Town's residents, Flight 93 families united by tragedy

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. -- Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earlier, she couldn't stop crying.

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Police report says wrong-way driver a pot smoker

New York State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus herself in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular marijuana user.

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Ground broken for Flight 93 memorial in Pa.

With the words "Let's roll" _ the command issued by United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer to lead the passenger revolt _ U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and 39 victims' relatives and dignitaries turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday for a permanent national mem…

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Officer describes firefight that downed Hasan

One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before kicking the man's weapon away, handcuffing him and ending the nation's worst killing spree on a military base.

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Alleged Ohio serial killer rare among mass killers

Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them _ most by strangulation _ and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.

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Navy ship built with WTC steel goes into service

The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength.

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Fort victims had different reasons for enlisting

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a wo…

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Office shooting suspect's life spiraled downward

His marriage long ago went sour, his home taken in foreclosure, his job lost to incompetence, his finances sunk in bankruptcy. Everything Jason Rodriguez sought ended in failure. Except his alleged plot to kill.

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Man identified in Seattle police killing

A man shot by police as he was sought in connection with the Halloween killing of a Seattle police officer has been identified as 41-year-old Christopher Monfort.

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Funeral services held for slain New Mexico nun

A slain Catholic nun who lived and worked on the Navajo Indian reservation of western New Mexico was remembered for her passion for the poor at funeral services.

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Muslim leader had troubling talks with suspect

An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader was deeply troubled by it, the leader said Saturday.

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Minnesota teen who fled chemo now cancer-free

A Minnesota teen who fled the state to avoid chemotherapy has finished his cancer treatment.

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Up to 1,000 Chicago cops could retire next year

Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis (WEES) says the city needs to be prepared for the potential retirements of up to 1,000 officers next year.

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Urban League gives back to community

BLOOMINGTON - The Lawrence Irvin Community Center was on the receiving end of a good deed Saturday as members of the McLean County Urban League's Young Prof…

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Health-care workers get H1N1 shots

NORMAL - With six children at home and daily contact with young patients in a dental office, Joanna Laffey had plenty of reasons to get a H1N1 flu vaccinati…

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Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan forces

U.S. and Afghan authorities investigated Saturday whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers missing in a Taliban-infested area of the country's west.

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Spat over 'terrorists' halts Conn. 9/11 memorial

A memorial to honor a Sept. 11 victim from a small northwestern Connecticut town has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from his father's insistence it say his son was murdered by "Muslim terrorists."

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Woman hit, killed on Calif. highway fetching boxes

A 36-year-old woman has died after she was struck several times while retrieving boxes on a Sacramento freeway.

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Police: Inmate had threatened deputy with knife

Authorities in Wisconsin say an inmate somehow armed himself with a knife and threatened a sheriff's deputy before the officer shot and wounded him.

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Whoops: Airplane part falls onto home's front lawn

ROOSEVELT, N.Y. -- An engine tail cone popped off a Delta airlines jet shortly after takeoff from New York's Kennedy Airport. It plummeted thousands of feet into a Long Island neighborhood before landing harmlessly on someone's lawn.

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Philly transit union says pact reports 'premature'

A national spokesman for the Philadelphia transit system's largest union says reports of a tentative agreement were "premature" and the negotiations aimed at ending a five-day strike continue.

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Killings remain unsolved as sniper execution nears

It galled her to do it, but Sarah Dillon was desperate for answers, so she wrote letters to convicted snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo: If you murdered my son, please confess, she wrote.

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West Africa's last giraffes make surprise comeback

A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.

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NY case spotlights Dead Sea Scrolls, fake e-mails

Students and university officials started getting e-mails last year in which a prominent Judaic studies scholar seemed to make a startling confession: He had committed plagiarism.

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