http://www.kidk.com/news/national RSS Feed for KIDK - News - National & World en-us Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:17:27 GMT http://www.kidk.com/news/national/87621422.html A Justice Department study shows that female staff are more often implicated than their male counterparts in prison sexual misconduct. Although male inmates often were the aggressor, female prison employees are the violators if they have sex with inmates. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/87621767.html A U.S. consulate employee and her husband were shot to death as they drove in this drug-plagued Mexican city with their baby in the back seat, minutes after gunmen killed the husband of another consular employee and wounded his two children, officials said Sunday. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/87616362.html Investigators with Toyota Motor Corp. and the federal government could not replicate the runaway speeding reported by a Prius owner who said his car's accelerator stuck as he drove on a California freeway, according to a memo drafted for a congressional panel. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/87616527.html An avalanche struck an informal snowmobile rally in Canada's Rocky Mountains, killing at least three people and leaving an unknown number missing at an annual gathering best known for its party atmosphere and stunt riding. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/87616312.html Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/87616257.html A bill that would let Native Hawaiians establish their own government is nearing a final vote in the Senate, bringing the day closer when they might reclaim a piece of their homeland. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/87616157.html President Barack Obama is having difficulty getting all federal agencies to follow his order to deliver "a new era of open government," according to a study of how they administer the Freedom of Information Act. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/87599202.html Former Air Force sergeant Jene Newsome says she played by the rules and never told anyone in the military that she was a lesbian. But she was discharged anyway under the "dont ask, don't tell" rule when cops told. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/87589107.html Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after his confession about sitting nude in a hot tub with a teenage girl 25 years ago stunned this conservative state. http://www.kidk.com/news/national/87589342.html A Colorado woman has been detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch offended many Muslims, a U.S. official said Saturday.