Yahoo! News: U.S. NewsU.S. NewsGrand jury indicts 26 reputed gang members in NC (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - A federal grand jury indicted 26 suspected members of an international gang accused in a cross-border drug ring, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_re_us/m... Consumer confidence sinks to 16-year-plus low (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - U.S. consumers are the gloomiest they've been since the tail end of the last prolonged recession. Inflation, sinking home values and soaring gas prices have pushed confidence to the lowest level since 1992. Consumers' view of the economic future has never been lower, raising worries that already weak consumer spending could deteriorate further.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_bi_ge/e... Jury gets Ky. diet drug fraud case (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - The case of three lawyers charged with defrauding clients in a $200 million diet drug settlement went to a federal jury Tuesday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_bi_ge/f... Case against fake police officer upends Mo. town (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - Bill Jakob arrived in this small town with an offer to help police curb the community's methamphetamine problem. He had a badge and a gun and told officials he had previously worked as an anti-drug agent in Illinois. He even drove a fully equipped Ford Crown Victoria, which he said was for undercover work.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_re_us/f... Waterlogged levee under pressure from Mississippi (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - The weakest spot left along the swollen Mississipi River may be the Pin Oak levee, a barrier so tenuous that soil slides down its slope. Only National Guard soldiers and firefighters in life vests are allowed to stack sandbags, because volunteers and heavy equipment could sink. A single muskrat recently created a geyser of riverwater by digging into the berm.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_re_us/m... Pregnant Mass. student says there was no pact (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - A pregnant high school student disputed the notion Tuesday that girls in this New England fishing town made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_re_us/p... Crews battle lightning-caused California wildfires (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - Fire crews joined aircraft from neighboring states Tuesday to battle hundreds of lightning-caused wildfires across Northern California.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_re_us/w... Fla., US Sugar announce $1.7B Everglades land deal (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - U.S. Sugar Corp., the nation's largest producer of cane sugar, would go out of business in a $1.75 billion deal to sell its nearly 300 square miles of land to Florida for Everglades restoration, the company and the state's governor said Tuesday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_bi_ge/e... Florida teen loses arm in alligator attack (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - A Florida teen who was attacked by an 11 12-foot alligator lost his arm, but managed to escape with his life after poking the animal in the eye.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_re_us/a... Ga. sex offenders challenge church volunteer ban (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - Five sex offenders filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming that a tough new Georgia law that bans them from volunteering at churches also robs them of their right to participate in religious worship.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_re_us/s... |