National News
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Romney inches closer to clinching GOP nomination
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has won most of the delegates in the Oregon primary, leaving him 155 delegates shy of the number of delegates needed to win the Republican nomination for president. He should get there by the end of the month. Romney won at least 16 of the 25 delegates at stake in Oregon, with
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Defense mum on whether John Edwards will testify
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — John Edwards' attorneys won't say publicly whether the former presidential candidate or his one-time mistress will take the witness stand Wednesday. Defense lawyer Abbe Lowell has said the defense could close out its case by calling Edwards, his oldest daughter Cate and Rielle Hunter, the woman with whom he had an extramarital affair while running for
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Crews try to stop AZ blaze from crossing fire line
CROWN KING, Ariz. (AP) — Firefighters have been working to prevent a wildfire near the historic mining town of Crown King from spreading to an area where it could quickly grow. Fire incident spokeswoman Loretta Benavidez said Tuesday night that authorities are worried that flames from the Gladiator Fire will get past a fire line that's about a mile west
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GI killed in Vietnam War to get Medal of Honor
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday is awarding the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award, to a Pennsylvania Army specialist killed in 1970 while serving in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The White House says Spec. Leslie H. Sabo Jr. will receive the medal posthumously for heroic action when his platoon was ambushed by North Vietnamese
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Bishops reject softened birth control rule
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are rejecting the Obama administration's plan to accommodate faith groups that object to the birth control mandate. The bishops said in a statement Tuesday to Health and Human Services that the prospective new rules don't do enough to protect religious liberty. The mandate requires employers to provide health insurance that includes birth control
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FDA panel backs first rapid, take home HIV test
WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of HIV specialists is recommending that U.S. regulators approve the first over-the-counter HIV test designed to quickly return a result in the privacy of a person's own home, a new option which could expand testing for the virus that causes AIDS. The 17 members of the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted unanimously that
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Lawyer files new effort to free OJ
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new lawyer for O.J. Simpson is making another effort to gain the former football star's release from Nevada state prison, where he is serving nine to 33 years for kidnapping and armed robbery in a 2007 encounter with sports memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas. A 94-page document filed Tuesday in Clark County District Court in
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US says blind China activist's visa is ready
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says U.S. visas for Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and his family are ready for them to travel to America once Beijing gives the green light. Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Tuesday the visa processing was completed more than a week ago for Chen, his wife and two children, to allow him to study in New
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Pentagon limits F-22 fighter flights
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has limited the flights of the F-22 fighter jet to regions where pilots can quickly land the plane if they experience oxygen problems. Pentagon press secretary George Little says the limits will not affect the war zone in Afghanistan because the geography allows sufficient landing areas. Pilots of the stealth fighter have complained
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Deputies: Fla. Mom killed 4 kids, then herself
PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say three of the four children who were shot and killed by their mother today had been able to escape from the home and tell a neighbor they had been shot. But they say the mother then emerged from her house and calmly told the children to come back home. And when they