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Tiger Woods to take 'indefinite' leave from golf (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:24 PM PST

FILE - In this June 16, 2008, file photo, Tiger Woods holds his US Open championship trophy after winning a sudden death hole against Rocco Mediate following an 18-hole playoff round for the US Open championship at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego. On his web site Friday night, Dec. 11, 2009, Woods announced that he is taking an indefinite break from professional golf. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)AP - Tiger Woods said Friday he is taking an indefinite leave from golf to try to save his marriage, the biggest fallout yet from two shocking weeks filled with allegations of rampant extramarital affairs.

Flynt wins partial victory in fight over his name (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 09:19 PM PST

Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is helped by an unidentified assistant, as he leaves the US District Court in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. Flynt took the stand Tuesday in the first day of his federal trademark infringement trial against his nephews, Jimmy Jr. and Dustin, who earlier this year launched their own line of adult films under the name 'Flynt.' Calling their films 'inferior products' and 'knock-off goods,' the porn mogul promptly sued, accusing them of trying to ride on the coattails of his fame and muddying the quality his customers have come to expect from his products. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - The porn family feud that played out in federal court this week ended in a draw Friday when a jury ruled that Larry Flynt's estranged nephews infringed on their famous uncle's trademark when they launched their own smut business, but did not invade his privacy and were not liable for the substantial attorney fees both sides rang up.

SC first lady files for divorce from cheating gov (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:57 PM PST

FILE - In a Friday, June 26, 2009 photo, Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, speaks about her husband's recent affair admission in Sullivans Island, S.C. South Carolina's first lady has filed for divorce months after her husband publicly confessed an affair with an Argentine woman. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney, File)AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford may be keeping his office, but he is losing his marriage.

Tenn. demonstrates trend of looser guns laws (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 09:10 PM PST

A sign declaring that no guns are permitted is posted on the door of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge in on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 in Nashville, Tenn. In Tennessee, properly licensed handgun owners won the right to carry their weapons into bars, restaurants that serve alcohol, sports fields and even playgrounds, but many bars have since decided to keep gun bans in place and more than 70 communities have opted out of allowing guns in parks. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.

US, Japan forge open skies agreement (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:10 PM PST

FILE - A Japan Air System jetliner takes off over Haneda Airport's control tower as All Nippon Airways planes are seen on the ground in Tokyo, in this Jan. 31, 2001 file photo. Continental airlines, based in Houston, said one key part of the open skies agreement is that it provides the U.S. airline industry guaranteed access to Haneda airport for the first time. That could spur sales on U.S. carriers flying to Japan because of how close the airport is to the center of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)AP - The U.S. and Japan reached a landmark agreement Friday to relax limits on flights between the two countries, opening up the possibility of broader cross-border airline alliances and more options for air travelers.

Police still looking for missing Utah mom (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 06:29 PM PST

This undated picture made available by Hardman Photography shows Susan Powell. The 28-year-old mother from the Salt Lake City area was reported missing on Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Hardman Photography, Amber Hardman)AP - About 30 detectives hunted down leads Friday in the search for a mother of two who vanished last weekend in what police are calling a suspicious disappearance.

Move to cut ACORN funding ruled unconstitutional (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 07:45 PM PST

AP - The U.S. government's move this fall to cut off funding to ACORN was unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday, handing the embattled group a legal victory.

Official: Lead prosecutor named in Fort Hood case (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 06:23 PM PST

AP - A senior military official said Friday that a new lead prosecutor has been appointed in the Fort Hood shooting case, a man who secured the death penalty in a similar case four years ago.

NYPD tracks gun in deadly Times Square shooting (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:09 PM PST

Police officers walk through a cordoned off section surrounding the Marriot Marquis Hotel where a shooting took place in the hotel's passenger drop-off area, Thursday, Dec.10, 2009, in New York. An undercover cop chased a Times Square scam artist through sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday, exchanged gunfire with the suspect and killed him near the Marriott Marquis, police said. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)AP - Authorities on Friday said a machine pistol used by a street hustler shot dead in a Times Square gunfight was purchased in October at a Virginia gun shop whose business card was found in the aspiring rapper's pocket, and they were looking for the woman who bought the gun.

