Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/most-popular/viewed/us Most Viewed - U.S. en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:33:10 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/most-popular/viewed/us http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_winter_weather ap/20100210/us_winter_weather AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:33:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_winter_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.2682046dec4f46298d39a72b17794a35.aptopix_winter_weather_wirac101.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=7I7KKQ3Gqe34O9f7W4D0nw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Ricki Ghani, left, and Eric Brannon clear snow from sidewalks around Festival Hall Park in Racine, Wis. as snow sweeps across southeastern Wisconsin Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Mark Hertzberg)" border="0" /></a>AP - If snow keeps 230,000 government employees home for the better part of a week, will anyone notice? With at least another foot of snow headed for Washington, Philadelphia and New York, we're about to find out. The federal government in the nation's capital has largely been shut down since Friday afternoon, when a storm began dumping up to 3 feet of snow in some parts of the region. Offices were remaining closed at least through Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_winter_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.2682046dec4f46298d39a72b17794a35.aptopix_winter_weather_wirac101.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=7I7KKQ3Gqe34O9f7W4D0nw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Ricki Ghani, left, and Eric Brannon clear snow from sidewalks around Festival Hall Park in Racine, Wis. as snow sweeps across southeastern Wisconsin Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Mark Hertzberg)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_california_storm ap/20100210/us_california_storm AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:30:18 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_california_storm"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.3291a3ee08654424828cae57dec35c87.california_storm_cahm109.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VkPYSlWR2mkAjsJxkISrOg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Catherine Markgraf shovels mud from the entrance of her property after a mudslide in La Canada Flintridge, Calif. on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Another storm is expected to hit the Los Angeles area Tuesday. (AP Photo/Hector Mata)" border="0" /></a>AP - A new wave of winter rains on Tuesday washed over the wildfire-scarred foothill towns north of Los Angeles, forcing some residents to flee homes while others risked remaining to deploy shovels and buckets in an attempt to hold back the muddy deluge.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_california_storm"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.3291a3ee08654424828cae57dec35c87.california_storm_cahm109.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VkPYSlWR2mkAjsJxkISrOg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Catherine Markgraf shovels mud from the entrance of her property after a mudslide in La Canada Flintridge, Calif. on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Another storm is expected to hit the Los Angeles area Tuesday. (AP Photo/Hector Mata)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/iran_nuclear ap/20100210/iran_nuclear AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:23:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/iran_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265615256274-8-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=t8au8bTlbT20_d996EGvrw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tours an exhibition on laser technology in Tehran on February 7, 2010. Iran was expected Monday to officially inform the UN nuclear watchdog of its plans to enrich uranium to a higher level, but insisted it will stop the process if a UN-backed nuclear deal is clinched.(AFP/Atta Kenare)" border="0" /></a>AP - Iranian nuclear technicians set dozens of centrifuges spinning Tuesday to begin enriching uranium stocks to a significantly higher level, prompting President Barack Obama to warn of a "significant regime of sanctions."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/iran_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265615256274-8-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=t8au8bTlbT20_d996EGvrw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tours an exhibition on laser technology in Tehran on February 7, 2010. Iran was expected Monday to officially inform the UN nuclear watchdog of its plans to enrich uranium to a higher level, but insisted it will stop the process if a UN-backed nuclear deal is clinched.(AFP/Atta Kenare)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_ny_governor ap/20100210/us_ny_governor AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:23:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_ny_governor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.effcdf6d731e45bd8b94065ade7dabbf.ny_governor_nymg105.jpg?x=115&y=130&q=85&sig=zKnakAzQOTCWyeRzGdRPGA--" align="left" height="130" width="115" alt="New York Gov. David Paterson arrives to a news conference at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Paterson says Tuesday he believes an anticipated story by The New York Times about his personal conduct won't include much-rumored talk of wild behavior. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)" border="0" /></a>AP - New York Gov. David Paterson, defying calls from even fellow Democrats to drop out of the race for a full term, said Tuesday that he would leave only if the voters turned him out through the ballot box, or "in a box."