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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/us us U.S. News en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:30:18 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/us http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*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/us/*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/us/*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/us/*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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_insurer_rate_hike ap/20100210/us_health_insurer_rate_hike AP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:03:58 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_insurer_rate_hike"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.3b4b880d24df46a4bbee78dfc117b6eb.health_insurer_rate_hikes_nybz160.jpg?x=112&y=130&q=85&sig=l33Xz16.QNVWlZNh8s.zqA--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a letter to the president of Anthem Blue Cross, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, she was very disturbed to learn of the planned increases, calling them 'extraordinary.' She said they were hard to understand in light of the profitability of Anthem's parent company, WellPoint Inc.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cenetafile)" border="0" /></a>AP - For the second time this week, President Barack Obama has pointed to one health insurer's major rate hike in California as a doomy harbinger of rising premiums across America.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_insurer_rate_hike"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.3b4b880d24df46a4bbee78dfc117b6eb.health_insurer_rate_hikes_nybz160.jpg?x=112&y=130&q=85&sig=l33Xz16.QNVWlZNh8s.zqA--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a letter to the president of Anthem Blue Cross, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, she was very disturbed to learn of the planned increases, calling them 'extraordinary.' She said they were hard to understand in light of the profitability of Anthem's parent company, WellPoint Inc.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cenetafile)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*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/us/*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/us/*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/us/*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/us/*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/us/*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/us/*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/us/*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/us/*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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sp_ot/us_espn_andrews_video ap/20100210/us_espn_andrews_video AP sports Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:23:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sp_ot/us_espn_andrews_video"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.8e3e3e41a7284fefafa27181677c9f15.espn_andrews_video_ny127.jpg?x=96&y=130&q=85&sig=fwL_8j2awg3KVqe4tYk11A--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, Michael Barrett, who is accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, arrives to federal court in Los Angeles. Federal prosecutors say in a memo filed Monday Feb. 8, 2010, the man who stalked ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and shot nude videos of her through a hotel room peephole videotaped a dozen other women and ran background checks on 30 others, including female sports reporters and TV personalities. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The man who stalked ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and shot nude videos of her through a hotel room peephole videotaped 16 other women and ran background checks on 30 people, including female sports reporters and TV personalities, according to court documents.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sp_ot/us_espn_andrews_video"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.8e3e3e41a7284fefafa27181677c9f15.espn_andrews_video_ny127.jpg?x=96&y=130&q=85&sig=fwL_8j2awg3KVqe4tYk11A--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, Michael Barrett, who is accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, arrives to federal court in Los Angeles. Federal prosecutors say in a memo filed Monday Feb. 8, 2010, the man who stalked ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and shot nude videos of her through a hotel room peephole videotaped a dozen other women and ran background checks on 30 others, including female sports reporters and TV personalities. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_valentine_bears_lead ap/20100210/us_valentine_bears_lead AP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:56:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_valentine_bears_lead"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.db2a88fbff184c6da0b92743940fa7b2.lead_valentines_bears_fx101.jpg?x=112&y=130&q=85&sig=sRk9j029ag68pkIrr4zEiw--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 provided by the Center for Environmental Health, a Valentine's Day Message Bear is shown in Oakland, Calif. California Attorney General Jerry Brown has notified retailer Target Corp. that its Valentine's Day 'Message Bears' have illegal levels of lead, and should be pulled from store shelves. (AP Photo/Center for Environmental Health, Ryan Nestle) NO SALES" border="0" /></a>AP - Target Corp. said Tuesday it was pulling its Valentine's Day "Message Bears" from store shelves after California's attorney general raised concerns that the toys have illegal levels of lead.