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• Another chain pulls cadmium-tainted kids' jewelry (AP)
• Historian: Prop 8 played on anti-gay stereotypes (AP)
• 2 dead in Ga. shooting; suspect was ex-employee (AP)
• Judge: Roeder can try to make manslaughter defense (AP)
• Clinton accepts Japan's delay on US base decision (AP)
• Terror conspirator Padilla appeals conviction (AP)
• Health facilities, NY settle over drug-flushing (AP)
• Former worker who shot 2 at Texas ranch executed (AP)
• Chicago police to probe of 70-year-old slaying (AP)
• Containers of explosive damaged; NC port shut down (AP)
• TSA: Unruly Northwest flight passengers questioned (AP)
• States seek to shift some health costs to feds (AP)
• Unhappy meal: Woman charged in McDonald's rampage (AP)
• Mo. survivalist convicted on 2 weapons charges (AP)
• Florida girl, 10, raises money, helps kids dance (AP)
• WHO survey: Half of China's births are C-sections (AP)
• ABC renews 3 Wednesday comedies (AP)
• No sequels, spinoffs for `Lost' (AP)
• Court reinstates death sentence for Ohio neo-Nazi (AP)
• NY prosecutors file more charges in piracy case (AP)

Another chain pulls cadmium-tainted kids' jewelry (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 09:48 PM PST AP - A second international chain store said it is pulling from shelves jewelry that lab tests show contained high levels of the heavy metal cadmium, and Chinese regulators said they will investigate dangerous levels of the toxin in children's jewelry being exported to the United States. Also, a U.S. senator called for hearings.

Historian: Prop 8 played on anti-gay stereotypes (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 05:55 PM PST AP - A Yale professor testifying in a case challenging California's same-sex marriage ban said Tuesday that the 2008 campaign to pass Proposition 8 played on stereotypes historically used to portray "homosexuals as perverts who pray on young children, out to entice straight people into sick behavior."

2 dead in Ga. shooting; suspect was ex-employee (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 09:03 PM PST AP - A disgruntled ex-employee stormed a truck rental business in camouflage and opened fire with a handgun, killing two people and critically wounding three others at his former workplace, police said.

Judge: Roeder can try to make manslaughter defense (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 07:40 PM PST AP - A judge turned away objections from prosecutors Tuesday, allowing confessed killer Scott Roeder the chance to build a defense to the slaying of a Kansas abortion provider based on his belief the action was justified to save unborn children.

Clinton accepts Japan's delay on US base decision (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 04:58 PM PST AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the Obama administration feels assured of Japan's commitment to a continuing security alliance with the United States, even as Tokyo weighs abandoning a 2006 deal on a U.S. Marine air base.

Terror conspirator Padilla appeals conviction (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:20 PM PST AP - Convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla's attorneys asked an appeals court on Tuesday to throw out his conviction, arguing that he was the victim of "outrageous governmental conduct."

Health facilities, NY settle over drug-flushing (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 01:05 PM PST AP - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a settlement Tuesday with five health care facilities that flushed pharmaceutical waste into the New York City watersheds.

Former worker who shot 2 at Texas ranch executed (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 04:52 PM PST AP - Convicted killer Gary Johnson was executed Tuesday for fatally shooting a ranch foreman and another man who interrupted his burglary of a southeast Texas ranch nearly 24 years ago.

Chicago police to probe of 70-year-old slaying (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 08:42 PM PST AP - He's the father of a war hero whose name is familiar to anyone who has flown in and out of Chicago, and his death has been linked to one of the city's most famous residents ever: Al Capone.

Containers of explosive damaged; NC port shut down (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 04:34 PM PST AP - Officials lifted a voluntary evacuation order and opened roads late Tuesday around a busy North Carolina port that remained closed after a forklift operator accidentally punctured containers of the same explosive used in a Christmas Day airline bombing attempt.

TSA: Unruly Northwest flight passengers questioned (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:24 PM PST AP - Unruly passengers on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit were interviewed by Customs and Border Protection officials after the plane landed Tuesday, but no arrests were made, the Transportation Security Administration said.

States seek to shift some health costs to feds (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:03 PM PST AP - New York Gov. David Paterson, far from alone in leading a state with a growing budget deficit and few options, is trying to build a coalition of several big states as he seeks a federal takeover of health care costs for the elderly poor who receive benefits under both Medicare and Medicaid.

Unhappy meal: Woman charged in McDonald's rampage (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 04:51 PM PST AP - A woman has been charged with trashing a McDonald's restaurant in Missouri because she was unhappy with her cheeseburger.

Mo. survivalist convicted on 2 weapons charges (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 03:28 PM PST AP - A former Eagle Scout and U.S. Air Force Academy cadet was convicted Tuesday on federal weapons charges after being caught up in an undercover sweep of white supremacists who claimed they used his 200-acre Ozarks spread for survival training.

Florida girl, 10, raises money, helps kids dance (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 03:59 PM PST AP - Ten-year-old Drew Buckley loves ballet so much that she wants other kids to feel the excitement — starting with the tips of their toes.

WHO survey: Half of China's births are C-sections (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:34 PM PST AP - Nearly half of all births in China are delivered by cesarean section, the world's highest rate, according to a survey by the World Health Organization — a shift toward modernization that isn't necessarily a good thing.

ABC renews 3 Wednesday comedies (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:57 PM PST AP - NBC is getting something that you never want to hear from a top executive at one of its rivals: pity.

No sequels, spinoffs for `Lost' (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 12:37 PM PST AP - When ABC's drama "Lost" ends in May, it will definitively end — don't look for any sequels or spinoffs.

Court reinstates death sentence for Ohio neo-Nazi (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 08:45 AM PST AP - The Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated for a second time the death sentence of a neo-Nazi convicted of murdering three men in Ohio more than a quarter century ago.

NY prosecutors file more charges in piracy case (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 01:50 PM PST AP - A Somali man charged with piracy has pleaded not guilty to new charges he led the capture of two other vessels in the Indian Ocean.

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