Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/718 U.S. News en-us Fri, 09 May 2008 21:13:11 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/718 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/sharpton_s_money ap/20080509/sharpton_s_money AP Fri, 09 May 2008 21:28:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/sharpton_s_money"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.a35f6ed804a642e99e6d5317f83ec6c2.sharpton_s_money_nyr103.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=9rvP5tNCuz8Dee4jwA.LfQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="In this March 24, 2005 file photo, Rev. Al Sharpton walks to the Federal Communications Commission office in Washington. Sharpton has emerged over the past decade as New York City's most prominent civil rights leader. Government records reviewed by The Associated Press indicate that Sharpton and his business entities owe nearly $1.5 million in overdue taxes and associated penalties, mostly dating from the years leading up to his run for president in 2004. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor's mansion. The Rev. Al Sharpton has emerged over the past decade as perhaps the nation's most prominent civil rights leader, a status that was demonstrated again this week when he led protests against police brutality that briefly shut down six of Manhattan's major bridges and tunnels.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/sharpton_s_money"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.a35f6ed804a642e99e6d5317f83ec6c2.sharpton_s_money_nyr103.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=9rvP5tNCuz8Dee4jwA.LfQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this March 24, 2005 file photo, Rev. Al Sharpton walks to the Federal Communications Commission office in Washington. Sharpton has emerged over the past decade as New York City's most prominent civil rights leader. Government records reviewed by The Associated Press indicate that Sharpton and his business entities owe nearly $1.5 million in overdue taxes and associated penalties, mostly dating from the years leading up to his run for president in 2004. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/judging_a_judge ap/20080509/judging_a_judge AP Fri, 09 May 2008 17:57:06 GMT AP - Elizabeth Halverson is a judge. But the way courthouse staffers see it, she expects to be treated like a queen. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/18_kids ap/20080509/18_kids AP Fri, 09 May 2008 21:25:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/18_kids"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.c99a3bf2ec3e4b3d8c1d2a0bfb781da1.18_kids_arbh102.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=C1vR1sC0MLLqpjCxSEvH9g--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="In this Aug. 2, 2007 file photo, Michelle Duggar, left, is surrounded by her children and husband Jim Bob, third from right after the birth of her 17th child in Rogers, Ark. The Duggars announced on Friday, May 9, 2008 that they are expecting their 18th child. (AP Photo/ Beth Hall, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman — she's pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/18_kids"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.c99a3bf2ec3e4b3d8c1d2a0bfb781da1.18_kids_arbh102.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=C1vR1sC0MLLqpjCxSEvH9g--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Aug. 2, 2007 file photo, Michelle Duggar, left, is surrounded by her children and husband Jim Bob, third from right after the birth of her 17th child in Rogers, Ark. The Duggars announced on Friday, May 9, 2008 that they are expecting their 18th child. (AP Photo/ Beth Hall, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/powerball_winner ap/20080509/powerball_winner AP Fri, 09 May 2008 11:00:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/powerball_winner"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.0f06d24ba0a9415f90848ed9155db987.powerball_winner_lawh102.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=suYwKAm_e_b9Dc1tZ_Qhgw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="Carl Hunter and his wife Diane Hunter hold a check representing the amount they won in the Louisiana Powerball Jackpot drawing in January, Thursday, May 8, 2008, in Baton Rogue. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)" border="0" /></a>AP - A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/powerball_winner"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.0f06d24ba0a9415f90848ed9155db987.powerball_winner_lawh102.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=suYwKAm_e_b9Dc1tZ_Qhgw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="Carl Hunter and his wife Diane Hunter hold a check representing the amount they won in the Louisiana Powerball Jackpot drawing in January, Thursday, May 8, 2008, in Baton Rogue. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/baby_kidnapped ap/20080509/baby_kidnapped AP Fri, 09 May 2008 20:40:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/baby_kidnapped"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.5083ae3c55cb47a082ed04f4131c475c.baby_kidnapped_torrez_mobb102.jpg?x=130&y=107&q=85&sig=Dgci.y9rO0chlkWvazOQ1A--" align="left" height="107" width="130" alt="Shannon Torrez, center, is led by Franklin County police from the Franklin County Courthouse in Union, Mo., Friday, March 9, 2008. Torrez, accused in 2006 of slashing a young mother's throat, kidnapping her newborn and passing off the child as her own for five days reached a plea deal with prosecutors. Under the arrangement, she does not admit guilt but concedes there is sufficient evidence for a guilty verdict. (AP Photo/Bill Boyce)" border="0" /></a>AP - A woman accused of slashing a young mother's throat, kidnapping her newborn and passing off the child as her own for five days reached a plea deal Friday and will be sentenced this summer.