Tag: Nation

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange observe a minute of silence before the opening bell in honor of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims and their families, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Stocks opened sharply lower Friday on Wall Street after House Republicans called off a vote on tax rates and left federal budget talks in disarray 10 days before sweeping tax increases and government spending cuts take effect. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Conn. shooting victims remembered worldwide

The Associated Press · December 21, 2012 9:41 pm

Two people walk through the snow on the Indiana University campus Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 in Bloomington, Ind. The area received about an inch of snow with howling winds through the night. (AP Photo, Bloomington Herald-Times, David Snodgress)

Snowstorm weakening after dumping snow in Midwest

Jeff Karoub · December 21, 2012 9:29 pm

Judge stops Ala. policy of segregating HIV inmates

Bob Johnson · December 21, 2012 9:21 pm

Iowa court: Bosses can fire ‘irresistible’ workers

Ryan Foley · December 21, 2012 9:17 pm

Kerin Sovern, center, who is from Sandy Hook, Connecticut, but now lives in San Diego, attends a candlelight vigil honoring victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut at Balboa Park Thursday Dec. 20, 2012 with her parents Maureen and Michael Sovern who are visiting her from Sandy Hook. (AP Photo/U-T San Diego, Bill Wechter

Gun control debate heating up in statehouses

Bill Barrow · December 21, 2012 9:04 pm

NY mayor says NRA’s press conference ‘shameful’

Washington Examiner · December 21, 2012 9:02 pm

Panetta: Complete background checks by Jan. 21

Lolita Baldor · December 21, 2012 8:55 pm

Union Pacific adjusting crossing where vets died

Danny Robbins · December 21, 2012 8:50 pm

President Barack Obama wipes his eye as he is seated with Vice President Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at the funeral service for the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, at the Washington National Cathedral, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama hails Inouye as ‘extraordinary’

Kevin Freking · December 21, 2012 7:50 pm

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 file photo, Renato Seabra, a Portuguese model charged with castrating and killing Portuguese TV personality Carlos Castro in a New York hotel, listens while seated handcuffed at his court hearing in New York. Seabra was convicted last month of choking, bludgeoning and mutilating Castro and was sentenced Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, to 25 years to life in prison. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Portuguese man sentenced in NYC castration killing

Colleen Long · December 21, 2012 7:33 pm

Woman joins husband on Maine Zumba sex client list

Washington Examiner · December 21, 2012 7:10 pm

Life sentences in deaths of 2 Detroit-area women

Washington Examiner · December 21, 2012 7:04 pm