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Samoa police say 63 dead in tsunami, toll may rise (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:54 PM PDT

An abandoned vehicle is shown shortly after a tsunami warning was issued in American Samoa on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Towering tsunami waves spawned by a powerful earthquake swept ashore on Samoa and American Samoa early Tuesday, flattening villages, killing at least 34 people and leaving dozens of workers missing at devastated National Park Service facilities. (AP Photo/Fili Sagapolutele)AP - A police official says 63 people are confirmed dead in Samoa following a tsunami that smashed the southern shore of the South Pacific nation.

NYC terror suspect pleads not guilty, kept in jail (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 06:41 PM PDT

In this photo released by the New York City Police Department, Najibullah Zazi, center, is escorted off an NYPD helicopter by U.S Marshals after being extradited from Denver, Colo., Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. Zazi was sent to New York to face charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in a plot law enforcement has said was focused on blowing up commuter trains. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)AP - As a suspected al-Qaida operative pleaded not guilty Tuesday to plotting a bomb attack in New York, the city's police commissioner pronounced the threat neutralized and said there is nothing to fear from the defendant's three alleged accomplices.

Guilty verdict in 1993 Ill. restaurant slayings (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 07:02 PM PDT

AP - A former handyman was convicted Tuesday in the slayings of seven people whose bodies were found in a walk-in freezer and cooler at a suburban Chicago fast food restaurant 16 years ago.

Effigy video on Facebook burns 2 Wis. deputies (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 08:11 PM PDT

AP - One eastern Wisconsin sheriff's deputy has resigned and another has been demoted after a video on Facebook showed them and others burning a dummy in a department uniform.

Doctors settle case for denying lesbian treatment (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 07:13 PM PDT

AP - A California woman has settled a lawsuit against her former doctors who denied her artificial insemination based on her sexual orientation, attorneys for both sides said Tuesday.

Boston-area college bans sex with roommate around (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:44 PM PDT

AP - Sex in a Tufts University dorm is fine. Sex in a Tufts dorm with your roommate present? That's a no-no.

Mom babysitting neighbor kids sparks debate over child care law (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 06:41 PM PDT

Lisa Snyder, left, watches kids play at their bus stop, which is also her driveway, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 with other neighborhood mothers Francie Brummel, back left, and Mindy Rose, back right, in Middleville, Mich. Snyder has been notified by State of Michigan that she is breaking the law because she watches her neighbors' children each morning before they get on the school bus. State Department of Human Services officials told her last week that she was operating an illegal day care. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Katy Batdorff)AP - Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.

Ex-Dem fundraiser sentenced in NYC to 24 years (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:36 PM PDT

In this file photo, Norman Hsu is escorted into a Redwood City, Calif., courtroom, Sept. 21, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, pool)AP - Former Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was sentenced Tuesday to more than 24 years in prison by a judge who accused him of funding his fraud by manipulating the political process in a way that "strikes at the very core of our democracy."

Drug researcher dies, boyfriend faces drug charges (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:42 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Baltimore City Police Dept. shows Clinton McCracken. McCracken, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Maryland medical school, is facing drug charges after his live-in girlfriend, also a researcher at the university, died in an apparent overdose on Sunday night, Sept. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Baltimore City Police Dept.)AP - A neuroscientist who studied the effects of drugs on the brain is dead of an apparent overdose and her live-in boyfriend, who did similar research, is facing drug charges, Baltimore police said Tuesday.

92-year-old sky diver still finding adventure (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:42 PM PDT

In this Sept. 19, 2009, photo released by Jumptown, Jane Bockstruck, below, free-falls with her tandem sky diving instructor Paul Peckham in Orange, Mass. It was the first jump for the 92-year-old Swanzey, N.H., resident. (AP Photo/Jumptown, P.J. Jackson)AP - Taking a 13,000-foot plunge from an airplane will earn most jumpers a certificate. Instructor Paul Peckham Jr. knew that wouldn't be enough for 92-year-old Jane Bockstruck.

