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Letterman affairs at center of extortion arrest (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 10:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2005 file photo Late night talk show host David Letterman makes a surprise appearance at the Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)AP - Late-night host David Letterman acknowledged on Thursday's show that he had sexual relationships with female employees and that someone tried to extort $2 million from him over the affairs. CBS says an employee has been charged with attempted grand larceny in the case.

Okla. boy's sister says she feared reporting abuse (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 06:21 PM PDT

In this undated police mug photo provided by the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office, Larhonda Marie McCall, 37, is shown in Oklahoma City. McCall and Steve Vern Hamilton, 38, were arrested Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009 on complaints of child abuse and child neglect after a 14-year-old boy told police he escaped from McCall's home, where he said he'd been kept for years, mostly locked inside a bedroom closet. (AP Photo/Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office)AP - The sister of an Oklahoma boy who says his mother locked him in apartment closets over four years said Thursday she would bring her brother food, but would tell him not to chew because their mother would check his teeth to see whether he had eaten.

Elizabeth Smart says she was raped daily (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 06:20 PM PDT

Elizabeth Smart, right, walks out of the federal courthouse with her mother Lois Smart after testifying at a competency hearing for her alleged kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, Oct. 1 2009, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Colin Braley)AP - Taking the stand for the first time since she was snatched from her girlhood bedroom seven years ago, Elizabeth Smart testified Thursday that her captor raped her three or four times a day, kept her tied up with a cable around her leg, and threatened to kill her if she tried to escape.

Cops analyze evidence from Tenn. newborn abduction (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 06:21 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Nashville Police Department shows Yair Anthony Carillo of Nashville, Tenn. The baby's mother, Maria Gurrolla, said her newborn son was taken from her home Tuesday by a woman who stabbed Gurrolla multiple times when Gurrolla answered the door. Gurrolla said the woman claimed to be an immigration agent. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - Nashville investigators are collecting evidence at the home of a newborn snatched after his mother says she was attacked by a woman posing as an immigration agent.

AP Exclusive: Autopsy shocker: Jackson was healthy (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 10:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 17, 2005 file photo, pop star Michael Jackson arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse in Santa Maria, Calif. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, file)AP - Michael Jackson's outward appearance was marred when he died with puncture marks to his arms, surgical scars around his body and cosmetic tattoos on his lips and scalp.

Experts: Terror suspect could have killed scores (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 10:45 PM PDT

In this photo released by the New York City Police Department, Najibullah Zazi, center, is escorted off an NYPD helicopter by U.S Marshals after being extradited from Denver, Colo., Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. Zazi was sent to New York to face charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in a plot law enforcement has said was focused on blowing up commuter trains. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)AP - The Afghan immigrant accused of buying large quantities of hair dye and nail polish remover to make explosives had the goods to kill scores of people in New York — a devastating attack on a scale with the transit bombings in London and Madrid, according to documents and interviews with former FBI experts.

Get everyone in US online, high-level panel says (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 10:26 PM PDT

In this Sept. 4, 2009 photo, Jeff Buzhaker looks at HP and Compaq laptop computers at P.C. Richard & Son appliance store in New York. Americans' worries about job security flared up in September, causing a widely watched barometer of consumer confidence to dip unexpectedly and raising more concern about the upcoming holiday shopping season. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - The nation needs to give the same urgency to making sure all Americans have broadband access as the Eisenhower administration did in building an interstate highway system a half-century ago, a report released Friday concluded.

Texas judge clears way for gay divorce (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 08:43 PM PDT

AP - A Texas judge cleared the way for two Dallas men to get a divorce, ruling Thursday that Texas' ban on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional guarantee to equal protection under the law.

Officials discuss motives in slaying of 3 in Ariz. (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 07:23 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Apache County Sheriff's Office shows Joseph Roberts. Roberts, faces a first-degree murder charge in William McCarragher's death. He is also charged with concealment of a dead body, tampering with evidence, hindering prosecution and mutilating a human body in Daniel Achten's death, authorities said. (AP Photo/Apache County Sheriff's Office)AP - An Arizona man went on a vengeful killing spree over the last two years because he wanted to rid society of less-than-desirable people, including a drug-using Vietnam vet, a sex offender and a teenager struggling to kick a drug habit, prosecutors said Thursday.

