Kansas City Star: Nation - Wire http://www.kansascity.com/440/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from The Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2012Kansas City Star Nation - Wire 60 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:22:42 CST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys 1.1.fi feedback@kansascity.com (Feedback) American flight makes emergency landing in Ky. http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423622/american-flight-makes-emergency.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423622/american-flight-makes-emergency.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:13 CST Passengers on an American Airlines flight from Miami to Detroit have completed their journey hours after the plane made an emergency landing in Kentucky. Romney's good day; wins conservatives, Maine caucus http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423561/romneys-good-day-wins-conservatives.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423561/romneys-good-day-wins-conservatives.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:29 CST WASHINGTON -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney got a much-needed boost Saturday, winning a key symbolic vote over former Sen. Rick Santorum among some of the nation's most active Republican voters and besting the field in the Maine caucuses. US sex abuse lawsuit against Vatican dismissed http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423498/us-sex-abuse-lawsuit-against-vatican.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423498/us-sex-abuse-lawsuit-against-vatican.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:53 CST Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf have withdrawn their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants. Questions raised over gun NH boy used in school http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423378/questions-raised-over-gun-nh-boy.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423378/questions-raised-over-gun-nh-boy.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:28 CST A teen who shot himself in the face in a crowded elementary school cafeteria in southwestern New Hampshire had residents Saturday asking how he got a gun into school and expressing concern for his classmates. Suspect charged in gay GA man's videotaped beating http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423362/suspect-charged-in-gay-ga-mans.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423362/suspect-charged-in-gay-ga-mans.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:23 CST Atlanta police have arrested a suspect in the beating of a 20-year-old gay man that was captured on a widely viewed video. State senator, wife attacked at western NY casino http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423266/state-senator-wife-attacked-at.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423266/state-senator-wife-attacked-at.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:38 CST A state senator and his wife said Saturday they were attacked and beaten at a Niagara Falls casino hotel after the lawmaker tried to break up an argument between two men, one of whom accused him of hating the Indian tribe that owned the resort. Cold weather returns to the South; snow possible http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423205/cold-weather-returns-to-the-south.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423205/cold-weather-returns-to-the-south.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:03 CST Cold weather has been making a comeback in the South this weekend, after what's been a very mild winter so far. Oldest federal judge remembered at Kan. service http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423159/hundreds-gather-in-kansas-to-remember.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423159/hundreds-gather-in-kansas-to-remember.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:28 CST Some 400 mourners gathered Saturday to honor a judge whose sheer stamina and devotion to justice kept him on the federal bench in Wichita up to his death last month at age 104. Family, teachers remember Powell boys in Tacoma http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423095/family-teachers-remember-powell.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423095/family-teachers-remember-powell.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:23 CST More than a thousand people mourned the deaths of Charlie and Braden Powell at a public funeral Saturday, nearly a week after the young boys' father killed them and himself in a gas-fueled blaze. Unions expect right-to-work will cost them members http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423091/unions-expect-right-to-work-will.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423091/unions-expect-right-to-work-will.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:08 CST After losing their fight against right-to-work legislation, labor organizers are making a desperate bid on shop room floors and at union halls to persuade members to keep paying their union dues and avoid crippling labor's influence in Indiana. US faces tough fight in cash smuggling crackdown http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423072/us-faces-tough-fight-in-cash-smuggling.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423072/us-faces-tough-fight-in-cash-smuggling.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:43 CST Jeanette Barraza-Galindo conspicuously left her bags of teddy bears and throw pillows on a bus during an inspection at the Texas-Mexico border - and professed ignorance about the $277,556 officers found hidden inside. The bags were handed to her at a bus station, gifts to be given to a child upon her return to Mexico, she told investigators. First lady fixes on must-dos prior to election run http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422780/first-lady-talks-fitness-with.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422780/first-lady-talks-fitness-with.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:33 CST Gearing up for a tough political season ahead, Michelle Obama said Saturday she's trying to get as much done as possible before the general election campaign starts to drown out everything else. Texans on wrong side of border fence grow anxious http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423019/texans-on-wrong-side-of-border.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3423019/texans-on-wrong-side-of-border.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:18 CST Max Pons is already anticipating the anxiety he'll feel when the heavy steel gate shuts behind him, leaving his home isolated on a strip of land between America's border fence and the violence raging across the Rio Grande in Mexico. Penn class teaches students how to live like monks http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422977/penn-class-teaches-students-how.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422977/penn-class-teaches-students-how.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:43 CST Looking for a wild-and-crazy time at college? Don't sign up for Justin McDaniel's religious studies class. No discipline planned at North Dakota degree mill http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422964/no-discipline-planned-at-north.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422964/no-discipline-planned-at-north.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:23 CST No immediate discipline is planned for any Dickinson State University employees in the wake of an audit determining the school awarded hundreds of degrees to foreign students who didn't earn them, the chancellor of North Dakota's university system said Saturday. Parents: Hazed students not allowed to play sports http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422944/parents-hazed-students-not-allowed.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422944/parents-hazed-students-not-allowed.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:53 CST The parents of two boys who say the teens were punched during high school baseball hazing rituals say they're being victimized again - this time because they aren't being allowed to play sports after switching schools. Parents: Hazed students not allowed to play sports http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422913/parents-hazed-students-not-allowed.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422913/parents-hazed-students-not-allowed.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:28 CST The parents of two boys who say they were punched during high school baseball hazing rituals say they're being victimized again - this time because they aren't being allowed to play sports after switching schools. The nation's weather http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422624/the-nations-weather.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422624/the-nations-weather.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:53 CST Weather Underground Forecast for Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Police seek man after 3 found dead in Wash. home http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422598/police-3-found-dead-in-wash-home.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/11/3422598/police-3-found-dead-in-wash-home.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:18 CST Police said Saturday that they are looking for a 22-year-old man who is a "person of interest" in the deaths of a woman and two children whose bodies were found in a home in north Spokane. Marine honored for Afghanistan counterattack http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/10/3422466/marine-honored-for-afghanistan.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/10/3422466/marine-honored-for-afghanistan.html#storylink=rss Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:28 CST A Marine based out of Camp Pendleton was awarded the Silver Star on Friday for courageous service during a bloody, six-hour firefight in the war in Afghanistan.