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Hurricane Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded Sunday toward the Gulf Coast with 100 mph winds, bringing the threat of flooding and storm surges. Read More

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included several people who shared the same profession as the alleged shooter, a father of three with ties to Laos whose family had a history of military service, a civilian who had returned to work a week after suffering a heart attack, and a psychiatric nurse who arrived at Fort Hood a day before the shooting. Here is a look at the victims. Read More

Commuters in the City of Brotherly Love have been told to gear up to begin a second week of finding other ways to work following the collapse of a proposed deal to end a six-day-old strike by about 5,000 bus drivers, subway and trolley conductors and mechanics. Read More

Reggie Turner stopped by a growing memorial to 11 victims of an alleged serial killer because he knew one of the women. Michelle Lee came to pay her respects as a mother and grandmother. Mark Mason and two buddies rode their motorcycles to just take a look. Read More

A strong earthquake was reported in the ocean off Indonesia on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Read More

Mourners were asked to pray for the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, and an Army chaplain exhorted his congregation on Sunday to draw together even if the gunman's motives may never be fully known. Read More

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declares state of emergency to prepare for Hurricane Ida in Gulf. Read More

A 63-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting one person and wounding three others in a Vail bar has been arrested in what authorities say was an apparently random shooting. Read More

Based on the rhetoric, America's war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation's readiness to turn the talk into reality. Read More

A U.S. Army spokesman says the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood is in critical but stable condition. Read More

To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah's school, it was a dress-code violation worthy of a suspension. Read More

A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 1978 killing of a security guard believe they have evidence that shows prosecutors put the wrong man behind bars. But in the quest to prove his innocence, they may have to defend themselves, too. Read More

US National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Ida strengthens to Category 2 with 100 mph winds. Read More

It galled her to do it, but Sarah Dillon was desperate for answers, so she wrote letters to convicted snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo: If you murdered my son, please confess, she wrote. Read More

It is the British empire of the dead. Read More

Police described a suspect in the shooting death of a Seattle policeman as a "lone domestic terrorist" and said he was also suspected of firebombing four police vehicles. Read More

In a Nov. 7 story about the racial issues in a New York community a year after the stabbing death of an Ecuadorean immigrant, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of one of the defendants charged in the immigrant's death. His correct name is Anthony Hartford, not Harfford. Read More

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Sunday as the Gulf Coast braced for the arrival of Hurricane Ida, which was making its way across the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 2 storm. Read More

As Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan lies in intensive care, some people who knew the Muslim man accused of going on a killing spree at Fort Hood say he had become more vocal in his anti-American views, believing the U.S. was waging a "war on Islam." Thirteen people died and 29 others were wounded in Thursday's attack. Read More

The scenes seared into the minds of those who know Bobby Yurkanin differed only in place: Whether in the pool, around the dinner table or at the bowling alley, he was the 50-something man whose life had long before been handed over to the sickness of his parents. Always his father was by his side. Read More