Football players, fans, family attend solemn Paterno viewing (Reuters)

Reuters – Football fans, former players and mourners who thought of Penn State coach Joe Paterno as family lined up on Tuesday to pay their respects to the late, legendary Hall of Famer, whose casket was set out for public viewing. Yahoo! News: U.S. News Related Blogs

Insight: Mississippi pardons benefited whites by big margin (Reuters)

Reuters – Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour’s grants of commutations or pardons to more than 200 prisoners, all but eight in his final days in office, disproportionately benefited white offenders among a predominantly black prison population, a Reuters analysis found. Yahoo! News: U.S. News Related Blogs

Occupy protesters rally against Congress at Capitol (Reuters)

Reuters – Demonstrators from the Occupy movement rallied outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to protest against the influence of money on Congress. Yahoo! News: U.S. News Related Blogs

Mississippi AG seeks to void governor’s pardons (Reuters)

Reuters – Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said on Friday he would ask a court to overturn the majority of former Governor Haley Barbour’s 222 pardons of convicts because they failed to meet constitutional requirements. Yahoo! News: U.S. News Related Blogs

Sioux County, Iowa: Ground zero for farm boom (Reuters)

Reuters – If there is an epicenter of the nation’s farmland boom, it can be found here amid the rolling hills of northwest Iowa. Yahoo! News: U.S. News Related Blogs

Oddly mild winter leaves much of U.S. on thin ice (Reuters)

Reuters – Unusually mild winter weather is spoiling the fun for hockey players, skaters and ice fisherman across the Northeast and Midwest as officials warn of uncommonly thin ice. Yahoo! News: U.S. News Related Blogs

Mount Rainier body confirmed as suspected gunman (Reuters)

Reuters – A body found face down in the snow at Mount Rainier National Park is that of an Iraq war veteran suspected of killing a park ranger, then fleeing into the wilderness, authorities said on Monday. Yahoo! News: U.S. News Related Blogs

Financial dispute delays 9/11 museum opening (Reuters)

Reuters – The National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York will not be ready in time for its planned 2012 opening on the 11th anniversary of the attacks, due to a financial dispute between agencies involved in its construction, officials said on Friday. Yahoo! News: U.S. News Related Blogs

Gunman in Santa suit killed six, self in Texas: police (Reuters)

Reuters – A gunman who killed six people and himself at a family Christmas celebration was dressed in a Santa Claus suit when opened fire, police said on Monday. Yahoo! News: U.S. News Related Blogs

Another face of the U.S. recession: homeless children (Reuters)

Reuters – As her mother sat in a homeless shelter in downtown Miami, talking about her economic struggles and loss of faith in the U.S. political system, 3-year-old Aeisha Touray blurted out what sounded like a new slogan for the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. Yahoo! News: U.S. News Related Blogs