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Evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Calif. at age 91 (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 07:09 PM PST

FILE - In this April 5, 1987 file photo, evangelist Oral Roberts gives a sermon to members of the Church on the Rock, in Rockwall, Texas. Evangelist Oral Roberts, who rose from tent revivals to found a multimillion-dollar organization and an Oklahoma university bearing his name, died Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. He was 91. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Oral Roberts, who helped pioneer TV evangelism in the 1950s and used the power of the new medium — and his message of God's healing power — to build a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died Tuesday. He was 91.

Authorities: Little chance Ore. climbers are alive (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 07:01 PM PST

Skiers and snowboarders are obscured by blowing snow and ice as they ride the ski lift at Timberline Lodge in Government Camp, Ore., Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. Heavy overnight snowfall with more precipitation expected over the next few days is making search efforts for two missing climbers on Mount Hood difficult. The storm that hit the mountain late Monday was expected to dump up to two feet of new snow on the slopes where Anthony Vietti, 24, of Longview, Wash., and Katie Nolan, 29, of Portland have been missing since Friday. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - Two climbers missing on Mount Hood for the past five days are likely dead and a search will not resume anytime soon because of severe avalanche danger, officials said Tuesday.

DC City Council votes to legalize gay marriage (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST

L. Page 'Deacon' Maccubbin, left, proposes to his partner of 32 years, Jim Bennett, after the District of Columbia city council approved gay marriage in their final vote on a bill legalizing the unions in Washington, on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. Gay couples could be marrying in the nation's capital as early as March. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - After suffering setbacks from California to New York, Maine to New Jersey, same-sex marriage supporters got a victory Tuesday with the City Council's vote to legalize gay marriage in the District of Columbia.

Ill. town welcomes plan to house Gitmo detainees (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, an aerial view of the Thomson Correctional Center is seen in Thomson , Ill. The White House plans to announce Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009, that a rural Illinois prison will be acquired by the federal government to become the new home for a limited number of Guantanamo Bay detainees. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - The White House decision to move up to 100 Guantanamo Bay detainees to this dying Mississippi River town has folks here seeing dollar signs, not suspected terrorists.

Pa. police accused of cover-up in immigrant attack (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 05:27 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2008 picture, Brandon Piekarsky is escorted into the Schuylkill County Courthouse in Pottsville, Pa. Federal hate crime indictments against Derrick Donchak and Piekarsky were unsealed Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 for the fatal beating of Luis Ramirez in July 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)AP - Federal prosecutors charged three police officers in a racially tense Pennsylvania coal town with orchestrating a cover-up in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant by altering evidence or lying to the FBI in a case against two white high school football players.

Attorney: Missing Utah mom's husband met with cops (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 05:58 PM PST

This undated picture made available by Hardman Photography shows Susan Powell. The 28-year-old mother from the Salt Lake City area was reported missing on Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Hardman Photography, Amber Hardman)AP - The husband of a missing Utah woman has been answering questions from police on a daily basis and is not hindering an investigation into her disappearance, as police have alleged, his attorney said Tuesday.

Energy-efficient traffic lights can't melt snow (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 05:41 PM PST

In this photo provided by the Oswego Police, was taken after a fatal crash in Oswego, Ill. on April 6, 2009. Oswego police Detective Rob Sherwood said the wind had blown the snow over the red light, causing a driver run the light and hit the vehicle of 34-year-old Lisa Richter, who was making a left turn. She was killed. (AP Photo/Oswego Police)AP - Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don't burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm — a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at least one death.

Boeing's 787 jetliner finally takes to the air (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 09:31 PM PST

Boeing Co. employees cheer as a Boeing Co. 787 airplane takes off on its first flight Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. Pilots Michael Carriker and Randall Neville lifted off in the big blue and white jet at about 10 a.m. PST from Everett's Paine Field on a four-hour flight over Washington state, beginning the extensive flight test program needed to obtain the plane's Federal Aviation Administration certification.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - The first flight of Boeing's new 787 jetliner brought no surprises — exactly what pilots, engineers and company officials had anxiously sought for the long-delayed aircraft.

Starving snakes, dead rodents found in Texas raid (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 05:24 PM PST

AP - Starving snakes, dead rodents and hundreds of reptiles packed in shipping crates were discovered Tuesday when animal welfare groups in Texas raided an exotic animal delivery company, officials said.

Pa. House whip, official who resigned are charged (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 05:52 PM PST

Attorney General Tom Corbett holds a news conference, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, in Harrisburg, Pa. Corbett says state Rep. Bill DeWeese, D- Greene, and former Revenue Secretary Stephen Stetler and an aide to DeWeese face theft, conspiracy and conflict of interest charges. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - State prosecutors added more defendants Tuesday to their expanding legislative corruption case, accusing a longtime House Democratic leader and a former legislator serving in the governor's cabinet of illegally using taxpayer-paid employees to perform campaign work.

4 family members found dead in upscale Calif. home (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:42 PM PST

Authorities transport multiple fatalities from a home in San Clemente, Calif. Monday evening, Dec. 14, 2009. Authorities said a domestic dispute inside a gated community came to a bloody end Monday with several family members left dead in the hallway of a rented home. (AP Photo/H. LORREN AU JR./The Orange Country Register)AP - A Houston-area attorney involved in a bitter custody dispute was found fatally shot along with her two young daughters and mother in an apparent murder-suicide after she was ordered to bring the children to a court hearing, authorities said Tuesday.

Kids' Swine flu shots recalled; not strong enough (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:54 PM PST

A public health nurse prepares a dose of H1N1 vaccine at the Balboa Park Community Center in Encino, California in this October 23, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Mark Boster/Pool/FilesAP - Hundreds of thousands of swine flu shots for children have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine doses lost some strength, government health officials said Tuesday.

Mass. ex-gov: Grudge led to Ky. college bankruptcy (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:32 PM PST

FILE - In this June 6, 2006 file photo, Republican gubernatorial hopeful William Weld announces in New York his withdrawal from the race for New York governor. Weld is alleged Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, that Decker College, a private college he once headed in Kentucky, was unjustly decertified and went bankrupt in 2005 after pressure from a federal education official harboring a vendetta because Weld once prosecuted his former boss. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File)AP - A federal official upset about losing his job gained revenge by triggering the 2005 bankruptcy of a Kentucky college run by former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld, two attorneys allege.

Chicago man accused in terror plot denied bond (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 02:42 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 file courtroom sketch, Chicago terrorism suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana, appears before federal Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan, in Chicago. Federal prosecutors say Rana knew in advance about the deadly Mumbai terror attacks, and offered congratulations to the killers. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - A federal judge on Tuesday declined to release on bond a Chicago man accused of planning to attack a Danish newspaper and of knowing beforehand about last year's terrorist attacks on Mumbai.

'Coastie Song' stirs up U. of Wisconsin campus (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 02:18 PM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 11, 2009, University of Wisconsin-Madison students Cliff Grefe, left, and Quincy Harrison are interviewed at the school's Memorial Union in Madison, Wis. The two undergraduate students have stirred up campus with their popular rap song and video, 'Coastie Song,' which some see as anti-Semitic and others call funny. (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley)AP - When two students recorded their first rap song together, they wanted to have fun with a cultural icon unique to the University of Wisconsin-Madison: the coastie.

SF mayor backs radiation labels for cell phones (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 12:50 PM PST

AP - Mayor Gavin Newsom is endorsing a proposal that would make San Francisco the first city in the country to require radiation labels for cell phones.

Detroit artists use city's blight as their canvas (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 05:28 AM PST

A scene at the Heidelberg Project in Detroit is seen on Dec. 2, 2009. Two decades ago artist Tyree Guyton transformed a deteriorating Detroit neighborhood into a colorful, outdoor polka-dot art gallery. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Houses with dreary urban facades covered in polka dots. A traveling dollhouse made from the remnants of abandoned homes. A dilapidated residence covered in ice.

32 accused of $60M in Medicare fraud in 3 states (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:15 PM PST

Federal agents load boxes of records seized from Courtesy Medical Group, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 in Miami. Federal agents arrested several suspects and expected to roundup about 30 in three states Tuesday on charges related to Medicare fraud totaling $61 million as the government cracks down on waste under health care overhaul plans. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - Federal agents arrested 26 suspects in three states Tuesday, including a doctor and nurses, in a major crackdown on Medicare fraud totaling $61 million in separate scams.

Police: Atlanta's Babineaux smoked pot as he drove (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 01:24 PM PST

AP - Embattled Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Jonathan Babineaux was smoking marijuana as he and a friend were driving through the northeast Atlanta suburbs, according to a police report.
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