http://www.timeswv.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:16:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_311051643.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_311051643.html As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the killing spree that left 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, dead. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:14:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_311051514.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_311051514.html Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earlier, she couldn’t stop crying.The only other person there was a local man, sitting in his warm car. Every few minutes he’d come out, asking Heymann if she was OK; mostly, he just let her grieve. Alone. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:13:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_311051432.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_311051432.html A man who was so deep in debt that he did not have the money to visit his son 30 minutes away opened fire Friday at the engineering firm that fired him two years ago, killing one person and wounding five, authorities said.As officers led a handcuffed Jason Rodriguez into a police station, a reporter asked the divorced 40-year-old why he had attacked his former colleagues. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:12:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_310041257.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_310041257.html An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.The gunman, first said to have been killed, was wounded but alive and in stable condition under military guard, said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:08:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_310040858.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_310040858.html Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pushed Mideast peace prospects into unknown territory Thursday, announcing he doesn’t want another term and opening the way to a succession battle that could play into the hands of his rival, the militant Hamas.But it also could boost the prospects of a popular candidate who reportedly wants to run for the presidency from his Israeli prison cell. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:05:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_310040601.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_310040601.html President Barack Obama and House Democrats scrambled on Thursday to secure the votes to pass a historic health care overhaul initiative, working to ease disagreements with rank-and-file over abortion and illegal immigrations.Obama met at the White House with several Hispanic lawmakers who oppose any prohibition on the ability of illegal immigrants to use their own money to purchase health coverage in a new government-run marketplace. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:01:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_310040518.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_310040518.html Israel said Thursday that Hezbollah could have bombarded the Jewish state for a month with the weapons confiscated in the country’s largest-ever arms seizure, and called on the world to focus on the Lebanese militants’ chief backer, Iran, rather than assailing Israel. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:28:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_309032837.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_309032837.html Commuters biked, walked, juggled carpool schedules and hitched rides as the city’s transit system ground to a near halt for a second day Wednesday, a rush worsened when a regional rail train caught fire.Regional rail lines are running because their workers are represented by a different union. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:38:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_308033910.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_308033910.html In a blow to the White House, the Senate’s top Democrat signaled Tuesday that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for passing health care legislation, leaving the measure’s fate to the uncertainties of the 2010 election season.Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., spoke as Democratic officials said it could be December before Senate debate begins in earnest on the issue atop President Barack Obama’s domestic agenda, months after senior lawmakers and the White House had hoped. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:37:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_308033826.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_308033826.html The number of bodies found in and near a rapist’s home rose to at least 10 on Tuesday when authorities unearthed four corpses from the backyard and found a skull in a bucket in the basement.Cleveland police stopped searching for victims for the night and planned to continue on Wednesday. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:52:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_306105229.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_306105229.html Police arrested a convicted kidnapper early Monday in the fatal shooting of four men in a parking lot in the town that inspired the idyllic community of Mayberry on the 1960s TV series “The Andy Griffith Show.” Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:49:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_306105106.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_306105106.html With the possibility of finding survivors all but gone and the ocean search shifted from a rescue effort to a recovery mission, focus fell Monday on what caused a Marine Corps helicopter and U.S. Coast Guard plane to collide over the Pacific. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:48:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_306104907.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_306104907.html A former nurse convicted of killing her husband is going to get another chance to convince the state Supreme Court that she deserves a new trial. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:05:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_302000611.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_302000611.html There was no way out for Miles Robertson, working in Afghanistan as a U.N. elections adviser. He was awakened by gunfire and feared he and his wife would be taken hostage. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:44:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_301004447.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_301004447.html Roadside bombs — the biggest killer of U.S. soldiers — claimed eight more American lives Tuesday, driving the U.S. death toll to a record level for the third time in four months as President Barack Obama nears a decision on a new strategy for the troubled war.