.jpg?x=118&y=130&q=85&sig=LIfjb2RaUza.oxLu4SIcrA--" align="left" height="130" width="118" alt="photo" title="Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, right rear, and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, left rear, lead the ground breaking for the Flight 93 National Memorial Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Shanksville, Pa. From foreground left, are Campbell Peterson, and Peyton Peterson, grandsons of Flight 93 passengers Donald Peterson and Jean Hoadley Peterson, and Sarah Wainio, sister of Flight 93 passenger Honor Elizabeth Wainio. Plans are for the memorial to be dedicated on Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_cleveland_bodies_found ap/20091107/us_cleveland_bodies_found AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:25:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_cleveland_bodies_found"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.533f66cec5e7454f9c68eb3284cd1c65.aptopix_cleveland_bodies_found_cd102.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=.Bq4wGLRbWvEUzmxfhji7g--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Anthony Sowell, right, stands behind public defender Kathleen DeMetz during his court appearance Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in Cleveland. Sowell, 50, has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder and held without bond after 10 bodies were discovered in his home over the past few days. Sowell was ordered held without bond. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them &mdash; most by strangulation &mdash; and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_cleveland_bodies_found"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.533f66cec5e7454f9c68eb3284cd1c65.aptopix_cleveland_bodies_found_cd102.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=.Bq4wGLRbWvEUzmxfhji7g--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="Anthony Sowell, right, stands behind public defender Kathleen DeMetz during his court appearance Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in Cleveland. Sowell, 50, has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder and held without bond after 10 bodies were discovered in his home over the past few days. Sowell was ordered held without bond. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_sept11_memorial ap/20091107/us_sept11_memorial AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:22:15 GMT AP - A memorial to honor a Sept. 11 victim from a small northwestern Connecticut town has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from his father's insistence it say his son was murdered by "Muslim terrorists." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_alt_afp/lifestyleliteratureusbritainrussiapublishing afp/20091107/lifestyleliteratureusbritainrussiapublishing AFP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:05:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_alt_afp/lifestyleliteratureusbritainrussiapublishing"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257620355475-1-0.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=x8o7H7BEOXPcXtUDxSYDhA--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="An undated photo shows Russian-born American writer Vladimir Nabokov, born in 1899 and who died in 1977. Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but "The Original of Laura" survived and now, 32 years later, the unfinished novel is about to be published for the first time.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but "The Original of Laura" survived and now, 32 years later, the unfinished novel is about to be published for the first time.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_alt_afp/lifestyleliteratureusbritainrussiapublishing"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257620355475-1-0.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=x8o7H7BEOXPcXtUDxSYDhA--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="photo" title="An undated photo shows Russian-born American writer Vladimir Nabokov, born in 1899 and who died in 1977. Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but "The Original of Laura" survived and now, 32 years later, the unfinished novel is about to be published for the first time.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_sniper_unanswered_questions ap/20091107/us_sniper_unanswered_questions AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:48:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_sniper_unanswered_questions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.9cd876f6eb5b4d33b81fee8824c85d79.sniper_shootings_witnesses_ny108.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=91QJUELLNWLZJhY317nDfA--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="FILE -- In a March 9, 2004, file photo convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad stands as he is sentenced to death for the shooting of Dean Meyers at the Prince William County Circuit Court in Manassas, Va. Forty-eight-year-old John Allen Muhammad is set to die by lethal injection in a Virginia prison Nov. 10,2009, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Steve Helber/file)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_sniper_unanswered_questions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.9cd876f6eb5b4d33b81fee8824c85d79.sniper_shootings_witnesses_ny108.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=91QJUELLNWLZJhY317nDfA--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="photo" title="FILE -- In a March 9, 2004, file photo convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad stands as he is sentenced to death for the shooting of Dean Meyers at the Prince William County Circuit Court in Manassas, Va. Forty-eight-year-old John Allen Muhammad is set to die by lethal injection in a Virginia prison Nov. 10,2009, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Steve Helber/file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_dead_sea_scrolls ap/20091107/us_dead_sea_scrolls AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:20:48 GMT AP - Students and university officials started getting e-mails last year in which a prominent Judaic studies scholar seemed to make a startling confession: He had committed plagiarism. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re/us_rel_fort_hood_shooting_muslims ap/20091107/us_rel_fort_hood_shooting_muslims AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:31:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re/us_rel_fort_hood_shooting_muslims"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.d7e930d02a464f65a888397775139517.fort_hood_shooting_muslims_txaus101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=jMpwCSf6mRR4moaYXQgp8w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Muslim Community Center Imam Sheik Mohamed Abdullahi poses for a photo in Silver Spring, Md., on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. The suspected gunman at Fort Hood, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, attended the mosque when he lived in the area. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Laura Skelding)" border="0" /></a>AP - As word spread that a gunman had opened fire at Fort Hood leaving a trail of carnage, a chilling realization swept across the U.S. Muslim community: He has an Islamic name.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re/us_rel_fort_hood_shooting_muslims"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.d7e930d02a464f65a888397775139517.fort_hood_shooting_muslims_txaus101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=jMpwCSf6mRR4moaYXQgp8w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Muslim Community Center Imam Sheik Mohamed Abdullahi poses for a photo in Silver Spring, Md., on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. The suspected gunman at Fort Hood, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, attended the mosque when he lived in the area. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Laura Skelding)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_alt_afp/entertainmentusmusicjackson afp/20091107/entertainmentusmusicjackson AFP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:58:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_alt_afp/entertainmentusmusicjackson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257613038096-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=ykdT7EWBadxazOaHAUx5Xg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Michael Jackson's father Joe, seen here in Germany in September, is seeking money from his late son's estate to help him meet monthly living expenses estimated at more than $15,000, court papers have shown.(DDP/AFP/Joerg Koch)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Michael Jackson's father is seeking money from his late son's estate to help him meet monthly living expenses estimated at more than 15,000 dollars, court papers filed in Los Angeles have revealed.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_alt_afp/entertainmentusmusicjackson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257613038096-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=ykdT7EWBadxazOaHAUx5Xg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Michael Jackson's father Joe, seen here in Germany in September, is seeking money from his late son's estate to help him meet monthly living expenses estimated at more than $15,000, court papers have shown.(DDP/AFP/Joerg Koch)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_threat_investigation ap/20091107/us_obama_threat_investigation AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:49:14 GMT AP - A man who threatened to kill Barack Obama last summer just before the Democratic National Convention in Denver has pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_swine_flu_alaska_village ap/20091107/us_swine_flu_alaska_village AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:05:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_swine_flu_alaska_village"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.a5187d0129704f5596b7cde38c6deabd.swine_flu_alaska_village_akrd101.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=44qOsqxplqM4cPAyM.3f5Q--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="This October 2002 picture provided by Dr. David Head of the Norton Sound Health Corporation shows the village of Diomede on Little Diomede Island in extreme western Alaska. So many of the 130 residents of the isolated community have been stricken with flu-like symptoms that the Alaska Army National Guard stepped in with a Black Hawk helicopter to transport a medical team there from Nome 135 miles away. The medics arrived Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 to administer doses of swine flu vaccine and deliver enough medicine to treat every resident if necessary. (AP Photo/Norton Sound Health Corporation, David Head)" border="0" /></a>AP - Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island &mdash; prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_swine_flu_alaska_village"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.a5187d0129704f5596b7cde38c6deabd.swine_flu_alaska_village_akrd101.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=44qOsqxplqM4cPAyM.3f5Q--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="This October 2002 picture provided by Dr. David Head of the Norton Sound Health Corporation shows the village of Diomede on Little Diomede Island in extreme western Alaska. So many of the 130 residents of the isolated community have been stricken with flu-like symptoms that the Alaska Army National Guard stepped in with a Black Hawk helicopter to transport a medical team there from Nome 135 miles away. The medics arrived Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 to administer doses of swine flu vaccine and deliver enough medicine to treat every resident if necessary. (AP Photo/Norton Sound Health Corporation, David Head)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_too_fat_to_kill ap/20091107/us_too_fat_to_kill AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:35:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_too_fat_to_kill"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.6fbe669c075048ff8d0248a8fa696a59.too_fat_to_kill_ny135.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=GsnnZLnNuLEobxpCfL7U5A--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="In this undated photo released by the Trenton, NJ prosecutor's office on Oct. 28, 2009, Edward Ates is shown. A jury on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 rejected the Florida man's claims that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs and killed his former son-in-law, convicting him of murder. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Trenton Prosecutor Office) NO SALES" border="0" /></a>AP - A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man's defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_too_fat_to_kill"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.6fbe669c075048ff8d0248a8fa696a59.too_fat_to_kill_ny135.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=GsnnZLnNuLEobxpCfL7U5A--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this undated photo released by the Trenton, NJ prosecutor's office on Oct. 28, 2009, Edward Ates is shown. A jury on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 rejected the Florida man's claims that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs and killed his former son-in-law, convicting him of murder. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Trenton Prosecutor Office) NO SALES" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_sc/us_space_elevator ap/20091107/us_space_elevator AP science Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:53:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_sc/us_space_elevator"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.056a5dc778b142d89afc27b20523ed5a.space_elevator_cars201.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=LxPjtp5wxkhqT5cL77t3Zg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="This handout photo from NASA shows David Bashford, right, lead of the LaserMotive team, preparing their robotic climber entry in the $2 million Space Elevator Games at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. In a the test of the concept, robotic machines powered by laser beams will try to climb a cable suspended from a helicopter, on a course 900 meters (2,953 feet) high. (AP Photo/NASA, Tom Tschida)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space &mdash; an idea spurred by science fiction novels.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_sc/us_space_elevator"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.056a5dc778b142d89afc27b20523ed5a.space_elevator_cars201.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=LxPjtp5wxkhqT5cL77t3Zg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="This handout photo from NASA shows David Bashford, right, lead of the LaserMotive team, preparing their robotic climber entry in the $2 million Space Elevator Games at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. In a the test of the concept, robotic machines powered by laser beams will try to climb a cable suspended from a helicopter, on a course 900 meters (2,953 feet) high. (AP Photo/NASA, Tom Tschida)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_mayor_on_trial ap/20091107/us_mayor_on_trial AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:46:58 GMT AP - The accusations that Mayor Sheila Dixon used holiday gift cards for the needy during personal shopping sprees may sound like a minor embarrassment at worst, a small-time case of a politician enjoying the perks of power.