FORT HOOD, Texas -- Stepping for the first time into the role of national consoler, President Barack Obama is honoring the 13 people slain in a shooting rampage here by remembering what they left behind, offering personal stories about the lives they touched and the service they provided to their country. Full Story »
COLUMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- Columbia County Sheriff's Deputies have charged five teenagers with two school burglaries that occurred over this past weekend. Ft. White High School and Columbia High School were both burglarized. Full Story »
KILLEEN, Texas -- President Barack Obama has flown to Texas to lead a memorial service at Fort Hood Army base for the people killed in last week's shooting rampage and to console their relatives and loved ones. Full Story »
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The seventh annual Willie Gary Classic College Fair will be held Saturday at Raines High School. Hours are from 11 a.m. Until 3 p.m. Full Story »
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Family and friends are preparing to say a final farewell to a Jacksonville Sheriff's Officer who died while on-duty last week. A viewing for Detective Bobby Ford was held at the Parkwood Baptist Church on Lone Star Road Monday night. Full Story »
RICHMOND, Va. -- Gov. Tim Kaine denied clemency Tuesday for sniper John Allen Muhammad, clearing the way for him to be executed for the attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in 2002. Full Story »
You can hear that "Sesame Street" is turning 40 years old Tuesday but it's only when it's put this way that it really sinks in. Earlier this year Time magazine pointed out that Barack Obama is the first president young enough to say he watched Sesame Street as a kid. Full Story »
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- An arrest warrant has been dropped for actor Randy Quaid and his wife after they were accused of stiffing a California hotel on a $10,000 bill. Full Story »
NEW YORK -- Aerosmith's lead guitarist Joe Perry says the legendary rock band isn't breaking up -- although they need a new singer. Full Story »
NEW YORK -- This holiday season's biggest entertainment blockbuster likely will be a sequel to a popular franchise, with jarring depictions of war and an intricate story of good versus evil. It could easily rake in more than last year's record $155 million opening weekend for "The Dark Knight." Full Story »
WASHINGTON -- Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an "assessment" of him before deciding he did not pose a threat. Full Story »
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- An overturned private ambulance on the exit from Interstate 95 north to the Main Street Bridge Tuesday morning has blocked traffic into downtown. Full Story »
NEW YORK -- A lawyer for the TV news producer accused of blackmailing David Letterman plans to ask a judge to dismiss an extortion case that prompted the late-night comic to acknowledge affairs with staffers. Full Story »
Over-the-counter painkillers such as ibuprofen or naproxen -- usually sold as Advil and Aleve -- may protect people from Alzheimer's disease, researchers reported. Full Story »
NEW YORK -- Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean calls a sex tape she made for an ex-boyfriend several years ago "the biggest mistake of my life." Full Story »
NEW YORK -- Even for a venue as grand as New York's Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards. Full Story »
CHICAGO -- A Connecticut woman who was mauled and blinded after a 200-pound chimpanzee attacked her in February is set to appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Full Story »
WASHINGTON -- Presidents get elected to run the nation. Some days that means knowing how to heal it. Full Story »
LOS ANGELES -- On the eve of a hearing in the Michael Jackson estate, a lawyer for the singer's father filed a 60-page motion Monday that intensifies a bid to get money from his son's estate by making accusations of fraud against the administrators of his will. Full Story »
CAIRO -- Egypt and the Getty Conservation Institute announced Tuesday a five-year project to restore the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world. Full Story »
SAO PAULO -- A woman expelled for wearing a mini-dress that caused a near riot at a Brazilian college and made her an Internet sensation said all she wants is to go back to school. Well, she got her way. Full Story »
MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Ida has come ashore near Mobile Bay in southern Alabama with top sustained winds weakened to about 45 mph (75 kph). Full Story »
LOS ANGELES -- Jennifer Lopez is suing her first husband to keep him from making their sex life public. Full Story »
WASHINGTON -- Poor Bill Yosses. He's the White House pastry chef. He makes desserts for a living. He works for Barack and Michelle Obama. They talk about healthy eating. All the time. Full Story »
HONOLULU -- A Hawaii woman was kicked off a United Airlines plane bound for Honolulu Monday when the flight crew accused her of having the swine flu. Mitra Mostoufi and daughter Pagie said told Honolulu news station KITV the ordeal started aboard their plane in Tampa, Fla. Full Story »
A morning moonset peeks through the autumn foliage near Bradfordton, Ill. AP Photo/Seth Perlman
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