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4 men accused of scheme with La. senator's phones (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 07:08 PM PST

FILE - In a Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 file photo, activist James O'Keefe attends a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. O'Keefe was among four people arrested Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 and accused of trying to interfere with phones at U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office. O'Keefe was the brains behind a series of undercover videos which have caused major problems for ACORN — the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)AP - A hero of conservatives who bruised the liberal group ACORN by posing as a pimp on hidden camera is now accused in an attempt to tamper with phone lines at Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's office inside a federal building.

Oregon voters OK tax hikes on wealthy, businesses (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 11:00 PM PST

AP - Oregon voters on Tuesday approved tax hikes on businesses and the wealthy, allowing legislators to avert budget cuts they said would have affected schools and services for the poor and elderly.

Okla. man accused of killing wife, kidnapping girl (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 02:19 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation shows Lester Hobbs, 47. Oklahoma authorities issued an Amber Alert on Monday Jan. 25, 2010 for Aja Daniell Johnson, whose mother, Tonya Hobbs, was found slain in her motor home Sunday. Authorities believe Aja may be with Hobbs' estranged husband, Lester Hobbs. (AP Photo/Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)AP - A woman found beaten to death in a motor home recently sought a protective order against her estranged husband, an ex-convict who was charged Tuesday with killing her and kidnapping her 7-year-old daughter.

Witness: Peterson bragged he could cover up murder (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 06:26 PM PST

FILE - In this May 8, 2009 file photo, former Bolingbrook, Ill. police Sgt. Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill., for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio. Savio was found dead in a dry bathtub in her home in 2004. Her death was initially ruled a suicide, but officials exhumed her body and ruled the death a homicide. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - An aunt of former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson's missing wife testified Tuesday that he once bragged he could kill someone and "make it look like an accident."

Former aide says Edwards discussed leaving wife (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 08:16 PM PST

AP - A former aide to John Edwards says in a new book that the two-time presidential candidate told him he thought about leaving his wife but also cited his love for her as a reason to keep details of an affair hidden, according to a newspaper report Tuesday night.

Witness says marriage threatened if gays can wed (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 07:14 PM PST

File photo shows supporters of same-sex marriage marching in Hollywood, California. The influence of homosexuals in US politics is significant and growing, an expert testified, as opponents of same-sex marriage opened their case in a federal trial challenging California's gay marriage ban.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)AP - The head of a family values group testified Tuesday that marriage developed to provide children with clear ties to their biological parents but is in such a weakened state in the United States that extending the institution to same-sex couples could be its death blow.

Engineers watch Texas homes for more moving soil (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 07:04 PM PST

In this Jan. 24, 2010 photo, San Antonio Fire Department personnel survey the damage to a retaining wall as the ground shifts beneath it in San Antonio. (AP Photo/The San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara)AP - Residents of 25 homes evacuated after a landslide split a retaining wall and threatened to topple hilltop homes will not be allowed to return for at least 10 days as engineers watch for further soil movement, the developer said Tuesday.

79-year-old jewel thief facing new charge in CA (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 05:20 PM PST

AP - An international jewel thief who claims to have pocketed a small fortune in gems while shoplifting in ritzy stores from New York to Monte Carlo was arrested in Southern California for allegedly trying to steal a coat.

Judge: 'HOPE' artist under criminal investigation (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:15 PM PST

Workers install Shepard Fairey's portrait of Barack Obama at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington on January 17, 2009. A year after coming to office, President Barack Obama has reopened diplomatic lines of communication, but still has little to show for his efforts on the toughest US foreign policy questions.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AP - A judge permitted the disclosure for the first time Tuesday that the artist known for his Barack Obama "HOPE" image is under criminal investigation, though details of the probe were not divulged.

FBI looking into Pittsburgh arts student beating (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 05:31 PM PST

AP - The FBI is looking into whether Pittsburgh police officers violated the civil rights of an 18-year-old violist who accused them of brutally beating him as he walked to his grandmother's house after dark.

Lawyers seek to silence al-Qaida-linked scientist (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:12 PM PST

AP - Lawyers for a Pakistani scientist accused of shooting at U.S. Army personnel in Afghanistan asked a judge Tuesday to stop her from testifying, saying her "diminished capacity" would result in a "painful spectacle indeed."

Va. man arrested with arsenal, map of NY Army base (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

Lloyd Woodson, 43, of Virginia, appears in court Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010, in Somerville, N.J. Superior Court Judge John Pursel set his bail at $75,000 after authorities seized a cache of weapons and ammunition including rifles, a grenade launcher and a night vision scope from a motel room where Woodson was staying. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - A call from a convenience store clerk about a suspicious person led to an arrest and a frightening discovery: The man was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a loaded assault rifle and four magazines of ammunition.

Caltech cosmologist Andrew Lange dead at 52 (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 07:01 PM PST

AP - California Institute of Technology physicist Andrew E. Lange, co-leader of an international team that produced a detailed image of remnants of the Big Bang showing the universe is flat, has died in an apparent suicide, police said Tuesday. He was 52.

Vermont assumes a heavy burden in Iraq war (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 01:29 PM PST

FILE-In this Dec. 3, 2004 file photo, pallbearers carry the flag-draped casket of Marine Lance Cpl. Jeffery Holmes at the graveside ceremony in Randolph, Vt. Vermont, a bastion of ex-hippies and Ben & Jerry liberals, has another distinction seemingly at odds with its peace-loving, tie-dyed politics: It has suffered more deaths per capita in the Iraq war than any other state. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Vermont, a bastion of ex-hippies and Ben & Jerry liberals, has another distinction seemingly at odds with its peace-loving, tie-dyed politics: It has suffered more deaths per capita in the Iraq war than any other state.

Gun used in abortion doc's slaying never found (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:20 PM PST

Scott Roeder enters the courtroom after lunch for the continuation of his first-degree murder trial, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 in Wichita, Kan. Roeder is charged with shooting Dr. George Tiller. (AP Photo/Mike Hutmacher, Pool)AP - Prosecutors have presented more than 100 pieces of evidence in the trial of the man accused of killing Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. But the weapon used to kill Tiller has not been among them because it never has been found.

LA moves to push pot clinics from neighborhoods (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST

AP - The day feared by medical marijuana advocates arrived Tuesday when the City Council finally approved an ordinance intended to close hundreds of pot shops and banish those that remain to industrial areas.

Video inspires call for NY cow tail-docking ban (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:31 PM PST

AP - An animal-rights group released a video Tuesday showing an upstate New York farm worker lopping off a calf's tail and burning off its budding horns as the animal moans and struggles frantically to escape, prompting a state lawmaker to propose that New York follow California's lead in banning tail-docking for dairy cows.

231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world's fastest (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 03:22 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2007 file photo, wind and driving snow are seen on the top of the highest peak in the Northeast, Mount Washington, in New Hampshire. Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth. The World Meteorological Organization says a review of climate data turned up a 253 mph gust recorded in 1996 on Barrow Island in Australia during Cyclone Olivia. That tops the 231 mph record set atop Mount Washington in 1934. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)AP - First the Old Man, now the Big Wind. New Hampshire's Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory said Tuesday.

2 workers killed in latest DC-area track accident (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 05:37 PM PST

Investigators inspect the scene of the accident after a high rail truck killed two metro workers in Rockville, Md. Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 in Rockville, Md. The accident occurred about 1:45 a.m. as the automatic train technicians worked to install new train control equipment in the track bed.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Two veteran workers on the Washington area's transit system were crushed by a maintenance truck Tuesday, the latest in a string of fatalities that has made Metro the most deadly for U.S. transit rail workers in the past five years.
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