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Authorities acting on tip search for missing girl (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 10:56 PM PST

In this undated photo provided by the City of Fayetteville Police Department, Antoinette Nicole Davis. Davis, the mother of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, faces a child abuse charge involving prostitution as well as filing a false police report, according to a news release from the Fayetteville Police Department. (AP Photo/City of Fayetteville Police Department)AP - Authorities acted on a tip Sunday and searched a wide area in south-central North Carolina trying to find a 5-year-old girl reported missing by her mother, who has been charged with human trafficking and child abuse involving prostitution.

Fla. suspect in Mo. child sex case 'devastated' (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 07:18 PM PST

This undated booking photo released by the Marion County Sheriff's Office shows Darrel Wayne Mohler. The case against a family accused of child sex abuse has expanded with the arrest of a sixth relative, 72-year-old Darrel Wayne Mohler. Mohler has been charged with raping two children in Missouri more than 20 years ago. His arrest Friday came a day after he told The Associated Press that the alleged child abuse by his relatives was 'unspeakable.' (AP Photo/Marion County Sheriff's Office)AP - A sixth member of a family facing multiple child sex abuse charges in western Missouri said he is "devastated" and had "no idea" about the rape allegations against him.

Study raises new questions about Merck pill Zetia (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 06:16 PM PST

AP - A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin — drugs still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.

Officials discuss plans for Gitmo inmates in Ill. (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST

AP - Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday tried to build support and counter criticism of a proposal to sell a prison in rural northwestern Illinois to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees and other inmates.

Jackpot: Lawyers earn fees from law they wrote (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 12:30 PM PST

This Feb. 10, 2009 photo shows Madera Unified School District Supt. John Stafford posing in the school board room in Madera, Calif. A California law makes it easier for lawyers to sue and win financial judgments in cases arising from claims that minorities effectively were shut out of local elections, while shielding attorneys from liability if the claims are tossed out. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)AP - Every lawsuit filed or even threatened under a California law aimed at electing more minorities to local offices — and all of the roughly $4.3 million from settlements so far — can be traced to just two people: a pair of attorneys who worked together writing the statute, The Associated Press has found.

Geeky 'tweeters' to report on space shuttle launch (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 06:17 PM PST

Space shuttle Atlantis sits on launch pad 39-A, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis and its six member crew are preparing for Monday's planned launch on an 11-day mission to the international space station. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - Fingers will be flying when space shuttle Atlantis blasts off Monday: About 100 of NASA's geekiest fans will be on hand, pecking away at iPhones, BlackBerrys, laptops and other Twittering gadgets.

Alaska fights to reverse polar bear listing (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 10:01 AM PST

AP - Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn't intend to let the federal government's expanded protection for bears get in the way of the state's continued prosperity.

Palin's way of talkin' dissected, you betcha (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 09:08 AM PST

This Nov. 10, 2009 photo taken in Madison, Wis., shows, from left, University of Wisconsin-Madison linguists Eric Raimy, Joe Salmons and Thomas Purnell. The three are authors of a research paper to be published in the Journal of English Linguistics next month on Sarah Palin's speech. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)AP - When Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage there was a lot of talk about her distinctive way of talkin', you betcha.

Recession intensifies GenX discontent at work (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 09:01 PM PST

A line of job seekers stretches out of a hotel doorway as they wait to enter a Monster.com job fair in Los Angeles, California in this July 23, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Fred Prouser/FilesAP - They're antsy and edgy, tired of waiting for promotion opportunities at work as their elders put off retirement. A good number of them are just waiting for the economy to pick up so they can hop to the next job, find something more fulfilling and get what they think they deserve. Oh, and they want work-life balance, too.

Mass. immigrant tuition bill to get new push (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 02:20 PM PST

In this Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 photo, Mario Rodas of Chelsea, Mass., poses at one of the gates to Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. As an undocumented Guatemalan-born immigrant in 2005, Rodas would have had to pay out-of-state tuition fees to go to a public college in Massachusetts. Rodas has since been granted asylum in the U.S. and can take advantage of in-state tuition rates while he studies at the Harvard University Extension School. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - It seemed like a given that Mario Rodas would go to college.

Obama walks a tightrope in first visit to China (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 08:17 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, walks with Mayor of Shanghai Han Zheng, right, at Xijiao State Guest House in Shanghai, China, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama sought a political balance Monday on his first trip to China, seeking help on urgent global problems while weighing if and when to raise concerns over human rights.

Chinese-Americans see Obama's trip in unique light (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 11:40 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - As President Barack Obama visits China seeking to balance a seesawing relationship, Chinese-Americans embody the challenges facing the giants of East and West.

Dobbs says his departure from CNN was 'amicable' (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 12:39 PM PST

FILE - In this 2005 file photo provided by CNN, news anchor Lou Dobbs sits on the set of his show, 'Lou Dobs Tonight,' in New York (AP Photo/CNN, Mark Hill, File)AP - Lou Dobbs says he doesn't feel like he was pushed out of CNN, the news organization where he worked for all but two years of its existence until last Wednesday.

Jet hits birds, forced to turn back to Missouri (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 11:28 PM PST

AP - Airport officials in Kansas City say a passenger jet struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff and returned to land safely.

Obama, Medvedev optimistic on START replacement (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 12:13 AM PST

President Barack Obama meets with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Singapore, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev say they still plan to have a replacement START nuclear arms reduction treaty ready by year's end.
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