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Fla. police nab man in Thanksgiving killings of 4 (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 10:54 PM PST

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Jupiter, Fla. Police Dept. suspect Paul Michael Merhige is shown. A Florida man suspected of killing four family members in a Thanksgiving shooting was arrested Saturday Jan. 2, 2010 in the Florida Keys, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jupiter Police Dept., File)AP - A Florida man suspected of gunning down four family members at a Thanksgiving dinner was arrested Saturday night in the Florida Keys after a weekslong manhunt, authorities said.

Calif. pastor takes in $2.4M after donations plea (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 09:24 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008 file photo, Pastor Rick Warren signs his book 'The Purpose of Christmas' at Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York. Evangelical pastor Rick Warren says his call for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch has brought in $2.4 million. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)AP - Evangelical pastor Rick Warren's plea for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch brought in $2.4 million, Warren announced to cheers during a sermon at the church on Saturday.

Scores arrested in north Texas cockfight raid (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 10:54 PM PST

AP - About 169 people have been arrested in a cockfight raid northwest of Fort Worth.

Lessons of a weekend of free health care (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 09:19 PM PST

This Nov. 13, 2009 photo shows Daniel Drake waiting for doors to be opened at a clinic held by Remote Area Medical at Union County High School in Maynardville, Tenn. Drake drove 3 hours from his home in Soddy Daisy, Tenn. to have dental work done. Remote Area Medical is a nonprofit organization, whose volunteers offer free health care to the uninsured, the underinsured and the desperate. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)AP - The two-hour drive is done, but Hannah and Jack Hurst leave the Honda's engine running.

Desperate Somalis seek 'back-door' route to US (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:26 PM PST

In this Nov. 16, 2009 photo, Somali asylum-seeker Mohamed Kheire, right, consults with Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project detention attorney, James Lyall, at the Los Angeles Catholic Charities. With the suspension of a U.S. refugee program and stepped-up security in the Gulf of Aden and along Mediterranean smuggling routes, more overseas migrants from Somalia are pursuing asylum through routes traditionally taken by Latinos. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - The asylum seeker from Somalia hung his head as an immigration judge grilled him about his treacherous journey from the Horn of Africa. By air, sea and land he finally made it to Mexico, and then a taxi delivered him into the arms of U.S. border agents at San Diego.

Pioneering plaintiff wants DC's 1st gay marriage (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:35 PM PST

In this photo taken, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009, Craig Dean, hold a photo of himself with his late partner, Patrick Gill, during an interview at Dean's home in Socastee, S.C. Dean and Gill sued the city in 1990 for the right to be legally wed. They lost their landmark case five years later, and Gill in 1997. (AP Photo/Willis Glassgow)AP - Craig Dean's first wedding was attended by thousands, and as he recited his vows, gay couples behind him on Constitution Avenue echoed their own.

Cities, counties take back corporate tax breaks (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 10:52 PM PST

FILE - In this May 6, 2009 file photo, teacher Carrie Cox from Andrew High School in Tinley Park, Ill., protests along with other teachers opposing Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's budget cuts and new pension plan during a rally across the street from the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. As the recession drags on, municipalities struggling to fix roads, fund schools and pay bills increasingly are rescinding tax abatements to companies that don't hire enough workers, lay them off or close up shop. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)AP - Cash-strapped communities have a message for corporations that promised jobs in return for tax breaks: A deal's a deal.

3rd body found after Detroit apartment fire (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:36 PM PST

Firefighters from Ladder No. 6 fight a fire at the Huntington Hotel in Detroit, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. One person is reported dead and several others, including a Detroit firefighter, have been injured in the New Year's Eve apartment fire. The Detroit News says the Huntington is a five-story building whose tenants rent rooms by the month. It is located near the Wayne State University campus on the city's near north side. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Fire investigators say they've found the body of a third person who died in a blaze at an apartment building in Detroit.

Smoke smell sends NYC-bound jet back to Boston (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 09:26 AM PST

AP - A New York-bound plane has returned safely to Boston's Logan International Airport after a pilot smelled smoke in the cockpit minutes after takeoff.

U.S. official: Extremists seek new ways to attack U.S. (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:19 PM PST

The recent failed bid to blow up a US airliner is a reminder of AP - A top counterterrorism official is warning that al-Qaida and other extremists are working to test U.S. defenses and launch an attack on American soil.

Survivor of 1906 SF quake dies at age 107 (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:47 PM PST

(Left Photo) A view of the ruins of the Hearst Newspaper Building after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires. (Right Photo) A view of the Hearst Building seen from the corner of Geary and Kearny Streets in 2006. The woman believed to be the oldest survivor of the devastating 1906 San Francisco fire and earthquake has died at the age of 107, a newspaper reported on Saturday.(AFP/Getty Images/File)AP - Jeanette Scola Trapani, one of the oldest survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, has died at age 107.

Fire kills 5, destroys Palm Springs mobile home (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 10:27 AM PST

AP - A 30-year-old mother, her three children and a 32-year-old man were killed in a fire that engulfed a mobile home on New Year's Day.

Muslim-Hindu punk rock bands part of new movement (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:31 PM PST

This Dec. 15, 2009 photo shows drummer Imran Malik and guitarist Basim Usmani of the Muslim Hindu punk band The Kominas, rehearsing in Wayland, Mass. From the basement of this middle-class home tucked in the woods west of Boston, The Kominas have helped launched a small, but growing, South Asian and Middle Eastern punk rock movement that is attracting children of Muslim and Hindu immigrants and drawing scorn from some traditional Muslims who say their political, hard-edged music is 'haraam,' or forbidden. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Artwork from the Punjab state of India decorates the Ray family home. A Johann Sebastian Bach statue sits on a piano. But in the basement — cluttered with wires, old concert fliers and drawings — 25-year-old Arjun Ray is fighting distortion from his electric guitar.

Clinton foundation draws eclectic donor list (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:40 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2006 file photo, former President Bill Clinton, right, listens as Microsoft chairman Bill Gates speaks during their conversation session at the 16th World Aids Conference in Toronto. A donor list released on New Year's Day by the William J. Clinton Foundation shows that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave to the former president's charity. (AP Photo/Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)AP - Former President Bill Clinton's charity drew an international roster of donors last year, ranging from Norway and Oman to foreign lotteries, businessmen and celebrities, a contributor list released under an ethics promise by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton showed.

Poster child for recession shows signs of recovery (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:31 PM PST

In this photo taken Nov. 18, 2009, recreational vehicles are ready sales at International RV World in Elkhart, Ind. There's a ray of hope in Elkhart, the Indiana city that was turned into a poster child for the recession. Heartland Recreational Vehicles of Elkhart announced recently that it would immediately begin hiring 200 production workers. (AP Photo/Joe Raymond)AP - When Ed Neufeldt introduced Barack Obama at a speech in Elkhart County in February, the new president promised the laid off RV worker would find a job.
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