http://www.keprtv.com/news/national RSS Feed for KEPR - News - National & World en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:47:06 GMT http://www.keprtv.com/news/national/69466512.html It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent. Americans have more than triple the debt they had in 1982, and less than half the savings. They spend 10 weeks longer off the job. And a bigger share of them have no health insurance. http://www.keprtv.com/news/national/69466167.html The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five others at the firm where he once worked is "very mentally ill" and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney said Saturday. http://www.keprtv.com/news/national/69441837.html Capping months of months of struggle, House Democrats cleared an abortion-related impasse blocking a vote on sweeping health care legislation late Friday and officials expressed optimism they had finally lined up the support needed to pass President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. http://www.keprtv.com/news/national/69432947.html A teenager was charged Friday with killing a nun after allegedly breaking into her trailer home on the Navajo Indian reservation in search of cash or valuable items. http://www.keprtv.com/news/national/69410317.html An engine tailcone fell off a Delta Air Lines jet shortly after takeoff Thursday and plummeted thousands of feet before landing harmlessly on a lawn in a Long Island residential neighborhood. http://www.keprtv.com/news/national/69397212.html The made-for-TV intrigue has everyone from TMZ.com to Oprah Winfrey's producers nosing around this exclusive community to seek salacious details of a pretty blonde's downfall from executive's wife to criminal suspect. http://www.keprtv.com/news/national/69395417.html A New Jersey jury has rejected a Florida man's claims that he was too fat to kill his former son-in-law and has convicted him of murder. http://www.keprtv.com/news/national/69385752.html A man so broke that he said he didn't have the money to visit his son 30 minutes away opened fire Friday at the engineering firm that fired him two years ago, killing one person and wounding five, authorities said. http://www.keprtv.com/news/national/69376282.html Nearly 16 million people can't find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended. Many economists worry that persistently high unemployment could undermine the recovery by restraining consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of the economy. http://www.keprtv.com/news/national/69376147.html No bars or razor wire hold former Florida inmate No. 082629. Instead, William Dillon sits on furniture the color of ripe lemons, surrounded by cheerful animal statues and blooming plants, a prisoner no longer after 27 years.