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Pie-splattered comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83 (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 10:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 1967 file photo, Soupy Sales is embraced backstage by Hanne Bork after his Broadway debut in 'Come Live With Me' in New York. Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. He was 83. (AP Photo/File)AP - Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

Garbage trucks lead to discovery of dead Fla. girl (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 09:28 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement shows Somer Renee Thompson, 7, who was last seen Monday Oct. 19, 2009 in Orange Park, Fla. A Florida Ambert Alert has been issued for Somer Thompson. (AP Photo/Florida Department of Law Enforcement)AP - After 7-year-old Somer Thompson vanished on her way home from school, investigators tailed nine garbage trucks from her neighborhood to a Georgia landfill nearly 50 miles away, then picked through the trash as each rig spilled its load.

Largest US sting on drug cartel arrests 300-plus (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 09:31 PM PDT

Federal police escort handcuffed suspect Jose Roberto de la Sancha as he his presented to the press in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. De la Sancha, detained along with five others in a recent police operation, is an alleged member of the Mexican drug cartel 'La Familia Michoacana,' according to police. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast reach north of the border.

Airline crew overshot Minn. airport by 150 miles (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 09:29 PM PDT

AP - Two Northwest Airlines pilots failed to make radio contact with ground controllers for more than an hour and overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles before discovering the mistake and turning around.

Wife of former AP general manager dies at 93 (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 10:03 PM PDT

File-In this Nov. 7,1997 file photo showing Betty Gallagher, left, with her children, Jane Gallagher, second from left, Brian Gallagher, center, Christine Gallagher, second from right, and her granddaughter Juliana Huber, 8, far right, during her late husband Wes Gallagher's memorial in New York. Betty Gallagher, the wife of a former Associated Press general manager and president who helped him run the Berlin bureau after World War II, has died. She was 93. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, file)AP - Betty Gallagher, the wife of a former Associated Press general manager and president who helped him run the Berlin bureau after World War II, died Thursday. She was 93.

F-16 jettisons bombs at Hill AFB; no injuries (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 10:30 PM PDT

This image made from video provided by KSL-TV shows, firefighters putting out a fire at an empty tin shack after an F-16 jettisoned two 500-pound bombs and two fuel tanks on the base just before making an emergency landing at the Hill Air Force base in Utah on Thursday Oct. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Courtesy KSL TV) MANDATORY CREDIT. NO SALESAP - An F-16 pilot jettisoned two 500-pound bombs and two fuel tanks before making an emergency landing at Hill Air Force Base on Thursday, officials said.

Serial killer named suspect in 1984 Calif. killing (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:26 PM PDT

David Shinn, at podium, deputy chief of the San Francisco police department, speaks during a news conference while standing beside a photograph of 'Night Stalker' Richard Ramirez at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco, Thursday Oct. 22, 2009. San Francisco police say the infamous serial killer known as the 'Night Stalker' is a suspect in a 1984 San Francisco homicide of a nine-year old girl. Ramirez, who is now on death row at San Quentin State Prison, was identified by cold case detectives Thursday as a suspect in the killing of Mei Leung. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)AP - For 25 years, the unsolved murder of 9-year-old Mei Leung haunted San Francisco police homicide Inspector Holly Pera, a novice patrol officer at the time who now helps solve the department's cold cases.

Ex-Los Alamos lab physicist describes meetings (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 07:06 PM PDT

AP - It's a tale of intrigue, involving a nuclear weapons physicist at a national laboratory and a mystery man, supposedly from the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, fluent in Spanish and English.

Caretaker: Woman has changed torture story before (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 06:17 PM PDT

FILE - In a Monday, Oct. 22, 2007 file photo, Megan Williams, 20, of Charleston, W.Va., stands outside of her home. Williams plans a Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 news conference in Columbus, Ohio, to announce that she lied about a 2007 incident in which she said she was assaulted by a group of whites in Logan County, WV. Seven people were convicted in that case. Brian Abraham, the former Logan County prosecutor who oversaw those cases, dismissed the news conference as a publicity stunt. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner, File)AP - A black Ohio woman who recanted allegations of being tortured by a group of white people in West Virginia has mental issues and has more than once changed her version of what happened, her current caretaker said Thursday.

Sheriff in Colorado balloon chase answers critics (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 06:50 PM PDT

Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden speaks at a news conference in Fort Collins, Colo., Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009. Alderden said it was hoax when parents reported that their 6-year-old son was in a flying saucer-like helium balloon hurtling away from their home when he was actually hiding in the garage. (AP Photo/Will Powers)AP - Spectators watching the alleged balloon boy hoax unfold on live TV suggested paragliders, skydivers, fishing hooks and more to bring down the flying saucer-shaped craft thought to be carrying a 6-year-old boy.

Paterson says gay marriage bill will pass in NY (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 09:13 PM PDT

AP - New York Gov. David Paterson said Thursday that he expects to sign a same-sex marriage bill into law in the coming weeks.

Census bureau says 2020 count could include gays (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 09:22 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Census Bureau is making an unprecedented effort to include same-sex couples in next year's national population count, but legally married gay couples won't show up as such in the official once-a-decade tally, bureau representatives said Thursday.

Calif. man charged in 1989 killing of ex's child (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 08:08 PM PDT

AP - A San Diego attorney was charged with murder Thursday for allegedly killing his girlfriend's daughter 20 years ago so the mother could take custody of her granddaughters.

NC gov says 20 violent criminals won't be freed (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 04:40 PM PDT

AP - In the face of outrage from victims and their families, North Carolina's governor on Thursday challenged a quarter-century-old policy on prison good conduct credits, saying she would not free a group of violent inmates who were sentenced to life in prison.

US unveils broad effort to limit executive pay (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 04:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2007 file photo, Kenneth R. Feinberg, now the special master at the Treasury Department appointed by President Obama to handle compensation issues, speaks at his office in Washington. The Obama administration plans to order companies that received huge government bailouts last year to sharply cut the compensation of their highest paid executives, according to a person familiar with the decision. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - The government zeroed in on corporate excess and recklessness Thursday with deep, unprecedented cuts in executive compensation at companies living on taxpayer money and a move to wield veto power over pay policy at thousands of banks to limit risk-taking.

Aluminum baseball bat safety on trial in Montana (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 03:52 PM PDT

AP - Fighting off a Helena Senators' fifth-inning rally, pitcher Brandon Patch checked the runner on first base. The 18-year-old Miles City Mavericks' southpaw then went into his windup, delivering what looked sure to be another strike.

Volcker: Recovery won't be quick fix for job rates (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 03:43 PM PDT

AP - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker warned Thursday that the country faces a "considerable slog" in recovering from a deep recession, and that any economic gains will be too mild for a while to make a big dent in stubbornly high unemployment rates.

Gov. signs LA-area football stadium waiver bill (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 04:18 PM PDT

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday he has signed a bill allowing the construction of a 75,000-seat stadium that developers hope will lure an NFL team back to the Los Angeles area.

Former NYC top cop discussed filing rights suit (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 03:33 PM PDT

AP - Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, jailed and awaiting trial on federal corruption charges, says he is under indescribable stress and has considered filing a lawsuit "to redress the civil wrongs I believe I have suffered," according to newly unsealed court papers.

Accused triggerman guilty of slaying 7 in Indiana (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 02:57 PM PDT

AP - A man charged in one of the worst mass slayings in Indianapolis history was convicted Thursday of killing seven members of one family, including three children, in a bloody rampage prosecutors said stemmed from a quest for drugs and cash that didn't exist.
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