Centredaily.com: Nation http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Centredaily.com en-us Copyright 2008 Centredaily.com Nation 60 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:43 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive Workbench support@centredaily.com Erratic winds prompt new evacuations in California http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703078.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703078.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:12 EDT They're evacuating Paradise. Authorities ordered thousands of residents in the town north of Sacramento to leave after erratic winds blew embers across wildfire containment lines, destroying 40 homes nearby, in the latest setback for already strained fire crews. Police: Polygamist Warren Jeffs hospitalized http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703155.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703155.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was taken from jail to a Las Vegas hospital Tuesday for an unspecified medical problem. Man arrested after climbing up NYC skyscraper http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703186.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703186.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:31 EDT A man scaled a portion of The New York Times' 52-story headquarters early Wednesday morning, becoming the third person to do so in a span of a few weeks, the police said. US agriculture secretary confident meat is safe http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703300.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703300.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:26 EDT The U.S. agriculture secretary expressed confidence in the nation's food safety system, but said the meat processing industry will always face challenges because the bacteria that animals carry evolves. Out-of-state vets to pay lower tuition in Ohio http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703152.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703152.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:46 EDT Ohio now allows out-of-state veterans to pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. Slain 12-year-old Vermont girl mourned at wake http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703267.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703267.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:41 EDT Amid flowers, snapshots from her short life and somber greetings, mourners remembered slain 12-year-old Brooke Bennett at a wake in the building where she just graduated from seventh grade. Hurricane Bertha could strengthen in coming days http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703069.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703069.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:56 EDT Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha could become slightly stronger in the next couple of days as it heads toward Bermuda. Family, friends of killing spree suspect baffled http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703278.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/703278.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:26 EDT Marcia Frey laid down the law when her daughter and son-in-law, Holly and Nicholas Sheley, moved into her trailer after losing their apartment last month: No alcohol. No drugs. Legal claim filed over death at NYC psych ward http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702262.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702262.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:51 EDT The daughter of a woman who died unnoticed on the floor of a hospital psychiatric unit called Tuesday for criminal prosecution of the workers who did nothing to help her. Police ID remains as software programmer's wife http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/700575.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/700575.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:36 EDT Investigators confirmed Tuesday that a body a prominent software engineer led them to is, in fact, that of the estranged wife he was about to be sentenced for killing, pulling closer together the final pieces of a murder mystery. Hurricane Bertha weakens to Category 1 storm http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/700607.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/700607.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:11 EDT Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha has weakened to a Category 1 storm. No charges planned in death of ignored LA patient http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702788.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702788.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:46 EDT No criminal charges will be filed against medical staff at a troubled inner-city hospital over the death of a homeless woman who writhed in pain on the emergency room floor for nearly an hour, a county prosecutor concluded Tuesday. Drugs suspected in treats given to Texas police http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702918.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702918.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:36 EDT A teenager is suspected of delivering baskets of drug-laced treats to about a dozen police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to police who charged him Tuesday with LSD possession. At least three officers have gotten sick. Derailed train spills coal into Yellowstone River http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/698674.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/698674.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:32 EDT A locomotive and 10 coal cars plunged about 50 feet early Monday from a track undermined by high water flow on the Yellowstone River. Receding floodwaters give up trove of debris http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702612.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702612.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:51 EDT Duffels of police riot gear. Thousands of pens. Toys, water heaters and even dog houses. As floodwaters retreat across the Midwest, remnants of washed-out households are turning up in the muddy ooze miles from the families who lost them. FAA says bird not to blame for dent in plane nose http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702699.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702699.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:51 EDT Federal officials say a bird did not cause a large dent in the nose of a Northwest Airlines plane that landed in Tampa. NY man charged after dad dies in sweltering car http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702805.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702805.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:31 EDT A man who police say left his elderly, infirm parents in a sweltering car while he drove a bus route for three hours was charged with reckless endangerment Tuesday. His father died, but his mother made it out of the vehicle. Judge dismisses Condit suit against Dunne http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702616.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702616.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:57 EDT A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by former Congressman Gary Condit claiming author Dominick Dunne slandered him over the death of a young female intern. Homeland Secretary chief visits flooded Missouri http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/700754.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/700754.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:59 EDT U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff got a firsthand look at damage from recent Missouri flooding and an update about how recovery is going. Man gets 35 years for Houston stinky feet slaying http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702908.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/702908.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:01 EDT A man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for stabbing his roommate to death after an argument in their Houston apartment about stinky feet.