Homeless Ga. sex offenders seek new place to live (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:34 PM PDT

William Hawkins, a convicted sex offender, leans on a tree next to his tent in an encampment of sex offenders in a wooded area of Marietta, Ga. on Sept. 23, 2009. Nine people on the sex offender registry live in the camp, saying Georgia's strict sex offender law has left them few options. The law bans sex offenders from living, working or loitering within 1,000 feet of schools, churches parks and other spots where children gather. (AP Photo/Greg Bluestein)AP - Georgia probation officers tried to line up temporary housing on Tuesday for nine homeless sex offenders who were kicked out of a makeshift tent city behind a suburban Atlanta office park where state officials had directed them to live.

Trial delayed until 2010 in Va. Tech beheading (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 06:10 PM PDT

AP - The murder trial of a former Virginia Tech doctoral student accused of beheading a fellow student has been postponed until 2010.

Book: Conn. family killing suspect was gleeful (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:13 PM PDT

In this July 1007 photograph supplied by the Connecticut State Police, Joshua Komisarjevsky is shown. Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes face the possibility of the death penalty if convicted in the 2007 killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela. Hawke-Petit's husband, Dr. William Petit, was beaten but survived. (AP Photo/Connecticut State Police)AP - One of two men charged with murder in a deadly home invasion smiled and laughed during the horrific crime two years ago and, during his escape, wore the school hat of one of the girls who was killed, according to a new book.

Background check leads to arrest in 1976 killing (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:05 PM PDT

AP - A man who walked into an Atlanta suburb's police department seeking a criminal background check for a job application wound up under arrest as a suspect in the slaying of a former University of Missouri student in 1976, authorities said Tuesday.

SC gov's state flights may raise tax liabilities (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:36 PM PDT

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford addresses the media at a news conference at the State House in Columbia, South Carolina September 10, 2009. 61 South Carolina House Republicans recently asked Sanford to resign after earlier reports this year surfaced about his affair with a mistress in Argentina, and investigations of his government and private, travel. REUTERS/Joshua Drake (UNITED STATES POLITICS)AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's use of state planes for personal and political trips could open him and the state to federal tax penalties because the flights never were recorded as taxable fringe benefits.

Feds: Smooth global swindler is nabbed at border (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:52 PM PDT

FILE - This April 2005 file photo released by London's Metropolitan Police shows Juan Carlos Guzman-Betancourt, a Colombian, at Southwark Crown Court, in London. Guzman-Betancourt, 33, was arrested by a U.S. Border Patrol agent as he waited for a taxi at a gas station in Derby Line, Vt., on Sept. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police)AP - A smooth-talking, globe-trotting serial swindler who is wanted in Nevada on a burglary charge has been arrested after crossing illegally from Canada to Vermont, federal authorities said.

Dan Rather's $70M lawsuit against CBS thrown out (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 23, 2009 file photo, Dan Rather leaves Cronkite's funeral at St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Ave. in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - A New York court on Tuesday dismissed Dan Rather's $70 million breach of contract lawsuit against CBS Corp., noting that the network continued to pay the anchor $6 million a year even after he left the evening news broadcast.

Son of hanged census worker says father was slain (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:26 PM PDT

In this undated 2008 photo, Bill Sparkman speaks to a 7th grade class during a lesson about sound waves. A law enforcement official says Sparkman, a U.S. Census worker found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery, had the word 'fed' scrawled on his chest, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment. (AP Photo/The Times-Tribune)AP - Josh Sparkman lost the only family he ever really had when his census worker father was found hanging from a tree in rural Kentucky, his feet and hands duct-taped and the word "fed" scrawled on his chest.

Ex-Penn prof gets 25 years for child porn, lies (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 01:42 PM PDT

AP - A longtime Ivy League professor preyed on vulnerable teenage boys at home and abroad as he pursued them for sexual encounters and pornographic videos, prosecutors argued at his sentencing Tuesday.
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