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Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug dies at 95 (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 10:20 PM PDT

File - Norman Borlaug, visiting professor at Texas A&M University, and the 1970 Nobel Prize recipient, looks over some sorghum tests in this Oct. 30, 1996 file photo taken in one of A&M's teaching greenhouses, in College Station, Texas. The Nobel Prize-winning agricultural scientist has died in Texas at age 95. Texas A&M University spokeswoman Kathleen Phillips said Borlaug died just before 11 p.m. Saturday Sept. 12, 2009 at his home in Dallas. Known as the father of the 'green revolution,' Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger. (AP Photo/Bill Meeks, File)AP - Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said. He was 95.

Fmr. Blagojevich adviser dies, days before prison (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 10:24 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 - A former chief fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich died Saturday, just days before he was to begin serving at least eight years in federal prison for fraud that included using his company's money to pay gambling debts and claiming it as a business expense.

Suspect falls asleep, hostages escape Kan. home (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 10:36 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Kansas Attorney General's Office shows Jesse Dennis Dimmick. 23-year-old Dimmick, who held two newlyweds hostage in their eastern Kansas home Saturday fell asleep and the couple escaped unharmed, authorities said. Officers then stormed the house, where he confronted authorities and they shot him, Topeka Police Capt. Jerry Stanley said. His injuries were not life-threatening. (AP Photo/Kansas Attorney General's Office)AP - Two newlyweds held hostage in their eastern Kansas home on Saturday escaped unharmed when the man holding them captive fell asleep, after they gave him pillows and a blanket, authorities and family members said.

Thousands of downtown D.C. protesters blast Obama (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 05:41 PM PDT

A demonstrators holds up a portrait of President Barack Obama on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 12,2009, during a taxpayer rally. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Tens of thousands of protesters fed up with government spending marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, showing their disdain for the president's health care plan with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" and "I'm not your ATM."

Items seized in Yale grad student's disappearance (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 06:51 PM PDT

An unidentified man enters the Yale Medical complex building where missing graduate student Annie Le had her lab, Saturday, Sept 2, 2009 in New Haven, Conn. Family members have canceled the wedding of the Yale University graduate student who vanished days before her New York nuptials as more than 100 investigators scrambled for clues to her disappearance. (AP Photo/Thomas Cain)AP - Potential evidence has been seized from the building where a Yale University graduate student was last seen before she vanished days ahead of her wedding, authorities said Saturday.

Mich. man leaves town after cops say he was target (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 10:13 PM PDT

This undated booking photo released by the Shiawassee County Sheriff's Office via the Argus-Press shows Harlan Drake. A Michigan prosecutor says Drake has been charged in the shooting deaths of an anti-abortion activist and a business owner and that he planned to kill a third man. (AP Photo/Shiawassee County Sheriff's Office)AP - A real estate agent told he was the third target of a shooting spree that left an abortion protester and a business owner dead said Saturday he fled his home after the violence that claimed two lives in their small Michigan city.

Dangerous staph germs found at West Coast beaches (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 12:02 PM PDT

An employee displays a bacteria strain inside a petri dish containing agar jelly for bacterial culture in a microbiological laboratory in Berlin March 1, 2008. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschAP - Dangerous staph bacteria have been found in sand and water for the first time at five public beaches along the coast of Washington, and scientists think the state is not the only one with this problem.

State lawmakers try to halt health care changes (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 04:55 PM PDT

This Sept. 1, 2009 photo shows Dr. Eric Novack, right, talking with medical assistant Becky Helems at his Phoenix Orthopaedic Consultants office in Glendale, Ariz. Novack, an orthopedic surgeon in the Phoenix metro area, is a limited government proponent. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Republicans in more than a dozen states opposed to President Barack Obama's push for health care overhaul have mounted state-driven efforts to block federal intervention in health care, with some early success.

AP ENTERPRISE: Montana jail deal raises questions (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 02:17 PM PDT

AP - The Two Rivers Detention Center was promoted as the largest economic development project in decades in the small town of Hardin when the jail was built two years ago. But it has been vacant ever since.

