ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts - November 18, 2008 - A 74-year-old blind woman was shocked when her daughter found a letter from the city saying a lien would be placed on her home unless she paid an overdue water bill.

Agency says counterterrorism effort is crucial.

WASHINGTON - November 18, 2008 - Less than 1% of airline passengers singled out at airports for suspicious behavior are arrested, according to Transportation Security Administration figures, raising complaints that too many innocent people are being stopped.

WASHINGTON - November 17, 2008 - Federal law enforcement may be able to track cellular phone users' locations without the help of the telecommunications companies themselves, according to a report issued Sunday.

HOUSTON, Texas - November 16, 2008 - Goddard Institute for Space Studies computerized temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading global warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began a detailed analysis of the GISS data, they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.

CHICAGO, Illinois - November 15, 2008 – While Illinois Senator Barack Obama ascended to the highest office in the United States, a family on Chicago's west end allegedly met the business end of racial hatred on Election Day. The family is suing the Chicago Police Department.

WASHINGTON - November 13, 2008 - Because it has abandoned moral absolutes and its historic Christian faith, the U.S. is moving closer to a Nazi-style totalitarianism, warns a former German member of the Hitler Youth in a new book.

Motorists would be required to prove legal U.S. residency.

AUSTIN, Texas - November 12, 2008 - The Texas Department of Public Safety Commission wants to set up statewide driver's license checkpoints and has requested a ruling on their legality.