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1. There is more trouble on the way for Lincoln County, Missouri. It's here where residents are still days away from the crest on the Mississippi River. Meanwhile, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this city library is a total loss. An entire floor is now a was
1. It is a weekend to remember those serving the country. President Bush is asking Americans to pause on Monday for a moment of remembrance. At Arlington National Cemetery, each headstone is being marked with an American flag. 2. Presidential candid
1. The government says US home prices fell in April at their fastest rates since 1991. Meanwhile, the Senate has overwhelmingly voted to speed up work on a 300-billion dollar foreclosure rescue plan. And a private survey says consumer confidence is
1. Havana was the scene of a major military parade in honor of Cuban leader Fidel Castro's 80th birthday. However, the ailing Castro wasn't in attendance . US officials believe Castro is suffering fro
1. The UN Security Council could vote Saturday on sanctions against North Korea in response to the country's reported testing of a nuclear weapon. The US and Japan want a quick vote on the measure, bu
Michael Devlin has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping Ben Ownby. The 13-year-old boy was snatched minutes after he stepped off his school bus. He was found later in Devlin's St. Louis area apartment along with anothe
1. Hurricane Dean has lost some of its punch as it crosses the Yucatan Peninsula. But it's expected to gain strength as it sweeps the lower Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile Texas is breathing easier because the storm is too far south to threaten the state w
1. Hurricane warnings for Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica as Hurricane Dean bear s down on the Caribbean islands. Dean is about 175 miles south of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, moving to the west-northwest at about 17 miles an ho
1.President Barack Obama is using this tax-filing day to say he wants to get the dread out of deadline day with a simpler tax code. For too long we've seen taxes used as a wedge to scare people into supporting policies that actually increased the bu
1. Israeli tanks and infantry have entered Gaza, launching a much anticipated ground offensive in a widening war on Gaza's Hamas rulers. Israeli security officials said the operation is likely to go on for several days, but that the objective is not
1.President-elect Barack Obama meets with congressional leaders to talk about the economy today. But we are now told the broad economic stimulus package Obama is pushing for won't be ready for a signature the day he takes office. Republicans say the
1. Multiple people have been killed in an attack on an immigration services center in Binghamton, New York. The gunman reportedly barricaded the rear door of the building with his car before entering the front door and opening fire. 2. Courting Euro
1. The rocket launched by nuclear-armed North Korea on Sunday appears to have fizzled in the Pacific Ocean. But it still got the international community worry that North Korea has the capacity to fire a long-range missile. Speaking from Prague, Pres
1.A solemn ceremony in Delaware has marked the end of nearly a two-decade ban on news coverage of returning US war dead. The remains of a Virginia airman killed in Afghanistan returned to Dover Air Force Base Sunday, the 20-minute ceremony was mostl
1. All-American college football player Michael Sam has announced hes gay. Sam who was the SEC defensive player of the year and is expected to be drafted into the NFL would be the first player to be openly a gay while actually playing in the national
After being closed for nearly 3 years, the Washington Monument is reopening to the pubilc. New exhibits have been installed and visitors can once again ride an elevator to look out from the highest point in the nation's capital. In August, 2011, the
1. Police in Oregon say a gunman fatally shot a student at a high school near Portland. Authorities said Tuesday, the suspect was also dead and the situation is now stabilized, but no word on the motive. 2. Gunmen in Pakistan attacked a training faci
1. The CDC is urging the nations hospitals to think Ebola after a nurse was tested positive for the virus. The nurse contracted the virus after caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the 1st diagnosed Ebola patient in the US. Hospital workers at Texas Health
1. A stepped up of Ebola program that checks temperature of travellers arriving from West Africa, is starting in New York John F. Kennedy International Airport. Over the next week, screenings will expand to Newark Liberty, Washington Dulles, Chicago
1. Four, three, two, one this cannon was discovered in Detroit River, back in July of 2011, and was pulled from the water in October of the same year. And since then, it has been undergone restoration. And this cannon was underwater for 200 years. An