MiamiHerald.com: Nation AP http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/index.html MiamiHerald.com: Nation AP http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Nation AP 60 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:23:24 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com Ask AP: Bottom-up bailouts, gas pump tampering http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800489.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800489.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:21 EST If troubled automakers and banks need government bailouts, why not give their customers federally financed vouchers to help cover car and mortgage payments - so both consumers and companies could benefit from the money? Penn State fraternity bonded by thrill of the hunt http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800451.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800451.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:16 EST Pictures of former fraternity brothers line a wall, and empty soda and beer cartons are stacked near the back door. It's like any other college fraternity house - except for the deer carcass hanging in the front hall. Families can't forgive Nebraska mall shooter http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800423.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800423.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:31 EST Christmas decorations are in place and holiday music fills the atrium, yet a gloom punctuates the shopping season at the Westroads Mall. Employees, their families and friends planned to gather Friday at the steps of the Von Maur department store in remembrance of the eight people killed a year ago in the deadliest mall shooting in U.S. history. US foundations giving record amounts globally http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800417.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800417.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:21 EST U.S. charitable foundations gave money to international causes at record levels in 2007 and their contributions are likely to increase again this year, says a report by an organization that monitors philanthropy. Judges weigh ordering release of Calif. prisoners http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800396.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800396.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:56 EST Three federal judges seem convinced that overcrowding in California prisons is so bad it leads to unconstitutional conditions. Now they must weigh whether ordering the release of nearly a third of the state's inmates would be a public safety nightmare. O.J. Simpson faces 6 years to life at sentencing http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800377.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800377.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:36 EST O.J. Simpson is going to prison; the question is for how long. Conductor: Light was green before deadly LA crash http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800068.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800068.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:41 EST The conductor aboard the commuter train that collided with a freight train in September told investigators the warning light along the track was green before the crash that killed 25 people, his attorney said Thursday. Groups protest drilling-lease auction in Utah http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800062.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800062.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:31 EST Conservation groups filed formal protests Thursday against what they call a "fire sale" of oil-and-gas drilling leases in Utah being conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Minn. baby sitter admits using charge in porn film http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800038.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800038.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:16 EST A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to answering an online advertisement for baby-sitting work and then using the client's child to make a pornographic video. Deputies: Couple robbed 60 homes; 100 guns seized http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799993.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799993.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:46 EST Authorities say a husband-and-wife burglary team robbed about 60 homes in rural eastern Missouri and deputies discovered 100 guns at the home of the man accused of selling the stolen loot online.