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Missing 11-year-old girl found in Fla. swamp (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:18 PM PDT

Nadia Bloom, 11, missing since Friday afternoon, is carried by rescuers after being found on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 in the woods surrounding her Winter Springs, Fla., home. Nadia was covered in bug bites, her feet are waterlogged and she is dehydrated, officials said, but she is doing well. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Red Huber)AP - A missing 11-year-old central Florida girl with an autism-related disorder was found alive Tuesday by a member of her family's church four days after she disappeared into an alligator-infested swamp a half-mile from her home.

Petition drive urges Russia not to halt adoptions (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:22 PM PDT

Chart shows declining adoptions from Russia to the U.S. over timeAP - Worried over a threatened freeze of adoptions from Russia, thousands of American adoption advocates are petitioning leaders of the two nations to prevent such a step even as they decry a Tennessee woman returning her adopted son to Russia.

US Catholic church moving faster on abuse cases (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:25 PM PDT

FILE - In this January 5, 2007 file photo, Archbishop Charles Chaput is speaks during an interview at the church's headquarters in Denver. Chaput acted swiftly suspending Rev. Melvin Thompson from Saint Thomas More Parish after decades-old child sex abuse allegations were presented against the priest. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, FILE)AP - The action against the priest was swift and public.

US prosecutor asks pope's help to return priest (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:34 PM PDT

AP - A Minnesota prosecutor directly appealed to Pope Benedict XVI for help Tuesday as she tries to get an Indian priest back to the United States to face sexual assault charges.

Opening statements begin in Hawaii spy trial (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:34 PM PDT

AP - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday accused a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer of betraying the U.S. by selling military secrets to China, but his defense countered that the information he passed on was "obvious" and "well-known."

Oregon man awarded $1.4M in Boy Scouts sex case (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:27 PM PDT

Plaintiff Kerry Lewis reacts after the verdict against the Boy Scouts of America was announced in Portland, Ore. on Tuesday, April 13, 2010. A jury found the organization negligent for repeated sexual abuse by assistant Scoutmaster Timur Dykes in the 1980s. Secret 'perversion files' kept by the Irving, Texas-based group were used as evidence. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - A jury delivered an embarrassing rebuke to the Boy Scouts of America on Tuesday when it found that the organization failed to protect a man who was molested by an assistant Scoutmaster in the early 1980s.

Calif. to investigate group behind Palin speech (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 06:34 PM PDT

State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, right, discusses the the documents related to a speaking contract for former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, found in the trash bins at California State University, Stanislaus, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, April 13, 2010. CSU, Stanislaus students Alicia Lewis, left and Ashli Briggs, right, say they were tipped off on April 9, about the the administration officials attempt to get rid of documents concerning Palin's speaking appearance with the CSU Stanislaus Foundation in June. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Tuesday his office had launched an investigation into the finances of a state university foundation and the alleged dumping of documents related to Sarah Palin's upcoming speech at the school.

Boston tea rally has glaring absence: Scott Brown (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2010 file photo, Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown removes his glasses after reading a transcript from earlier comments he made about the Tea Party Movement at the Omni Parker House in Boston, during a news conference to accept the support of a group of veterans ahead of the special election to be held to fill the senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy. When the Tea Party Express pulls into the city where the conservative movement got its name, the crowd will be as notable for who is not there as who is. Sarah Palin is the keynote speaker on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, but Brown, whose January election the movement claims as its proudest accomplishment, is skipping the event. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)AP - When the Tea Party Express pulls into the city where the conservative movement got its name, the crowd will be as notable for who is not there as who is.

Women wary of 'socially inept' Pa. judge's defense (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT

AP - Judge Gerard Alonge isn't that different from other guys who can't get a date. The trouble, prosecutors say, is that the objects of his affection are the women in his courtroom, and he isn't getting the message that his crushes aren't interested.

Neb. governor signs landmark abortion bills (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:20 PM PDT

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman signs into law in Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday, April 13, 2010, two landmark abortion bills that both sides of the abortion debate say are firsts in the country. One bars abortions at and after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on assertions that fetuses feel pain at that time, and the other bill signed by Heineman will require doctors or other health professionals to assess whether women have risk factors that could lead to mental or physical problems after an abortion. At left is Neb. Speaker Mike Flood of Norfolk.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Two landmark measures putting new restrictions on abortion became law in Nebraska on Tuesday, including one that critics say breaks with court precedent by changing the legal rationale for a ban on later-term abortions.

