Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2755 Most Viewed - U.S. en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:26:47 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2755 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/wildfires ap/20080704/wildfires AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:26:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/wildfires"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080704/capt.e7ee9a39b11849b2bcc91456d66f1a7b.aptopix_california_wildfires_caps109.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=cxw6xZ3x0j692LqI9BJTjg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A firefighter watches a wild fire burn uncontrolled in Big Sur, Calif., Thursday, July 3, 2008. The blaze near Big Sur was one of more than 1,700 wildfires, most ignited by lightning, that have scorched more than 770 square miles and destroyed 64 structures across northern and central California since June 20, according to state officials. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - Independence Day is normally a booming time for tourism here, with visitors settling into cliffside vacation homes or trekking out to campgrounds nestled among the redwoods. But this year, the only out-of-towners in Big Sur are firefighters working around the clock to save the storied community from flames.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/wildfires"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080704/capt.e7ee9a39b11849b2bcc91456d66f1a7b.aptopix_california_wildfires_caps109.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=cxw6xZ3x0j692LqI9BJTjg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A firefighter watches a wild fire burn uncontrolled in Big Sur, Calif., Thursday, July 3, 2008. The blaze near Big Sur was one of more than 1,700 wildfires, most ignited by lightning, that have scorched more than 770 square miles and destroyed 64 structures across northern and central California since June 20, according to state officials. (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/20080704/ap_on_re_us/milwaukee_shooting ap/20080704/milwaukee_shooting AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:57:07 GMT AP - Milwaukee police say four people have died in a shooting outside a house party. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/rosa_parks_sale ap/20080704/rosa_parks_sale AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:23:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/rosa_parks_sale"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.99a39a47b2ab499897a0f81cbf9e1e60.rosa_parks_sale_mico102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=sgqeN02bHj_n8ZYUZQCUqQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="This undated photo provided by New York City auction house Guernsey's, shows a hat believed to have been worn by Rosa Parks the day in December 1955 she refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus. Guernsey's has been asked by a Wayne County, Mich., probate court judge in Detroit to find a buyer, preferably a museum, university or other institution for thousands of Parks' personal items. Among them are her presidential and congressional medals, a post card from Martin Luther King Jr., and the hat shown. (AP Photo/Guernsey's, ho)" border="0" /></a>AP - Arlan Ettinger will never forget the response he got when he took one of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' hats to a meeting at the Apollo Theater in New York.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/rosa_parks_sale"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.99a39a47b2ab499897a0f81cbf9e1e60.rosa_parks_sale_mico102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=sgqeN02bHj_n8ZYUZQCUqQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="This undated photo provided by New York City auction house Guernsey's, shows a hat believed to have been worn by Rosa Parks the day in December 1955 she refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus. Guernsey's has been asked by a Wayne County, Mich., probate court judge in Detroit to find a buyer, preferably a museum, university or other institution for thousands of Parks' personal items. Among them are her presidential and congressional medals, a post card from Martin Luther King Jr., and the hat shown. (AP Photo/Guernsey's, ho)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/yankee_doodle250th ap/20080704/yankee_doodle250th AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:23:07 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/yankee_doodle250th"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080704/capt.f97a176112d645f5ad5328395eb6ee07.yankee_doodle_250th_nymg103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=8bixLqY79hFNNZl5hh0XaA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Paul Huey, an archaeologist for New York state, poses in front of a painting depicting Dr. Richard Shuckburg composing the lyrics to 'Yankee Doodle' in Rensselaer, N.Y., Monday, June 30, 2008. Huey believes he has narrowed down a date in June 1758 that Shuckburg, a British army physician, wrote the lyrics. As the story goes, Shuckburgh penned the lyrics at Fort Crailo, in Rensselaer, after being amused by the sloppy drill and appearance of New England militiamen. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)" border="0" /></a>AP - Wish "Yankee Doodle" a happy 250th birthday. Maybe.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/yankee_doodle250th"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080704/capt.f97a176112d645f5ad5328395eb6ee07.yankee_doodle_250th_nymg103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=8bixLqY79hFNNZl5hh0XaA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Paul Huey, an archaeologist for New York state, poses in front of a painting depicting Dr. Richard Shuckburg composing the lyrics to 'Yankee Doodle' in Rensselaer, N.Y., Monday, June 30, 2008. Huey believes he has narrowed down a date in June 1758 that Shuckburg, a British army physician, wrote the lyrics. As the story goes, Shuckburgh penned the lyrics at Fort Crailo, in Rensselaer, after being amused by the sloppy drill and appearance of New England militiamen. (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/20080704/ap_on_re_us/california_helicopter_crash ap/20080704/california_helicopter_crash AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:50:52 GMT AP - Authorities say two men are dead after a helicopter crashed near a Northern California freeway, knocking power lines into traffic lanes and starting a grass fire near the road. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/colombia_us_hostages ap/20080704/colombia_us_hostages AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:07:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/colombia_us_hostages"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.a2976accc95241dfa7e4216a5cc0b390.colombia_hostages_txsae101.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=GMRspN6lGwIDTyGvVHYrwA--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Freed hostage and military contractors, Marc Gonzalves, center with cap, and Thomas Howes in flight suit to the right arrive at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas on Wednesday, July 2, 2008. The U.S. military contractors — Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell — were held for five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. They were part of 15 hostages rescued from the FARC rebels in Columbia. (AP PHOTO/San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara) MAGS OUT NO SALES SAN ANTONIO OUT" border="0" /></a>AP - Back on U.S. soil, three American hostages rescued from Colombia rebels are now in the process of reintegrating into a society they've been absent from for more than five years.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/colombia_us_hostages"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.a2976accc95241dfa7e4216a5cc0b390.colombia_hostages_txsae101.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=GMRspN6lGwIDTyGvVHYrwA--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="Freed hostage and military contractors, Marc Gonzalves, center with cap, and Thomas Howes in flight suit to the right arrive at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas on Wednesday, July 2, 2008. The U.S. military contractors — Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell — were held for five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. They were part of 15 hostages rescued from the FARC rebels in Columbia. (AP PHOTO/San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara) MAGS OUT NO SALES SAN ANTONIO OUT" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080704/ts_alt_afp/usitcopyrightviacomyoutubegoogle afp/20080704/usitcopyrightviacomyoutubegoogle AFP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:19:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080704/ts_alt_afp/usitcopyrightviacomyoutubegoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080704/capt.cps.mxc19.040708101853.photo00.photo.default-512x317.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=Noxn_3uz1fGdPjlUf3MeQg--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="A woman walks past the logo of Internet search engine giant Google at a trade fair. Google expressed disappointment and privacy groups voiced outrage Thursday after a judge ordered Google to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Gottschalk)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A US judge has ordered Google to expose to Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used YouTube in a decision condemned by the Internet giant and privacy advocates.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080704/ts_alt_afp/usitcopyrightviacomyoutubegoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080704/capt.cps.mxc19.040708101853.photo00.photo.default-512x317.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=Noxn_3uz1fGdPjlUf3MeQg--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="A woman walks past the logo of Internet search engine giant Google at a trade fair. Google expressed disappointment and privacy groups voiced outrage Thursday after a judge ordered Google to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Gottschalk)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/missing_girl ap/20080704/missing_girl AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:29:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/missing_girl"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.31cbb01c4ec84f08b7a1ec362a5ba116.missing_girl_vtbar101.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=L2mpeo4YBVm8ZmDpj_fwPw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Michael Stephen Jacques, 42, of Randolph Center appears Monday, June 30, 2008 in Chelsea District Court in Chelsea, Vt. for his arraignment for aggravated sexual assault on a minor.Police unearthed Brooke Bennett's body Wednesday July 2, 2008 from a makeshift grave about a mile from her uncle's house, ending a weeklong search for the subject of Vermont's first Amber Alert. (AP Photo/Pool, Times Argus, Stefan Hard)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Vermont man whose 12-year-old niece was found dead near his home carefully orchestrated events and e-mails to make it appear she had gone to see someone she met online, prosecutors said Thursday as they charged him with kidnapping.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/missing_girl"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.31cbb01c4ec84f08b7a1ec362a5ba116.missing_girl_vtbar101.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=L2mpeo4YBVm8ZmDpj_fwPw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Michael Stephen Jacques, 42, of Randolph Center appears Monday, June 30, 2008 in Chelsea District Court in Chelsea, Vt. for his arraignment for aggravated sexual assault on a minor.Police unearthed Brooke Bennett's body Wednesday July 2, 2008 from a makeshift grave about a mile from her uncle's house, ending a weeklong search for the subject of Vermont's first Amber Alert. (AP Photo/Pool, Times Argus, Stefan Hard)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/marines_fallujah ap/20080704/marines_fallujah AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:46:12 GMT AP - A federal judge in Riverside, Calif., has ordered two Marines released from jail despite their refusal to testify before a grand jury investigating the alleged killing of Iraqi detainees in 2004. