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• Soul singer Teddy Pendergrass dies in Pa. at 59 (AP)
• Across US, outpouring of grief and help for Haiti (AP)
• Tight penalties weighed for air security scofflaws (AP)
• Pa. state trooper shot, killed, suspect found dead (AP)
• Consumer chief warns: take cheap jewelry from kids (AP)
• Stiller, Pitt, other celebs urge quake relief (AP)
• Networks rush personnel into Haiti (AP)
• Why Haiti keeps getting hammered by disasters (AP)
• Former minister in Texas on trial for wife's death (AP)
• Perry: Texas won't seek federal education funding (AP)
• Are Leno, O'Brien going at it? (AP)
• Maine man convicted in fatal sex dungeon shooting (AP)
• NY's Tavern on the Green restaurant items for sale (AP)
• More than 100 neglected animals found at Nev. farm (AP)
• Texas debates the way history will be taught (AP)
• High court: No cameras at gay marriage trial (AP)
• Government decides not to seek 5th Gotti trial (AP)
• SpaghettiOs creator Donald Goerke dies at 83 (AP)
• Standard & Poor's lowers ratings on Calif. debt (AP)

Soul singer Teddy Pendergrass dies in Pa. at 59 (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 10:21 PM PST AP - Teddy Pendergrass, who became R&B's reigning sex symbol in the 1970s and '80s with his forceful, masculine voice and passionate love ballads and later became an inspirational figure after suffering a devastating car accident that left him paralyzed, died Wednesday at age 59.

Across US, outpouring of grief and help for Haiti (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 04:13 PM PST AP - Hans Mardy has dialed the numbers hundreds of times, praying someone — his father, his sister, one of four brothers — will pick up the phone.

Tight penalties weighed for air security scofflaws (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 02:59 PM PST AP - A Georgia man dashes through a checkpoint at the Atlanta airport and gets 10 days in jail. A hairdresser in a hurry bypasses security in Philadelphia and gets a $500 fine. A drunken man stumbles onto a Chicago airfield and gets 18 months' supervision. All caused major air travel delays costing millions of dollars — and all got what critics call a slap on the wrist.

Pa. state trooper shot, killed, suspect found dead (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 07:53 PM PST AP - Pennsylvania state police believe a man fatally ambushed a state trooper responding to a domestic dispute, and also killed his wife before turning the gun on himself, investigators said Wednesday.

Consumer chief warns: take cheap jewelry from kids (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 07:12 PM PST AP - The nation's product safety agency issued an unprecedented warning Wednesday to parents: Don't give your children cheap metal jewelry. And if they already have some, toss it because it could contain hazardous levels of heavy metals such as lead and cadmium.

Stiller, Pitt, other celebs urge quake relief (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:48 PM PST AP - Oprah Winfrey, Paris Hilton, Ben Stiller, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are among the celebrities and artists urging support for survivors of the earthquake in Haiti.

Networks rush personnel into Haiti (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 07:04 PM PST AP - Television news divisions raced to get into Haiti to report on the devastation wrought by a powerful earthquake, a journey made more difficult by the story they were trying to cover.

Why Haiti keeps getting hammered by disasters (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 04:30 PM PST AP - When it comes to natural disasters, Haiti seems to have a bull's-eye on it. That's because of a killer combination of geography, poverty, social problems, slipshod building standards and bad luck, experts say.

Former minister in Texas on trial for wife's death (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:42 PM PST AP - A minister's wife told her therapist a few days before she died that she thought her husband was going to kill her and was having an affair, her therapist testified Wednesday at his murder trial.

Perry: Texas won't seek federal education funding (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 03:21 PM PST AP - Texas won't compete for up to $700 million in federal stimulus money for education because the program "smacks of a federal takeover of our public schools," Republican Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday.

Are Leno, O'Brien going at it? (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:42 PM PST AP - Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien have mined NBC's late-night mess for plenty of jokes about their employer. Now they seem to be turning on each other.

Maine man convicted in fatal sex dungeon shooting (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 06:15 PM PST AP - A gun collector who introduced several weapons into sexual play with two other men contended the weapons were intended to fulfill a sexual fantasy. Instead, a lethal combination of drugs, extreme sex and Russian roulette put him on trial for manslaughter.

NY's Tavern on the Green restaurant items for sale (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 09:55 PM PST AP - Tavern on the Green has put everything inside the bankrupt restaurant up for auction — from the kitschy chandeliers of capitalism to a banner touting the motto of communism.

More than 100 neglected animals found at Nev. farm (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:55 PM PST AP - In one of the worst cases they can remember, Nevada agriculture officials have cited a woman for animal cruelty for neglecting more than 100 barnyard animals, including 35 starving horses and a goat that died from eating wool off a sheep carcass.

Texas debates the way history will be taught (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST AP - Students, parents and lawmakers lobbied Wednesday for more diversity in Texas' social studies curriculum, before the state board of education adopts new classroom standards that will determine how history is taught for the next decade.

High court: No cameras at gay marriage trial (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:28 PM PST AP - The Supreme Court on Wednesday indefinitely blocked cameras from covering the high-profile federal court trial on the constitutionality of California's ban on same-sex marriage.

Government decides not to seek 5th Gotti trial (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:12 PM PST AP - The federal government decided Wednesday not to seek a fifth racketeering trial against John "Junior" Gotti, son of the notorious Gambino family crime boss who also was noted — for a time — for avoiding conviction.

SpaghettiOs creator Donald Goerke dies at 83 (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 03:44 PM PST AP - The Campbell Soup Co. executive who was behind the enduring brands SpaghettiOs and Chunky Soup has died.

Standard & Poor's lowers ratings on Calif. debt (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 02:14 PM PST AP - A major credit-rating agency lowered California's debt rating Wednesday, putting pressure on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers to start tackling the state's $20 billion deficit.

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