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• Prof. charged in 3 fatal shootings on Ala. campus (AP)
• Pa. family: 'Friends' torture, kill disabled woman (AP)
• Officials release Phillip Garrido parole file (AP)
• Suspect in ax slaying tells police he blacked out (AP)
• Bus tunnel victim says she sought help from police (AP)
• Astronauts enter space station's newest room (AP)
• Tropical Cyclone Rene hits American Samoa (AP)
• 49 states dusted with snow; Hawaii's the holdout (AP)
• Obama administration weighs military 9/11 trial (AP)
• Official: 4 sea lions, 1 seal shot near Seattle (AP)
• Individual insurance rates soar in 4 states (AP)
• Will Bill Clinton slow down after heart procedure? (AP)
• Witnesses detail IA coach slaying as trial begins (AP)
• Shouldn't it be sunny here? South gets snowed in (AP)
• Lawyers for 9/11 responders defend firm's conduct (AP)
• Kan. jury convicts man in porn model's death (AP)
• Former US Treasurer Francine Neff dies at 84 (AP)
• Buffalo plane crash anniversary observed with walk (AP)

Prof. charged in 3 fatal shootings on Ala. campus (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 09:59 PM PST AP - A biology professor at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus was charged with murder late Friday in the shooting deaths of three fellow biology professors at the campus.

Pa. family: 'Friends' torture, kill disabled woman (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 10:08 PM PST 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.

Officials release Phillip Garrido parole file (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 10:18 PM PST AP - Phillip Garrido complained in 2008 about having to wear a monitoring device because he had not been in trouble with the law for 19 years — nearly as long as he allegedly held Jaycee Dugard captive in his backyard, newly released parole records show.

Suspect in ax slaying tells police he blacked out (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:03 PM PST AP - A man wielding a medieval-style battle ax wounded his sister-in-law before going on a deadly, random rampage with the weapon outside his Las Vegas home, killing a 4-month-old baby and critically injuring the child's mother, police said Friday.

Bus tunnel victim says she sought help from police (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 09:59 PM PST AP - A teenage girl beaten in a Seattle bus tunnel as three security guards who were following company orders looked on said Friday that she sought help from the guards and police but was rebuffed.

Astronauts enter space station's newest room (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 09:12 PM PST AP - Astronauts swung open the door to the International Space Station's newest room Friday night, using flashlights to illuminate the shadowy chamber and wearing goggles and masks to keep themselves safe from any floating debris.

Tropical Cyclone Rene hits American Samoa (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 09:32 PM PST AP - A storm packing hurricane-force winds slammed into American Samoa Friday even as residents recovered from last year's deadly tsunami.

49 states dusted with snow; Hawaii's the holdout (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 06:59 PM PST AP - Forget red and blue — color America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout. It was the United States of Snow, thanks to an unusual combination of weather patterns that dusted the U.S., including the skyscrapers of Dallas, the peach trees of Atlanta and the Florida Panhandle, where hurricanes are more common than snowflakes.

Obama administration weighs military 9/11 trial (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 10:10 PM PST AP - The Obama administration, after weeks of controversy over its proposal to hold a civilian terror trial in New York, gave ground Friday and revived the possibility of using a military tribunal to try professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Official: 4 sea lions, 1 seal shot near Seattle (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 07:00 PM PST AP - A harbor seal and at least four sea lions, including one listed as endangered, were shot to death near Seattle, authorities said Friday. One was a Steller sea lion protected by the federal Endangered Species Act. The others were smaller, more common California sea lions listed under the Marine Mammals Protection Act.

Individual insurance rates soar in 4 states (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:39 PM PST AP - Consumers in at least four states who buy their own health insurance are getting hit with premium increases of 15 percent or more — and people in other states could see the same thing.

Will Bill Clinton slow down after heart procedure? (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 06:01 PM PST AP - Right until he was wheeled into an operating room for a heart procedure, Bill Clinton was on the phone, talking about Haiti earthquake relief. An aide finally took the phone away from him.

Witnesses detail IA coach slaying as trial begins (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:29 PM PST AP - Brandon Simkins stood in the weight room of the Aplington-Parkersburg high school, a loaded .22-caliber revolver pointed at his head, and closed his eyes.

Shouldn't it be sunny here? South gets snowed in (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 06:19 PM PST AP - Snowstruck Southerners tossed snowballs not far from the Gulf of Mexico as winter took its biggest whack at the region in decades Friday, coating areas from Texas to the Carolinas and grounding many flights at the world's busiest airport.

Lawyers for 9/11 responders defend firm's conduct (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 11:28 AM PST AP - The lead lawyer for thousands of Sept. 11 rescue and recovery workers has acknowledged that in preparing some claims, his firm made mistakes — including assertions that people had cancer when they didn't.

Kan. jury convicts man in porn model's death (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 02:59 PM PST AP - A jury convicted a man of capital murder and rape Friday in the killing of a Kansas college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn model.

Former US Treasurer Francine Neff dies at 84 (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 03:54 PM PST AP - Francine Neff, who served as U.S. treasurer in the 1970s and was deeply involved in Republican politics for decades, has died at age 84.

Buffalo plane crash anniversary observed with walk (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 02:21 PM PST AP - Patrick Pettys stepped onto the undisturbed snow covering the site where Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashed last Feb. 12, dropped flat onto his back and moved his arms and legs to form a snow angel, looking satisfied as he got up and, with help from his brother Joe, brushed the snow from his coat and neck.

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