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Chief: Ala. prof held in 3 killings shot Mass. kin (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 09:02 PM PST

Amy Bishop is taken into custody by Huntsville, Ala. police Friday, Feb 12, 2010 in connection with fatal shootings on the University of Alabama in Huntsville campus in the Shelby Center in Huntsville, Ala. (AP Photo/Huntsville Times, Dave Dieter) MAGS OUT, NO SALESAP - An Alabama university professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues at a faculty meeting this week shot her younger brother dead at their home in the Boston suburbs more than 20 years ago, but records of it are missing, police said Saturday.

Accused Alabama prof shot, killed brother in 1986 (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 10:51 PM PST

This police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Dept.)AP - The professor accused of killing three colleagues during a faculty meeting is a Harvard-educated neurobiologist, inventor and mother whose life had been marred by a violent episode in her distant past.

Walls of water overwhelm N. Calif. surfing contest (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 10:57 PM PST

Darryl 'Flea: Virostko loses on a giant wave during the first heat of the Mavericks surf contest on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, in Half Moon Bay, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - Despite big wave warnings, two walls of water caught dozens of spectators off-guard and knocked them to a rocky beach as they watched a Northern California surfing contest Saturday, leaving some with broken bones but sparing them from being pulled into the ocean.

Spacewalking astronauts turn plumbers, hook hoses (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 11:00 PM PST

In this image provided by NASA the Tranquility module is transferred late Thursday evening Feb. 11, 2010 from its stowage position in space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay in the grasp of the station's Canadarm2 to position it on the port side of the Unity node of the International Space Station. Tranquility was locked in place with 16 remotely-controlled bolts. Earth's horizon and the blackness of space provide the backdrop for the scene. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A pair of spacewalking astronauts hooked up plumbing on the newest room of the International Space Station, enabling it to come alive with power Sunday.

Embracing history: Man sets hugs record in Vegas (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 06:43 PM PST

AP - A 51-year-old Ohio man has embraced the Valentine's Day spirit faster than anyone before, giving 7,777 hugs in 24 hours for a new world record.

Man escapes burning home; girlfriend, 2 kids die (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 12:34 PM PST

AP - A man trying to find a way out his burning home got trapped in its bathroom Saturday and could only listen in horror to the screams of two of his children, who died in the fire along with his girlfriend, friends and authorities said. The man escaped by breaking a window and jumping out.

Lawyer misconduct rises with foreclosure record (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 12:56 PM PST

In this Feb. 8, 2010 photo, Yvonne Jacobs, left, and Warren Jacobs sit in their living room in their Mesquite, Texas, home. The Jacobs' unwittingly became one of the many thousands of homeowners authorities allege have been taken in by unscrupulous or incompetent loan modification attorneys who rushed into a burgeoning legal niche: helping financially struggling homeowners re-negotiate their mortgages. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)AP - Warren Jacobs was desperate when he received a "robo-call" promising to help him stave off foreclosure of his home near Dallas.

Power outages, ice slow cleanup from Southern snow (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 12:38 PM PST

Snow is piled up on Pennsylvania Ave. near the US Capitol on February 11, 2010 in Washington, DC. With his drive for sweeping change in the deep freeze, President Barack Obama seems unable to bend Congress to his will or coax lawmakers of either party away from rigid ideological positions.(AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson)AP - The Big Chill turned into the Big Dig on Saturday for many Southerners — the Americans who least expect to open their doors to see up to a foot of snow.

Police: Wife of slain Olympian arrested in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 06:48 PM PST

AP - The wife of an Olympic shot put medalist gunned down in his Southern California back yard last summer was arrested Saturday in the homicide case, authorities said.

Windy Wyoming debates excise tax for wind energy (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 10:48 AM PST

AP - A proposal in Wyoming to impose the nation's first state excise tax on wind energy production is generating debate over how the state should handle the arrival of massive wind farms to its wind-swept plains and plateaus.

String of snow days deprives many students of food (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 12:32 PM PST

In this Friday Jan. 12, 2010 photo, Mercedes Rodas, left, chooses cans of food that were being provided to people whose children are usually in the school lunch program at Rolling Terrace Elementary School in Takoma Park, Md., in the aftermath of back-to-back blizzards. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - As back-to-back snowstorms shuttered schools for the week across the mid-Atlantic states, parents fretted about lost learning time, administrators scheduled makeup days and teachers posted assignments online. But Marla Caplon worried about a more fundamental problem: How would students eat?

Pa. police mum on motive in disabled woman's death (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 04:41 AM PST

In this undated photo provided by the Westmoreland County Prision, Robert Loren Masters Jr., is shown. Masters and five others were charged Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 with criminal homicide, kidnapping and related charges in the death of 30-year-old Jennifer Daugherty, whose body was found Thursday at Greensburg Salem Middle School, about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/ Westmoreland County Prision)AP - Jennifer Daugherty's mom and stepdad didn't press for details when she mentioned she had made some new friends. The 30-year-old had the mental abilities of an adolescent but wasn't the kind to get in trouble, and she was even thinking about getting her own place soon.
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