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Source: Illinois prison eyed for Gitmo inmates (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:39 PM PST

In this undated photo, the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., is seen. A White House official says the Obama administration is considering buying the northwestern Illinois prison to house a limited number of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, along with federal inmates. (AP Photo/The Dispatch, Todd Mizener) NO SALESAP - The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural northwestern Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with federal inmates, a White House official said Saturday.

Mother of missing 5-year-old NC girl charged (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:39 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 - The mother of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared in North Carolina was charged Saturday with human trafficking and other offenses, though authorities said they still did not know the girl's whereabouts.

College students find support in campus 'posses' (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:20 PM PST

This Friday Oct. 30, 2009 photo shows Bryn Mawr College full merit scholarship students, left to right, Saskia Guerrier, Augusta Irele, Shanika Bridges-King and Sharhea Wade on campus in Bryn Mawr, Pa. The group are participants in the New York-based Posse Foundation program. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - When Sharhea Wade arrived at Bryn Mawr College from a big-city high school, it seemed as if every other student on the quiet, leafy campus had graduated from an exclusive private school.

Gates blocks release of detainee abuse photos (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 06:18 PM PST

AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates has blocked the public release of any more pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors, saying their release would endanger American soldiers.

Bernard Madoff's jacket, watch auctioned in NYC (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:46 PM PST

A New York Mets baseball jacket, personalized for Bernard Madoff, is displayed during an auction preview of his seized items, in New York, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Almost 200 items seized from the fallen financier's homes are being sold, from furs, dishes and stationery to a historic Rolex dubbed 'the prisoner's watch' made for Allied prisoners during World War II. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - It was about fascination with big money — and the life of a couple at the center of the biggest financial fraud case in U.S. history.

Mourners grieve for soldiers killed at Fort Hood (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:40 PM PST

A U.S. Army honor guard carries the casket of Pfc. Aaron Nemelka, during a burial ceremony at Camp Williams, Saturday Nov. 14, 2009 in Riverton, Utah. Nemelka was one of 13 gunned down at Fort Hood, Texas. (AP Photo/Colin Braley)AP - Hundreds of people lining the main street of an Indiana town on Saturday fell solemnly silent as the white hearse passed. Mourners waited for hours outside a Wisconsin gymnasium to say goodbye to a soldier who once promised to take down Osama bin Laden.

Man is zapped with stun gun at mom's NY home, dies (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 08:32 PM PST

AP - Police say a man who had locked himself and his mother in her Long Island home died after he tussled with officers and was zapped twice with a stun gun.

Pa. swim club accused of bias to file bankruptcy (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 06:34 PM PST

AP - A suburban swim club accused of discrimination last summer after revoking the memberships of mostly black and Hispanic children plans to declare bankruptcy, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Ohio: 1 lethal injection drug should end lawsuit (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 02:09 PM PST

FILE- This undated photo released by the Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation shows Romell Broom. Ohio on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 became the first state to adopt a procedure for lethal injections that uses one drug, a method never before tried on U.S. inmates. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, File)AP - The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what may have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.

Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches are shrinking (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 05:16 PM PST

This Nov. 6, 2009 photo shows David Graner, a resident of Kailua, jogging past some old ironwood tree stumps and roots that have been exposed due to the erosion of Kailua Beach in Hawaii. Geologists say more than 70 percent of Kauai's beaches are eroding while Oahu has lost a quarter of its sandy shoreline. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)AP - Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to build sand castles.

In Asia, Obama talking climate, arms control (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:38 PM PST

US President Barack Obama, right, is served tea during his bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore at Istana in Singapore, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama and other world leaders agreed Sunday that next month's much-anticipated climate change summit will be merely a way station, not the once hoped-for end point, in the search for a worldwide global warming treaty.

'Hello, Ohio!' (Psst! Boss, we're in Michigan) (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

AP - The curse of Friday the 13th struck Bruce Springsteen in a most unusual way: it made the 60-year-old rock legend forget where he was.

Crusading Calif. D.A. retires, leaves painful wake (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 05:18 PM PST

In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, Kern County District Attorney Ed Jagels is shown in his office in Bakersfield, Calif. Jagels, renowned as one of California's toughest district attorneys, built his career on the Kern County child molestation cases of the 1980s, putting more than two dozen men and women behind bars to serve decades-long sentences for abusing children. Appellate judges now say most of those crimes never happened. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)AP - The molesters drank blood, the children said, and hung them from hooks after forcing them to have sex with their parents. They murdered babies, prosecutors told jurors, and snapped photographs as the horror unfolded.

Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman to get early Oscars (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 08:59 PM PST

In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, film producer and director Roger Corman speaks during an interview at his office in Los Angeles. Corman, memorably dubbed the Orson Welles of the Z-Movie and the Pope of Pop Cinema, never expected the words 'Academy Award recipient' would accompany his name. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)AP - The Academy Awards won't be presented until March, but the first Oscar statuettes of the season were being handed out Saturday night at a private, black-tie dinner in Hollywood.

3 dead in medical helicopter crash north of Reno (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:19 PM PST

AP - Investigators said the pilot of a medical helicopter issued a mayday moments before the aircraft crashed into a hilly area north of Reno near the Nevada-California state line early Saturday.

Palin says she didn't know Bristol was having sex (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 09:26 AM PST

In this photo released by ABC, former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, left, is photographed with ABC's Barbara Walters, at a New York City hotel, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Walters' interview with Palin will air in segments starting with 'Good Morning America,' on Monday, Nov. 17. (AP Photo/ABC, Steve Fenn)AP - Sarah Palin says she didn't know her daughter Bristol was sexually active before she learned the teenager was pregnant.

FBI digs into backyard of Ohio home with 11 bodies (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 11:01 AM PST

Surrounded by sheriff's deputies, Anthony Sowell is arraigned on rape, kidnapping, attempted murder and felonious assault charges Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, in Cleveland. A search of Sowell's home after his arrest Sept. 22, led to the discovery of the remains of 11 women on the property. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)AP - FBI agents sifted through dirt with rakes and shovels Saturday in the backyard of a suspected serial killer's home and ran a thermal-imaging device across the ground near the area where the decomposing bodies of several women were found.

Woman widowed by cop husband's suicide sues NYPD (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:26 AM PST

AP - Michael Pigott was an experienced NYPD lieutenant with an elite team trained to deal with the most hostile scenarios. He was calm under pressure. A good leader.
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