NEW YORK -- A military band played and sailors fired off cannons as the Navy began a ceremony to commission its newest assault ship forged with tons of steel from the World Trade Center.
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GALVESTON, Texas -- A Texas jury has convicted a man for the 2007 beating death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter whose battered body was found in a container floating in Galveston Bay.
NEW ORLEANS -- Investigators are searching the New Orleans offices of the activist group ACORN in connection with embezzlement and tax fraud allegations.
SAN ANTONIO -- An Army medical official says the man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood has been transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Police say a former employee accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others at an Orlando, Fla., engineering firm thought it had blocked his efforts to obtain unemployment benefits.
MASON, Ohio -- The wife of an Army soldier says she listened in horror as her husband's cell phone picked up the screams and gunfire from the deadly shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.
WASHINGTON -- The nation's unemployment rate shot up more sharply than expected last month, to 10.2% from 9.8% in September, as employers shed 190,000 jobs.
ORLANDO, FL -- Police in Orlando say a gunman has been apprehended after killing one person and injuring five others at a downtown office building where he was let go two years ago.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says new figures showing national unemployment has hit the double-digit mark are regretful and says he's working hard to restore the struggling economy.
NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.
FORT HOOD, TX -- A senior U.S. official in Washington isn't ruling out the possibility that the alleged Fort Hood shooter had ties to radical groups, but isn't saying whether there's evidence to back it up.
WASHINGTON -- The White House says President Barack Obama on Friday morning will sign a bill that expands a popular homebuyers tax credit and extends unemployment benefits.
WASHINGTON -- The two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles are appealing their license revocations.
FORT HOOD, TX -- A Fort Hood spokeswoman says 12 people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage on the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says the Army major accused of the shooting was about to deploy overseas.
FORT HOOD, Texas -- A military official says one more person has died after being injured during a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.
STOCKTON, Calif. -- A convicted murderer has been sentenced to six consecutive life terms for killing six women throughout Central California during the 1970s and '80s.
BOZEMAN, MT -- As many as 1,000 followers of a New Age spiritual leader and doomsday prophet are expected to come to her memorial service this weekend at the sprawling Montana ranch she used as a headquarters.
WASHINGTON -- Thousands of conservatives are rallying at the Capitol against the Democrats' health care overhaul plan.
PHOENIX -- Phoenix police found medicines, passports, stereo and video equipment, video games, laptop computers and even adoption paperwork in a house holding hundreds of pieces of stolen luggage.
HACKENSACK, NJ -- Jury deliberations got under way Thursday in New Jersey in the trial of a Florida man who claims he was too fat to have killed his former son-in-law.