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_bi_ge/us_valentine_bears_lead"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.db2a88fbff184c6da0b92743940fa7b2.lead_valentines_bears_fx101.jpg?x=112&y=130&q=85&sig=sRk9j029ag68pkIrr4zEiw--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 provided by the Center for Environmental Health, a Valentine's Day Message Bear is shown in Oakland, Calif. California Attorney General Jerry Brown has notified retailer Target Corp. that its Valentine's Day 'Message Bears' have illegal levels of lead, and should be pulled from store shelves. (AP Photo/Center for Environmental Health, Ryan Nestle) NO SALES" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sp_ot/us_nancy_kerrigan_s_father ap/20100210/us_nancy_kerrigan_s_father AP sports Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:21:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sp_ot/us_nancy_kerrigan_s_father"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.f131970d78c44804977f086a9486212d.nancy_kerrigan_s_father_bx103.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=AB4bMp1pEdaOjGbqL14GWA--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="FILE - This Feb. 10, 1994 file photo shows Daniel and Brenda Kerrigan, parents of 1994 Olympics silver medalist Nancy Kerrigan, outside their home in Stoneham, Mass. Daniel Kerrigan was found dead Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 in his home and authorities charged his son, Mark Kerrigan, 45, with assault and battery. A Massachusetts medical examiner said Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, that the elder Kerrigan died of a heart rhythm problem after suffering a neck injury so severe it damaged his voice box. His death has been ruled a homicide. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - The family of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan insisted Tuesday that they do "not blame anyone" for her father's death and criticized a medical examiner's finding that Daniel Kerrigan died of a heart rhythm problem after a fight with his son.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sp_ot/us_nancy_kerrigan_s_father"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.f131970d78c44804977f086a9486212d.nancy_kerrigan_s_father_bx103.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=AB4bMp1pEdaOjGbqL14GWA--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - This Feb. 10, 1994 file photo shows Daniel and Brenda Kerrigan, parents of 1994 Olympics silver medalist Nancy Kerrigan, outside their home in Stoneham, Mass. Daniel Kerrigan was found dead Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 in his home and authorities charged his son, Mark Kerrigan, 45, with assault and battery. A Massachusetts medical examiner said Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, that the elder Kerrigan died of a heart rhythm problem after suffering a neck injury so severe it damaged his voice box. His death has been ruled a homicide. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, FILE)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*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/us/*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/us/*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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_nevada_budget ap/20100210/us_nevada_budget AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:07:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_nevada_budget"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.60df9ce014ee4503b95364ccce7fbd57.nevada_state_of_the_state_nvss109.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=4PWufSjd9HFul0np58X0cQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons answers questions from reporters after delivering his state of the state speech in the Capitol building in Carson City, Nev., Monday, Feb., 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Scott Sady)" border="0" /></a>AP - Nevada officials on Tuesday outlined drastic cuts to the state's Medicaid program that include plans to ration adult diapers, eliminate denture and hearing-aid programs, and force personal care assistants to buy their own disposable gloves.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_nevada_budget"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.60df9ce014ee4503b95364ccce7fbd57.nevada_state_of_the_state_nvss109.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=4PWufSjd9HFul0np58X0cQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons answers questions from reporters after delivering his state of the state speech in the Capitol building in Carson City, Nev., Monday, Feb., 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Scott Sady)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_el_ho/us_murtha_seat ap/20100210/us_murtha_seat AP Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:02:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_el_ho/us_murtha_seat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.58e0df013f0a442381b8c82ccfbd64d5.obit_murtha_px102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=Yb8tj5J3YTUvKwlSS2Sqig--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - In this May 29, 2009 file photo, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., center, answers a reporter's question about Kuchera Defense Systems Inc., after attending a breakfast at the 'Showcase for Commerce' trade show in Johnstown, Pa. Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. He was 77. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Democrats have long dominated the late Rep. John Murtha's district in western Pennsylvania, but Republicans have made inroads in recent years that could help them win back the seat &mdash; and some longtime Murtha supporters say they're open to voting for a GOP candidate.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_el_ho/us_murtha_seat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.58e0df013f0a442381b8c82ccfbd64d5.obit_murtha_px102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=Yb8tj5J3YTUvKwlSS2Sqig--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this May 29, 2009 file photo, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., center, answers a reporter's question about Kuchera Defense Systems Inc., after attending a breakfast at the 'Showcase for Commerce' trade show in Johnstown, Pa. Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. He was 77. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_en_mu/us_people_lil_wayne ap/20100210/us_people_lil_wayne AP entertainment Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:39:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_en_mu/us_people_lil_wayne"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.d7313aebe76b443ebe065d9a8783ed4c.people_lil_wayne_nyll101.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=WyOYAoPojYtGUKHiMJx59w--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="Rapper Lil Wayne enters Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in New York. Sentencing in the hip-hop artist's 2007 gun-possession case was postponed until March 2 due to his need for oral surgery. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano )" border="0" /></a>AP - After rap star Lil Wayne spent months bidding farewell to his fans and his freedom, what loomed for him Tuesday was a dental chair, not a house of detention.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_en_mu/us_people_lil_wayne"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.d7313aebe76b443ebe065d9a8783ed4c.people_lil_wayne_nyll101.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=WyOYAoPojYtGUKHiMJx59w--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="photo" title="Rapper Lil Wayne enters Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in New York. Sentencing in the hip-hop artist's 2007 gun-possession case was postponed until March 2 due to his need for oral surgery. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano )" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_missing_arizona_baby ap/20100209/us_missing_arizona_baby AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:04:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_missing_arizona_baby"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100203/capt.34c5438dc2974f609eeebe41cd9235c8.missing_arizona_baby_ny140.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=ToUfK25HNKLTw4FfqJzTAw--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="FILE- In this undated file photo released by the Tempe Police Department, Gabriel Johnson is shown. Police say this photo is from the camera of the baby's mother, 23-year-old Elizabeth Johnson, and was taken around the time the baby was last seen. Elizabeth Johnson was arrested Dec. 30 in Florida and is charged in Arizona with kidnapping, child abuse and custodial interference. Police arrested Tammi Smith, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, at her Scottsdale, Ariz., home on charges of custodial interference, conspiracy to commit custodial interference and forgery. (AP Photo/Tempe Police Department, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Police began excavating a landfill Tuesday in search of a body or other evidence in the disappearance of an 8-month-old Arizona boy who was last seen with his mother at a San Antonio hotel on the day after Christmas.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_missing_arizona_baby"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100203/capt.34c5438dc2974f609eeebe41cd9235c8.missing_arizona_baby_ny140.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=ToUfK25HNKLTw4FfqJzTAw--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="photo" title="FILE- In this undated file photo released by the Tempe Police Department, Gabriel Johnson is shown. Police say this photo is from the camera of the baby's mother, 23-year-old Elizabeth Johnson, and was taken around the time the baby was last seen. Elizabeth Johnson was arrested Dec. 30 in Florida and is charged in Arizona with kidnapping, child abuse and custodial interference. Police arrested Tammi Smith, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, at her Scottsdale, Ariz., home on charges of custodial interference, conspiracy to commit custodial interference and forgery. (AP Photo/Tempe Police Department, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_power_plant_explosion ap/20100209/us_power_plant_explosion AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:27:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_power_plant_explosion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.508ca9d6ec69434c81aaca7cf790e5e5.aptopix_middletown_explosion_lon104.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=6gbvBcgH..fZcMl005NC1A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo provided by Casey Casserino, the Kleen Energy plant on River Road in Middletown, Conn., is seen Sunday Feb. 7, 2010. An explosion blew apart the power plant under construction as workers purged natural gas lines, killing multiple people and injuring at least 14 in a blast that shook homes miles away, officials said. (AP Photo / Casey Casserino) MANDATORY CREDIT" border="0" /></a>AP - Some workers building a Connecticut power plant shattered by a gas explosion had been spending more than 80 hours a week there before the blast killed five Sunday, The Associated Press has learned. One employee said workers smelled gas less than an hour beforehand and were told to open doors wider for air.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_power_plant_explosion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.508ca9d6ec69434c81aaca7cf790e5e5.aptopix_middletown_explosion_lon104.