http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews The latest news brought to you by MySpace! Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:25:45 GMT http://newscdn.myspace.com/web.2.24/content/springwidget/nationalnews.xml http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories/~3/327615570/2008-07-05-fedex-drug-package_N.htm But a mistaken delivery tipped off police to a 200-pound shipment of marijuana that someone tried to send from Pembroke Pines, Florida to Baltimore via the shipping company. Authorities posed as FedEx employees and arrested the shipment's intended recipient, USAToday.com: Nation Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:58:46 GMT http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories/~3/327615570/2008-07-05-fedex-drug-package_N.htm http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/05/lawnchair.balloons.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho. Couch kissed his wife and kids goodbye, and patted their CNN.com: U.S. News Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:13:12 GMT http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/05/lawnchair.balloons.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19051686 Funeral for Brooke Bennett, 12, of Vermont to Be Held Wednesday A funeral will be held for 12-year-old Brooke Marie Bennett on Wednesday at the Randolph Union High School in Randolph, Vt. A 14-year-old girl, known in court papers as Juvenile 1, last saw FOXNews.com: U.S. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:55:01 GMT http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19051686 http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19054252 A July 2, 2008 file photo shows Nicholas T. Sheley being escorted out of the Granite City Police... The television image of fugitive murder suspect Nicholas Sheley's mug shot was fresh in Samantha Butler's mind as she ventured out to get dinner for the ABC News: U.S. News Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:26:22 GMT http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19054252 http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19053880 That may be an understatement: He trails Democrat Barack Obama in polls, organization and money, while trying to succeed a deeply unpopular fellow Republican in a year that favors Democrats. The GOP presidential candidate trails Democrat Barack Obama in MSNBC: U.S. News Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:07:47 GMT http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19053880 http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19045690 Jesse Helms, the blunt North Carolina senator who became a conservative idol and anti-Communist hero, died on the Fourth of July. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?" In NY Post: National News Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:10:50 GMT http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19045690 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/05/national/main4234772.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._4234772 The raging blaze near Big Sur was one of more than 1,700 wildfires, mostly ignited by lightning, that have scorched more then 770 square miles and destroyed 64 structures across northern and central California since June 20. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar) (CBS/AP) CBS News: U.S. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:33:22 GMT http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/05/national/main4234772.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._4234772 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06fort.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Fort Monroe, a Union oasis where fugitive slaves flocked during the Civil War, will return to Virginia’s control in 2011 when the Army pulls out NYTimes: U.S. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:33:39 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06fort.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19047523 In a city where homicide rates have risen by 13 percent over the same period last year and 26 students were killed by gunfire in the past school year, Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) thinks the Supreme Court majority that overturned the District's gun ban last washingtonpost.com: National News Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:33:33 GMT http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19047523 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories/~3/327615569/2008-07-05-midwest-flooding_N.htm ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says two navigational locks along the Mississippi River have reopened after being closed because of flooding. Jennifer Godfrey of the corps' emergency operations center in St. Louis says locks in Clarksville USAToday.com: Nation Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:10:16 GMT http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories/~3/327615569/2008-07-05-midwest-flooding_N.htm http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/05/farc.americans/index.html?eref=rss_us Handcuffed hostage Keith Stansell is seen in an image taken from a video of Wednesday's rescue in Colombia. Also among the rescued hostages was French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, who returned to France on Friday. Watch Betancourt's joyous return CNN.com: U.S. News Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:33:33 GMT http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/05/farc.americans/index.html?eref=rss_us http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19054538 Gospel singer Wright hurt in Pa. car accident Cops: Singer’s wife killed, grandson injured; wrong-way driver caused crash LOGANTON, Pa. Timothy Wright was critically injured in a crash that killed his wife and a wrong-way driver, police in central MSNBC: U.S. News Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:53:52 GMT http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19054538 http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19053534 Protesters, holding images of G-8 summit leaders, march through a street during a demonstration against the upcoming summit in Sapporo, Japan, Saturday, July 5, 2008. President Bush departed today for the summit, which runs July 7 to July 9, and includes ABC News: U.S. News Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:00:17 GMT http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19053534 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/05/national/main4234814.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._4234814 A firework shell explodes near a crowd of people in Charles City, Iowa on Friday, July 4, 2008, during its Fourth of July Fireworks Display, just as the show was gearing for the finale. (AP/R. Kronberg, Charles City Press) (AP) An accident during a municipal CBS News: U.S. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:33:23 GMT http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/05/national/main4234814.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._4234814 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06employer.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Businesses are proposing alternatives to laws with harsh punishments for hiring illegal immigrants, reopening a rift in the Republican Party NYTimes: U.S. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:55:39 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06employer.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19045691 - President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson yesterday in welcoming new citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Monticello, telling each one, "I'll be proud to call you a fellow American." On his final Fourth of July as president, Bush told an audience at the home of the NY Post: National News Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:10:50 GMT http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19045691 http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19047709 A car thief on Thursday night found a bomb-laden van wired to detonate by remote control that likely had been sitting there for more than five months, sources said. Investigators believe the homemade explosives found on a Brooklyn street in the Ford Econoline FOXNews.com: U.S. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:53:30 GMT http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19047709 http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/07/05/tomatoes.salmonella.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us A team of three FDA inspectors has gone through five farms in the western states of Jalisco and Sinaloa in the past two weeks, looking at all aspects of tomato production: the greenhouses where they are grown, the packing plants where they are shut into CNN.com: U.S. News Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:23:53 GMT http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/07/05/tomatoes.salmonella.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories/~3/327588410/2008-07-05-military-father-mission_N.htm Black-I Robotics founder Brian Hart, whose son was killed during an ambush in Iraq in 2003, poses with a six-wheel cost-effective robot that his company designed to protect troops and perform certain risky missions. He founded a company that has developed USAToday.com: Nation Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:00:00 GMT http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories/~3/327588410/2008-07-05-military-father-mission_N.htm http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19051405 100 homeless after Toledo apartment blaze Residents say fireworks set off before fire started; 8 buildings destroyed TOLEDO, Ohio - A fast-moving fire early Saturday at an apartment complex in Toledo, Ohio, destroyed eight buildings and left more than 100 MSNBC: U.S. News Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:57:02 GMT http://news.myspace.com/politics/nationalnews/item/19051405