Suppliers face winter flu vaccine delays, cutbacks (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 03:56 PM PDT

Belinda Patterson, right, smiles after getting a flu shot from nurse Jobyna Foster, left, at Betty Jean Kerr People's Health Centers Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009, in St. Louis. The largest supplier of seasonal flu vaccines to the U.S. says it has shipped more than half of the 50.5 million doses of seasonal flu vaccine ordered by health providers in the states, but the French company has sent notices to customers indicating that additional doses may be delayed. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - Waiting for the swine flu vaccine? Well, you might have to wait a bit longer for a seasonal flu shot, too.

Friend: Japanese woman who took kids felt trapped (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 04:37 PM PDT

In this undated photograph released by the Williamson County, Tenn. Court Clerk and Master's Office, Christopher Savoie is shown with his children Isaac, left, and Rebecca, right, in Franklin, Tenn. Savoie was arrested Monday, Sept. 28, 2009, as he tried to enter the U.S. Consulate in Fukuoka, Japan, with the children. Police said he had grabbed the 8-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter as they walked with their mother to school. (AP Photo/Williamson County (Tenn.) Court Clerk and Master's Office)AP - A friend says Noriko Savoie felt trapped — she was a Japanese citizen new to the U.S. whose American husband had just served her divorce papers.

Hundreds leave pioneering Fla. megachurch (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 08:54 PM PDT

AP - Hundreds of congregants have left a pioneering megachurch in Florida to form their own congregation because they were unhappy with leadership at the church that's seen as a bedrock of the religious right.

Complaint: Killing of tribal leader was hit job (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 07:36 PM PDT

AP - An unsolved 1981 triple murder that spawned decades of conspiracy theories was a hit job orchestrated by a tribal casino director, financial adviser and others to cover up illegal activity at the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians reservation, state authorities said Thursday in a felony complaint.

Military searches for bodies, brings aid to Samoas (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 10:28 PM PDT

A man searches through the rubble of a destroyed village outside Apia in Samoa on Wednesday Sept. 30, 2009. A powerful quake in the South Pacific hurled massive tsunami waves at the shores of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga flattening villages and sweeping cars and people back out to sea while leaving more than 100 dead and dozens missing. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Brett Phibbs)AP - Military vehicles brought food, water and medicine to the tsunami-hit Samoas as victims wandered through what was left of their villages, telling tales of lifting elderly parents above the surging waves and watching young children drown.

Topless club owner: Gingrich group rescinded award (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 05:10 PM PDT

AP - Newt Gingrich's conservative group gave — and then rescinded — a business award to a popular topless club in Texas, the proprietor said Thursday.

Fund OKd for claims against Va. peanut company (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 03:37 PM PDT

AP - A $12 million fund is being created for claims against Peanut Corp. of America, the processor at the center of a nationwide salmonella outbreak this year.

FBI probes bomb threats on 2 Miami-Boston flights (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 03:13 PM PDT

AP - FBI agents are investigating any possible similarities between two recent bomb threats made on American Airlines flights between Miami and Boston, authorities said Thursday.

Piece be with you: Detroit pastors packing heat (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 02:32 PM PDT

Rev. Lawrence Adams is shown outside of the Westside Bible Church in Detroit, Wednesday , Sept. 30, 2009. Responding to a break-in at his church Sunday evening, Adams surprised a burglar carrying out a bag of loot and shot the man in the abdomen after the man swung the bag at him. The burglar survived, for which Adams is grateful, but the reverend said he could have been hurt or killed if he had not been armed. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - The Rev. Lawrence Adams teaches his flock at the Westside Bible Church to turn the other cheek. Just in case, though, the 54-year-old retired police lieutenant also wears a handgun under his robe.

NH congressman questions Social Security on glitch (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 03:06 PM PDT

AP - Rep. Paul Hodes has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate and stop a processing glitch that linked U.S. numbers to those issued in three foreign countries and could be causing credit problems for his constituents.

Cousin of Texas governor killed by deputies (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 02:57 PM PDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry meets with business leaders and state lawmakers Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. Perry says a climate bill being debated in Congress is 'draconian' and would result in the state losing thousands of jobs in the energy sector. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - A cousin of Texas Gov. Rick Perry was shot and killed over the weekend in his backyard during an exchange of gunfire with sheriff's deputies, officials said Thursday.
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