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=6gbvBcgH..fZcMl005NC1A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo provided by Casey Casserino, the Kleen Energy plant on River Road in Middletown, Conn., is seen Sunday Feb. 7, 2010. An explosion blew apart the power plant under construction as workers purged natural gas lines, killing multiple people and injuring at least 14 in a blast that shook homes miles away, officials said. (AP Photo / Casey Casserino) MANDATORY CREDIT" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_sp_ot/us_super_bowl_parade ap/20100209/us_super_bowl_parade AP sports Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:34:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_sp_ot/us_super_bowl_parade"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.154cd7c9a8ef4e598c644b4c31b9f6d1.super_bowl_parade_lawh102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=9vxOZj3QOsnLa_EHK0uK6w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees slautes the crowd as the team does a vicotry parade through the central business district of New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. The Saints and fans were celebrating the Saints' 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in Sunday's Super Bowl XLIV. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints are celebrating Mardi Gras-style.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_sp_ot/us_super_bowl_parade"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.154cd7c9a8ef4e598c644b4c31b9f6d1.super_bowl_parade_lawh102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=9vxOZj3QOsnLa_EHK0uK6w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees slautes the crowd as the team does a vicotry parade through the central business district of New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. The Saints and fans were celebrating the Saints' 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in Sunday's Super Bowl XLIV. (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/20100209/ap_on_he_me/us_med_murtha_surgery ap/20100209/us_med_murtha_surgery AP health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:48:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_he_me/us_med_murtha_surgery"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.8fb72c367df94266a481cfadc60d3701.obit_murtha_wx109.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=JbgaJ5K8eS1GJwFAEBz9eg--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="FILE - In this July 23, 2006 file photo, Rep. John Murtha, D- Pa., waits to speak to Democrats at the Hampton, N.H. Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Gallbladder surgery is usually a very safe operation, but a powerful congressman's death is a reminder of the known risks.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_he_me/us_med_murtha_surgery"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.8fb72c367df94266a481cfadc60d3701.obit_murtha_wx109.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=JbgaJ5K8eS1GJwFAEBz9eg--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this July 23, 2006 file photo, Rep. John Murtha, D- Pa., waits to speak to Democrats at the Hampton, N.H. Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sc/us_space_shuttle ap/20100210/us_space_shuttle AP science Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:06:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sc/us_space_shuttle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.699b1652c1694cc89922bf8708a652a5.aptopix_space_shuttle_ksc120.jpg?x=78&y=130&q=85&sig=YR09K4BXESNhiS3TTJyC7Q--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="Space shuttle Endeavour lifts-off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Endeavour is carrying six astronauts who will deliver a room and observation deck to the International Space Station. A piece of foam insulation is seen falling to the right of the orbiter. (AP Photo/John Raoux)" border="0" /></a>AP - Endeavour zoomed toward a midnight rendezvous with the International Space Station late Tuesday, and NASA grew ever more optimistic that the shuttle is free of any launch damage.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sc/us_space_shuttle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.699b1652c1694cc89922bf8708a652a5.aptopix_space_shuttle_ksc120.jpg?x=78&y=130&q=85&sig=YR09K4BXESNhiS3TTJyC7Q--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="photo" title="Space shuttle Endeavour lifts-off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Endeavour is carrying six astronauts who will deliver a room and observation deck to the International Space Station. A piece of foam insulation is seen falling to the right of the orbiter. (AP Photo/John Raoux)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_drugged_to_death ap/20100209/us_drugged_to_death AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:22:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_drugged_to_death"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100119/capt.f015d669946d413a941e3980c669e108.drugged_to_death_bx102.jpg?x=130&y=128&q=85&sig=ABNZWzYUmBgOPpbrmpTD5Q--" align="left" height="128" width="130" alt="Carolyn Riley sits in Superior Court in Brockton, Mass., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, during the first day of her murder trial. Riley, of Hull, Mass., is accused in the December 2006 overdose death of her 4-year-old daughter Rebecca. (AP Photo/Gary Higgins, Pool)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Massachusetts woman was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday in the fatal prescription drug overdose of her 4-year-old daughter.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_drugged_to_death"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100119/capt.f015d669946d413a941e3980c669e108.drugged_to_death_bx102.jpg?x=130&y=128&q=85&sig=ABNZWzYUmBgOPpbrmpTD5Q--" align="left" height="128" width="130" alt="photo" title="Carolyn Riley sits in Superior Court in Brockton, Mass., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, during the first day of her murder trial. Riley, of Hull, Mass., is accused in the December 2006 overdose death of her 4-year-old daughter Rebecca. (AP Photo/Gary Higgins, Pool)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*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/us/*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/us/*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)