http://www.komonews.com/news/national RSS Feed for KOMO - News - National & World en-us Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:01:57 GMT http://www.komonews.com/news/national/23619804.html A Detroit man whose driver's license has been suspended 22 times has been sentenced to 13 to 20 years in prison in what authorities describe as an extreme case of road rage. http://www.komonews.com/news/national/23617684.html A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectators and injuring 37 people, officials said Saturday. http://www.komonews.com/news/national/23577384.html Months after four bodies were found shot in an airplane hangar on the B&B Ranch north of Dallas in 1984, chemical salesman Lester Leroy Bower Jr. was convicted of murder. No fingerprints put him at the scene. No witnesses saw him there. The murder weapon never was found. http://www.komonews.com/news/national/23574319.html The government on Saturday increased the number of people reported being sickened in a record salmonella outbreak in which tomatoes are the leading suspect although investigators are testing other types of fresh produce. http://www.komonews.com/news/national/23572724.html Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. They use words such as "terrified," "disgusted" and "scary" to describe what one calls "this mess" we Americans find ourselves in. http://www.komonews.com/news/national/23408569.html The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth. http://www.komonews.com/news/national/23177284.html Independence Day is normally a booming time for tourism here, with visitors settling into cliffside vacation homes or trekking out to campgrounds nestled among the redwoods. But this year, the only out-of-towners in Big Sur are firefighters. http://www.komonews.com/news/national/23122884.html Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. http://www.komonews.com/news/national/23106929.html On a steamy Fourth of July evening a century ago, a wood-and-fabric biplane lifted off from Stony Brook Farm and stayed airborne for almost a mile in a stupendous triumph over gravity witnessed by more than 2,000 people. http://www.komonews.com/news/national/23106124.html A suburban Chicago man locked his two young daughters in a wire cage hidden in the back of his pickup truck because he didn't have a baby sitter, officials said Thursday.