http://www.register-news.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:59:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_198230019.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_198230019.html NEW YORK (AP) — Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks’ golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called “the most trusted man in America,” died Friday. He was 92. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:21:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_198222138.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_198222138.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Regulators on Friday shut two banks in California and two smaller banks in Georgia and South Dakota, boosting to 57 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:20:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_198222056.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_198222056.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday praised Walter Cronkite as a journalistic icon, calling the CBS anchor the “voice of certainty in an uncertain world,” who will be truly missed. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:59:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_180175939.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_180175939.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cable TV operators won a key legal battle against Hollywood studios and television networks on Monday as the Supreme Court declined to block a new digital video recording system that could make it even easier for viewers to bypass commercials. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:52:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_180175315.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_180175315.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A group committed to eliminating nuclear weapons presented on Monday a four-step plan to achieve that goal by 2030, while acknowledging that Iran could be a “show stopper.” Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:51:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_180175204.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_180175204.html By The Associated PressThe Supreme Court on Monday:— Bade farewell to Justice David Souter, who is retiring. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:49:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_180175039.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_180175039.html ATLANTA (AP) — In a startling measure of just how widely a new disease can spread, researchers accurately plotted swine flu’s course around the world by tracking air travel from Mexico. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:48:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_180174856.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_180174856.html ADELPHI, Md. (AP) — The makers of Tylenol, Excedrin and other medications on Monday tried to dissuade regulators from placing new restrictions on their popular painkillers, including possibly removing some of them from store shelves. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:25:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_180152525.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_180152525.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — The doctor had barely pulled away the needle when a blister appeared on Tracey Berg-Fulton’s abdomen: An experimental shot was revving up the 24-year-old’s immune system — part of a bold quest to create a vaccine-like therapy for diabetes. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:30:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_173143030.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_173143030.html NEW YORK (AP) — Retail gasoline prices retreated Monday for the first time in nearly two months, as benchmark crude prices fell 4 percent. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:29:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_169223052.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_169223052.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States has deployed anti-missile defenses around Hawaii amid reports that North Korea may fire its most advanced ballistic missile toward the U.S. islands early next month, adding to already high tensions in the region. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:15:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_169211609.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_169211609.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is tracking a ship from North Korea that may be carrying illicit weapons, the first vessel monitored under tougher new United Nations rules meant to rein in and punish the communist government following a nuclear test, officials said Thursday. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:15:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_169201845.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_169201845.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A replay of the nation’s only file-sharing case to go to trial has ended with the same result, finding a Minnesota woman to have violated music copyrights and ordering her to pay hefty damages to the recording industry. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:55:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_169155531.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_169155531.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has positioned more missile defenses around Hawaii as a precaution against a possible North Korean launch across the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:50:00 +0000 http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_169155026.html http://www.register-news.com/nationalnews/local_story_169155026.html NEW YORK (AP) — A three-week rally in natural gas prices paused Thursday after the government reported a huge build in supplies, more evidence of a severely weak industrial sector.