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Polish immigrants worldwide mourn crash victims (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 07:35 PM PDT

A mourner carries a tribute to the Polish President Lech Kaczynski upon arriving at a ceremony at the Katyn memorial in Toronto on Sunday, April 11, 2010. The ceremony, initially organized to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, was dominated by remembrance for the Polish President Lech Kaczynski who died alongside 95 other passengers after their plane crashed in Smolensk, Russia on Saturday. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)AP - Polish immigrants and their descendants around the world shared the anguish of their mother country on Sunday, mourning the 96 victims of a devastating plane crash as they crowded into Polish-language Masses.

More than 20,000 watch as Texas Stadium dynamited (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 05:42 PM PDT

Texas Stadium is imploded Sunday, April 11, 2010 in Irving, Texas. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)AP - More than 20,000 people gathered at tailgate parties and other spots Sunday to watch fireworks go off one last time over Texas Stadium before a ton of dynamite lit up the Dallas Cowboys' longtime home and brought it to the ground.

Incinerator project burns up Pa. capital's cash (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 02:03 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, March 31, 2010 photo, the city of Harrisburg, Pa., is seen along the banks of the Susquehanna River. As a result of years of piling debt onto its aging, money-losing trash incinerator, the cash-strapped city of Harrisburg is facing debt payments this year that are larger than the city's entire operating budget. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - This capital city was near total collapse three decades ago — its department stores, theaters and trolleys were gone, replaced by vacant buildings and streets devoid of any nightlife.

Lacking state funding, Census response rates lag (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 01:41 PM PDT

AP - State and local governments hammered by the recession have cut spending on outreach for the 2010 U.S. Census, leaving hard-to-reach neighborhoods with response rates that may fall behind the count a decade ago, officials said.

Divisions arise over push for adoptions from Haiti (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:02 PM PDT

In this April 8, 2010 photo, two children are seen in the Foyer des Enfants orphanage in Port-au-Prince. Logistical challenges and potentially bitter disputes lie ahead as passionate advocates of adoption press for changes that might enable many thousands of earthquake-affected Haitian children to be placed in U.S. homes. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Logistical challenges and potentially bitter disputes lie ahead as passionate advocates of adoption press for changes that might enable thousands of Haitian children affected by the earthquake to be placed in U.S. homes.

No body? No problem convicting, 90 percent of time (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 10:43 AM PDT

AP - Police in New Jersey believe they have solved one of the coldest cases in the state's history: the disappearance of five Newark teenagers in 1978.

NY senator fights airline carry-on bag fee (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 10:28 AM PDT

AP - U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday he's trying to get the federal government to prohibit airlines from charging a fee for carry-on baggage, calling it a "slap in the face to travelers."

Astronauts take 2nd spacewalk, overcome stiff bolt (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 08:58 AM PDT

In this image provided by NASA-TV astronauts Rick Mastracchio, left, and Clay Anderson work on the International Space Station early Sunday morning April 11, 2010. Mastracchio and Anderson earlier had trouble bolting down the new ammonia tank assebly on the sprawling framework that serves as the backbone of the space station. The 215-mile-high action unfolded on the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 13. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Spacewalking astronauts had to pull out a hammer and pry bar while attaching a big, new tank full of ammonia coolant to the International Space Station on Sunday, successfully driving in a stiff bolt after two frustrating hours.

In coalfields, days of prayer end in sorrow (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 02:01 PM PDT

Julie Jones, left, and Cassie Jones, comfort each other during a vigil in Mullens, W.Va., Saturday, April 10, 2010, to commemorate the 29 miners who were killed in an explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine. They are family members of coal miner Dean Jones who was killed in the explosion. Dean Jones grew up in Mullens, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Gary Jarrell was shooting the breeze with customers at his general store when an ambulance went hurtling north down Coal River Road.

Calif. gray whale-watchers fear dip in population (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 07:01 PM PDT

This undated image provided by the Western Alliance for Nature shows a gray whale surfacing in San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja, Mexico. Long held as an environmental success story after being taken off the endangered list in 1994, California gray whales draw legions of fans into boats or atop cliffs to watch the leviathans lumber down the coast to spawning grounds in Baja. (AP Photo/Western Alliance for Nature, Larry Wan) ** NO SALES **AP - Gazing past the rolling whitecaps in the middle of San Diego's whale-watching season, boat captain Bill Reese was dismayed by what he wasn't seeing.

'Designing Women' star Dixie Carter dies of cancer (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 06:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008 file photo, Dixie Carter arrives with husband Hal Holbrook for the 80th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. 'Designing Women' actress Dixie Carter, who used her charm and stately beauty in a host of roles on Broadway and television, has died. She was 70. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)AP - Dixie Carter, who was already a Broadway and television veteran when she found perhaps her perfect part as the wiser and wittier half of a pair of Southern sisters who ran an Atlanta interior decorating firm in "Designing Women," has died, her publicist said Sunday.

7 shot, wounded near New Orleans' French Quarter (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 02:20 AM PDT

AP - Police say a weeks-old dispute boiled over in a shooting on the outskirts of New Orleans' French Quarter, leaving seven with non-lifethreatening wounds.
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