Law used to indict Blagojevich challenged as vague (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 01:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2007 file photo, former Alaska state Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch walks from the federal court building in Anchorage, Alaska. Honest-services fraud law, a weapon in the arsenal of federal prosecutors in their fight against corrupt government officials, is under attack as vague and unfair in two separate cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. One of the cases the high court has agreed to hear has been filed by Weyhrauch, who is charged with illegally failing to disclose job negotiations with an oilfield operating company while the legislature was weighing an oil bill. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)AP - Among the corruption charges faced by former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is a statute of just 28 words with enough pop to send big names to prison for corruption, but it's under attack by those who consider it vague and unfair.

Schwarzenegger to veto renewable energy bills (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 06:19 PM PDT

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office said Saturday that he would veto legislation requiring a third of California's energy to come from renewable sources by 2020, choosing instead to mandate the change through an executive order.

Race to replace prestigious Manhattan DA nears end (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 05:02 PM PDT

AP - One is a former hard-nosed judge so known for her stiff sentences that drug dealers named a brand of heroin after her. Another enjoys the iconic incumbent's support and a political pedigree. A third is a noted gun-control advocate who boasts backers known for turning out voters.

Southeast Texas bouncing back a year after Ike (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 01:34 PM PDT

In this Aug. 26, 2009 photo an alligator glides through the water in the marshes of the J.D. Murphree wildlife management area near Port Arthur, Texas one year after Hurricane Ike slammed into the Texas coast. The storm killed an estimated 45 percent of the alligator population in the area. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Anne Willis, a lifelong resident of Bolivar Peninsula, moved back to her hometown of Crystal Beach nearly three months after Hurricane Ike.

Biden lauds 2 killed battling LA fire as heroes (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 04:13 PM PDT

A memorial display is seen outside Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009. Los Angels County firefighters, Fire Capt. Tedmund Hall, 47, of San Bernardino County, and firefighter Specialist Arnaldo 'Arnie' Quinones, 35, of Palmdale were killed, Aug. 30 when their truck slid 800 feet off a road while battling the Station Fire. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - Two veteran firefighters who died trying to save the lives of dozens trapped in the largest wildfire in Los Angeles County history were remembered as heroes Saturday in a memorial service at a sun-dappled Dodger Stadium attended by Vice President Joe Biden and others.

Va. seeks November execution for DC-area sniper (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 02:15 PM PDT

AP - Virginia is seeking a Nov. 9 execution for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the deadly 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area.

Garrido's twisted path led often to God (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 12:58 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 28, 2009 photo shows Phillip Garrido looking out at the courtroom during his arraignment on 28 felony counts stemming from the abduction of Jaycee Dugard in 1991, in the El Dorado Superior Court in Placerville, Calif. Three decades ago, convicted kidnapper Garrido stunned a Leavenworth Prison psychologist by turning down an offer for a transfer to a mental health facility. Instead, Garrido opted to spend at least three more years doing hard time so he could complete his religious studies. Along his twisted trail of drugs and sexual violence, records and interviews show that Garrido invoked God at every turn before he was arrested Aug. 26, 2009 for allegedly kidnapping, raping and imprisoning Jaycee Dugard for 18 years in his backyard. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)AP - Three decades ago, a convicted kidnapper named Phillip Garrido stunned a Leavenworth Prison psychologist by turning down an offer most prisoners would leap to take — help with a transfer to a mental health facility.

Hundreds search rugged Louisiana hills for escapee (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:39 PM PDT

AP - Hundreds of law enforcement officers — some on horseback, with bloodhounds or in boats — are searching Louisiana's rugged Tunica Hills for an escaped killer.

Once a hurricane, Fred weakens to remnant at sea (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 01:46 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, September 11, 2009 at 1:45 PM EDT shows only a few areas of clouds in the Caribbean Sea as no tropical development is noticed in the region. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)AP - Forecasters say Fred has weakened from a tropical depression to a remnant in the middle of the Atlantic.

As Cuba changes, US exile leader seeks new path (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 11:21 AM PDT

AP - Francisco Jose Hernandez points to the boarded windows in his secretary's third floor office. Days before, a drive-by shooter peppered the glass with bullets.
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