Tag: Nation

In this Dec. 6, 2012, photo, Mike Fitzgerald poses with Willie the Pig, the store mascot, in the parking lot of his Saratoga Sweets store in Halfmoon, N.Y. A holiday tradition in the upstate New York resort town of Saratoga Springs has a peppermint twist: pig-shaped hard candies are sold with little metal hammers to be smashed at Christmas. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Peppermint pigs a smashing tradition in NY

Michael Hill · December 11, 2012 7:31 am

Scalia quizzed at NJ’s Princeton on gay issue

Geoff Mulvihill · December 11, 2012 6:15 am

FAA: 3 killed in medical helicopter crash in Ill.

Washington Examiner · December 11, 2012 5:35 am

Ex-LA official gets prison for child porn

Linda Deutsch · December 11, 2012 5:17 am

US attorney collects $9 million for NM victims

Washington Examiner · December 11, 2012 5:02 am

Family members of confessed serial killer Israel Keyes enter a funeral home, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, in Deer Park, Wash. Keyes confessed to killing eight people across the country before he committed suicide recently in a jail cell in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)

Alaska serial killer researched mass murderers

Rachel D'oro · December 11, 2012 4:52 am

This Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, photo shows a makeshift memorial on the Tule River Indian Reservation near Porterville, Calif. Authorities are piecing together what led a man to kill his mother and two uncles, and shoot his three children before being killed in a shootout with police on Saturday. The violence shook the tiny Tule River Indian Reservation, home to 800 residents and high poverty. (AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, Lew Griswold) LOCAL PRINT OUT (VISALIA TIMES-DELTA, REEDY EXPONENT, KINGBURG RECORDER, SELMA ENTERPRISE, HANFORD SENTINEL, PORTERVILLE RECORDER, MADERA TRIBUNE, THE BUSINESS JOURANL FRENSO); LOCAL TV OUT (KSEE24, KFSN30, KGE47, KMPH26)

Tribe prepares to bury 5 slain members in Calif.

Tracie Cone · December 11, 2012 4:41 am

Dee Dee Moore is led from a Hillsborough County courtroom after being found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 in Tampa, Fla. Moore was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in the slaying of a lottery winner in central Florida and sentenced to mandatory life without parole by a judge who called her âcold, calculating and cruel.â(AP Photo/The Tampa Tribune, Chris Urso, Pool)

Fla. woman found guilty of murder in lottery death

Kathy Wingard · December 11, 2012 2:33 am

Penn State plans march to counter offensive photo

Washington Examiner · December 11, 2012 1:34 am

British firm agrees to plead guilty in Iraq case

Washington Examiner · December 11, 2012 1:15 am

Police investigate the scene where a man was fatally shot in the back of the head in New York on Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. Authorities said the man was shot outside a school near Columbus Circle in Manhattan, lying mortally wounded in a pool of blood as the suspect escaped with a getaway driver. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

LA man shot dead outside school near Central Park

Deepti Hajela · December 11, 2012 12:47 am

Florida woman found guilty of 1st-degree murder in lottery winner’s death

Washington Examiner · December 11, 2012 12:44 am