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_ny_governor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.effcdf6d731e45bd8b94065ade7dabbf.ny_governor_nymg105.jpg?x=115&y=130&q=85&sig=zKnakAzQOTCWyeRzGdRPGA--" align="left" height="130" width="115" alt="photo" title="New York Gov. David Paterson arrives to a news conference at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Paterson says Tuesday he believes an anticipated story by The New York Times about his personal conduct won't include much-rumored talk of wild behavior. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_seventies_slayings_trial ap/20100210/us_seventies_slayings_trial AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:10:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_seventies_slayings_trial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.11a8cc5c83e342bfb50016205791f8e4.seventies_slayings_trial_la107.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=RMT51A3Imo79H47rOdRDYw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="FILE - This Jan. 11, 2010 file photo shows Rodney Alcala, a former death row inmate who was twice convicted of the 1979 killing of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl, sits in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. Alcala, a California man with a genius IQ who is charged with the serial killings of five females donned an earring Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 and took the witness stand in his own defense. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A man acting as his own lawyer in a case charging him with five 1970s serial killings played a video clip Tuesday of himself as the winning contestant on "The Dating Game" in an attempt to prove his innocence in one murder.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_seventies_slayings_trial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.11a8cc5c83e342bfb50016205791f8e4.seventies_slayings_trial_la107.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=RMT51A3Imo79H47rOdRDYw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - This Jan. 11, 2010 file photo shows Rodney Alcala, a former death row inmate who was twice convicted of the 1979 killing of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl, sits in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. Alcala, a California man with a genius IQ who is charged with the serial killings of five females donned an earring Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 and took the witness stand in his own defense. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_shooting ap/20100210/us_abortion_shooting AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:01:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.f2e1aa5e2e6a47bc9e955ceaa9ae3581.abortion_shooting_trial_ny122.jpg?x=126&y=130&q=85&sig=6wC8PBNOwKBW1kx8BZCOjw--" align="left" height="130" width="126" alt="FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 picture, Scott Roeder testifies at his trial in Wichita, Kansas. The convicted killer of Dr. George Tiller, a Kansas abortion provider, has little sympathy for the family of his victim, comparing them to the relatives of a hit man in a recording posted online on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 in his first public comments since his trial. (AP Photo/Jeff Tuttle, Pool)" border="0" /></a>AP - The convicted killer of a Kansas abortion provider has little sympathy for the family of his victim, comparing them to the relatives of a hit man in a recording posted online.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.f2e1aa5e2e6a47bc9e955ceaa9ae3581.abortion_shooting_trial_ny122.jpg?x=126&y=130&q=85&sig=6wC8PBNOwKBW1kx8BZCOjw--" align="left" height="130" width="126" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 picture, Scott Roeder testifies at his trial in Wichita, Kansas. The convicted killer of Dr. George Tiller, a Kansas abortion provider, has little sympathy for the family of his victim, comparing them to the relatives of a hit man in a recording posted online on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 in his first public comments since his trial. (AP Photo/Jeff Tuttle, Pool)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_gang_interventionist_killed ap/20100210/us_gang_interventionist_killed AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:59:02 GMT AP - When Ronald "Loony" Barron urged a young graffiti tagger to put away his paint cans, he was doing what he viewed as his mission &mdash; steering kids away from crime &mdash; but he paid for it with his life. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/ts_nm/us_weather_usa nm/20100210/us_weather_usa Reuters topstories Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:38:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/ts_nm/us_weather_usa"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r4040336112.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=9JKhnsJ4jFzL7Ahf1cYbmA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Cars drive in single file down the normally four lane-wide 18th Street NW in downtown Washington, February 8, 2010. The federal government announced it would remain closed on Monday and most schools planned to shut down as residents of the mid-Atlantic struggled to dig out from a blizzard that dumped two feet of snow on the region. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The second major snowstorm in less than a week hit the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday, with predictions of 12 inches or more stretching from Washington, D.C., to New York City, forcing schools to close and the U.S. Congress to sharply curtail legislative action.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/ts_nm/us_weather_usa"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r4040336112.