KIMA - News - National & World News http://www.kimatv.com/news/national RSS Feed for KIMA - News - National & World en-us Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:05:12 GMT SC gov to pay $74K in ethics fines http://www.kimatv.com/news/national/88480877.html South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has agreed to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve dozens of charges that he violated state ethics laws with his campaign spending and travel, including a taxpayer-funded rendezvous with his Argentine mistress, the State Ethics Commission said Thursday. Sex.com creditors say domain is too hot to sell http://www.kimatv.com/news/national/88449697.html An auction for the much-sought-after domain name was canceled Wednesday after three creditors filed a petition forcing the owner into bankruptcy. Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers http://www.kimatv.com/news/national/88480537.html A teacher at a failing school where he and all his colleagues are being fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama's support of extreme measures to ensure accountability in schools. Invisibility cloak takes a step forward http://www.kimatv.com/news/national/88449992.html From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality. Accused 'Jihad Jane' denies terror plot in court http://www.kimatv.com/news/national/88411422.html The Philadelphia-area woman authorities say dubbed herself "Jihad Jane" online pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court to a four-count indictment charging her in an overseas terrorist plot. Pirates pick wrong target to hijack: a naval warship http://www.kimatv.com/news/national/88411327.html After the pirates realized they had made what spokesman Cmdr. John Harbour called a "rather silly mistake," they turned around and fled. Police officer accused of raping woman who called 911 http://www.kimatv.com/news/national/88410872.html A Providence police officer accused of raping a woman in a deserted police substation and then showing up to take a report after she called 911 heads to trial this week at an already difficult time for the department. Pilot trapped under plane's wreckage for 8 hours http://www.kimatv.com/news/national/88410502.html Authorities rescued an injured pilot who was trapped for about eight hours in the wreckage of an experimental plane that crashed on an Indian reservation south of Phoenix. Some Fargo residents refuse to move despite floods http://www.kimatv.com/news/national/88407277.html Mac Butler believes he'll beat the bloated Red River and save his home again this year. But a canoe and kayak are tied up outside his house just in case he's wrong. Recent cases show challenge of US terrorists http://www.kimatv.com/news/national/88309657.html The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street. The terror cases that have emerged in the past week have one common characteristic: The suspects are all Americans.