http://www.wwltv.com/news/national RSS Feed for WWL - News - National en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 00:07:03 GMT http://www.wwltv.com/news/national/208581221.html SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A 37-year-old man arrested Wednesday has pleaded not guilty to mailing a threatening communication, after a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week. http://www.wwltv.com/news/national/208576701.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration acknowledged publicly for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more transparency to Congress in his counterterrorism policy. http://www.wwltv.com/news/national/208562211.html TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Twenty-nine bars and restaurants, nearly half of them TGI Fridays, filled premium brand liquor bottles with lower-quality booze and sold it to patrons who thought they were buying the good stuff, authorities said Wednesday. http://www.wwltv.com/news/national/208577231.html SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — FBI says 37-year-old man arrested in Spokane, Wash., ricin letter scare. http://www.wwltv.com/news/national/208573041.html DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Co. is recalling more than 27,000 Cadillac SUVs worldwide because the wheels can fall off. http://www.wwltv.com/news/national/208573281.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration acknowledged publicly for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more transparency to Congress in his counterterrorism policy. http://www.wwltv.com/news/national/208572481.html NORTH WEBSTER, Ind. (AP) — A school bus slammed into the back of another bus, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in northern Indiana, leaving dozens of middle and high students with non-serious injuries and one driver seriously injured. http://www.wwltv.com/news/national/208567981.html ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A fourth-grade field trip to a Mississippi River park popular with fossil hunters turned deadly Wednesday when gravel saturated by persistent rain gave way, killing one child and injuring two others. A fourth child was missing. http://www.wwltv.com/news/national/208567951.html SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a Montana man to three years in prison for trying to board a flight in Sacramento, Calif., with four loaded guns. http://www.wwltv.com/news/national/208562301.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's top spokesman says the White House is facing "legitimate criticisms" for its shifting accounts about who knew what about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups, and when they knew it.