Tag: Nation

Debbie Alexander checks out her son Jason's baggy-fitting jeans after he returned from a four-month stay at a weight-loss boarding school Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at the Kansas City International Airport in Kansas City, Mo. Alexander, nearly 100 pounds lighter, was among 14 students from the Independence, Mo., school district to attend the program, losing 756 pounds among themselves. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Mo. students lose 756 pounds at SC boarding school

Heather Hollingsworth · December 21, 2012 10:51 pm

Cincinnati professor nominated for Nobel dies

Amanda Lee Myers · December 21, 2012 10:39 pm

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)

Gunman kills woman at Pa. church, 2 men elsewhere

GENARO ARMASJOE MANDAK · December 21, 2012 10:36 pm

Apprehensions of non-Mexican migrants up in Texas

Juan Lozano · December 21, 2012 10:27 pm

Ala. woman sleeps through tornado ripping off roof

Melissa NelsonGabriel · December 21, 2012 10:27 pm

The National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, gestures during a news conference in response to the Connecticut school shooting on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 in Washington. The nation's largest gun-rights lobby is calling for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings." (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

NRA calls for armed police officer in every school

NEDRA PICKLERPHILIP ELLIOTT · December 21, 2012 10:25 pm

In this June 2008 photo courtesy of the D'Jamoos family, Alexander D'Jamoos, center, poses with his adoptive parents, Michael and Helene D'Jamoos, and his younger brother, Marc, while on a family vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Alexander, who was born with no legs, grew up in a Russian orphanage and was adopted after he came to a Texas hospital to have a prosthesis attached that enabled him to walk. He is angry over legislation pending in Moscow that would ban adoptions of Russian children by Americans. (AP Photo/Family photo, Sasha D'jamoos)

Proposed Russian ban dismays US adoption groups

David Crary · December 21, 2012 10:11 pm

President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as he announces his nomination of Kerry as next secretary of state in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama nominates Kerry for secretary of state

Julie Pace · December 21, 2012 10:08 pm

Appeal against 3-day wait for SD abortion dropped

Kristi Eaton · December 21, 2012 9:51 pm

Ben Toby of Sandy Hook visits a memorial to the Newtown shooting victims during a heavy rain in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn., Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. The shooter, Adam Lanza, walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself.Â (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Bells toll for victims one week after shooting

Katie Zezima · December 21, 2012 9:48 pm

Sen. Kirk pays first visit to office since stroke

Washington Examiner · December 21, 2012 9:46 pm

Hep C cases linked to NH hospital worker rise

Holly Ramer · December 21, 2012 9:44 pm