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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. (Updated: 11/07/09 3:55 PM )
Alleged Ohio serial killer rare among mass killers
Authorities say alleged serial killer Anthony Sowell is among a narrow subcategory of killers who hunt their victims from home. (Updated: 11/07/09 3:50 PM )
Minnesota teen who fled chemo now cancer-free
A Minnesota teen who fled the state to avoid chemotherapy has finished his cancer treatment. (Updated: 11/07/09 3:30 PM )
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 woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Here is a look at some of the victims. (Updated: 11/07/09 3:05 PM )
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. (Updated: 11/07/09 2:30 PM )
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. (Updated: 11/07/09 2:10 PM )
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. (Updated: 11/07/09 3:00 PM )
Lawyer: Fla. office shooting suspect mentally ill
The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five others at the firm where he once worked is "very mentally ill" and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney said Saturday. (Updated: 11/07/09 3:10 PM )
Ground broken for Flight 93 memorial in Pa.
With the word's "let's roll," U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and relatives of United Flight 93 victims have turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony for a permanent national memorial at the western Pennsylvania crash site. (Updated: 11/07/09 2:00 PM )
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. (Updated: 11/07/09 1:55 PM )
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. (Updated: 11/07/09 1:25 PM )
Perry says he's humbled after visiting wounded
Texas governor Rick Perry has visited with wounded victims from the Fort Hood shooting. (Updated: 11/07/09 1:15 PM )
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." (Updated: 11/07/09 2:30 PM )
George W. Bush visits Fort Hood, wounded soldiers
Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, have visited wounded soldiers and their families after the mass shooting at Fort Hood. (Updated: 11/07/09 12:30 PM )
Ida spurs tropical-storm warnings in Caribbean
Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun. (Updated: 11/07/09 2:35 PM )
