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1 adult killed, several students hurt in ID crash (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:09 PM PDT

AP - A bus carrying a celebrated Utah high school band swerved off an Idaho interstate and crashed on its side Saturday night, killing an instructor and injuring some students, police and a school official said.

Sweat lodge victim's family says she was in shape (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 06:45 PM PDT

This April 2008 photo provided by the family of Kirby Brown shows the 38-year-old woman from Westtown, N.Y. Brown was one of two people who died after being overcome in a sauna-like sweat lodge during a retreat just outside of Sedona, Ariz. (AP Photo/Family of Kirby Brown)AP - A 38-year-old New York woman who died after sitting in a sauna-like sweat lodge at a scenic Arizona resort was an avid surfer and hiker who was "in top shape," took self-improvement seriously and had a passion for art, a family spokesman said.

Solar power outshining Colorado's gas industry (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:08 PM PDT

A methane gas well works next to a house in La Plata County southeast of Durango Colo., Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. A recent greenhouse-gas inventory of La Plata County found that the thousands of natural gas pumps and processing plants dotting the landscape are the single largest source of heat-trapping pollution locally. That has the industry bracing for a hit on two fronts if federal climate legislation passes Congress. (AP Photo/Jerry McBride)AP - The sun had just crested the distant ridge of the Rocky Mountains, but already it was producing enough power for the electric meter on the side of the Smiley Building to spin backward.

Dam breaching celebrated on famed Rogue River (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 05:12 PM PDT

Rafts float Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009, through a channel carved by the Rogue River through sediment built up over the past 88 years by the Savage Rapids Dam on the Rogue River near Rogue River, Ore. The rafts were taking part in a celebration marking the breaching of the dam after a decades-long struggle to help salmon and steelhead in the Rogue River. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)AP - The wild and scenic Rogue River has become even wilder with the demolition of a dam that had hindered passage of salmon and steelhead to their spawning grounds for 88 years.

Frank urges gay activists to lobby for change (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 08:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, April 6, 2009 file photo, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, addresses an audience at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Rep. Barney Frank, the first openly gay member of Congress, says in an interviewe with The AP that he'd rather see gay rights supporters lobbying their elected officials than marching in Washington this weekend, calling the demonstration 'a waste of time at best.' (AP Photo/Steven Senne, file)AP - Rep. Barney Frank, an openly gay member of Congress, says he'd rather see gay rights supporters lobbying their elected officials than marching in Washington this weekend, calling the demonstration "a waste of time at best."

Columbine killer's mom: 'No inkling' son suicidal (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 01:44 PM PDT

FILE -This 1998 file yearbook photo from Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. shows Dylan Klebold. The mother of the Columbine killer says she has been studying suicide in the decade since the high school massacre but had no idea her son was suicidal until she read his journals after his death. Susan Klebold's essay in next month's issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, is the most detailed response yet from any of the parents of Columbine killers Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris. (AP Photo/File)AP - In the first detailed public remarks by any parent of the two Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold's mother says she had no idea her son was suicidal until she read his journals after the 1999 high school massacre.

Unknown Civil War soldier reburied in Tennessee (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 03:06 PM PDT

James Brown, seated left, and Harold Becker, seated right, attend the graveside service for an unknown Civil War soldier in Franklin, Tenn., Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009. Brown, 97, of Knoxville, Tenn., is the son of a Confederate soldier who fought at Shiloh and Gettysburg, and Becker, 93, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is the son of a Union soldier who fought in the Battle of Franklin. The unknown soldier's body was accidentally unearthed from a shallow grave by construction workers. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - A Civil War soldier whose remains were found in a battlefield grave last spring was reburied Saturday by admirers who knew neither his name nor even what side he fought on.

An Iraqi's trek from Sadr City to Monterey (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:02 PM PDT

AP - On one of his first days in America, Hussein Albayati visited the Statue of Liberty.

'Die quickly' congressman new hero for Fla. Dems (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 02:52 PM PDT

AP - Weeks after his harsh remarks toward the GOP, a Florida congressman's popularity with Democrats isn't dying quickly.

Calif. top justice slams state referendum process (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 03:05 PM PDT

AP - The chief justice of the California Supreme Court criticized the state's reliance on the referendum process Saturday, saying it has "rendered our state government dysfunctional."

Pollution an enduring legacy at old missile sites (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:16 AM PDT

This Oct. 1, 2009 photo shows the long-abandoned Atlas D site, west of Cheyenne, Wyo. As U.S. Air Force officials marked the 50th anniversary of the deployment of nuclear missiles to sites in the rural United States this past week, residents in some of these communities are still grappling with another legacy, groundwater pollution from chemicals used to clean and maintain the weapons. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)AP - As U.S. Air Force officials marked the 50th anniversary of the deployment of nuclear missiles to sites in the rural United States this past week, residents in some of these communities are still grappling with another legacy — groundwater pollution from chemicals used to clean and maintain the weapons.

NYC Astor trial shines light on jury-room strife (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 11:32 AM PDT

AP - Jurors in the epic criminal case about philanthropist Brooke Astor's fortune seemed to have hit a breaking point.

Padilla, Dodgers beat Cardinals 5-1 for sweep (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:04 PM PDT

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Joel Pineiro sits alone in the dugout during the fifth inning after being pulled out of Game 3 of the National League division baseball series against the Los Angeles Dodgers Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - Unemployed in August and a star for the Los Angeles Dodgers in October. Once Vicente Padilla got out of the first inning, he slammed the door on the St. Louis Cardinals' season.

Navy honors civil rights martyr Medgar Evers (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 07:04 AM PDT

File - Medgar Evers, NAACP's first field secretary for the state of Mississippi stands nearby a sign of the state Mississippi in this 1958 file photo. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a former governor of Mississippi, plans to announce Evers is being honored with a Navy cargo ship named for him during a speech Friday Oct. 9, 2009 at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Francis H. Mitchell - Ebony Collection, File)AP - The widow of slain civil-rights pioneer Medgar Evers fought tears Friday as Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a former Mississippi governor, announced he's naming a new Navy supply ship for Evers' late husband.

New Lincoln exhibit tells how NYC shaped his image (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 11:27 AM PDT

AP - Abraham Lincoln visited New York City only five times in his life, and only once as president, yet the growing 19th-century metropolis played a central role in burnishing his enduring public image.
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