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Knox upset, tired; gets family visit in prison (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 09:53 PM PST

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox is accompanied by a penitentiary police officer prior to a final hearing before the verdict, at the court in Perugia, Italy, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. An Italian jury has begun deliberations in the yearlong trial of American student Knox, who is charged with murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007 with her former boyfriend Italian murder suspect Raffaele Sollecito. A verdict is expected later Friday. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Amanda Knox sought comfort from visiting family members Saturday on her first day in prison since being convicted of murdering her British roommate.

Tiger's troubles widen his distance from blacks (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:05 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2003 file photo, Tiger Woods, right, stands near his then-girlfriend Elin Nordegren, left, during the final day of the Presidents Cup 2003 Golf Tournament at the Fancourt Golf Estate in George, South Africa. Amid all the headlines generated by Tiger Woods' troubles, the puzzling car accident, the suggestions of marital turmoil and multiple mistresses, little attention has been given to the race of the women linked with the world's greatest golfer. Except in the black community. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)AP - Amid all the headlines generated by Tiger Woods' troubles — the puzzling car accident, the suggestions of marital turmoil and multiple mistresses — little attention has been given to the race of the women linked with the world's greatest golfer.

2nd gay bishop for Episcopal Church, Anglicans (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 10:06 PM PST

Delegates raise their ballots for Bishop Suffragan during the 114th Annual Meeting of the Diocese of Los Angeles for the Episcopal Church held in Riverside, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected the first female bishop, Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce, in its 114-year history. (AP Photo/Francis Specker)AP - The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected a lesbian as assistant bishop Saturday, the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican fellowship, which is already deeply fractured over the first.

Wis. man wanted in double homicides eludes police (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:51 PM PST

This undated photo provided Friday, Dec. 4, 2009 by the Dane County, Wis. Sheriff's Department via the Wisconsin State Journal shows Tyrone Adair. Police believe the fatal shootings of a mother and her young daughter in Madison were connected to the slayings of another woman and young girl in a nearby suburb, and authorities were searching Friday for Adair as a 'person of interest' in all four deaths. (AP Photo/ Dane County Sheriff's Department)AP - Police sought help from the public Saturday as the search for a Wisconsin man wanted in the deaths of his two young daughters and their mothers stretched into its third day.

Palin pokes fun at herself at journalists' dinner (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:08 PM PST

Sarah Palin, left, arrives at a 'Going Rogue' booksigning in Fort Hood, Texas on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)AP - Sarah Palin poked fun at herself in a speech to journalists Saturday night, drawing laughter when she announced she "came down from my hotel room and I could see the Russian Embassy."

2 men, 43 horses killed in barn fire in Ohio (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 09:17 PM PST

The remains of a horse barn at the Lebanon Fairgrounds in Lebanon, Ohio are shown on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 after a fire ripped through it that killed two people and about sixty horses. Capt. Krista Wyatt with the Lebanon Fire Department said the fire was reported about 5 a.m. Saturday. She said the barn's roof had already collapsed by the time firefighters arrived at the Warren County Fairgrounds, about 25 miles northeast of Cincinnati. (AP Photo/The Dayton Daily News, Ron Alvey)AP - A fire ripped through a horse barn at a county fairgrounds Saturday in southwest Ohio, killing two men and 43 horses, authorities said.

Baucus: Girlfriend merited US attorney nomination (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 09:50 PM PST

Senator Max Baucus, D-Mont, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, leaves the Seante floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. Senate Democrats on Saturday defeated a GOP attempt to eliminate $40 billion in cuts to home health care services in the health overhaul bill. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus defended recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana's U.S. attorney, saying Saturday his one-time staff member and the former state prosecutor is "highly qualified" but eventually withdrew her nomination.

Student charged in Binghamton U. professor's death (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:26 PM PST

AP - A graduate student has been accused of fatally stabbing a 77-year-old Binghamton University anthropology professor.

First US ambassador to the Vatican dead at 95 (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:17 PM PST

AP - William A. Wilson, the first American to serve as ambassador to the Vatican and a member of President Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" of advisers, has died. He was 95.

AP: Manufacturing areas lead surprise job comeback (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 09:32 PM PST

Clark Norris, left, and his son Todd Norris, right, are shown inside Legacy Furniture Group's manufacturing plant in Conover, N.C., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. Legacy's recent success highlights a trend: Counties with the heaviest reliance on manufacturing income are posting some of the biggest employment gains of the nation's nascent economic recovery. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - As record numbers of orders flow through Legacy Furniture Group's manufacturing plant, workers toil between towers of piled foam and incomplete end tables precariously stacked five pieces high.

Election board certifies Atlanta mayor vote (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:18 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2009 file photo, Atlanta Mayoral candidate Kasim Reed, left, celebrates with Lisa Borders, Atlanta city council president, center, during his runoff Election Night Party in Atlanta. When the final votes are counted, it's likely the black political machine that integrated Atlanta's City Hall — and kept it that way for four decades — will have pulled through one more time to deliver a fifth consecutive black mayor. Barely. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, File)AP - A Georgia elections board has certified the vote making former state Sen. Kasim Reed Atlanta's mayor-elect.

'Junior' Gotti's 4th mob mistrial may be his last (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:50 AM PST

FILE - In this file photo of Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009, John 'Junior' Gotti smiles as he speaks to reporters outside Manhattan federal court in New York after a judge declared a mistrial when the jury failed to reach a verdict against the son of the notorious Gambino crime family mob boss - the case's fourth hung jury in five years. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP - A new judge, new charges, new star witness and a new jury added up to a familiar result â€" a mistrial for John "Junior" Gotti on racketeering charges. This one, though, might be his last.

Snow dusts the South from Louisiana to Georgia (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:42 PM PST

Snow is seen falling at the White House in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Louisiana got its earliest snowflakes ever as people across the South awakened to a dusting of powder.

1 dead, scores injured in Wyoming bus crash (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:38 AM PST

AP - A bus driver was killed and about 40 passengers injured Saturday morning when the bus crashed into an overturned tractor-trailer blocking Interstate 25 in central Wyoming.

Rocket launches Air Force satellite from Fla. (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 07:05 PM PST

AP - A rocket carrying an Air Force satellite that will be used by the military has launched from Cape Canaveral.

Vermont church selling Tiffany window to stay open (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:23 PM PST

In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 photo, Rev. Suzanne Andrews stands under the Tiffany & Co. stained glass window at the First Baptist Church in Brattleboro, Vt. Pressed for cash, the First Baptist Church has reluctantly decided to seek bids on a Tiffany & Co. stained glass window that's been part of the building since 1910. The 9-foot tall window, which depicts St. John the Divine, will be removed and sold if a successful bidder comes forward, although pastor Rev. Suzanne Andrews says she's hoping a miracle will make that unnecessary. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - For almost 100 years, the multicolored image of St. John the Divine has gazed down from a stained glass window in the choir loft of First Baptist Church.

Colorado State University bans guns on campus (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 03:36 AM PST

AP - Joining most major colleges nationwide, Colorado State University has banned concealed weapons on campus with a vote that pitted faculty asking for a prohibition against students demanding the right to carry guns.
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