1913 Abraham Lincoln film found in NH barn cleanup (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:42 PM PDT

In this handout photo courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director and film star Francis Ford is seen in the roll of Abraham Lincoln in a 1913 film that had been lost for 97 years. (AP Photo)AP - In a tale celebrating the romance of movies, a contractor cleaning out an old New Hampshire barn destined for demolition found seven reels of nitrate film inside, including the only known copy of a 1913 silent film about Abraham Lincoln.

NASA begins science flights with robotic jet (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:19 PM PDT

A NASA Global Hawk robotic jet sits in a hangar at Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on April 13, 2010. The Air Force turned over to NASA three Global Hawks, which were designed for military reconnaissance but equipped with science sensors for conducting atmospheric research over the Pacific. The space agency will use them for unmanned, long-duration, autonomous research flights.(AP Photo/John Antczak)AP - One of NASA's newest research jets soared high over the Pacific Ocean Tuesday on a 24-hour mission to study Earth's atmosphere.

Ex-mine official to lead probe of W.Va. blast (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:14 PM PDT

Letters, drawings and well-wishes by school children appear hanging on a fence at a make shift memorial in Whitesville, W.Va., on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 for twenty-nine miners who died in the explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W. Va. a week ago Monday. Workers were able to remove the bodies of the last 9 miners from the mine earlier this morning. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - Gov. Joe Manchin on Tuesday asked a former top federal mine safety official to independently investigate an explosion that killed 29 West Virginia miners, and also called for more scrutiny of mines with a history of safety violations.

Investigators search river for missing Fla. girl (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:36 PM PDT

FILE - This file photo released by the Putnam County Sheriff's Office shows Haleigh Cummings, 5, of Satsuma, Fla. Investigators searched a river Tuesday, April 13, 2010, for Cummings, who disappeared from her father's mobile home more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Putnam County Sheriff's Office, HO, File)AP - Investigators searched a murky river Tuesday for a 5-year-old girl who disappeared from her father's Florida mobile home more than a year ago.

Obama revives capsule from canceled moon program (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:23 PM PDT

Apollo 11 hero Neil Armstrong, pictured in March 2010, Tuesday lashed out at President Barack Obama's decision to axe NASA plans to return to the Moon, describing the move as AP - President Barack Obama is reviving the NASA crew capsule concept that he had canceled with the rest of the moon program earlier this year, in a move that will mean more jobs and less reliance on the Russians, officials said Tuesday.

Sue yourself? Conn. official does to get on ballot (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 11:38 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2010, file photo, Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz announces that she will seek the Democratic nomination for State Attorney General at a news conference in Middletown, Conn. At rear is her daughter Ava Donaldson. As Connecticut's secretary of the state, Susan Bysiewicz has spent 11 years explaining and defending election laws to candidates. But now, as a Democratic candidate for state attorney general, Bysiewicz finds herself in strange territory: as plaintiff in a lawsuit against her own office, challenging the constitutionality of a law she is sworn to uphold. (AP Photo/Bob Child, Pool, File)AP - As Connecticut's secretary of the state, Susan Bysiewicz has spent 11 years explaining and defending election laws to candidates.

News sites funded by think tanks take root (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 29, 2010 file photo, Wayne Hoffman, center, the executive director of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, talks with acquaintances in the Idaho Capitol in Boise, Idaho. A growing number of conservative groups are bankrolling startup news organizations around the country, aggressively covering government and politics at a time when newspapers are cutting back their statehouse bureaus. (AP Photo/John Miller, File)AP - A growing number of conservative groups are bankrolling startup news organizations around the country, aggressively covering government and politics at a time when newspapers are cutting back their statehouse bureaus.

Inquest begins in Mass. shooting by Ala. professor (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:29 PM PDT

FILE - A Feb. 13, 2010 file police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. A closed-door inquest began Tuesday, April 13, 2010, in Massachusetts in the 1986 death of Bishop's brother. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Department, File)AP - Ten witnesses were questioned Tuesday during a closed-door inquest into the 1986 shooting death of the brother of Amy Bishop, who is accused — 24 years later — of fatally shooting three colleagues at an Alabama university.

Teen's NY hate crime stabbing case heading to jury (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:01 PM PDT

AP - An Ecuadorean immigrant broke the rules when he decided to fight back against a gang of mostly white teenagers and ended up paying with his life, a prosecutor said Tuesday in closing arguments in the murder trial of one of the teens.
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