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Medical examiner says Yale student was suffocated (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 10:30 PM PDT

This undated photo released by New Haven Police Dept., shows Yale graduate student Annie Le who disappeared on Sept. 8, 2009. The Connecticut medical examiner says the student found dead in her lab building was killed by asphyxiation caused by neck trauma. Dr. Wayne Carver's office released the results Wednesday Sept. 16, 2009, three days after her body was found. (AP Photo/New Haven Police Dept.)AP - A Yale graduate student found stuffed in the wall of a research center had been suffocated, the medical examiner reported Wednesday as police awaited DNA tests on evidence taken from a lab technician who worked in the building.

FBI searches home of Colorado man in terror probe (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 10:11 PM PDT

Federal agents get ready to search the apartment of Najibullah Zazi in Aurora, Colo., on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Zazi has denied he's a central figure in a terrorism investigation that fed fears of a possible bomb plot and led to several police raids in New York City on Monday. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Federal agents on Wednesday searched the home of a suburban Denver man identified by law enforcement as having a possible link to al-Qaida, carting away several boxes of evidence.

Hofstra University student recants rape story (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 09:20 PM PDT

AP - Four New York men were released from jail Wednesday and authorities dismissed charges that they gang-raped a Hofstra University student after the 18-year-old woman recanted her story.

DC sniper mastermind's execution set for November (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 02:57 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, March 9, 2004 file photo, convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, center, addresses the court along with his attorney's Peter Greenspun, left, and Jonathan Shapiro prior to being sentenced to death for the shooting of Dean Meyers at the Prince William County Circuit Court in Manassas, Va. A Virginia judge on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, set a Nov. 10 execution date for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)AP - A Virginia judge on Wednesday set a Nov. 10 execution date for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead.

Study: 8 million Americans consider suicide (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 09:11 PM PDT

AP - More than 8 million Americans seriously consider suicide each year, according to a new government study.

Va. synagogue doubles as mosque during Ramadan (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 09:05 PM PDT

AP - On Friday afternoons, the people coming to pray at this building take off their shoes, unfurl rugs to kneel on and pray in Arabic. The ones that come Friday evenings put on yarmulkes, light candles and pray in Hebrew.

Defendant in Wash. sound engineer slaying flees (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 10:34 PM PDT

AP - A man accused of fatally shooting a prominent Seattle-area sound engineer through his motel room door because he mistakenly thought someone was trying to break in has fled, leaving his family a letter saying he would rather die than lose his freedom, court documents said.

CIA boss asks US Muslims to aid anti-terror effort (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 07:49 PM PDT

CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009 during the iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - The director of the CIA beseeched Arab-American and Muslim leaders Wednesday to join efforts to reduce the threat of terrorism in the U.S.

Police: Mom stabs 2 young daughters at Calif. home (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 07:32 PM PDT

AP - A woman who allegedly stabbed herself and her two young daughters with a knife called 911 to get help and report the crime Wednesday morning, according to an audio recording of the call.

College students protest coal use on campuses (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 05:27 PM PDT

Sky Robinson a Sophmore at the University of Missiouri speaks out against coal burning power plants as other students protest behind her Wednesday September 16, 2009, in Columbia, Missouri. The protest was part of a national Sierra Club campaign to reduce reliance on coal for energy starting with campus power plants such as the one at MU. (AP Photo/Columbia Daily Tribune, Gerik Parmele)AP - College students from Missouri to Oregon are urging their schools to stop using coal-based electricity in favor of cleaner energy sources ranging from wood chips to geothermal power.

Feds pulled SC gov's security status for a week (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 04:25 PM PDT

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford addresses the media at a news conference at the State House in Columbia, South Carolina September 10, 2009. 61 South Carolina House Republicans recently asked Sanford to resign after earlier reports this year surfaced about his affair with a mistress in Argentina, and investigations of his government and private, travel. REUTERS/Joshua Drake (UNITED STATES POLITICS)AP - The Department of Homeland Security suspended South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's security clearance following his emotional confession to an affair with an Argentine woman due to concerns about his trustworthiness, according to documents a newspaper obtained through an open records request.

Audit: Wisc. database missing DNA of 12K felons (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 04:14 PM PDT

Milwaukee County Sheriff deputies lead into court suspected serial killer Walter Ellis for his initial court appearance, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, in Milwaukee. Ellis was ordered held on $1 million bail in connection with the murders of two Milwaukee women. Police have said Ellis' DNA matches that found on nine women ages 16 to 41 who were killed in the area from 1986 to 2007. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)AP - Mandatory DNA profiles of at least 12,000 Wisconsin felons are missing from a statewide database, according to an audit released Wednesday. The audit was conducted after officials discovered no DNA was on file for a convicted felon now suspected in a string of Milwaukee killings.

Feds probe attack on Ga. reservist as hate crime (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 02:44 PM PDT

This police photo released on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 by the Morrow, Ga., police department shows 47-year-old Troy D. West of Poulan, Ga. Federal authorities are investigating the beating of a black female Army reservist outside a Georgia restaurant as a possible hate crime. Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman Stephen Emmett said Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division has initiated a probe into the Sept. 9 incident at a Cracker Barrel in Morrow. Police say West became enraged after Tashawnea Hill told him to 'be careful' when he nearly hit her 7-year-old daughter while opening the restaurant's door. Police say West punched and kicked the 35-year-old Army reservist while screaming racial slurs. (AP Photo/Morrow Police Department)AP - A black female Army reservist said Wednesday she hasn't been able to sleep since she was beaten by a white man in front of her 7-year-old daughter last week, and federal authorities said they were investigating the incident as a hate crime.

Must-know figures could change for Texas students (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 02:23 PM PDT

FILE- In this March 26, 2009 file photo former State Board of Education chairman Don McLeroy, left, talks with his replacement, Gail Lowe, right, during a meeting of the board in Austin, Texas. McLeroy, from College Station, is an ardent conservative whose appointment to a second term as chairman was rejected earlier this year by the state Senate. Critics complained that McLeroy had sown discord on the board, mostly with his outspoken views on creationism and support of teaching students weaknesses of evolutionary theory. Lowe, from Lampasas, was appointed to the spot last month by Gov. Perry. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File)AP - Does civil rights activist Cesar Chavez belong alongside Benjamin Franklin as an example of a model American citizen? Should Texas schoolchildren be required to identify Rush Limbaugh? How big a place does the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall — most famous for his victory in integrating the nation's schools — deserve in the history books?

Calif. case casts harsh spotlight on sex offenders (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 01:30 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 4, 2009, Kenneth Barillas is interviewed under a sign attached to his home, near the residence of sex offender Donald Robinson, in East Palo Alto, Calif. On Aug. 27, after being locked away for 25 years for sex crimes, Donald Robinson, now 57 years old, moved to a little block of unassuming homes in East Palo Alto. The timing was particularly bad. The day before, Philip Garrido's arrest for allegedly kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard and keeping her for 18 years made headlines around the world. The spotlight was on sex offenders. And Robinson, who had spent 12 years after his 1997 release from prison in a state mental hospital for recidivist sex offenders, remained under state-sponsored treatment as an outpatient. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - After being locked away for 25 years for sex crimes, Donald Robinson moved to a little block of unassuming homes in this city on the San Francisco Peninsula on Aug. 27.

Ohio police: Woman spanked stranger's toddler son (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 01:28 PM PDT

AP - A woman took a stranger's toddler son over her knee and spanked him three times inside a Salvation Army store after he said something that annoyed her, police said Wednesday.

NY prosecutor: Astor's son is 'depraved' (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 03:31 PM PDT

AP - Anthony Marshall plundered his mother Brooke Astor's estate because he was greedy and couldn't wait for her to die, a prosecutor charged Wednesday.

Slain Mich. activist remembered as unwavering (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 03:09 PM PDT

Bud Churchill wears red tape over his mouth to remember anti-abortion protester James Pouillon, 63, who was killed in a drive-by shooting last week during a memorial Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009 in Owosso, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - An anti-abortion activist gunned down in a drive-by shooting was praised Wednesday as an unwavering worker for his cause, even if some people didn't agree with his approach of holding a sign depicting a dead fetus.

Ohio inmate spends long day near death chamber (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 03:21 PM PDT

AP - Some events leading to Gov. Ted Strickland's decision to stop the Tuesday execution of Romell Broom because of difficulties finding a usable vein:
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