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• Picture emerges of Yale suspect as controlling (AP)
• Colo. man faces more questioning in terror probe (AP)
• Mass. House approves Sen. Kennedy succession bill (AP)
• AP IMPACT: Gov't stands by as mercury taints water (AP)
• Wis. paper faces backlash for outing Web critic (AP)
• Jewish leaders calling for ethical renewal (AP)
• Lawyers try to stop second Ohio execution try (AP)
• Indiana court strikes down tough voter ID law (AP)
• Kentucky coach acquitted in rare player death case (AP)
• NYC synagogue bomb defendants may claim entrapment (AP)
• DA: Word of video led NY rape accuser to recant (AP)
• Pick up the phone! It's Rex Ryan, and he wants you (AP)
• NC doctor removes plastic fragment lodged in lung (AP)
• Coldest place in the solar system? Right nearby (AP)
• Identified amnesia patient doesn't know who he is (AP)
• Calif. jury says father who drowned son was sane (AP)
• Some businesses near G-20 protest camp to close (AP)
• Wis. passes tougher drunken driving bill (AP)
• Feds fight for key evidence against Bonds (AP)
• Magazine signed by John Lennon sells for $12,713 (AP)

Picture emerges of Yale suspect as controlling (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:30 PM PDT AP - As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began to emerge Thursday of an unpleasant stickler for the rules who often clashed with researchers and considered the mice cages his personal fiefdom.

Colo. man faces more questioning in terror probe (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:30 PM PDT AP - A man identified by law enforcement as having a possible link to al-Qaida has ended a second day of questioning in a terrorism probe but has been asked to return for more interviews, his attorney said Thursday.

Mass. House approves Sen. Kennedy succession bill (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:27 PM PDT AP - The Massachusetts House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday allowing Gov. Deval Patrick to name an interim appointment to the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward Kennedy.

AP IMPACT: Gov't stands by as mercury taints water (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:28 PM PDT AP - Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people.

Wis. paper faces backlash for outing Web critic (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 01:42 PM PDT AP - Getting named the local paper's Person of the Year was supposed to be an honor for small-town politician Dean Zuleger. But the award only enraged many townspeople.

Jewish leaders calling for ethical renewal (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 03:05 PM PDT AP - Jewish leaders are calling on U.S. rabbis to emphasize the faith's ethical requirements in their sermons during Rosh Hashana in response to recent financial scandals involving its members, including Bernard Madoff.

Lawyers try to stop second Ohio execution try (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 08:09 PM PDT AP - Lawyers plan state and federal lawsuits and a request to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland to stop next week's unprecedented second execution attempt of a man whose lethal injection failed on Tuesday.

Indiana court strikes down tough voter ID law (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 07:22 PM PDT AP - The state Court of Appeals on Thursday struck down an Indiana law requiring government-issued photo identification for voters, overturning on state constitutional grounds a strict law previously upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Kentucky coach acquitted in rare player death case (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 07:20 PM PDT AP - A former Kentucky high school football coach was found not guilty Thursday in the death of a player who collapsed at a practice where the team was put through a series of sprints on a hot summer day.

NYC synagogue bomb defendants may claim entrapment (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 04:24 PM PDT AP - Four ex-convicts accused of plotting to bomb synagogues and shoot down military planes apparently will claim they were lured into the conspiracy with gifts including cash and fried chicken.

DA: Word of video led NY rape accuser to recant (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:15 PM PDT AP - A Hofstra University freshman who had claimed she was raped by five men in a dormitory bathroom changed her story after prosecutors confronted her with the revelation that a video of the encounter may have been recorded, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Pick up the phone! It's Rex Ryan, and he wants you (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 06:14 PM PDT AP - Pick up the phone! Rex Ryan is calling, and he wants you.

NC doctor removes plastic fragment lodged in lung (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 06:24 PM PDT AP - Doctors say a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested since he apparently inhaled it nearly two years ago while sucking down a soft drink at a Wendy's restaurant.

Coldest place in the solar system? Right nearby (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 06:30 PM PDT AP - Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system and it may be a little close for comfort. It's on our moon, right nearby. NASA's new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is making the first complete temperature map of the moon. It found that at the moon's south pole, it's colder than far away Pluto. The area is inside craters that are permanently shadowed so they never see sun.

Identified amnesia patient doesn't know who he is (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 12:10 PM PDT AP - It was seven weeks ago that Edward Lighthart walked out of a Seattle park with no idea of who he was and how he got there, the apparent victim of a bizarre case of amnesia.

Calif. jury says father who drowned son was sane (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:22 PM PDT AP - An Orange County jury says a father was legally sane when he drowned his 4-year-old son in a bathtub.

Some businesses near G-20 protest camp to close (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:42 PM PDT AP - Barely a block from a parking lot where Pittsburgh will house protesters of the Group of 20 summit is one of the city's most eclectic neighborhoods — a strip of mom-and-pop, homegrown grocery stores, restaurants and businesses that exemplify the kind of world the protesters say they want.

Wis. passes tougher drunken driving bill (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:33 PM PDT AP - Unlike the criminal penalties it can draw elsewhere, a first-time drunken driving offense in Wisconsin will still mean a mere traffic ticket under a proposal lawmakers have touted as getting tough on the issue.

Feds fight for key evidence against Bonds (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 03:18 PM PDT AP - Federal prosecutors urged a federal appellate court to reverse a trial judge and let them present critical evidence they say shows Barry Bonds knowingly used steroids.

Magazine signed by John Lennon sells for $12,713 (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:24 AM PDT AP - A 1966 magazine signed by John Lennon containing his remark that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus has sold for $12,713.

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