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Coast Guard: Plane collides with helicopter (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 10:49 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Coast Guard says a Coast Guard plane has collided with a military helicopter off the Southern California coast.

Police make sixth arrest in Richmond gang rape (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 10:44 PM PDT

Two students walk next to a sign about violence at Richmond High School in Richmond, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. Four teens were charged in the alleged gang rape and beating of a 15-year-old girl outside of her high school homecoming dance. All four, ages 15, 16, 17 and 19, who will be charged as adults, were charged with rape and enhancements that they acted in concert, which could make them eligible for life in prison. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Police have made a sixth arrest in the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a high school dance.

Police seek shooter who wounded 2 at LA synagogue (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 09:47 PM PDT

Police tape is shown stretched across the entrance of the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Orthodox synagogue where a gunman shot and wounded two men Thursday Oct. 29, 2009 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Al Seib, Pool)AP - A gunman escaped after wounding two men in the parking garage of a Los Angeles synagogue Thursday, frightening worshippers who heard gunshots and screams before the bleeding victims stumbled in during morning services.

Big snowstorm wallops Colorado, Wyoming (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 09:33 PM PDT

Eileen Hargrave walks her dogs Nessie, left, and Pete in the snow in Denver, Colo., on Thursday, Oct.29, 2009. A slow-moving storm has dumped more than 2 feet of snow on parts of Colorado and much more is expected. It's expected to be the state's strongest October snowstorm in 12 years. Up to 18 inches of snow was forecast in Denver and up to 4 feet was possible in the Colorado mountains. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - An early blast of winter walloped some western states with deep snow and slowly pushed into Nebraska and Kansas Thursday, bringing blizzard conditions to the eastern plains and causing treacherous roads, closed schools and hundreds of canceled flights.

Coast Guard: Navy chopper crashes off Calif. coast (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 09:41 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Coast Guard says a Navy helicopter has crashed into the sea off the Southern California coast.

Texas law on children seeing porn being challenged (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 09:35 PM PDT

Crystal Buckner, responds to a reporters question as she talks about her children and her fight to change a Texas law, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009 in Dallas. The 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show 'harmful material' to their children has come under fire after a prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against a man accused of forcing his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography. (AP Photo/Amy Gutierrez)AP - A 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show "harmful material" to their children has come under fire after a prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against a man accused of forcing his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography.

Leader of retreat that left 3 dead cancels events (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 09:42 PM PDT

FILE - This Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 picture shows the area of the Angel Valley Retreat Center in Sedona, Ariz., where a heart-shaped stone memorial is set up on the site of the sweat lodge tragedy. The December 2009 release of two books by author and motivational speaker James Arthur Ray has been postponed in the wake of three deaths that occurred after an October 2009 sweat lodge ceremony he led in northern Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Motivational speaker and author James Arthur Ray has canceled his remaining 2009 seminars in the wake of three deaths that occurred after a sweat lodge ceremony he led in Arizona.

Feds investigating Detroit Islamic group's motives (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:54 PM PDT

A two-story, red brick duplex in Detroit searched by the FBI on Wednesday is seen on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. Authorities captured the son of the slain leader of a radical Detroit-area Islamic group in Canada on Thursday, a day after the FBI arrested several members and a raid at a suburban warehouse ended in gunfire. (AP Photo/David Runk)AP - The FBI is trying to determine whether members of a radical Detroit-area Islamic group were homegrown jihadists or merely a "bunch of thugs with bluster," a congressman said Thursday. One thing is certain: They are not mainstream Muslims, the agency said.

SF Bay Bridge might be open for morning commute (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 08:41 PM PDT

Traffic is seen at a standstill near the intersection of highway 80 and the Bay Bridge in Emeryville, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been closed indefinitely after a rod installed during last month's emergency repairs snapped, causing a traffic nightmare for the 280,000 motorists who cross the landmark span every day.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - State transportation officials said the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge could be ready for Friday's morning commute as crews furiously worked overnight Thursday to finish emergency repairs.

Ind. soldier was 'free spirit,' champion wrestler (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 07:06 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided on Thursday Oct. 29, 2009 by the Griffin family, U.S. Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin of Terre Haute, Ind., middle, is seen with his parents Gene and Dona Griffin. Sgt. Dale Griffin was the son of a Mormon bishop, a champion wrestler and college student who was struggling to find his way in the world when he turned to the military. Killed Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009 by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, the body of the Army sergeant deployed with the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash., came home in a line of flag-draped coffins saluted in Thursday's pre-dawn darkness by President Barack Obama at Dover Air Force Base. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Griffin Family) NO SALESAP - Sgt. Dale Griffin was the son of a Mormon bishop, a champion wrestler and college student who was struggling to find his way in the world when he turned to the military.