Casey Anthony sobs at account of daughter's death (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:44 PM PST

Attorneys Jose Baez, left, and Andrea Lyon, right, talk with their client Casey Anthony during a court hearing in Orlando, Fla. on Friday, December 11, 2009. Anthony is charged in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie Anthony in 2008. Exactly one year after Caylee Marie Anthony's remains were found, defense lawyers argued why a judge should prohibit prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against the toddler's mother. (AP Photo/ Red Huber, Pool)AP - A Florida mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter sobbed in court Friday as a prosecutor speculated that the toddler was methodically drugged and suffocated with tape.

Police: Virginia man's wife found dead in suitcase (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 07:49 PM PST

AP - Authorities in Virginia are saying a man's wife has been found in a suitcase at the couple's apartment after he told police he had killed her.

Lawsuit threatened over atheist councilman in NC (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:45 PM PST

AP - Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell believes in ending the death penalty, conserving water and reforming government — but he doesn't believe in God. His political opponents say that's a sin that makes him unworthy of serving in office, and they've got the North Carolina Constitution on their side.

Novel drug combo improves breast cancer survival (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:36 PM PST

AP - Some women with very advanced breast cancer may have a new treatment option. A combination of two drugs that more precisely target tumors significantly extended the lives of women who had stopped responding to other medicines, doctors reported Friday.

Detroit stripper's killing unsolved 6 years later (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:17 PM PST

In a photo provided by the Greene family via attorney Norman Yatooma, Tamara Greene is seen in an undated photo. On Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox will give a deposition in federal court as part of a $150 million civil lawsuit against former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, the city and others which was filed by Yatooma on behalf of slain stripper Greene's three children. The suit claims former Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings and the mayor's office stifled a police investigation of the killing. (AP Photo/Greene family via Norman Yatooma)AP - Stripper Tamara Greene has found more notoriety in death than she ever did dancing under the name "Strawberry" in dimly lit topless clubs and private parties around Detroit.

Mass. woman, 98, accused of killing roommate, 100 (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:19 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2009 file photo provided by Scott Barrow, his mother Elizabeth Barrow celebrates her 100th birthday at his home in Dartmouth, Mass. Elizabeth Barrow was found on Sept. 24 strangled in her Dartmouth nursing home bed with a plastic bag over her head. The Bristol County district attorney announced Dec. 11, 2009, that a grand jury had indicted Laura Lundquist, 98, with second degree murder in Barrow's death. (AP Photo/Scott Barrow, File)AP - A 98-year-old woman was indicted Friday on a second-degree murder charge that alleges she strangled her 100-year-old nursing home roommate after making the victim's life "a living hell" because she thought the woman was "taking over the room."

Fla. judges, lawyers must 'unfriend' on Facebook (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 01:10 PM PST

AP - Florida's judges and lawyers should no longer "friend" each other on Facebook, the popular social networking site, according to a ruling from the state's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee.

Lawmakers seek emergency steps to halt Asian carp (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:43 PM PST

Graphic locates and describes the electric barrier used to prevent Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan.AP - Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating their $7 billion fishery.

Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:12 PM PST

Staff Sergeants, Clifton Crowder, front, Justin Ellis, center, and David Gavula, back, fill out their medical paperwork, prior to receiving the H1N1 vaccine, in the Solomon Center, at the Army's Ft. Jackson Training Center, in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)AP - Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu.

Ill. campus cop cleared of threat allegations (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST

AP - Northern Illinois University has cleared its tough-talking police chief of allegations he threatened an editor of the campus newspaper, and on Friday it reinstated the man seen as a hero after last year's campus shooting as NIU's top cop.

Lifelong criminal tries to put prison behind him (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:09 AM PST

AP - On a rare visit to his childhood home, Eddie Williams is 16 again, peering down a shotgun barrel as he crouches in the kitchen doorway. The intruder then swivels and shoots, and Williams sees his mother, a pastor's widow, tumble face down on the yellow linoleum floor.
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