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Gun-toting Pa. soccer mom, husband found shot dead (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 07:21 PM PDT

AP - A suburban mother who became a voice of the gun-rights movement when she openly carried a loaded pistol to her daughter's soccer game was fatally shot Wednesday along with her parole-officer husband in an apparent murder-suicide at their home in Pennsylvania Dutch country, authorities said.

2nd man charged in slaying of central Ill. family (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 09:13 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file picture provided by the Logan County Sheriff's Office via The State Journal-Register shows Jason Harris who was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 and charged with obstructing justice in connection with the killings of five members of the Gee family of Beason, Ill. On On Thursday Oct. 8, 2009, Harris was charged with five counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. (AP Photo/Logan County Sheriff's Office via The State Journal-Register, File)AP - An Illinois man was charged with first-degree murder Thursday for allegedly helping beat to death the family of his brother's ex-wife.

Student allegedly stabs fellow student in UCLA lab (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 10:03 PM PDT

Los Angeles Police are seen at UCLA's Young Hall building in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. A female UCLA student was hospitalized Thursday after a fellow student slashed her throat in a chemistry lab on campus, authorities said. A man was arrested after UCLA police got a call about the stabbing Thursday afternoon in Young Hall. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - A female UCLA student was hospitalized Thursday after a fellow student slashed her throat in a chemistry lab on campus, authorities said.

Police stop more than 1 million people on street (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 09:47 PM PDT

George Lucas, left, and Courtney Bennett, stand near Lenox Avenue and 142nd Street in Harlem, New York, Friday Sept. 4, 2009. It's a location where Bennett has been stopped and searched by police, a policing tactic both men have experienced on multiple occasions. Nationwide, more than a million people, mostly black and Hispanic men, are stopped, questioned and frisked annually by police. Nearly all are innocent of any crime, according to figures from departments around the country. The numbers are rising even as crime rates drop. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to avoid officers who roam a particular street. These and hundreds of thousands of other Americans in big cities have been stopped on the street by police using a law-enforcement practice called stop-and-frisk that alarms civil libertarians but is credited by authorities with helping reduce crime.

Denver Columbus Day parade is on, despite hoax (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 10:50 PM PDT

AP - A Denver parade in honor of Christopher Columbus is on — despite a phony e-mail that circulated Thursday saying the downtown celebration was canceled for lack of funds.

NYC artist is $250K winner of art competition (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 07:41 PM PDT

AP - A surfing enthusiast whose entry in a new art competition expresses his love of the sea won the $250,000 top prize on Thursday.

Prominent mathematician Irving Gelfand dies in NJ (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 06:43 PM PDT

AP - Israel Gelfand, who was considered one of the world's top mathematicians and did work that was important in the development of medical imaging devices, has died at age 96.

Schwarzenegger threatens vetoes to get water deal (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 05:48 PM PDT

Eila Oster, of Finland, looks over an information marker at the Romero Visitor Center at the San Luis Reservoir near Santa Nella, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. The reservoir, which stores water from Northern California to be sent to Central and Southern California, is only at 20 percent of normal capacity. Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger warned Legislative leaders, Thursday, that he will veto hundreds of bills, passed by lawmakers in the closing days of this years session, unless a plan to solve the state's water problems is reached by Friday.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday he will veto hundreds of bills unless lawmakers agree on a comprehensive fix for the state's aging water system.

Convicted Texas killer sentenced to die (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 03:43 PM PDT

Paul Devoe listens to his aunt testify during the punishment phase of his capital murder trial in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. Devoe, 46, is accused of killing six people in a cross-country spree in Texas and Pennsylvania in August 2007. (AP Photo/Jay Janner, POOL)AP - A man accused in a cross-country killing spree was sentenced to death Thursday for the slaying of two Texas teenage girls.

ACORN activists refuse to buckle to video scandal (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 05:38 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 photo, an Acorn sign hangs in New Orleans on a blighted house in the Lower Ninth Ward since it was flooded during Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)AP - Armed with little more than pen and pad, ACORN organizer David Mazariegos hits inner-city streets to save his embattled employer rather than his usual mission of saving homes from foreclosure.

Steven Spielberg receives Liberty Medal in Philly (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 05:21 PM PDT

Former President Bill Clinton, right, applauds filmmaker Steven Spielberg during the 2009 Liberty Medal ceremony in Philadelphia, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Award-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg, long recognized for his artistic achievements, was honored with the Liberty Medal on Thursday for his compassion and humanitarian work.

Evangelicals call for immigration reform (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 05:10 PM PDT

AP - An American evangelical Christian group is urging Congress to approve reforms to immigration laws in a resolution approved Thursday.

Calif. man blows hand off while mixing explosives (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 05:29 PM PDT

AP - Explosives and a marijuana farm were discovered at a Southern California home doubling as a state-licensed child day care center after a man blew off four of his fingers while mixing homemade explosives, authorities said Thursday.

Ala. man executed for 1992 killing of store owner (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 05:11 PM PDT

AP - An Alabama death row inmate has been executed by lethal injection for the 1992 kidnapping, robbery and killing of a store owner.

Capone's Wisconsin hideout sells for $2.6 million (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 03:09 PM PDT

This Sept. 2000 photo shows the fireplace and two narrow curved stairways, in the living room of the main lodge, at The Hideaway, the former summer residence of mobster Al Capone in Couderay, Wis. Capone's old rural hideout, complete with guard towers and a stone house with 18-inch (45-centimeter)-thick walls, was sold for $2.6 million Thursday Oct. 8, 2009 to the bank that foreclosed on it. (AP Photo/Duluth News Tribune, Charles Curtis) MANDATORY CREDITAP - The one-time gangster's house is built of stone with 18-inch thick walls and protected with guard towers, just in case G-men or goons with machine guns inside violin cases come calling.

Nobel lit prize goes to little-known European (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 03:07 PM PDT

German writer Herta Mueller reacts, during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Thursday Oct. 8, 2009. Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism's collapse. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)AP - The judges, apparently, could not help themselves.

Youth push for louder conversation about suicide (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 02:44 PM PDT

Bryce Mackie, a student at Columbia College in Chicago, waits as his film 'Eternal High' plays before speaking to a group of mental health providers about suicide Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, in Wooster, Ohio. In high school, he made this film about his own experience with bipolar disorder and suicidal thoughts. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane.)AP - The topic of suicide makes many people squirm. It's something we've been told we're not supposed to talk about. If you speak it, someone might do it.

Astor's son convicted of looting her $200M fortune (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 04:52 PM PDT

Anthony Marshall, Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son, center, exits Manhattan State Supreme Court with wife Charlene, right, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009, in New York. A jury found Marshall Thursday guilty of exploiting his philanthropist mother's failing mind and helping himself to her nearly $200 million fortune. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)AP - Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son was convicted Thursday of exploiting his philanthropist mother's failing mind and helping himself to her nearly $200 million fortune.

Swine flu put many hospitalized patients into ICU (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 04:06 PM PDT

AP - One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests.

Woman thrown off plane for breast-feeding sues (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 02:52 PM PDT

AP - A woman who was thrown off an airplane for breast-feeding her child, sparking a day of airport protests nationwide, is suing the three airlines involved in the flight.
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