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Technician in custody in Yale grad student slaying (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 10:18 PM PDT

Raymond Clark III, 24, wearing white a T-shirt, is driven away from an apartment building by police on Tuesday Sept. 15, 2009 in Middletown, Conn. Police on Tuesday raided the apartment of Raymond Clark III, a man they call a person of interest in the slaying of Yale graduate student Annie Le. Two search warrants for DNA and other physical evidence were served at the apartment. (AP Photo/The Middletown Press, Matt Kabel) MANDATORY CREDITAP - Police and FBI agents searched the home of a Yale University animal research technician Tuesday night and led him away in handcuffs to the cheers of neighbors in a hunt for evidence that might tie him to the slaying of a graduate student.

Jimmy Carter: Wilson comments 'based on racism' (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 08:27 PM PDT

Former President Jimmy Carter is flanked by his wife Rosalynn as he speaks during 'Conversations at the Carter Center' Tuesday. Sept. 15, 2009 in Atlanta. Carter was scheduled to update the audience on current peace and health initiatives the Center is working on. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act "based on racism" and rooted in fears of a black president.

Fla. student stabbed to death in fight at school (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 08:47 PM PDT

Migdalia Quintero, right, cries after her daughter, Maria Maertinez, center, was released from Coral Gables High School where a student was stabbed to death and another taken into custody, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 in Coral Gables, Fla. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)AP - One student stabbed another to death during a fight Tuesday in a courtyard at their suburban high school, authorities said.

Cy Vance wins Manhattan prosecutor primary (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 09:13 PM PDT

AP - Defense lawyer and political scion Cy Vance is poised to become Manhattan's first new district attorney in 35 years after winning Tuesday's Democratic primary for one of the nation's most coveted prosecutor's jobs.

Governor delays Ohio execution after vein troubles (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 06:47 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation shows Romell Broom. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland denied clemency Monday. Sept. 14, 2009, to the death row inmate who raped and stabbed to death a 14-year-old girl 25 years ago. Romell Broom, 53, was moved Monday morning from Ohio's death row in Youngstown to the death house in southern Ohio to await his Tuesday,Sept. 15, 2009, execution as two courts reviewed whether the lethal injection should be stayed. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation)AP - Gov. Ted Strickland ordered a weeklong reprieve for a condemned inmate Tuesday after the Ohio execution team had problems finding usable veins for the lethal injection even after the inmate tried to help.

AP IMPACT: Indian smoke shops are feeling the heat (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 09:01 PM PDT

AP - After doing time for possession and an accidental killing, crack dealer Rodney Morrison decided he was finished with drugs. He threw himself a "retirement" party in 1993 and got into a new line of work: tax-free cigarettes.

Colo. man denies terrorist ties after NYC raids (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 06:46 PM PDT

One of the apartment buildings raided by FBI agents as part of terrorism investigation in the Flushing area of the Queens borough of New York City on Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - A Colorado man denied Tuesday that he's a central figure in a terrorism investigation that fed fears of a possible bomb plot and led to several police raids in New York City.

Home of suspected Calif. kidnapper searched again (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 07:47 PM PDT

Phillip Garrido, center, talks with his attorney Susan Gellman as he is taken from the courtroom following a bail hearing at the El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville, Calif., Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. Garrido, who faces 29 charges related to the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Dugard, was given a $30 million bail but will continue to be kept in custody on a parole hold. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - The search for clues into the disappearances of two girls in the 1980s has led authorities to a now-familiar address: the Northern California home of the couple charged with kidnapping an 11-year-old and holding her captive in their backyard for 18 years.

College student with sword kills burglary suspect (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 04:05 PM PDT

The yard where a Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed an intruder in his garage is shown, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 in Baltimore, Md. Two laptops and a Sony PlayStation had been stolen by burglars Monday from the home, on University Parkway just blocks from the school, said police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. Early Tuesday, one of the four Hopkins students who live in the home noticed the garage door was open and took a sword with him to investigate, Guglielmi said. In the garage, the student told police he discovered a man and when the student told the man to get out, the man accosted him, (AP Photo/The Baltimore Sun, Lloyd Fox)AP - A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a suspected burglar in a garage behind his off-campus home early Tuesday, hours after someone broke in and stole electronics.

Police: Ky. politician said he 'wanted revenge' (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 03:47 PM PDT

AP - A one-time Kentucky political star whose reputation was tarnished by an ex-girlfriend's domestic violence allegations told police of wanting revenge when he was arrested in a cemetery hours after she was shot to death.

