Report: NPS hantavirus response followed policy
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) -- Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommend that design changes to tent cabins and other lodging run by private concessionaires first be reviewed by National Park Service officials....
Calif. dad of slain girl unsure why home targeted
NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. (AP) -- A devastated father says he has no idea why gunmen targeted his house over the weekend, firing a barrage of bullets that instantly killed his 10-year-old daughter as she watched television from a chair near the front picture window....
Omaha task force probes 4 slayings 5 years apart
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Authorities in Omaha have launched a task force to investigate any connection between last week's killings of a Creighton University professor and his wife and the 2008 slayings of an 11-year boy and his family housekeeper....
Police to offer new details in Susan Powell case
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) -- A police agency is offering new details about the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect....
Calif. gov cites safety in possible bridge delay
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he does not know if the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open over Labor Day weekend because of safety concerns....
Father of slain girl, 10, unsure why home targeted
NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. (AP) -- A devastated father says he has no idea why gunmen targeted his Northern California home over the weekend, killing his 10-year-old daughter as she watched TV....
Illinois State Police: 5 killed in I-70 van crash
VANDALIA, Ill. (AP) -- Five people died and six others were taken to hospitals Monday after the van they were riding in left a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times, Illinois State Police said....
Official: FBI agents' cause of death unlikely soon
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- The Virginia medical examiner's office says it will likely be weeks before the cause of death is determined for two FBI agents who died during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia Beach....
Arias trial wraps for day, continues Tuesday
PHOENIX (AP) -- The penalty phase of the Jodi Arias murder trial wrapped up for the day Monday after a series of legal arguments in which her defense lawyers asked for a mistrial and to withdraw from the case....
Feds again delay San Onofre nuke restart decision
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal regulators have indefinitely delayed a decision on the proposed restart of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant in California, raising new questions Monday about whether the twin reactors will produce electricity again....
NYPD to increase presence after bias killing
NEW YORK (AP) -- A spate of anti-gay attacks in New York City is prompting police to increase their presence in some gay-friendly neighborhoods heading into what's usually a time for celebration....
Ill. State Police: 5 killed in I-70 van crash
VANDALIA, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois State Police say five people were killed and six others injured when a van in which they were riding left a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times....
Angry mob pelts man thought to be sex attacker
DENVER (AP) -- Residents angry that police had not warned them about sex assaults of children took matters into their own hands, chasing down a man they thought was the attacker, pelting him with rocks and leaving him with a bloody face in Colorado, authorities said Monday....
Split-second choice ended with NY student dead
NEW YORK (AP) -- The college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer....
