Kansas City Star: National News http://www.kansascity.com/811/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2008 Kansas City Star National News 60 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:02:13 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys feedback@kansascity.com Levees hold but waters rise in Dolly's rains http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/716718.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/716718.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:16 CDT Hurricane Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places and ripping roofs off buildings with 100 mph winds. House OKs rescue for homeowners, Freddie, Fannie http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/716714.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/716714.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:06 CDT Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at helping 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure and preventing the collapse of troubled mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. FEMA seeks immunity from suits over trailer fumes http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/715852.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/715852.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:54 CDT The Federal Emergency Management Agency asked a federal judge Wednesday for immunity from lawsuits over potentially dangerous fumes in government-issued trailers that have housed tens of thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane victims. VA mistake prevented thousands of guardsmen, reservists from receiving benefits http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717321.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717321.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:54 CDT The Department of Veterans Affairs failed to send benefit packages to nearly 37,000 National Guard and Reserve members who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan because it mistakenly thought they were ineligible. McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717283.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717283.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:36 CDT Republican presidential candidate John McCain had his own German experience Thursday - at a restaurant in Ohio. He asserted that he was happy to devote his time this week to touring the nation's heartland. ADHD increasingly common in older kids, CDC says http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717366.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717366.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:44 CDT More older children are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder while the rate is holding steady for children under 12, according to a government report released Wednesday. Gates, Bloomberg pool riches to fight smoking http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717139.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717139.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:38 CDT Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking. Authorities seek indicted polygamist sect members http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717271.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717271.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:19 CDT Texas authorities on Wednesday began looking for five indicted members of a polygamist sect, in a child sex-abuse case that the group's spokesman alleged was a face-saving move by officials who lost a court battle over their seizure of hundreds of children from a sect-owned ranch. Air Force says no survivors of B-52 crash off Guam http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717264.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717264.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:31 CDT All six crew members aboard a B-52 bomber that crashed off Guam were killed, the Air Force said Wednesday as the search effort shifted focus from rescue to recovery of the crew and pieces of the wreckage. Broadway, soap opera star Larry Haines dies at 89 http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717474.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/717474.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:49 CDT Larry Haines, a two-time Daytime Emmy winner for his 35-year role on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow," has died. He was 89. Dolly becomes hurricane, set to hit Tex-Mex border http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/714804.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/714804.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:46 CDT Rain started to fall along the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Dolly - upgraded in force from a tropical storm - closed in on towns straddling the Texas-Mexico border. Texas grand jury indicts polygamist sect members http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/715386.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/715386.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:09 CDT Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, already convicted in Utah of rape as an accomplice and awaiting trial in Arizona on other charges related to underage marriages, is now accused of assaulting a girl in Texas in January 2005. Rescue of mortgage giants could hit $25 billion http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/714990.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/714990.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:46 CDT A federal rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost taxpayers $25 billion, congressional budget experts said, as the House scheduled a Wednesday vote on legislation that would tap the mortgage giants' profits to cover any losses from saving 400,000 homeowners from foreclosure. No survivors found after B-52 crash http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/714793.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/714793.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:02 CDT The Air Force continued to hold out hope of finding survivors Tuesday in the crash of a B-52 bomber off Guam, but a brigadier general said there was no evidence that any of the airmen were alive. Burned remains IDed as man in standoff with police http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/715697.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/715697.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:13 CDT The medical examiner in Missouri's St. Louis County has identified charred remains found at a burned house where a firefighter was killed as the body of the homeowner. Sharpton's lawyers say feds have dropped tax probe http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/715017.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/715017.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:21 CDT Federal prosecutors have decided not to seek criminal charges against the Rev. Al Sharpton over his chronic tax problems, his lawyers said Tuesday. Testimony in Rosenberg case on verge of public release http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/716286.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/716286.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:00 CDT A judge signaled Tuesday that he would order the release in coming months of much of the secret testimony in the notorious espionage case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. One 'spam king' sentenced; another escapes http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/716212.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/716212.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:00 CDT There seems to be a lot of spam royalty out there: A Seattle man known as the "spam king" was sentenced to prison Tuesday, while federal officials said someone else with the same criminal nickname escaped from a prison camp in Colorado. Rhode Island police say man had 0.491 blood alcohol level http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/715428.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/715428.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:00 CDT State police say they arrested a man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent - the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for someone who wasn't dead. Deaths linked to medically unfit truckers http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/714725.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/714725.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:12 CDT WASHINGTON | Tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the U.S. have suffered seizures, heart attacks or unconscious spells behind the wheel that led to deadly crashes on highways.