Milwaukee's U.S. attorney defends his record

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. attorney in Milwaukee said Saturday that political self-preservation was never a factor in his decision to prosecute a Democratic state official for corruption before last year's election, and that he was never pressured by the Bush administration or the president's political aides to pursue the case.

32 dead, 15 wounded in Virginia Tech massacre

Killing spree marks the deadliest shooting in American history

BLACKSBURG, Va. - The deadliest shooting massacre in American history savaged Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on Monday, as an unidentified gunman killed 32 people and wounded 15 more, then killed himself, his motive and identity unknown as of early evening.

22 dead in Virginia Tech campus shootings

Police: One shooter in custody, the other shot himself

At least 22 Virginia Tech students are dead and many others have been injured in a pair of campus shootings Monday. Initial reports said there was only one fatality, but at a noon news conference officials at the Blacksburg, Va., campus announced that there were more than 20, and more than two dozen others injured.

Bureaucracy 'burdening military families'

WASHINGTON -- The leaders of a presidential commission on military health care Saturday promised pointed fixes to a medical system described by wounded soldiers and the wife of a service member as rife with bureaucratic bungling, delays and indifference. Witnesses also told the panel _ appointed by President Bush in the wake of reports that returning war veterans faced poor outpatient conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center _ that the medical system can't keep up with the influx of wounded soldiers and the paperwork and bureaucracy is burdening military families.

Former school administrator accused of terrorism

DETROIT -- Ask friends and associates of Kifah Jayyousi to describe the former Detroit schools administrator, and they'll use words like "nice" and "respected," totally opposite of how federal prosecutors are expected to portray him in a high-profile terrorism trial starting next week in Miami.