Tag: Nation

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 file photo, mourners carry ornaments to decorate the Christmas trees at one of the makeshift memorials for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, in Newtown, Conn. In the wake of the shooting, the grieving town is trying to find meaning in Christmas. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

In joyless season, Newtown faces Christmas

Christopher Sullivan · December 23, 2012 6:07 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2012, file photo, former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford leaves a talk on federal fiscal policy at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. Sanford a former two-term governor who was a rising GOP star before he vanished from South Carolina for five days in 2009 says he is considering a campaign for his former seat in Congress. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)

Ex-SC Gov Sanford eyes politics again after affair

Seanna Adcox · December 23, 2012 5:03 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 10, 2008 file photo, Al Gentry holds photos of his brother, who was murdered more than 20 years ago, at his home in Rockwell, N.C. For Al Gentry, timeâs running out to find his brotherâs killer. After years of chasing leads, he thought heâd found the person responsible for the 1986 murder - an elderly Georgia widow who was married to his brother and left a decades-long trail of five dead husbands in five states. Betty Neumar was charged in 2008 with three counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder in the death of Harold Gentry. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Victim’s brother pushing police to find shooter

Mitch Weiss · December 23, 2012 4:36 pm

FILE - In a Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush, and his wife former first lady Barbara Bush, arrive for the premiere of HBO's new documentary on his life near the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. The 41st president's month-long stay in a Houston hospital for treatment of a bronchitis-related cough appears to be nearing an end. A spokesman said Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 that Bush possibly will be released from Methodist Hospital over the weekend and be home for Christmas. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Former President Bush still hospitalized

Washington Examiner · December 23, 2012 4:16 pm

In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, a waiter delivers plates of fresh sushi at Wicker Park Seafood & Sushi in Terminal 2. Getting stranded at an airport once meant camping on the floor and enduring hours of boredom in a kind of travel purgatory with nothing to eat but fast food. Tough economic times are helping drive airports to make amends and transform terminals with a bit of bliss: spas, yoga studios, luxury shopping and restaurant menus crafted by celebrity chefs. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Airports trade layover horror for ‘terminal bliss’

Jason Keyser · December 23, 2012 4:03 pm

Is air marshal program a model for schools?

Washington Examiner · December 23, 2012 3:44 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2012, file photo, former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford leaves a talk on federal fiscal policy at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. Sanford a former two-term governor who was a rising GOP star before he vanished from South Carolina for five days in 2009 says he is considering a campaign for his former seat in Congress. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)

Former SC Gov. Sanford eyes US House bid

Seanna Adcox · December 23, 2012 1:51 pm

Volunteer Anthony Vessicchio of East Haven, Conn., helps to sort tables full of donated toys at the town hall in Newtown, Conn., Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Conn. town in mourning inundated with gifts, money

Washington Examiner · December 23, 2012 8:01 am

Pallbearers carry the casket of U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye into the courtyard of the Hawaii state Capitol during a visitation ceremony in Honolulu on, Saturday Dec. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Oskar Garcia)

Inouye praised as humble leader at Hawaii Capitol

Oskar Garcia · December 23, 2012 5:43 am

This photo provided by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium shows 56-year-old Colo posing for a photo as she celebrates her birthday, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Columbus, Ohio. Colo is the oldest gorilla in any zoo. She was born at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in 1956. (AP Photo/Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Grahm S. Jones)

Oldest of zoo gorillas turns 56 in central Ohio

Washington Examiner · December 23, 2012 1:24 am

Local law enforcement block off road along Rt. 22 near the Canoe Creek State Park, Pa. while investigating a shooting on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. The suspect fired at troopers responding to Friday morning's shootings in Frankstown Township, about 70 miles west of Harrisburg. The fleeing gunman then crashed head-on into a trooper's car and got out of his truck and shot again at police, who returned fire and killed him. Blair County District Rich Consiglio says the gunman killed two men and one woman. (AP Photo/Altoona Mirror, J.D. Cavrich)

Motive sought in Pa. slayings of 3; gunman killed

Washington Examiner · December 23, 2012 1:17 am

Reid urges quick appointment of Inouye successor

Sam Hananel · December 22, 2012 11:48 pm