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Yahoo! News: U.S. News Sat, 10 May 2008 17:21:55 GMT
  • Nursery programs allow imprisoned moms, newborns to bond (AP)   - 

    Melissa Lankey, 31, of Columbus, Ind., kisses her son Kevin Cadin Michael DuLong, 3 weeks, in the Wee Ones Nursery unit at the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis, Monday, April 28, 2008. Lankey sang to her three-week-old son ? not in a bedroom, but behind bars at the Indiana Women's Prison, where a new program allows some inmates to keep their newborns in their cells for up to 18 months. The program became the sixth in the nation in a growing trend among state prison systems. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - Three-week-old Kevin fussed in mother Melissa Lankey's arms until she started singing softly to him, "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." The newborn began dozing within seconds.


  • First-class stamp prices rise 1 penny to 42 cents Monday (AP)   - AP - The cost of mailing a letter goes up a penny to 42 cents on Monday, the latest in what are expected to be annual price adjustments by the Postal Service.
  • Jenna Bush's wedding is low-key affair at ranch (AP)   - 

    Commemorative cups marking the wedding day of Jenna Bush and her fiancé Henry Hager in a souvenir shop in Crawford, Texas. In a welcome break from two wars, terrorism, soaring oil prices and other woes, US President George W. Bush was to celebrate his daughter Jenna's wedding on his Texas ranch.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AP - Jenna Bush couldn't see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents. She and Henry Hager opted to say "I do" Saturday at President Bush's ranch in Crawford where the corn is thigh-high, roads are named Cattle Drive and the Texas flag is painted on the rooftops of barns.


  • AP Exclusive: Ex-manager says OJ Simpson confessed (AP)   - 

    In this June 21, 1995 file photo, O.J. Simpson holds up his hands before the jury after putting on a pair of gloves similar to the infamous bloody gloves during his double-murder trial in Los Angeles. A sports memorabilia dealer who profited off O.J. Simpson alleges the football star confessed to murdering his ex-wife and says in a new book that he helped him outwit prosecutors with the gloves. 'How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret and Remorse,' hits stores Monday, May 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Vince Bucci,File Pool)AP - A memorabilia dealer who profited from O.J. Simpson for many years is the latest former crony to write a tell-all book, this one alleging a groggy Simpson, high on marijuana, confessed to killing his ex-wife after he was acquitted.


  • Emily, Jacob most popular baby names (AP)   - AP - Emily again topped the list of most popular baby girl names last year, registering as No. 1 for the 12th straight time. Jacob led among names for boys for the ninth year in a row.
  • Artificial reef near Miami is cemetery, diving attraction (AP)   - 

    A pair of porkfish and sergeant major fish swim near a section of the Neptune Memorial Reef 45 feet under the surface Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 3.25 miles off the coast of Key Biscayne, Fla. Creators of the reef hope it will become a memorial for the dead and a diving site. Instead of a burial funeral, people can pay to have their remains placed in one the reef's structures after their death. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - About 45 feet beneath the ocean's surface lies a cemetery with gates, pathways, plaques and even benches.


  • School districts start to face sanctions under landmark law (AP)   - AP - At Las Palmitas Elementary School, nestled between rundown homes and fields of grapes, peppers and dates in Southern California, 99 percent of students live in poverty and fewer than 20 percent speak English fluently.
  • Records show Sharpton owes overdue taxes, other penalties (AP)   - 

    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)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.


  • Narrow escapes for CNN reporter in Myanmar (AP)   - 

    Cyclone survivors from Painnakon village camp sit together as they live in a tent on the roadside, after their houses were destroyed by the recent cyclone in Laputta, in Delta region, Myanmar, Friday, May 9, 2008. The villagers said the rest of the villagers, some 300, were either dead or still missing. (AP Photo)AP - A CNN reporter who left Myanmar Friday was chased by authorities as he reported on the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis but escaped primarily because of the incompetence of the people after him.


  • Pollution brings end to mining town in Oklahoma (AP)   - AP - Waiting in their cars or on broken sidewalks, the blue-jeaned crowd has turned out for a parade. But they could pass for mourners at a funeral.
  • Anti-illegal immigration group wants San Diego highway sign (AP)   - AP - When members of an anti-illegal immigration group offered to sponsor litter cleanup on local roads, they never imagined California officials would offer them an Adopt-a-Highway stretch near a Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 5, the main artery carrying illegal migrants north from the U.S.-Mexico border.
  • Ohio Dems strip attorney general of endorsement (AP)   - AP - Ohio Democrats have rescinded their 2006 endorsement of embattled Attorney General Marc Dann.
  • Child 'Forrest Gump' actor leaving Army (AP)   - 

    Army Spc. Michael Conner Humphreys stands at attention for the camera in Fort Riley, Kan., Friday, May, 9, 2008. Humphreys, who played 'Young Forrest Gump' in the movie 'Forrest Gump' served a year in Iraq and is now stationed at Ft. Riley. Humphreys' enlistment ends June 4 and he has landed a role in the upcoming film 'Pathfinders.' (AP Photo/Chuck France)AP - As a boy, Michael Conner Humphreys made a splash on the silver screen as "Young Forrest Gump." As an adult, he somewhat mirrored the life of his movie character: He joined the Army and fought in an unpopular war.


  • Kids, mom lived with 90-year-old's corpse for weeks in Wis. (AP)   - 

    This undated photo provided by the Juneau County Sheriff's Office shows Tammy Lewis. A sheriff's deputy discovered the remains of a 90-year-old woman on a toilet in a house she shared with Lewis and two children, authorities said Friday, May 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Juneau County Sheriff's Office)AP - Two children and their mother lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman on the toilet of their home's only bathroom, on the advice of a religious "superior" who claimed the corpse would come back to life, authorities said Friday.


  • Jury selection begins in R. Kelly's child pornography trial (AP)   - 

    Singer R. Kelly, right, leaves with a bodyguard after the first day of jury selection in his child pornography trial at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse in Chicago, Friday, May 9, 2008. Jury selection began Friday in the child pornography trial of Grammy-winning artist R. Kelly who is accused of having sex with a girl as young as 13 on videotape. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - On the first day of his child pornography trial in Chicago, a suit-clad R. Kelly faced nearly 150 Cook County residents, bowed his head slightly, smiled and said, "Hello."


  • NC officials: Fatal twister could have been worse (AP)   - 

    Mississippi Department of Transportation road crews work to clear downed trees and power lines from streets in Tupelo Miss. after a line of sever weather moved through the area Thursday, May 8, 2008. A number of northeast Mississippi counties and portions of northwest Alabama were under tornado watches or warnings until midafternoon Thursday. (AP Photo/Ryan Moore)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.


  • Hundreds brawl at LA high school, broken up by police (AP)   - AP - A fight that broke out at a troubled South Los Angeles school escalated into a campuswide brawl involving as many as 600 students before it was quelled by police in riot gear.
  • A crash course in true political science (AP)   - 

    Paul Bunje a Californian who earned his doctorate studying snail evolution is photographed, Friday, May 9, 2008, in Washington. On Saturday he heads back to school to learn a trickier task: How to get elected to public office. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task ? getting elected to public office.


  • Nevada judge accused of demanding royal treatment (AP)   - AP - Elizabeth Halverson is a judge. But the way courthouse staffers see it, she expects to be treated like a queen.
  • FBI video shows powerful explosion at San Diego courthouse (AP)   - AP - The FBI released surveillance video Friday of a powerful pipe bomb explosion that shattered big windows at a federal courthouse and filled the lobby with smoke.
 
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