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Park Service Announces Deal For Flight 93 Memorial

The federal government will pay about $9.5 million to acquire land so the Flight 93 National Memorial can be built by the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday. With the National Park Service reaching agreements with eight landowners, construction is expected to start in November.
Posted: 08/31/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Move Over, Mom Jeans: L.L.Bean Gets Hip

The classic clothing outfitter L.L.Bean has long catered to outdoorsmen heading upstream, but with a new, hipper line launching in 2010, it seems they are now setting their sights on those heading downtown.
Posted: 09/01/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Fraud Complaints Cloud Afghan Election

Incumbent President Hamid Karzai is ahead in the slow tally of ballots cast in Afghanistan's Aug. 20 polls. But hundreds of formal complaints of fraud — from ballot-box stuffing to voter intimidation — threaten the credibility of the process.
Posted: 09/01/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Text: President Obama's Eulogy For Sen. Kennedy

President Obama delivered the eulogy for Sen. Edward Kennedy at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Roxbury, Mass., Saturday.
Posted: 08/29/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Truck Bombs Strike Separate Communities In Iraq

Two truck bombs struck separate communities north of Iraq's capital on Saturday, killing at least 16 people in the latest attacks to indicate that insurgents are targeting relatively unprotected areas.
Posted: 08/29/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Arlington Prepares To Lay Kennedy To Rest

Sen. Edward Kennedy's body was flown from Boston to Washington, D.C., Saturday afternoon for burial across the Potomac River in Arlington National Cemetery.
Posted: 08/29/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Washington Says Farewell To Kennedy

Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral motorcade paused at the Capitol on its way to Arlington National Cemetery, where the longtime Massachusetts senator will be buried Saturday evening near his slain brothers.
Posted: 08/29/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

New Orleans: A Day's Work Doesn't Mean A Day's Pay

Wage theft has become a large problem in New Orleans, where day laborers are integral to the rebuilding process. As many as 80 percent of Latinos interviewed in the city say they've been ripped off by employers, according to a recent survey. The City Council president plans to introduce legislation to make wage theft a crime.
Posted: 08/28/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Crowds Pay Respects To Kennedy

Thousands of people lined up at the John F. Kennedy library in Boston to bid farewell to Sen. Edward Kennedy. The crowd included people who had never met Kennedy and dignitaries who knew him well.
Posted: 08/28/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Kidnap Suspect's Home Searched For Murder Clues

Several bodies of murdered prostitutes were dumped near an industrial park where Phillip Garrido worked during the 1990s. Garrado and his wife, Nancy, were charged Friday in the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991.
Posted: 08/28/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Kennedy Recalled As Anchor Of His Family

After Robert and John Kennedy were assassinated, Sen. Edward Kennedy was an anchor for so much of the Kennedy clan, Robert's son, Joseph P. Kennedy, tells mourners at Friday night's memorial service. "We just needed someone to hang onto," he says.
Posted: 08/28/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines