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Worshippers urged not to 'sanitize' King's legacy (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 06:31 PM PST

A crowd of about 1,000 marched along St. Paul's Marshall Avenue to celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Monday Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Brian Peterson)AP - A scholar and activist invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetoric Monday at the civil rights icon's church, urging the audience not to "sanitize" King's legacy or let the president off the hook on issues like poverty.

Man questioned after 5 found dead in Texas home (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:17 PM PST

Crime scene tape surroundsoff a residence where five family members were found slain Sunday Jan. 17 in Bellville, Texas. Texas Rangers and crime scene technicians were on location collecting evidence Monday Jan.18, 2010 in Bellville, Texas. (AP Photo/Bob Levey)AP - Authorities working to determine what spurred a flurry of gunshots that left five people dead in southeast Texas are questioning a 20-year-old relative who lived with the victims in the isolated house surrounded by pasture land.

Mass. Senate candidates battle to the end (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 09:06 PM PST

Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, right, campaigns outside the T.D. Garden before a Boston Bruins hockey game in Boston, Mass., Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Brown is running against Democrat Martha Coakley and Joseph Kennedy, a Libertarian who is running as an independent, in a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left empty by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - Nearly one year to the day after President Barack Obama was sworn into office as an agent of change, Massachusetts Senate candidates battled to the wire Monday in an election that threatened his agenda and reflected voters' frustration with the status quo.

Haitians seeking US refuge will be returned (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 08:35 PM PST

Busloads of refugees from Tuesday's Haiti earthquake leave the Haitian capital of Port au Prince in this United Nations handout picture taken and released on January 15, 2010. REUTERS/UN Photo/Logan Abassi/Handout (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER POLITICS ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP - U.S. authorities are readying for a potential influx of Haitians seeking to escape their earthquake-wracked nation, even though the policy for migrants remains the same: with few exceptions, they will go back.

Evacuations lifted in Calif. as storm tapers (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 11:05 PM PST

Workers gather around a large tree on the roof a home in Corona del Mar, Calif. on Monday afternoon Jan. 18, 2010. Forecasters said storms lasting through at least Friday could drop 20 inches of rain inland and 8 inches along the coast and in the valleys of Southern California. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Leonard Ortiz)AP - Evacuation orders have been lifted throughout Southern California, as fears of dangerous mudslides ebbed with the passage of the first in a series of winter storms expected this week.

Hamtramck builds homes to atone for discrimination (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:38 PM PST

Sallie Sanders runs out of her new house in Hamtramck, Mich., Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Nearly 50 years after her family was forced out of their rental house, Sanders cut the ribbon to her new home in the city — the remedy in one of the longest-running cases of housing discrimination in the United States. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - More than 40 years after her family was forced from their home because they were black, Sallie Sanders received the keys to a new house built to settle one of the longest-running cases of housing discrimination in the United States.

Soldier guilty of cruelty and maltreatment in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 10:38 AM PST

AP - A military panel in Kuwait convicted a U.S. soldier of being cruel and mistreating fellow soldiers, a case undertaken after an Army private from Ohio committed suicide in Iraq.

Reputed al-Qaida supporter set for NYC trial (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 09:51 AM PST

FILE- In this undated file photo originally released by the FBI on April 23, 2003, Aafia Siddiqui is shown. Jury selection began ,Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010, at federal court in New York where Siddiqui is on trial accused of grabbing a U.S. Army officer's rifle in Afghanistan in July 2008 and firing at U.S. soldiers and FBI agents. The U.S. trained neuroscientist has refused to work with her defense lawyers and lambasted the court since her case began last summer. (AP Photo/FBI)AP - The strange case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is riddled with curious questions.

Rapes of elderly women terrify central Texas towns (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:24 AM PST

Jennings Retirement Villave where an elderly woman was attacked in attempted rape is seen in Luling, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Authorities are investigating 12 incidents, at least eight of them rapes, that happened across South and Central Texas from January to November; Many of these cases have been linked by physical evidence, including DNA, according to officials.(AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - With a serial rapist on the loose, Cassandra McGinty has developed a new routine when she arrives home: search room to room, a handgun or stun gun drawn.

FDA debates tougher cancer warning on tanning beds (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 06:31 PM PST

Katie Donnar, 18, shows her scar from where the melanoma was on the calf of her leg Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 in Vincennes, Ind. in front of a tanning bed like the on she used at her home and at the tanning salons. Donnar was in the sixth grade when she started using tanning beds. (AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)AP - Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk. Yes, sunburns are particularly dangerous. But there's increasing scientific consensus that there's no such thing as a safe tan, either.

Leno anticipates return to 11:30, lauds O'Brien (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:37 PM PST

FILE - In this June 1, 2009 file photo provided by NBC, Conan O'Brien makes his debut as the host of NBC's 'The Tonight Show' in Universal City, Calif. (AP Photo/NBC, Paul Drinkwater) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY, ARCHIVE OUT, NO SALESAP - Jay Leno turned serious on his show to discuss the late-night chaos at NBC, telling viewers that he'd been doubtful about launching a prime-time show but was prevented by NBC from going to another network instead.

Colorado surgery tech details stealing painkiller (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 01:48 AM PST

In this photo released by the Denver County Sheriff's Department, Kristen Diane Parker, 26, is shown. Parker pleaded guilty to tampering with a consumer product and obtaining a controlled substance by deceit or subterfuge. (AP Photo/Denver County Sheriff)AP - A surgery technician who infected three dozen people with hepatitis C and may have exposed thousands of others by switching used syringes with ones filled with a powerful painkiller says she got careless while at two Colorado hospitals and doesn't expect to be forgiven.

Chemicals coat apples decades after Alar scare (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:06 AM PST

Apples for sale are on display at the Pike Place Market Nov. 12, 2009, in Seattle. Two decades after some parents dumped apples out of their kids' lunch boxes over health concerns about a chemical applied to the crop, most researchers agree apples today are safer even though pesticide residue still can be found on most of the fruit. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - More than two decades after parents dumped apples from children's lunch boxes because of concerns about a chemical applied to the fruit, most researchers agree the crop is safer although most of it still carries pesticide residue.

Analysis: Campaign traits carry over to presidency (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:10 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2009 file photo, Barack Obama, left, with his wife Michelle at his side, takes the oath of office to become the 44th president of the United States from Chief Justice John Roberts, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - Turns out Barack Obama is the bill of goods America thought it was buying.

Anti-death penalty movement wooing conservatives (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 03:36 AM PST

In this Friday, Jan. 15, 2010 photo, Montana state Sen. Roy Brown, left, a conservative, and Shari Silberstein, executive director of Equal Justice USA, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based anti-death penalty organization, talk about the death penalty during an interview in Louisville, Ky. The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is making a stronger attempt to woo conservatives to the anti-death penalty movement. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - Roy Brown seems like a rarity — a conservative who's against the death penalty.
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