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Jokes, apologies from David Letterman on his show (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 09:59 PM PDT

In this publicity image released by CBS, Steve Martin, left, is seated as Martin Short shakes hands with host David Letterman, center, during a taping of 'The Late Show with David Letterman,' on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/CBS, John Paul Filo)AP - David Letterman, days after revealing on air that he'd been sexually involved with women from his television program, apologized to his wife on Monday's "Late Show," saying she had been "horribly hurt by my behavior" and stating flat-out those affairs "are in the past."


Sources: Terror suspect contacted senior al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 07:55 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 17, 2009 file photo shows Najibullah Zazi arriving at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning.  Zazi, an Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a senior al-Qaida operative, intelligence officials familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a senior al-Qaida operative, intelligence officials familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press.


Sources: Family tried to sell snatched Tenn. baby (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 06:11 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Nashville Police Department shows Yair Anthony Carillo of Nashville, Tenn. The baby's mother, Maria Gurrolla, said her newborn son was taken from her home Tuesday by a woman who stabbed Gurrolla multiple times when Gurrolla answered the door. Gurrolla said the woman claimed to be an immigration agent. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - A Tennessee newborn kidnapped in a knife attack on his mother was placed in foster care with his three siblings after allegations arose that a family member tried to sell the infant, sources familiar with the case said Monday.


Craig Ferguson defends Letterman, his boss (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 10:08 PM PDT

In this publicity image released by CBS, Steve Martin, left, is seated as Martin Short shakes hands with host David Letterman, center, during a taping of 'The Late Show with David Letterman,' on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/CBS, John Paul Filo)AP - Of all of those reacting to David Letterman's situation, Craig Ferguson had a unique perspective.


Man dies when wheelchair falls down elevator shaft (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 09:05 PM PDT

AP - Detroit police say a 58-year-old man died when his motorized wheelchair fell eight floors down an elevator shaft in a downtown building.

Twin pediatricians fight child sex accusations (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 06:46 PM PDT

AP - Twin brother pediatricians are going on trial on charges that for years they used their practices in a middle-class Ohio community to recruit boys for sex and bribed them not to tell authorities.

Man guilty of murdering boy in Ga. trailer park (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 08:12 PM PDT

Michael Barrios, father of Christopher Barrios, wipes his eyes as he reads through his victim's statement during the sentencing phase in the David Edenfield trial, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, in Brunswick, Ga. Edenfield, 61, was found guilty in the 2007 sexual assault and choking death of 6-year-old Christopher Barrios. The jury now must decide whether to sentence Edenfield to death or life in prison. (AP Photo/Bobby Haven, POOL)AP - A jury deliberated for about two hours Monday before finding a Georgia man guilty of murder and child molestation in the death of a 6-year-old boy whose body was later discovered wrapped in trash bags and dumped near a road.


Feds: No death penalty for US embassy bomb suspect (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 03:28 PM PDT

Camp Justice on Guantanamo Bay naval base, Cuba. The Supreme Court, which now includes its first Hispanic justice Sonia Sotomayor, begins a new term that will focus on hot-button issues including gun rights and counter-terrorism(AFP/Pool/File/Brennan Linsley)AP - The U.S. government has decided not to seek the death penalty against a Guantanamo detainee charged in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.


DDT deposit off Southern California will be capped (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 05:55 PM PDT

AP - Clean sand and silt will be used to cover a vast deposit of the pesticide DDT and toxic compound PCB on the ocean floor off Southern California, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday.

8-year sentence for doctoring files on body parts (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 04:28 PM PDT

AP - A former North Carolina body parts harvester was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for what prosecutors described as a heinous fraud scheme in which he falsified medical records of cadavers so tissues could be sold for transplant.

1 in custody after gunman reported on Fla. campus (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 05:18 PM PDT

AP - The University of South Florida was locked down for a time Monday after someone reported a man with a gun and a bomb near the library, and police had one person in custody.

Court won't block release of sex abuse papers (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 03:45 PM PDT

AP - The Supreme Court refused on Monday to block the release of documents generated by lawsuits against priests in Connecticut for alleged sexual abuse.

NYC judge tells Astor jury to keep deliberating (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:53 PM PDT

Anthony and Charlene Marshall are shown after closing statements in the courtroom at State Supreme Court , Monday, Sept. 21, 2009,in New York. Brooke Astor's son Anthony Marshall and his co-defendant Francis Morrissey are 'two reverse Robin Hoods who stole from charity in order to enrich themselves,' a prosecutor said Monday as he finished his summation in the five-month-long trial over Astor's will. (AP Photo/ Steven Hirsch, Pool)AP - Signs of stress and a struggle to reach a verdict emerged Monday among jurors in the five-month-long criminal trial over philanthropist Brooke Astor's will.


Judge: Suspect in Iowa coach death can stand trial (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 05:19 PM PDT

Mark Becker, right, enters the courtroom for his mental competency hearing and walks past Ellie Thomas, left, and Jan Thomas, right, wife of Ed Thomas, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 in Mason City, Iowa. Becker, 24, is charged with first-degree murder for the June 24 shooting of Aplington-Parkersburg coach Ed Thomas. (AP Photo/The Waterloo Courier, Matthew Putney)AP - A judge ruled Monday that the man accused of gunning down a longtime Iowa high school football coach is mentally competent to stand trial.


Man accused of filming Andrews released on bond (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 05:18 PM PDT

In this Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 courtroom sketch, Michael David Barrett appears for a hearing at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago. The Chicago-area man accused of filming surreptitious nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews in a hotel room was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare airport Friday night. (AP Photo/Lou Chukman)AP - An Illinois insurance executive accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews apparently uploaded videos of other unsuspecting nude women to the Internet, a federal prosecutor said Monday.


Judge says Dallas bomb plot case to proceed (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 04:22 PM PDT

FILE -- A Sept. 24, 2009 file photo shows Fountain Place, a 60-story glass office tower is shown in Dallas.    A teenager from Jordan accused of trying to blow up the  Dallas skyscraper returns to federal court Monday, Oct. 5, 2009  for a hearing to decide if there is enough evidence to move ahead with his prosecution.    (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam/file)AP - A Jordanian teenager accused of trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper researched how to use a cell phone to detonate a bomb and recorded a 7-minute video he believed would be transmitted to Osama bin Laden, an FBI agent who oversaw the investigation testified Monday.


Kan. official: Illegal sex problem for all prisons (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 03:00 PM PDT

AP - Illegal sex is a problem in Kansas prisons, but it's not as widespread as inmates and staff suggest, the state's top prisons official said Monday.

W.Va. diverts more child support to poor (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:56 PM PDT

AP - Changes in how state governments are allowed to disperse child support payments to welfare families has put more money in the pocket of West Virginia resident Becky Salmons, allowing her to buy school supplies and medicine for her 17-year-old daughter.

Ohio gov. delays 2 executions to review injection (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:49 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, Lawrence Reynolds is seen.  A federal appeals court has halted the Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009, execution of a man who strangled his 67-year-old neighbor, citing last month's failed attempt to execute another inmate. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, to delay the execution of 43-year-old Lawrence Reynolds until a federal judge has time to hear arguments over problems with the Sept. 15 injection process.  (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections)AP - Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday delayed the state's next two executions to allow a full review of lethal injection procedures, the latest in a series of unprecedented capital punishment developments in Ohio.


BET founder mimics Va. gov candidate's speech (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:48 PM PDT

AP - The billionaire co-founder of Black Entertainment Television apologized Monday for pretending to stutter at a campaign event as she mimicked the Democratic candidate for governor.

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