Woman to be extradited in womb-cutting kidnap case (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 08:05 PM PDT

AP - A woman accused of kidnapping a baby girl who had been cut from her mother's womb has agreed to return to Massachusetts from New Hampshire to face charges.

NY dad told soldier-son killed in war — he wasn't (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 05:26 PM PDT

AP - An Army unit is reviewing how it delivers information to families after a call to a western New York couple led them to believe their son had been killed in combat.

Police: Blagojevich aide apparently killed himself (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 05:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 22, 2009 file photo, Christopher Kelly, the former chief fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, leaves the federal building in Chicago. Kelly, who was a key figure in the federal corruption case against ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, died Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, according to a Stroger Hospital spokesman. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - The former chief fundraiser for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to commit suicide last week after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges, four days before he died of a suspected overdose, authorities said Tuesday.

Obama administration wants more salmon protection (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 05:12 PM PDT

FILE - This Thursday, July 1, 1999 picture shows the Ice Harbor Dam on the Snake River near Burbank, Wash. The Obama administration says it will be more aggressive in protecting declining Pacific Northwest salmon runs and will study breaching some dams as a last resort in a long-awaited management plan. The administration submitted the plan to a federal judge Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 in Portland, Ore. Called a 'biological opinion,' it will guide hydroelectric dam operations and fish conservation programs in the Columbia Basin for the next decade. (AP Photo/Jackie Johnston)AP - Calling it an "insurance policy" for Pacific Northwest salmon, the Obama administration on Tuesday offered up a tougher conservation plan for the fish that includes climate-change monitoring and the "last-resort" possibility of removing dams.

Fighting scars linger for dogs seized in raids (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 03:52 PM PDT

In this Sept. 14, 2009 photo, Fay a 5-year-old Pit Bull that was rescued during the July 8 multi-state dog fighting raid is seen in St. Louis. Four eastern Missouri men arrested as part of a federal crackdown on dogfighting in several states pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and other crimes. The four, along with a fifth co-defendant who pleaded guilty Sept. 4, are the first convictions resulting from the largest coordinated multi-state raids on dogfighting in U.S. history. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dawn Majors)AP - Fay looks menacing as her teeth jut out from a mouth without lips, which have been ripped from her face along with part of her nose during vicious dogfights.

Change in the air in birthplace of hippie movement (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 03:39 PM PDT

Jacob Rivers, left, of Minnesota, sells drawings near the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. First, came a moratorium on head shops. Then, neighbors turned out in force to support a new development that includes an upscale grocery store. And the local street fair banned open containers of alcohol. There are signs of new times at the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets, the neighborhood that was the epicenter of the hippie movement during the Summer of Love in 1967. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - First came a moratorium on head shops. Then, neighbors turned out in force to support a new development that includes an upscale grocery store. And the local street fair banned open containers of alcohol.

Operation Rescue says it's broke, may shut down (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 03:42 PM PDT

AP - Operation Rescue, one of the nation's highest-profile groups in the anti-abortion movement, has told its supporters it is facing a "major financial crisis" and is very close to shutting down unless emergency help arrives soon.

FBI, ATF feuding over bomb investigations, report says (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 06:47 PM PDT

A crest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen inside the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. Violent crime including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault fell in the United States last year compared with 2007, an FBI report showed Monday.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AP - Agents of the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives are feuding over bomb investigations — racing each other to crime scenes, failing to share information and refusing to train together, according to a draft report obtained by The Associated Press.

$250K top prize up for grabs in Mich. art event (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 02:27 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Thursday Sept. 10, 2009, the founder of ArtPrize.org, Rick DeVos stands in front of Alexander Calder's Le Grande Vitesse in the middle of downtown Grand Rapids, Mich. Thousands of artists are exhibiting work in Grand Rapids to participate in the first annual ArtPrize art competition, the winning work receiving $250,000. (AP Photo/Adam Bird)AP - A school of glimmering, silvery-white fish wriggle high above a downtown river. A few blocks away on a Michigan sidewalk, four stark red piranhas have taken large bites out of a running man's briefcase and rear end. A purple, 10-foot-tall jelly bean stands outside a nearby castle.

Mass. AG favors change in Senate succession law (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 02:59 PM PDT

The UN refugee agency on Tuesday gave this year's Nansen Refugee award to the late senator Edward Kennedy, seen here in 2007, who championed the cause of those with AP - Massachusetts legislators could vote as early as this week on changing the state's Senate succession law so the governor has free reign to temporarily fill vacancies like the one created last month with the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
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