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=9JKhnsJ4jFzL7Ahf1cYbmA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Cars drive in single file down the normally four lane-wide 18th Street NW in downtown Washington, February 8, 2010. The federal government announced it would remain closed on Monday and most schools planned to shut down as residents of the mid-Atlantic struggled to dig out from a blizzard that dumped two feet of snow on the region. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/ts_alt_afp/entertainmentuscompanyearningsdisneyapple afp/20100210/entertainmentuscompanyearningsdisneyapple AFP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:29:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/ts_alt_afp/entertainmentuscompanyearningsdisneyapple"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265761721187-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=Nf2mbQtIFSLAuY7z1WvUcQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Walt Disney Co. president and chief executive Robert Iger, pictured in January 2010, said Tuesday that Apple's new iPad tablet computer may prove to be a "game changer" for the entertainment and media industry.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alberto E. Rodriguez)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Walt Disney Co. president and chief executive Robert Iger said Tuesday that Apple's new iPad tablet computer may prove to be a "game changer" for the entertainment and media industry.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/ts_alt_afp/entertainmentuscompanyearningsdisneyapple"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265761721187-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=Nf2mbQtIFSLAuY7z1WvUcQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="Walt Disney Co. president and chief executive Robert Iger, pictured in January 2010, said Tuesday that Apple's new iPad tablet computer may prove to be a "game changer" for the entertainment and media industry.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alberto E. Rodriguez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_detroit_airport_security_breach ap/20100210/us_detroit_airport_security_breach AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:01:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_detroit_airport_security_breach"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.7c9145ee33aa4ae8830ff91ca225fac9.detroit_airport_security_breach_dt101.jpg?x=103&y=130&q=85&sig=PiLZlPiD7e07vKgb5jbmhA--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="In this Feb. of 2010 mug shot released by the U.S. Marshals Service, Kaylan L. Policherla, 27, is shown. Policherla was arrested Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 after authorities say he walked through a passenger screening checkpoint at Detroit Metropolitan Airport without a boarding pass and refused to obey security officers. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)" border="0" /></a>AP - The 27-year-old Ohio man who was arrested after authorities say he walked through a passenger screening checkpoint at Detroit Metropolitan Airport without a boarding pass faces a new charge.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_detroit_airport_security_breach"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.7c9145ee33aa4ae8830ff91ca225fac9.detroit_airport_security_breach_dt101.jpg?x=103&y=130&q=85&sig=PiLZlPiD7e07vKgb5jbmhA--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="photo" title="In this Feb. of 2010 mug shot released by the U.S. Marshals Service, Kaylan L. Policherla, 27, is shown. Policherla was arrested Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 after authorities say he walked through a passenger screening checkpoint at Detroit Metropolitan Airport without a boarding pass and refused to obey security officers. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_drew_peterson ap/20100209/us_drew_peterson AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:56:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_drew_peterson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100203/capt.7d6b1a87bd3f499b90a00571e8682c66.police_officers_wife_ny116.jpg?x=120&y=130&q=85&sig=S3Wp1i9Pi_7b27Nk7nT9fA--" align="left" height="130" width="120" alt="FILE - In this Friday, May 8, 2009 picture, former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill. for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio, who was found in an empty bathtub at home. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)" border="0" /></a>AP - The second wife of a former suburban Chicago police sergeant testified at a pretrial hearing Tuesday that he had threatened to kill her and said he could make it look like an accident</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_drew_peterson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100203/capt.7d6b1a87bd3f499b90a00571e8682c66.police_officers_wife_ny116.jpg?x=120&y=130&q=85&sig=S3Wp1i9Pi_7b27Nk7nT9fA--" align="left" height="130" width="120" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Friday, May 8, 2009 picture, former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill. for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio, who was found in an empty bathtub at home. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_texas_church_fires ap/20100209/us_texas_church_fires AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:02:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_texas_church_fires"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.eea8f4c8c8fb4dcd92bb6ee705f89a0d.texas_church_fires_ny126.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=hYRuLjUWa8CmlauPEHwuBw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, investigators talk in front of the burned Russell Memorial United Methodist Church in Wills Point, Texas. The seventh church fire this year in east Texas destroyed the sanctuary of the church. A federal official says a fire that destroyed a church last week was the eighth case of arson against a house of worship in Texas this year. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A spate of recent fires that destroyed or damaged several churches in eastern Texas were intentionally set, likely by the same person or group, federal authorities said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_texas_church_fires"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.eea8f4c8c8fb4dcd92bb6ee705f89a0d.texas_church_fires_ny126.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=hYRuLjUWa8CmlauPEHwuBw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, investigators talk in front of the burned Russell Memorial United Methodist Church in Wills Point, Texas. The seventh church fire this year in east Texas destroyed the sanctuary of the church. A federal official says a fire that destroyed a church last week was the eighth case of arson against a house of worship in Texas this year. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/us_nm/us_weather_usa_congress nm/20100209/us_weather_usa_congress Reuters us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:53:27 GMT Reuters - The House of Representatives on Tuesday postponed further action on legislation until later this month as the capital city braced for a second major snowstorm in less than a week. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_off_duty_officer_shooting ap/20100209/us_off_duty_officer_shooting AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:52:53 GMT AP - A former Philadelphia police officer has turned himself in to face murder charges in the shooting death of a neighbor during an off-duty altercation last year. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_clinton_office_defendant ap/20100209/us_clinton_office_defendant AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:47:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_clinton_office_defendant"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.c549ba19d6814e35b3e0a9f97d82fc5c.clinton_office_defendant_ny114.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=hiEkKD3Dt_V2pCNcP.hWdQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2007 file photo, Leeland Eisenberg talks about strapping a fake bomb to himself and taking people hostage at the Rochester, N.H. presidential campaign office of Hillary Rodham Clinton, during an interview from the Strafford County Jail in Dover, N.H. New Hampshire authorities say Eisenberg has cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet Tuesday morning Feb. 9, 2010 and is a fugitive who is a danger to the public. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)" border="0" /></a>AP - The man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet Tuesday, then fled, and he is considered dangerous, authorities said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_clinton_office_defendant"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.c549ba19d6814e35b3e0a9f97d82fc5c.clinton_office_defendant_ny114.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=hiEkKD3Dt_V2pCNcP.hWdQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2007 file photo, Leeland Eisenberg talks about strapping a fake bomb to himself and taking people hostage at the Rochester, N.H. presidential campaign office of Hillary Rodham Clinton, during an interview from the Strafford County Jail in Dover, N.H. New Hampshire authorities say Eisenberg has cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet Tuesday morning Feb. 9, 2010 and is a fugitive who is a danger to the public. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticspalingibbs afp/20100209/uspoliticspalingibbs AFP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:45:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticspalingibbs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265751905593-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=FsO.FB4yuMTlpsY529O3aw--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs jokingly refers to a list written on his hand during a briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Gibbs on Tuesday read out a shopping list scribbled on his palm, lampooning conservative darling Sarah Palin, who used a similar trick to remember her political script.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Tuesday read out a shopping list scribbled on his palm, lampooning conservative darling Sarah Palin, who used a similar trick to remember her political script.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticspalingibbs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265751905593-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=FsO.FB4yuMTlpsY529O3aw--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="photo" title="White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs jokingly refers to a list written on his hand during a briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Gibbs on Tuesday read out a shopping list scribbled on his palm, lampooning conservative darling Sarah Palin, who used a similar trick to remember her political script.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_alt_afp/usitcompanyinternetgooglefacebooktwitter afp/20100209/usitcompanyinternetgooglefacebooktwitter AFP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:28:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_alt_afp/usitcompanyinternetgooglefacebooktwitter"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265744821529-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=I1F76GX13LAvaFB43AKXeA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Google on Tuesday gave its free email service a "Buzz," adding Twitter and Facebook style social networking features.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Google is giving its free email service a "Buzz" by adding social-networking features which could challenge the supremacy of platforms like Facebook and Twitter.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_alt_afp/usitcompanyinternetgooglefacebooktwitter"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265744821529-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=I1F76GX13LAvaFB43AKXeA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Google on Tuesday gave its free email service a "Buzz," adding Twitter and Facebook style social networking features.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_edwards_sex_tape ap/20100209/us_edwards_sex_tape AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:06:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_edwards_sex_tape"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100129/capt.8f0067d799cc4cd5a8b059c997b4b09d.edwards_book_ny132.jpg?x=124&y=130&q=85&sig=fI9eiDfrzV.HLTKMI99zog--" align="left" height="130" width="124" alt="FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 29, 2006 picture, Rielle Hunter, background left, holds a video camera as former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards campaigns in Portsmouth, N.H. Hunter, the ex-mistress of the two-time presidential candidate John Edwards wants a 'very private and personal' videotape back from a campaign aide who wrote a book about the politician, according to court documents obtained Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)" border="0" /></a>AP - A North Carolina court has temporarily stopped the security rules that a judge issued for the retrieval of the John Edwards sex tape.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_edwards_sex_tape"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100129/capt.8f0067d799cc4cd5a8b059c997b4b09d.edwards_book_ny132.jpg?x=124&y=130&q=85&sig=fI9eiDfrzV.HLTKMI99zog--" align="left" height="130" width="124" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 29, 2006 picture, Rielle Hunter, background left, holds a video camera as former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards campaigns in Portsmouth, N.H. Hunter, the ex-mistress of the two-time presidential candidate John Edwards wants a 'very private and personal' videotape back from a campaign aide who wrote a book about the politician, according to court documents obtained Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_dna_criminal_relatives ap/20100209/us_dna_criminal_relatives AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:02:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_dna_criminal_relatives"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.83039a8f1c1e4b85909fa954ce85b14f.dna_criminal_relatives_coea101.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=X9_6RysfsGKib7cIRnDROA--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey stands next to a model of DNA structure in his office in Denver. Morrissey's office was able to get a conviction in a case using the DNA of the suspect's brother to identify the suspect. Morrissey says he's solved the first crime in the U.S. using 'familial DNA,'' a controversial technique where investigators develop a lead based on a family relationship, rather than linking crime-scene evidence to a person. Britain has used the technique for years to solve high-profile crimes, but it has raised privacy concerns in the U.S. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)" border="0" /></a>AP - Police in at least two states are increasingly using a DNA crime-solving technique that some legal experts say amounts to guilt by association: If your brother, father, uncle or son has been in trouble with the law and is in a DNA database because of it, you, too, could fall under suspicion.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_dna_criminal_relatives"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.83039a8f1c1e4b85909fa954ce85b14f.dna_criminal_relatives_coea101.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=X9_6RysfsGKib7cIRnDROA--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey stands next to a model of DNA structure in his office in Denver. Morrissey's office was able to get a conviction in a case using the DNA of the suspect's brother to identify the suspect. Morrissey says he's solved the first crime in the U.S. using 'familial DNA,'' a controversial technique where investigators develop a lead based on a family relationship, rather than linking crime-scene evidence to a person. Britain has used the technique for years to solve high-profile crimes, but it has raised privacy concerns in the U.S. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_alt_afp/usweatherstorm afp/20100209/usweatherstorm AFP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:40:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_alt_afp/usweatherstorm"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265737000160-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=eTsUj14DMNa2MydURn_big--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A man uses a bulldozer to clean snow in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 8. The rarely-shuttered US government closed down for a second day Tuesday, as the northeast braced for another massive snow blitz just days after a historic blizzard paralyzed the region.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Already paralyzed after an epic weekend blizzard, the northeast US including the capital Washington braced Tuesday for a second storm set to dump enough snow to smash all-time winter records.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_alt_afp/usweatherstorm"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265737000160-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=eTsUj14DMNa2MydURn_big--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man uses a bulldozer to clean snow in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 8. The rarely-shuttered US government closed down for a second day Tuesday, as the northeast braced for another massive snow blitz just days after a historic blizzard paralyzed the region.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)