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/baby_kidnapped"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.5083ae3c55cb47a082ed04f4131c475c.baby_kidnapped_torrez_mobb102.jpg?x=130&y=107&q=85&sig=Dgci.y9rO0chlkWvazOQ1A--" align="left" height="107" width="130" alt="photo" title="Shannon Torrez, center, is led by Franklin County police from the Franklin County Courthouse in Union, Mo., Friday, March 9, 2008. Torrez, accused in 2006 of slashing a young mother's throat, kidnapping her newborn and passing off the child as her own for five days reached a plea deal with prosecutors. Under the arrangement, she does not admit guilt but concedes there is sufficient evidence for a guilty verdict. (AP Photo/Bill Boyce)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/officer_shot ap/20080509/officer_shot AP Fri, 09 May 2008 17:17:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/officer_shot"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.dc4b8fa1ec8e4550bf204ad4bea7200f.officer_shot_pamr101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=czjmIy9wqnbnmWQLN4s9VQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and other officer's salute the casket of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, Friday, May 9, 2008. Liczbinski, the 12-year veteran of the police force was fatally shot on Saturday as he responded to a call of a robbery at a bank inside a supermarket. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hundreds of mourners lined up in the pouring rain outside a cathedral Friday to pay their respects to a Philadelphia police officer killed in the line of duty.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/officer_shot"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.dc4b8fa1ec8e4550bf204ad4bea7200f.officer_shot_pamr101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=czjmIy9wqnbnmWQLN4s9VQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and other officer's salute the casket of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, Friday, May 9, 2008. Liczbinski, the 12-year veteran of the police force was fatally shot on Saturday as he responded to a call of a robbery at a bank inside a supermarket. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_sp_ot/athletic_ashes ap/20080509/athletic_ashes AP Fri, 09 May 2008 15:51:17 GMT AP - Even though he's only 37 and in good health, Nathan Davis has already made out his will. In it, he bequeaths money to the University of Alabama athletic department and his ashes to Bryant-Denny Stadium. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/csi_manson_ranch ap/20080509/csi_manson_ranch AP Fri, 09 May 2008 21:26:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/csi_manson_ranch"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.e20cacf870db47838b1f4b908993135b.csi_manson_ranch_fx101.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=yf2AwCyBtjGqccXQJSCqag--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2008 file photo, a Life magazine showing Charles Manson on the cover is left on a table in the abandoned Barker Ranch house in the Panamint Mountains west of Death Valley National Park, Calif. National Park Service officials say Barker Ranch where Manson was arrested will be closed for a second time this year to search for possible human remains. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)" border="0" /></a>AP - The sheriff of the remote region where Charles Manson hid after a killing spree in the summer of 1969 said Friday that he will allow researchers to begin digging into the sandy soil in search of possible human remains.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/csi_manson_ranch"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.e20cacf870db47838b1f4b908993135b.csi_manson_ranch_fx101.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=yf2AwCyBtjGqccXQJSCqag--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2008 file photo, a Life magazine showing Charles Manson on the cover is left on a table in the abandoned Barker Ranch house in the Panamint Mountains west of Death Valley National Park, Calif. National Park Service officials say Barker Ranch where Manson was arrested will be closed for a second time this year to search for possible human remains. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/border_soldier_arrested ap/20080509/border_soldier_arrested AP Fri, 09 May 2008 11:17:50 GMT AP - When he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, Spc. Richard Torres was carrying a small arsenal in his car: an AR-15 assault rifle, a .45-caliber handgun, 171 rounds of ammunition, several cartridges and three knives. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_go_pr_wh/jenna_bush_wedding ap/20080509/jenna_bush_wedding AP Fri, 09 May 2008 20:39:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_go_pr_wh/jenna_bush_wedding"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080505/capt.da7b6a1f51ee48fd8f4d669ade49a1f2.jenna_bush_wedding_wx104.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=GwAHL.jgVqdylJsmyoXFLQ--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="In this May 1, 2008, file photo President Bush's daughter Jenna Bush reads from the children's book she co-authored with her mother First Lady Laura Bush, to elementary school children in Houston. Jenna and her fiance, Henry Hager, will marry Saturday May 10, at President Bush's 1,600-acre ranch in Crawford, Texas.(AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - So close and yet so far: Tiny Crawford is sort of like a bridesmaid at arm's length from Jenna Bush's wedding Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_go_pr_wh/jenna_bush_wedding"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080505/capt.da7b6a1f51ee48fd8f4d669ade49a1f2.jenna_bush_wedding_wx104.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=GwAHL.jgVqdylJsmyoXFLQ--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="photo" title="In this May 1, 2008, file photo President Bush's daughter Jenna Bush reads from the children's book she co-authored with her mother First Lady Laura Bush, to elementary school children in Houston. Jenna and her fiance, Henry Hager, will marry Saturday May 10, at President Bush's 1,600-acre ranch in Crawford, Texas.(AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/polygamists_family_tree ap/20080509/polygamists_family_tree AP Fri, 09 May 2008 05:19:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/polygamists_family_tree"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.e188a2e1e5834df4a1db423c298d1ceb.polygamists_family_tree_ny124.