http://www.palestineherald.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:45:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_324104554.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_324104554.html FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Sarah Palin’s tour to promote her new memoir will include a stop at Fort Hood to benefit the victims of the shooting rampage and their families. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:27:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_322202722.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_322202722.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Setting up a historic year-end health care debate, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled long-awaited legislation Wednesday night to extend coverage to all but 6 percent of eligible Americans and bar private industry from denying insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:26:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_322202637.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_322202637.html NEW YORK (AP) — Of all the adjectives one might use to describe Newsweek’s current Sarah Palin cover, “unflattering” probably isn’t one of them. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:25:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_322202558.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_322202558.html AUSTIN, Minn. (AP) — A tour bus returning from an Iowa casino ran off a southern Minnesota interstate and rolled over in a ditch Wednesday, killing two people and injuring 21, authorities said. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:24:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_322202432.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_322202432.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tapped a former senior defense official to lead a broad Pentagon review of the circumstances surrounding the Fort Hood shootings, The Associated Press has learned. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:18:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_322201906.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_322201906.html HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — A 37-year-old father irate over hearing his 15-year-old son had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death despite pleas from the boy and his mother, a relative said. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:13:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_322201412.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_322201412.html HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A convicted killer who volunteered for execution but in recent weeks changed his mind was put to death Wednesday evening for the abduction-slaying of an 84-year-old east Texas woman who was weighted down with a cinder block and thrown into a river. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:46:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_321124632.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_321124632.html TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan (AP) — Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between France’s top general in Afghanistan and dozens of tribal elders and senior local officials. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:41:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_321124156.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_321124156.html FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A grand jury opted Monday not to indict a Fort Worth police officer who used a Taser on a mentally ill man whose death from two high-voltage shocks was ruled a homicide, a district attorney said. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:24:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_320152424.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_320152424.html WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 15 million taxpayers could unexpectedly owe taxes when they file their federal returns next spring because the government was too generous with their new Making Work Pay tax credit. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:24:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_320152508.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_320152508.html WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the cost, Mr. President. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:22:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_320152253.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_320152253.html WASHINGTON (AP) — More than one in seven American households struggled to put enough food on the table in 2008, the highest number since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began tracking food security levels in 1995. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:19:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_320151939.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_320151939.html DALLAS (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to his role in a “swatting” conspiracy in Texas has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:35:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_317173533.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_317173533.html ATLANTA (AP) — In a quest for easy money, Derrick Gooden and Keith Dixon committed a string of robberies over a two-year period, mostly targeting Hispanic victims they believed were likely to have cash on hand. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:34:00 +0000 http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_317173427.html http://www.palestineherald.com/statenationalworld/local_story_317173427.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Morale has fallen among soldiers in Afghanistan, where troops are seeing record violence in the 8-year-old war, while those in Iraq show much improved mental health amid much lower violence, the Army said Friday.