News in United States

• Pinellas detectives fatally shoot slaying suspect
  

  Two undercover sheriff's detectives fatally shot a 19-year-old man this afternoon, hours after the teen shot and killed two men at a party and critically wounded a third in a dispute over a girl, authorities say.

• Obama urges Democrats to come together for health care
  

  Claiming unstoppable momentum but still short of the goal line, President Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to rally House Democrats for a final push on landmark health care legislation.

• Thousands rally on anniversary of invasion of Iraq
  

  Thousands of protesters — many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama — marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

• Live updates: Lightning vs. Capitals
  

  Alex Ovechkin will return from suspension when his Washington Capitals visit the Tampa Bay Lightning.

• Florida State women escapes past Louisiana Tech
  

  Third-seeded Florida State escaped with a 75-61 win over 14th-seeded Louisiana Tech in the first round.

• 3 killed after small planes collide in Levy County
  

  A Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman says two pilots died when their small planes collided over central Florida.

• Navarro leaves game after leg injury
  

  Tampa Bay Rays catcher Dioner Navarro has been injured in a home-plate collision and taken in an ambulance for X-rays.

• Police: Suspect arrested in Pinellas Park shooting
  

  A 20-year-old man has been arrested in a shooting Friday that wounded two men, Pinellas Park police said.

• Teen made racial comment over N.J. Walmart speakers, police say
  

  A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in the southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, authorities said today.

• Texas church bans child's photograph of Passion
  

  Some find Jackson Potts II's photograph of a nightstick-wielding policeman beating a fallen, bleeding child violent and offensive, conjuring images of police brutality and child abuse.

• Boy Scouts sex abuse files now evidence in lawsuit
  

  The Boy Scouts of America call them "perversion files," internal documents used to track Scout leaders suspected of sexually abusing young boys, and they have become part of the public record in an Oregon lawsuit.

• Twins, woman ran oxycodone scheme, Pinellas deputies say
  

  Twin brothers and one brother's girlfriend were arrested this morning on charges they forged bogus prescriptions for painkillers, then sold the medication on the street, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said.

• 1st day of Airfest brings 'wows' at MacDill
  

  Today is a beautiful day for flying. It's also a beautiful day to watch people flying from the massive shadow of a B-52 Stratofortress.

• Officials: Polk motorist cited after collision with train
  

  A Lakeland man escaped serious injury – but not traffic citations – when he drove past stopped cars to go around a railroad crossing arm and was hit by a passenger train, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.

• Body of local Marine set to arrive Monday
  

  The body of a Marine killed in Afghanistan is expected to arrive Monday at MacDill Air Force Base.

• Residents fight to hold back rising Red River
  

  A city used to fighting floods was confident Saturday that it had done enough to hold back the swelling Red River - even as the water inched higher - but officials stressed that it was too early to celebrate.

• Suspect in deputy's death sentenced in Highlands slaying
  

  A man charged with killing a Polk County detention deputy has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for his part in a 2007 Highlands County slaying.

• Blue Angels to star in Air Fest
  

  The Navy's famed Blue Angels take to the sky this weekend at MacDill Air Force Base's Air Fest, designed to showcase the country's military services.

• Judge: $575M settlement rejected for 9/11 'heroes'
  

  A federal judge rejected a multimillion dollar settlement for people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal to compensate 10,000 police officers, firefighters and other laborers didn't contain enough money.

• Pope blasts Irish bishops, orders Vatican probe
  

  Pope Benedict XVI rebuked Irish bishops Saturday for "grave errors of judgment" in handling clerical sex abuse and ordered a Vatican investigation into the Irish church to wipe out the scourge.