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=f4jn71srYVnlqBE5SKu4Ew--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="In this April 8, 2008 file photo law enforcement vehicles park on the grounds of the Yearning For Zion ranch, home of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Eldorado, Texas. During their investigation of the compound, officials seized a jumbled list of mothers, fathers and children that may unlock some of the mysteries behind families who lived on the ranch. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hand-scrawled records taken from a polygamist sect are helping untangle the spider-web network of family relationships at the Yearning For Zion ranch, where some husbands had more than a dozen wives.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/polygamists_family_tree"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.e188a2e1e5834df4a1db423c298d1ceb.polygamists_family_tree_ny124.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=f4jn71srYVnlqBE5SKu4Ew--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this April 8, 2008 file photo law enforcement vehicles park on the grounds of the Yearning For Zion ranch, home of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Eldorado, Texas. During their investigation of the compound, officials seized a jumbled list of mothers, fathers and children that may unlock some of the mysteries behind families who lived on the ranch. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/videotaped_police_beating ap/20080509/videotaped_police_beating AP Fri, 09 May 2008 03:18:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/videotaped_police_beating"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.e240246ba9ef4f34bc54e2a89a1f13a3.videotaped_police_beating_ny127.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=m1Ux12eYNlOo4S3lWY7QuA--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="This image made from television and released by WTXF-TV Fox Philadelphia shows police officers kicking and beating suspects pulled from a car during a traffic stop on Monday May 5, 2008 in Philadelphia. A TV helicopter taped the confrontation. (AP Photo/WTXF-TV Fox Philadelphia)" border="0" /></a>AP - Seven more police officers were taken off street duty Thursday as investigators look into the videotaped police beating of three shooting suspects during a traffic stop.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/videotaped_police_beating"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.e240246ba9ef4f34bc54e2a89a1f13a3.videotaped_police_beating_ny127.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=m1Ux12eYNlOo4S3lWY7QuA--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="This image made from television and released by WTXF-TV Fox Philadelphia shows police officers kicking and beating suspects pulled from a car during a traffic stop on Monday May 5, 2008 in Philadelphia. A TV helicopter taped the confrontation. (AP Photo/WTXF-TV Fox Philadelphia)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/interpol_manhunt ap/20080509/interpol_manhunt AP Fri, 09 May 2008 09:07:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/interpol_manhunt"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.6c6cfb43af104a079af971233ec02f46.interpol_manhunt_ny123.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=0dM8gZQGSDsleSxsbjDfrQ--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="This handout photo released Thursday, May 8, 2008, by the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency) shows ICE agents escorting suspected pedophile Wayne Nelson Corliss, 58, center, from his apartment building in Union City Jersey after his arrest. Corliss was arrested just two days after Interpol made a rare appeal for public help in the international manhunt to catch him, the police agency said. (AP Photo/via Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency)" border="0" /></a>AP - A rare international alert seeking a man shown in dozens of raw child porn images quickly led to the arrest of a small-time actor, who painted faces at children's parties and performed as "the best Santa Claus anyone has ever seen."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/interpol_manhunt"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.6c6cfb43af104a079af971233ec02f46.interpol_manhunt_ny123.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=0dM8gZQGSDsleSxsbjDfrQ--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="photo" title="This handout photo released Thursday, May 8, 2008, by the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency) shows ICE agents escorting suspected pedophile Wayne Nelson Corliss, 58, center, from his apartment building in Union City Jersey after his arrest. Corliss was arrested just two days after Interpol made a rare appeal for public help in the international manhunt to catch him, the police agency said. (AP Photo/via Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/hiker_shootings ap/20080509/hiker_shootings AP Fri, 09 May 2008 07:25:27 GMT AP - A convicted murderer is suspected of shooting and wounding two men on the Appalachian Trail a few miles from the spot where he killed two hikers in 1981, authorities said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/bald_eagles_religion ap/20080509/bald_eagles_religion AP Fri, 09 May 2008 10:22:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/bald_eagles_religion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.449b7ad778184bc586d5ba9bfcd7cda0.bald_eagles_religion_ny107.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=ERFk7FjL7A3uvzcfMu3_Hg--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="In this Dec. 17, 2007 file photo, Winslow Friday, a Northern Arapaho tribal member who admitted killing a bald eagle in 2005 for use in a religious ceremony, makes his way into the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals at the Federal Courthouse in Denver. A member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe who killed a bald eagle for use in his tribe's Sun Dance in 2005 must stand trial, a federal appeals court ruled.(AP Photo/Bill Ross)" border="0" /></a>AP - An American Indian who shot a bald eagle for use in a tribal religious ceremony must stand trial, a federal appeals court has ruled.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/bald_eagles_religion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.449b7ad778184bc586d5ba9bfcd7cda0.bald_eagles_religion_ny107.