http://www.wvec.com/news/national RSS Feed for WVEC - News - National en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 18:35:12 GMT 2013-05-18T18:35:12Z en-us http://www.wvec.com/news/national/208004881.html NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a gunman used anti-gay slurs before fatally shooting a 32-year-old man in New York City's Greenwich (GREN'-ich) Village. Sat, 18 May 2013 18:34:06 GMT http://www.wvec.com/news/national/208004881.html 2013-05-18T18:34:06Z http://www.wvec.com/news/national/208002131.html LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Boston's police department and mayor's office will conduct twin reviews of the response to last month's bombing of the Boston Marathon, police commissioner Ed Davis said Saturday. Sat, 18 May 2013 18:07:14 GMT http://www.wvec.com/news/national/208002131.html 2013-05-18T18:07:14Z http://www.wvec.com/news/national/208000531.html O'BRIEN, Ore. (AP) — Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out. Sat, 18 May 2013 18:35:12 GMT http://www.wvec.com/news/national/208000531.html 2013-05-18T18:35:12Z http://www.wvec.com/news/national/208000501.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and recreate multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the plane that transformed commercial air travel. Sat, 18 May 2013 17:30:12 GMT http://www.wvec.com/news/national/208000501.html 2013-05-18T17:30:12Z http://www.wvec.com/news/national/207999201.html SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are executing a search warrant in the case of two letters containing the deadly poison ricin that were intercepted this week at a post office in Washington state. Sat, 18 May 2013 16:33:55 GMT http://www.wvec.com/news/national/207999201.html 2013-05-18T16:33:55Z http://www.wvec.com/news/national/207998171.html CINCINNATI (AP) — For more than 100 years, the Anna Louise Inn in downtown Cincinnati has been a safe, serene place that thousands of struggling women came to know as home. Sat, 18 May 2013 17:04:11 GMT http://www.wvec.com/news/national/207998171.html 2013-05-18T17:04:11Z http://www.wvec.com/news/national/207996671.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists who are forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to be proven wrong. Sat, 18 May 2013 18:10:58 GMT http://www.wvec.com/news/national/207996671.html 2013-05-18T18:10:58Z http://www.wvec.com/news/national/207993841.html CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud. A dirty hose runs from the pipe to an idling truck and into a large tank labeled, "NON-POTABLE WATER." Sat, 18 May 2013 14:06:40 GMT http://www.wvec.com/news/national/207993841.html 2013-05-18T14:06:40Z http://www.wvec.com/news/national/207991621.html WASHINGTON (AP) — There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups. Sat, 18 May 2013 13:33:19 GMT http://www.wvec.com/news/national/207991621.html 2013-05-18T13:33:19Z http://www.wvec.com/news/national/207989911.html HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Officials in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office say the governor will meet with representatives from the National Transportation Safety Board and Connecticut's two U.S. senators at the site of a Metro-North Railroad crash that injured 70 people. Sat, 18 May 2013 13:33:26 GMT http://www.wvec.com/news/national/207989911.html 2013-05-18T13:33:26Z