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/caged_children ap/20080704/caged_children AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:47:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/caged_children"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.c1522b8e88954fff83aff46d4bd76d5d.correction_correction_caged_children_cx102.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=CFnnCOlJQNv0_LyqsAMmcg--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="A booking photo released July 3, 2008, by the Posen Police Department in Posen, Ill., shows Ricardo Gonzalez, 35, of Midlothian, Ill. Gonzalez was arrested after officials say a woman spotted him pushing a child's hands back into a cage at a gas station in Posen on Monday, June 30, 2008. Police say Gonzalez admitted he locked his girls, ages 2 and 5, in a cage to control them. He faces charges of misdemeanor child endangerment. (AP Photo/Posen Police Department)" border="0" /></a>AP - A suburban Chicago man locked his two young daughters in a wire cage hidden in the back of his pickup truck because he didn't have a baby sitter, officials said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/caged_children"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.c1522b8e88954fff83aff46d4bd76d5d.correction_correction_caged_children_cx102.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=CFnnCOlJQNv0_LyqsAMmcg--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="photo" title="A booking photo released July 3, 2008, by the Posen Police Department in Posen, Ill., shows Ricardo Gonzalez, 35, of Midlothian, Ill. Gonzalez was arrested after officials say a woman spotted him pushing a child's hands back into a cage at a gas station in Posen on Monday, June 30, 2008. Police say Gonzalez admitted he locked his girls, ages 2 and 5, in a cage to control them. He faces charges of misdemeanor child endangerment. (AP Photo/Posen Police Department)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather ap/20080704/tropical_weather AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:20:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_03t121940_450x338_us_weather_bertha_position.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=bpp6YSK9dr7F5_R6ga6HTQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Tropical Storm Bertha is seen near western Africa in a NOAA satellite photo taken July 3, 2008. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Tropical Storm Bertha has formed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_03t121940_450x338_us_weather_bertha_position.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=bpp6YSK9dr7F5_R6ga6HTQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="Tropical Storm Bertha is seen near western Africa in a NOAA satellite photo taken July 3, 2008. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/illegal_immigrant_policy ap/20080704/illegal_immigrant_policy AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:17:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/illegal_immigrant_policy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080702/capt.1ca260daa02f47afb31c11aa5de98c85.newsom_governor_ny127.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=70Pwb6hjfwzLuAPuBcmYkg--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="In this Tuesday, March 25, 2008 file picture, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom addresses the Sacramento Press Club in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom, a Democrat best known for challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage early in his first term, filed papers on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 to form an exploratory committee so he can start raising money and conducting polls for a possible gubernatorial campaign. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)" border="0" /></a>AP - Minors who commit crimes while in the United States illegally will be turned over to federal immigration officials, a reversal of a nearly 20-year-old San Francisco policy, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/illegal_immigrant_policy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080702/capt.1ca260daa02f47afb31c11aa5de98c85.newsom_governor_ny127.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=70Pwb6hjfwzLuAPuBcmYkg--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="In this Tuesday, March 25, 2008 file picture, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom addresses the Sacramento Press Club in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom, a Democrat best known for challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage early in his first term, filed papers on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 to form an exploratory committee so he can start raising money and conducting polls for a possible gubernatorial campaign. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/officer_shot ap/20080704/officer_shot AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:28:13 GMT AP - A 44-year-old woman was charged Thursday with first-degree murder and attempted murder in the shooting death earlier this week of a veteran Chicago police officer. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/odd_vote_for_sale ap/20080704/odd_vote_for_sale AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:59:16 GMT AP - A college student claimed it was all a joke when he put his vote in this fall's presidential election up for sale on the Web auction site eBay. But prosecutors didn't see the humor. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather ap/20080704/severe_weather AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:34:59 GMT AP - Severe thunderstorms swept across parts of Michigan, flooding streets and cutting power to many residents. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/us_nm/transgender_birth_dc nm/20080704/transgender_birth_dc Reuters Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:15:45 GMT Reuters - Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but after surgery and hormone treatment lives as a man, has given birth to a girl at an Oregon hospital, People magazine reported on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/dna_exoneration ap/20080703/dna_exoneration AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:29:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/dna_exoneration"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.df450a173d4f430c9ac2fe952d8c3840.aptopix_dna_exoneration_dn102.