Nation News


News Video
Find, view and share videos about news and entertainment from around the Web.
See Videos »

News Alerts

The latest updates sent straight to your inbox.

Get AOL News Alerts »

Moonshine Sold at Day Care, Police Say

A North Carolina woman is charged with selling moonshine out of the day care center she ran. Authorities say there were children in the center when an undercover agent went in to buy two gallons of the homemade liquor. An 82-year-old man has been charged with making the moonshine. Officials seized more than 80 gallons of moonshine from him.
Full Coverage »

Tomatoes Thrown at Palin Book Signing

Skip over this content
Jeremy Olson
Bloomington Police Department
Sarah Palin may have to dodge barbs from Democratic pundits regularly, but tomatoes thrown at a mall event may be a first. Jeremy Olson allegedly flings the fruit during a Mall of America book signing by the former vice presidential candidate. He reportedly hits a police officer instead, and gets arrested.
Full Coverage »

Doctor Who Tried to Revive JFK Dies

Skip over this content
Malcolm Oliver Perry
AP
The doctor who attended to President John F. Kennedy in Dallas after he was shot dies at the age of 80. Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry II tried without success to revive the dying president on Nov. 22, 1963, performing a tracheotomy and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Perry was suffering from lung cancer.
Full Coverage »

In Big Speech, Obama Outlines Job Plan

President Barack Obama unveils a package designed to create jobs and bring down the country's 10 percent unemployment rate. The measure includes more money for infrastructure projects, tax cuts and credit access for small businesses. The nation must continue to "spend our way out of this recession," he says.
Full Coverage »

Marine Dies in Argument Over Game

North Carolina authorities say Johnathan Clinton Rodriguez, a 21-year-old Marine, was shot to death while arguing with a fellow soldier over a college football game. Rodriguez and 23-year-old Lionel Loya had gotten into a scuffle about the Texas-Nebraska contest when Loya's gun accidentally went off, fatally hitting Rodriguez.
Full Coverage »

Woods' Mother-in-Law Released

Skip over this content
Tiger Woods
FilmMagic
Tiger Woods' mother-in-law is released from a Florida hospital after being rushed there by ambulance. It's the latest media frenzy for the golfer whose personal life has come under scrutiny, following a minor car accident and his admission of "transgressions" as a husband.
Sphere: Crisis Management Tips for Tiger
Full Coverage »
More Stories on Next Page
« »
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

More U.S. News

A fierce winter storm hammered more than a dozen states Tuesday with dangerous ice, heavy snow and vicious winds that threatened to create 15-foot drifts in parts of the Upper Midwest. Read More

Former Vice President Dick Cheney says trying suspected Sept. 11 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (HAH'-leed shayk moh-HAH'-med) in New York City will make him "as important or more important than Osama bin Laden." Read More

A California man accused of gunning down two police officers 27 years ago has been found guilty of murder for a second time. Read More

About 20,000 mourners, mostly members of law enforcement from Washington state and across the country, honored four slain officers who were remembered Tuesday as heroes and loving family members. Read More

A 20-year-old student opened fire in a community college classroom, but did not hit anyone and was arrested in a hallway, police said Tuesday. Read More

A "disgruntled patient" shot his doctor to death Tuesday at a rural southeastern Kentucky health clinic and faces a murder charge, officials said. Read More

As of Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, at least 4,367 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. Read More

A prominent attorney died Tuesday after being shot in the head outside his Los Angeles area home. Read More

A California grand jury has indicted a man whose decomposed daughter was found in the freezer of his motor home. Read More

The Los Angeles school board has approved a budget plan that calls for more than 5,000 job cuts. Read More

An attorney says a former Missouri House speaker plans to withdraw from politics altogether after he was accused of assaulting a woman during a sexual encounter. Read More

Two former Cuban intelligence officers convicted of spying in the U.S. were handed reduced prison sentences Tuesday after an appeals court ruled their original terms were too severe. Read More

A 90-year-old Medal of Honor winner can keep his 21-foot flagpole in his front yard after a homeowner's association dropped its request to remove it, a spokesman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said Tuesday. Read More

The man charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart has a delusional disorder and exhibited deviant sexual behavior and paranoia as a teen, a forensic psychologist said Tuesday. Read More

Four Missouri men have received prison sentences for federal crimes involving dogfighting. Read More

An Ohio killer was put to death in an efficient 10 minutes Tuesday in the first U.S. execution to use a single drug injection instead of the standard three-chemical combination that has come under legal attack because it can cause excruciating pain. Read More

A white retired police officer was acquitted Tuesday of manslaughter and assault for shooting two unarmed black men, angering the victims' families and prompting a call for peace from the city's mayor. Read More

Sheriff's officials say more bones have been found in Death Valley that could be the remains of four German tourists who vanished 13 years ago. Read More

The Oregon Humane Society on Tuesday sent a team to rescue as many as 100 dogs living without shelter in cold weather on rural property in Eastern Oregon. Read More

Part American and part Pakistani, the Chicago man accused of conspiring in the bloody terrorist attacks in Mumbai has followed a twisted trail through two different worlds. Read More



* Want the latest Hot Seat polls delivered to your Vista desktop? Hot Seat Vista Gadget »

 

Sports

Money

Technology

Health

Entertainment

Politics Daily

US news u2013 latest news articles on weather, business, health, sports, science, technology, entertainment, politics, local news and more. Find breaking news, video, pictures, and latest news articles at AOL news.