Race re-emerges in tight Atlanta mayoral election (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:34 PM PDT

Atlanta mayoral candidate, Atlanta city coucil president Lisa Borders, makes calls in her office at her campaign headquarters on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photos/Johnny Clark)AP - A neighborhood activist with crossover appeal on the verge of making history. A city leader with a civil rights legacy. A native son seen by some as the heir apparent to the city's first black mayor.

Al-Qaida agent sentenced to 8 years in prison (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2009 photo released by the International Committee of the Red Cross via his lawyer Andy Savage, Ali al-Marri is seen at the Charleston Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C. A two-day sentencing begins Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, at federal court in Peoria, Ill., for al-Marri, a former Bradley University student and a married father of five from Qatar who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization. He faces up to 15 years in prison. (AP Photo/ICRC via Andy Savage, File)AP - A federal judge sentenced an al-Qaida sleeper agent to a relatively light eight years in prison Thursday because the man received what the judge called "unacceptable" treatment in a U.S. Navy brig.

Hundreds arrested in Ky. prescription crackdown (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:42 PM PDT

AP - More than 300 people were arrested and 200 more targeted in a crackdown on a multi-state prescription pill pipeline, a bust that Kentucky officials said Thursday was the largest in the state's history.

Cops: Student threatened 'snitches' in UConn death (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:22 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by UConn Police Department, Christopher Mutchler is seen. The University of Connecticut student committed an act terrorism by posting Internet messages telling people to 'stop the snitching' after the stabbing death of football player Jasper Howard, university police said Thursday. Mutchler, an 18-year-old freshman from Wethersfield, faces charges of hindering prosecution, committing an act of terrorism and several misdemeanors. (AP Photo/UConn Police Department)AP - A University of Connecticut student committed an act terrorism by posting Internet messages telling people to "stop the snitching" after the stabbing death of football player Jasper Howard, university police said Thursday.

College enrollment up, mostly at 2-year schools (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:35 PM PDT

Mike Grace, 24, a student at Wake Technical Community College, is seen in a chemistry lab on the north campus in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. A study of Census data by the Pew Research Center shows the share of Americans age 18-to-24 attending college hit a record high in October 2008. But enrollment in 4-year colleges was flat; virtually all of the increase of 300,000 students nationally over the previous year came at 2-year schools. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Some are there because of the recession, and others despite it. Regardless, more young Americans than ever are in college — especially community college, according to a new report.

Florida man creates giant rubber band ball (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:52 PM PDT

Joel Waul, 28, climbs on top of his rubber band ball on the driveway of his home in Lauderhill, Fla., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. Waul who works nights restocking a Gap clothing store, has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and linking and stretching rubber bands of various sizes into the ball shape. The Guinness Book of World Records declared it the world's largest rubber band ball in 2008. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that's the size of a Smart car?

DC station airs demo of bare breast self-exams (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 05:15 PM PDT

AP - The ABC affiliate here is airing a two-part series that takes a close — and unobscured — look at breast self-exams. The series is airing during the fall "sweeps" period critical for a TV station's ad revenue, prompting concern by a parental watchdog group. But WJLA insists it's not just a naked attempt to boost the ratings.

Snowbird manatee flies to balmy Miami for winter (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 03:42 PM PDT

In this photo released by the United States Coast Guard, Maya Rodriguez, a veterinarian at Miami Sea Aquarium in Miami, keeps a Manatee wet with bottled water during the mammal's flight from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City to the waters off Florida, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. New Jersey Fish and Wildlife captured the manatee on Monday, Oct. 26, rescuing it from the murky waters off Linden, N.J. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lindberg)AP - In a journey familiar to retirees but not sea mammals, Ilya the wayward manatee flew south for the winter Thursday after being rescued from a chilly New Jersey creek.

Pa. high court dismisses juvenile convictions (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 02:49 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Thursday Feb. 12, 2009 file photo Mark Ciavarella, center, leaves the federal courthouse in Scranton, Pa. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out more than five years' worth of cases heard by former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella. He is charged with accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks to send youths to private detention centers. (AP Photo/David Kidwell, File)AP - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed thousands of juvenile convictions issued by a judge charged in a corruption scandal, saying that none of the young offenders got a fair hearing.

Obama girls' vaccine: Favoritism or good example? (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 04:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, with daughters Malia, left, and Sasha, right, return to the White House in Washington from Camp David. With dad a world leader, Malia and Sasha Obama surely could have been first in line when vaccinations began for swine flu. The White House says, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, they weren't. But that hasn't stopped complaints online and elsewhere that President Obama's daughters got preferential treatment by scoring hard-to-get vaccinations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - With Dad a world leader and Nobel Prize winner, Malia and Sasha Obama surely could have been first in line when vaccinations began for swine flu. They weren't, the White House says. But that hasn't stopped complaints that President Barack Obama's daughters got preferential treatment.
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