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• Small plane crashes at mid-NJ airport, killing 5 (AP)
• Rescuers suspend search effort on Mount St. Helens (AP)
• Calif. sheriff: Woman tied up, assaulted for days (AP)
• Husband: Ala. prof went to range before shooting (AP)
• Astronauts move old space station docking port (AP)
• Police: Victims aid police in Calif. church attack (AP)
• Family mourns as 7 die in suburban Chicago blaze (AP)
• NH hotel evacuated as basement gas leak sickens 11 (AP)
• Democrat Evan Bayh of Ind. to retire from Senate (AP)
• NJ Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 86, doing OK after fall (AP)
• South gets 2nd dose of snow in days (AP)
• Florida family gives up on small-town North Dakota (AP)
• Ex-Clinton prosecutor Starr named Baylor president (AP)
• NY man recants story about killing, burning wife (AP)
• Nurseries struggle with lagging economy (AP)
• Unemployed Ohio man chills out in extreme igloo (AP)

Small plane crashes at mid-NJ airport, killing 5 (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 07:45 PM PST AP - A small plane trying to land broke apart and tore through a snowy field next to a runway Monday afternoon, killing all five people aboard, including a teenager and a child, and scattering debris over 200 feet.

Rescuers suspend search effort on Mount St. Helens (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 09:57 PM PST AP - The rescue effort for a climber who fell into the crater at Mount St. Helens when a snow cornice collapsed was suspended Monday evening when high winds made footing unstable for search personnel, a sheriff's spokesman said.

Calif. sheriff: Woman tied up, assaulted for days (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 03:59 PM PST AP - Sheriff's deputies rescued a woman who had been kidnapped, then beaten and raped for three days in a mobile home, authorities said.

Husband: Ala. prof went to range before shooting (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 07:34 PM PST AP - The husband of an Alabama professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues said Monday that the couple went to a shooting range recently, but that he didn't know where she got the gun she used for practice.

Astronauts move old space station docking port (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 07:27 PM PST AP - Astronauts did some rearranging at the International Space Station for the second night in a row Monday, moving an old docking adapter into a new position.

Police: Victims aid police in Calif. church attack (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 11:03 PM PST AP - Two teenage brothers wounded during a brazen shooting inside a Northern California church were cooperating Monday with police in the search for a hooded gunman and two other suspects.

Family mourns as 7 die in suburban Chicago blaze (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 05:38 PM PST AP - A grandfather who had been planning to spend his weekend with his family celebrating his birthday and the arrival of a new grandson instead mourned the loss of three children, two grandchildren and two friends in a suburban Chicago fire.

NH hotel evacuated as basement gas leak sickens 11 (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 08:59 PM PST AP - A faulty vent in a hotel's basement boiler room leaked enough toxic gas on Monday to sicken 11 people, including nine guests hanging out near the pool, leading to an evacuation.

Democrat Evan Bayh of Ind. to retire from Senate (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 01:23 PM PST AP - Sen. Evan Bayh, a centrist Democrat from Indiana, announced Monday that he won't seek a third term in Congress, giving Republicans a chance to pick up a Senate seat.

NJ Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 86, doing OK after fall (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 08:44 PM PST AP - Long-serving U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg fell at his home Monday night and was taken by ambulance to a hospital as a precaution, an aide said.

South gets 2nd dose of snow in days (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:04 AM PST AP - Snow and ice pelted parts of the South on Monday for the second time in a matter of days, glazing Tennessee highways and reaching into northern Alabama.

Florida family gives up on small-town North Dakota (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 02:22 PM PST AP - A tiny North Dakota town's promise of cash and free land lured only one family from out of state. Now, Michael and Jeanette Tristani and their 12-year-old twins are trying to move from the town without a traffic light back to Miami.

Ex-Clinton prosecutor Starr named Baylor president (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 02:18 PM PST AP - Baylor University named former Clinton White House nemesis Kenneth Starr its new president on Monday, saying the one-time independent prosecutor's Christian ideals and experience heading a law school made him the ideal candidate to lead the world's largest Baptist university.

NY man recants story about killing, burning wife (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST AP - Werner Lippe knows a lot about fire.

Nurseries struggle with lagging economy (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:08 AM PST AP - Like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, David Niklas feels the quickening of spring as the season ramps up at his wholesale nursery in a farming community south of Portland. Niklas and his workers busily package plants for shipment.

Unemployed Ohio man chills out in extreme igloo (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:22 AM PST AP - It's quite the man cave.

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