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=ERFk7FjL7A3uvzcfMu3_Hg--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="photo" title="In this Dec. 17, 2007 file photo, Winslow Friday, a Northern Arapaho tribal member who admitted killing a bald eagle in 2005 for use in a religious ceremony, makes his way into the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals at the Federal Courthouse in Denver. A member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe who killed a bald eagle for use in his tribe's Sun Dance in 2005 must stand trial, a federal appeals court ruled.(AP Photo/Bill Ross)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather ap/20080509/severe_weather AP Fri, 09 May 2008 19:26:37 GMT AP - Amber Parker watched on television as the storm near her home grew into a tornado threat. Then, when the roaring wind outside suddenly fell silent, she grabbed her two toddlers and rushed to get under the stairwell. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/police_shooting ap/20080509/police_shooting AP Fri, 09 May 2008 00:59:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/police_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080507/capt.b361bd6c6de64041b568603ca0323688.police_shooting_nyjd201.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=owwfCyg3EJpdk3.36J12mg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, and Nicole Paultre Bell, right, are led away in handcuffs after being arrested at the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday, May 7, 2008 in New York. Hundreds of demonstrators blocked traffic at the Manhattan entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday to protest the acquittals of three detectives in the 50-bullet shooting of Sean Bell. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)" border="0" /></a>AP - Gov. David Paterson pledged to examine undercover police conduct on Thursday, a day after more than 200 people were arrested protesting the acquittal of three detectives involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/police_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080507/capt.b361bd6c6de64041b568603ca0323688.police_shooting_nyjd201.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=owwfCyg3EJpdk3.36J12mg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, and Nicole Paultre Bell, right, are led away in handcuffs after being arrested at the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday, May 7, 2008 in New York. Hundreds of demonstrators blocked traffic at the Manhattan entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday to protest the acquittals of three detectives in the 50-bullet shooting of Sean Bell. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080508/ap_on_sc/food_crisis_soil ap/20080508/food_crisis_soil AP Thu, 08 May 2008 22:06:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080508/ap_on_sc/food_crisis_soil"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.622f0f461c49435088100e3979ac5719.food_crisis_soil_xbm106.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=3yMSx55pkppbw0IPfmEKrg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Farm laborers plant rice seedlings at the experimental plots of the International Rice Research Institute, IRRI, at Los Banos, Laguna province 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Manila, Philippines Saturday May 3, 2008. IRRI scientists are working on better ways to improve rice yields through better soil and water management. Started in 1963, IRRI, planted Saturday its 133rd crop in long term trials in plots with zero fertilizer and nitrogen. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)" border="0" /></a>AP - Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world, through biotechnology and old-fashioned crossbreeding. Now the problem is the dirt they're planted in.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080508/ap_on_sc/food_crisis_soil"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.622f0f461c49435088100e3979ac5719.food_crisis_soil_xbm106.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=3yMSx55pkppbw0IPfmEKrg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Farm laborers plant rice seedlings at the experimental plots of the International Rice Research Institute, IRRI, at Los Banos, Laguna province 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Manila, Philippines Saturday May 3, 2008. IRRI scientists are working on better ways to improve rice yields through better soil and water management. Started in 1963, IRRI, planted Saturday its 133rd crop in long term trials in plots with zero fertilizer and nitrogen. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/charleston_fire ap/20080509/charleston_fire AP Fri, 09 May 2008 02:19:32 GMT AP - Emergency crews didn't have enough hoses or adequate water pressure to properly fight a blaze that killed nine Charleston firefighters in a giant furniture store almost a year ago, according to a federal report released late Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/texas_sinkhole ap/20080509/texas_sinkhole AP Fri, 09 May 2008 00:21:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/texas_sinkhole"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.72403235d72146e19db1dbe24c850bc5.texas_sinkhole_txps103.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=CviQ4oSiI3LH1k5Z0uqEqA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="A truck falls into a giant sinkhole as a tractor is used to remove other equipment from the site Wednesday, May 7, 2008 in Daisetta, Texas. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Geologists said a 260-foot-deep sinkhole that grew to the length of three football fields over just two days seemed to be slowing down Thursday, but that it could take months before it's clear whether surrounding areas are stable.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/texas_sinkhole"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080508/capt.72403235d72146e19db1dbe24c850bc5.texas_sinkhole_txps103.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=CviQ4oSiI3LH1k5Z0uqEqA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="A truck falls into a giant sinkhole as a tractor is used to remove other equipment from the site Wednesday, May 7, 2008 in Daisetta, Texas. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)