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=fgkkhaohIau1lNZAEVdtIQ--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="The Innocence Project board of director member John Stickels, right, look on as DNA exonoree Patrick Waller, reacts to the announcement in court that his conviction of a crime that sent him to jail for more than 15 years was being overturned in Criminal Court District 2 at the Frank Crowley Courts Building, Thursday, July 3, 2008, in Dallas. Waller is the 19th man in Dallas County since 2001 shown by DNA evidence to be innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. The Innocence Project in New York says that's a national high. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Texas man who spent more than 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of kidnapping and robbery raised both arms skyward and collapsed in his mother's embrace Thursday after being told he was a free man.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/dna_exoneration"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.df450a173d4f430c9ac2fe952d8c3840.aptopix_dna_exoneration_dn102.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=fgkkhaohIau1lNZAEVdtIQ--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="photo" title="The Innocence Project board of director member John Stickels, right, look on as DNA exonoree Patrick Waller, reacts to the announcement in court that his conviction of a crime that sent him to jail for more than 15 years was being overturned in Criminal Court District 2 at the Frank Crowley Courts Building, Thursday, July 3, 2008, in Dallas. Waller is the 19th man in Dallas County since 2001 shown by DNA evidence to be innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. The Innocence Project in New York says that's a national high. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/marooned_psych_patients ap/20080703/marooned_psych_patients AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:09:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/marooned_psych_patients"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.2075a6a2e8b747629f2b4bcf504939fc.marooned_psych_patients_ny124.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=n.VwVZPEkj7rHOgSaKHiaw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="In this still photo taken from video provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union, Esmin Green lies face down on the floor in the psychiatric ward of the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, June 19, 2008. Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her chair at 5:32 a.m. and lay writhing, face down on the floor. Security guards and a member of the hospital's staff appeared to notice her prone body, but made no visible attempt to see if she needed help. Within an hour she was dead. (AP Photo/New York Civil Liberties Union)" border="0" /></a>AP - When staffers at a Brooklyn hospital spotted a middle-aged woman lying face-down on a waiting room floor last month, it hardly seemed like cause for alarm.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/marooned_psych_patients"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.2075a6a2e8b747629f2b4bcf504939fc.marooned_psych_patients_ny124.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=n.VwVZPEkj7rHOgSaKHiaw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this still photo taken from video provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union, Esmin Green lies face down on the floor in the psychiatric ward of the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, June 19, 2008. Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her chair at 5:32 a.m. and lay writhing, face down on the floor. Security guards and a member of the hospital's staff appeared to notice her prone body, but made no visible attempt to see if she needed help. Within an hour she was dead. (AP Photo/New York Civil Liberties Union)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/independence_day_mystery ap/20080703/independence_day_mystery AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:52:16 GMT AP - Few of the 3,000 historic postcards in Jack Hiddlestone's collection are as veiled in mystery as the one with Abraham Lincoln on the front. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/teacher_student_flight ap/20080703/teacher_student_flight AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:11:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/teacher_student_flight"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080701/capt.4f11e58b60eb43e68c78e443a9fcd469.teacher_student_flight_ny139.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=hP86vIThfLJ.H6zp95pIwQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="This undated photo provided by Cass County Jail shows Kelsey Peterson. Peterson, the former Lexington teacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old male student and fleeing with him to Mexico is expected to plead guilty to reduced charges Wednesday, July 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Cass County Jail, ho)" border="0" /></a>AP - A former teacher pleaded guilty Wednesday to fleeing to Mexico with a 13-year-old student so she could have sex with him. Her plea was part of a deal to ensure she'll spend less than a decade in federal prison.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_us/teacher_student_flight"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080701/capt.4f11e58b60eb43e68c78e443a9fcd469.teacher_student_flight_ny139.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=hP86vIThfLJ.H6zp95pIwQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="This undated photo provided by Cass County Jail shows Kelsey Peterson. Peterson, the former Lexington teacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old male student and fleeing with him to Mexico is expected to plead guilty to reduced charges Wednesday, July 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Cass County Jail, ho)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)