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Enough already: Snow breaks mid-Atlantic records (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:45 PM PST

The Capitol is seen at twilight at the end of a record snowfall, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Worst winter ever? The second blizzard in less than a week buried the most populous stretch of the East Coast under nearly a foot of snow Wednesday, breaking records for the snowiest winter and demoralizing millions of people still trying to dig out from the previous storm.

Chilling aerial photos of 9/11 attack released (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:47 PM PST

This photo taken Sept. 11, 2001 by the New York City Police Department and obtained by ABC News, which claims to have obtained it under the Freedom of Information Act, shows smoke billowing from one of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/NYPD via ABC News, Det. Greg Semendinger) MANDATORY CREDITAP - A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers and the apocalyptic shroud of smoke and dust that settled over the city.

States get new leeway to tally prisoners in census (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 09:58 PM PST

AP - States are getting new leeway in tallying their prisoners in the 2010 census — a move that could reshape the political map, increasing urban population numbers while reducing the figures for rural voting districts where inmates are incarcerated.

Former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson dies at 76 (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:48 PM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, April 26, 2008 picture, former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson speaks at the Annual Dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association in Washington. According to a hospital spokesperson, Wilson, 76, died in Lufkin, Texas on Wednesday, Feb 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Charlie Wilson, the fun-loving Texas congressman whose backroom dealmaking funneled millions of dollars in weapons to Afghanistan, allowing the country's underdog mujahedeen rebels to beat back the mighty Soviet Red Army, died Wednesday. He was 76.

Report: Hundreds forced into labor, sex in Ohio (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:50 PM PST

AP - About 1,000 American-born children are forced into the sex trade in Ohio every year and about 800 immigrants are sexually exploited and pushed into sweatshop-type jobs, a new report on human trafficking in the state said Wednesday.

3 Seattle bus tunnel guards watch brutal beating (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 07:25 PM PST

In this still frame taken from surveillance video released Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 by the King Co. Sheriff's Department, unarmed security guards in yellow vests are shown standing and not attending to a 15-year-old girl on the ground next to them who was had been kicked, beaten, and robbed by another 15-year-old girl in a downtown Seattle bus tunnel on Jan. 28, 2010. The guards' actions during the attack have prompted a review of the policy that unarmed, civilian guards call police and not try to stop fights or crimes. (AP Photo/King Co. Sheriff's Department)AP - A 15-year-old girl who was badly beaten and robbed in a Seattle bus tunnel as three unarmed security guards looked on told investigators that she thought the men would protect her.

NASA studying 2 new space shuttle problems (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:51 PM PST

In this image from NASA-TV the crews of the space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station pose for a group photo after the space shuttle docked with the International Space Station, early Wednesday morning Feb. 10, 2010. Hatches between space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station were opened at 2:16 a.m. EST. (AP Photo/NASA-TV)AP - NASA was assessing a cracked thermal tile and protruding ceramic ring Wednesday on the space shuttle Endeavour — two new problems that don't appear serious but warrant extra attention.

Idaho woman faced financial woes before Haiti trip (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:14 PM PST

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 file photo, Laura Silsby, one of the 10 Americans arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti, is escorted to the court building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A closer look at Silsby's life shows that the adoption fiasco follows a predictable pattern surrounding the 40-year-old businesswoman and mother of two: Her big promises and big dreams often give way to questionable actions and frequent legal action. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, file)AP - In the days after the Haiti earthquake, Laura Silsby made a series of calls around the country to mobilize a trip to rescue orphaned children from the disaster.

Veteran attacks Ohio shelter director; both killed (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 05:14 PM PST

Dennis Kresak, president of Volunteers of America of Greater Cleveland, talks about an attack at the Volunteers of America Veterans Resource Center Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, in Cleveland. A homeless veteran who was told to move out of the shelter attacked and killed the center's director Wednesday morning before police fatally shot him, authorities said. Officers said when they arrived at the homeless shelter, they saw the man standing over the director with a knife and ax in his hands. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - An Air Force veteran who was told to move out of a homeless shelter because he had been uncooperative about attending counseling fatally attacked the center's director Wednesday and then was shot to death by police when he charged at them with a knife and an ax, authorities said.

Teacher accused of shooting 2 principals at school (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 08:30 PM PST

AP - An elementary school teacher is accused of shooting and wounding the principal and assistant principal at his school Wednesday about an hour after the children were dismissed because of snow.

Ex-Edwards aide faces pressure after tell-all book (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 08:55 PM PST

Andrew Young, left, and his wife Cheri Young wait for a court hearing after surrendering videotapes purportedly showing two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and his former mistress in a sexual encounter, at the Orange County courthouse in Hillsborough, N.C., Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - A former aide to John Edwards turned over the now infamous sex tape to a judge Wednesday, then faced tough questions from attorneys for the ex-presidential candidate's mistress who were frustrated with his changing story about where the tapes had been kept.

Police: Man held hostages at gunpoint in Neb. bank (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:52 PM PST

In this Jan. 19, 2010 photo, the exterior of a Wells Fargo Bank in Palo Alto, Calif., is shown. Wells Fargo took a more optimistic tone than other banks on Wednesday, Jan. 20, about early signs of improvement in its lending portfolios, after reporting an unexpected fourth-quarter profit. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Police arrested a man suspected of holding hostages at gunpoint in a south-central Nebraska bank Wednesday and a local television station said he was a former employee who was recently fired for making threats against the station.

Ex-Ill. cop's hearing feels like real murder trial (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:14 PM PST

FILE - In this May 8, 2009, file photo, former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson yells to reporters as he arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill. Family members, investigators, clergy and even a psychic have spent weeks testifying in a northern Illinois courtroom — and Drew Peterson's murder trial hasn't even started. Initially billed as a preliminary step in the case, an extraordinary hearing to determine what hearsay, or second-hand, evidence jurors will be allowed to hear during Peterson's actual trial in his third wife's death has turned into a sort of legal dress rehearsal. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Family members, investigators, clergy and even a psychic have spent weeks testifying in a northern Illinois courtroom — and Drew Peterson's murder trial hasn't even started.

LA ports add ship to screen for biological weapons (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:39 PM PST

AP - A new ship to detect chemical and biological weapons has been launched to protect the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Ex-Ill. gov. pleads not guilty to revised charges (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 11:47 AM PST

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich outs his belt back on after going through security as he arrives at the Federal Court building, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, in Chicago, to face revised charges in his upcoming federal corruption trial stating he schemed to sell or trade President Obama's old Senate seat, and trade official favors for campaign money. While the indictment against Blagojevich has been revised, the allegations of misconduct on his part are no different than the the ones in the previous version. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - Ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich pleaded not guilty Wednesday to revised federal corruption charges and challenged prosecutors to allow jurors to hear all of the FBI's recordings of his telephone conversations.

DNA used to charge mystery man in same-date deaths (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 11:38 AM PST

AP - Utah prosecutors have used a DNA profile to file charges against a mystery man who police say strangled two women on the same date two years apart.

Stretched military halts cleanup of Fla. tire reef (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 11:19 AM PST

AP - Military divers are being pulled off a project to clean up an artificial reef off the coast of Florida that turned into an environmental disaster.

Scientists seek better way to do climate report (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 11:42 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2001 file photo, Briton Robert Watson, right, then-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) accompanied by James J. McCarthy, USA, IPCC's co-chairman, gestures during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Some climate scientists are calling for drastic changes in how future United Nations climate reports are done. (AP Photo/Donald Stampfli)AP - A steady drip of unsettling errors is exposing what scientists are calling "the weaker link" in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning series of international reports on global warming.
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