http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Centredaily.com en-us Copyright 2009 Centredaily.com Nation 60 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:37 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive Workbench support@centredaily.com http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636703.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636703.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:02 EST Police say a woman has died after being struck along with nine children by a car outside an Alabama middle school. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636863.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636863.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:36 EST Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637002.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637002.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:12 EST When Liz Fitzgerald realized her son and daughter were forced to read books in math class while the other children caught up, she had them moved into gifted classes at their suburban Atlanta elementary school. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637032.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637032.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:37 EST Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637092.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637092.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:17 EST A military judge in Texas has found a former Air Force nurse accused of killing three terminally ill patients not guilty of murder. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636864.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636864.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:12 EST The gunman who carried out Saipan's most violent attack in recent memory ended his life on the same rocky cliffs where numerous Japanese leapt to their deaths to avoid capture by U.S. troops during World War II. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637018.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637018.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:37 EST Police found him sitting on the floor of his old apartment near a bucket of urine, still dressed in his hospital gown. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637033.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637033.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:22 EST The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637108.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637108.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:47 EST A Fort Benning spokesman says Army officials are investigating whether a suspicious note and package found at the west Georgia post is a viable threat. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636399.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636399.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:57 EST WASHINGTON - The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636939.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636939.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:52 EST Newly arrived in Moscow on his first foreign assignment, Associated Press correspondent George Krimsky sensed he had a sensational Cold War scoop on his hands and he pounced. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637020.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637020.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:47 EST A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637047.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637047.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:12 EST Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637172.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1637172.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:02 EST Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636273.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636273.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:42 EST Two former county judges accused of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send juveniles to private detention facilities are partially immune from civil lawsuits, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Friday. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636378.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636378.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:07 EST Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636498.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636498.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:22 EST A black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace has agreed a plea deal with prosecutors convicting her of two misdemeanor counts. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1635913.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1635913.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:22 EST The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Democratic Sen. Roland Burris for misleading investigators about his maneuvering to get Barack Obama's old Senate seat from the governor who was ousted for trying to sell it. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636496.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636496.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:32 EST The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week when the military wanted the event closed out of fears it would prompt political grandstanding against President Barack Obama. http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636171.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/1636171.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:13 EST A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal immigrants in the mountains east of San Diego.