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Homes evacuated in San Antonio as hill crumbles (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:31 PM PST

In this Jan. 24, 2010 photo, gaps are shown as the ground shifts beneath a home in San Antonio. (AP Photo/The San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara)AP - Construction crews moved dirt to shore up a group of houses precariously perched on a crumbling hill in San Antonio on Monday as engineers tried to determine why the land below was shifting, causing dozens of homes to evacuate.

Winter storm in Midwest brings fierce winds (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:10 PM PST

A lone truck makes its way down a road in Grand Forks, N.D. Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 during a winter storm. (AP Photo/Grand Forks Herald, John Stennes) MANDATORY CREDITAP - A winter storm that moved across several Midwestern states Monday brought fierce winds and light snow that was easily blown around, leaving travelers stranded and closing some schools and businesses.

Neighbor: Stacy Peterson said 'I'm already dead' (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:31 PM PST

FILE - In this May 8, 2009 file photo, former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson yells to reporters as he arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill. On Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, a judge will hear arguments about the admissibility of the state's new hearsay law to the Peterson's case. He is charged in the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, and is also a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife. The law would essentially allow Savio to testify from the grave by admitting testimony of family and friends about how she feared Peterson might kill her. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - The fourth wife of former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson was sure her husband would kill her, even telling a neighbor days before her disappearance in 2007 that "I'm already dead," according to testimony at a hearing on Monday.

Fort Hood suspect's lawyer seeks mental exam delay (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:24 PM PST

FILE - This 2000 file picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) shows Nidal Malik Hasan as a medical student at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, USUHS, in Bethesda, Md. According to information gathered during an internal Pentagon review and obtained by The Associated Press, Hasan struggled academically, taking six years to complete the four-year program, but his separate military record was clean enough to get him into Walter Reed for a four-year psychiatry internship and residency. (AP Photo/USUHS, File)AP - An attorney for the Army psychiatrist accused of going on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood said Monday he wants his client's mental evaluation delayed citing a potential conflict of interest with the exam panel.

Remote Alaska village is first eyed in census (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:25 PM PST

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves greets Wilber Howarth, Sr., president of the Noorvik Native Community as he arrives in the remote Inupiat Eskimo village Noorvik, Alaska., Monday, Jan 25, 2010, to formally launch the nation's 2010 count. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - One down, more than 309 million to go.

Former US Sen. Charles Mathias of Maryland dies (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 07:43 PM PST

FILE - In this July 9, 1969 picture, Sen. Charles McC. Mathias, R-Md., testifies in Washington before the Senate's constitutional rights subcommittee to call for the extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act without change and later consideration of the administration's proposals. The former senator, a liberal Republican from Maryland who championed civil rights and protection of the Chesapeake Bay during his 26 years in Washington, has died. His sons said he was 87 and died Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 from complications of Parkinson's disease. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)AP - Former U.S. Sen. Charles McC. Mathias, a liberal Republican from Maryland who championed civil rights and protection of the Chesapeake Bay during his 26 years in Washington, has died. He was 87.

Kerrigan's dad dies; brother accused of assault (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:25 PM PST

Mark Kerrigan, 45, the brother of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, is led in handcuffs out of Woburn, Mass. District Court after his arraignment Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. He has been charged with assaulting their 70-year-old father, Daniel, who died over the weekend after a disturbance at the family's Stoneham, Mass. home. (AP Photo/Greg M. Cooper)AP - Daniel Kerrigan, who rushed to his sobbing daughter Nancy and carried her into the locker room after an attack at a skating competition nearly derailed her Olympic dreams, died after what authorities said was a violent struggle with his son in their family home.

SC politician's welfare comments called `immoral' (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 07:47 PM PST

FILE - In a Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009 file photo, S.C. Lt. Gov.Andre Bauer gestures as he speaks before the start of a debate at the Newberry Opera House in Newberry, S.C. Bauer, a fiercely ambitious Republican, has a habit of saying and doing outrageous things. Now he has folks shaking their heads after he likened government assistance for the poor to feeding stray animals in d speech last week. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - When things looked their darkest for Gov. Mark Sanford — when he was in danger of being impeached for running off to Argentina to see his mistress — his best insurance policy may well have been South Carolina's lieutenant governor, Andre Bauer.

Usher: Suspect visited slain abortion doc's church (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:47 PM PST

Scott Roeder consults with his attorney during the second day of his murder trial, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. Roeder is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller. (AP Photo/Mike Hutmacher, Pool)AP - Jurors hearing the case of a man charged with killing prominent abortion provider Dr. George Tiller heard the word abortion for the first time Monday, when an usher testified about seeing protesters at the church the doctor had attended.

Cleveland house explosion injures at least 4 (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 08:50 PM PST

AP - An explosion obliterated a home Monday afternoon, led to evacuations and injured at least four people who were nearby, Cleveland fire officials said.

Firing of Wyo. officers who Tasered driver upheld (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 09:37 PM PST

FILE -- In a Aug. 26, 2009 file photo retired truck driver Bud Grose, 76, sits on his 1959 John Deere tractor on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009, at his home in Glenrock, Wyo. Officials in Glenrockave Monday Jan. 25, 2010, upheld the firing of two police officers who chased and Tasered Grose who was driving a tractor in a parade. (AP Photo/Matt Joyce)AP - Officials in the small Wyoming town of Glenrock have upheld the firing of two police officers who chased and Tasered a 76-year-old man driving a tractor in a parade.

Defense calls first witness at gay marriage trial (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:56 PM PST

File photo shows supporters of same-sex marriage marching in Hollywood, California. The influence of homosexuals in US politics is significant and growing, an expert testified, as opponents of same-sex marriage opened their case in a federal trial challenging California's gay marriage ban.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)AP - Gay people in California enjoy substantial political power as a result of nearly unanimous support from high-ranking elected officials, labor unions, newspapers, corporations and progressive religious groups, a political scientist testified Monday in a federal trial on the state's same-sex marriage ban.

Charged contractors had checkered military pasts (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:07 PM PST

AP - A pair of former Blackwater contractors charged with murdering two people in Afghanistan had checkered pasts with the military before getting hired to work overseas, according to service records disclosed in recent U.S. court hearings.

Former body armor execs at NY trial (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:26 PM PST

AP - Two former top executives of the nation's leading supplier of body armor to the U.S. military accused of insider trading in an alleged $190 million scheme lied to push up the company's stock, a federal prosecutor said at the start of their trial Monday.

US and other nations say Haiti must lead (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 10:20 PM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responds to a few question following a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a conference looking at the future of Haiti, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 in Montreal. (AP Photo/Paul Chiasson,The Canadian Press)AP - Haiti must lead the effort to rebuild after its devastating earthquake, the United States and other nations said as Haiti's prime minister acknowledged that relief efforts so far have fallen dramatically short.

John Travolta to pilot plane to Haiti (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 05:06 PM PST

AP - John Travolta is soaring to Haiti with earthquake relief.

Ex-Guatemalan leader Portillo is charged in US (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:42 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 picture, a police officer, unseen, takes a photo of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo Cabrera after being extradited from Mexico to face corruption charges in Guatemala City. The former Guatemalan president was charged in the United States on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 with using foreign banks to launder millions of dollars plundered from charity and government coffers. Portillo was Guatemala's leader from 2000 to 2004 before fleeing to Mexico. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Alfonso Portillo, the fugitive former president of Guatemala, was charged in the United States on Monday with using foreign banks to launder millions of dollars plundered from charity and government coffers.

Pernell Roberts, last star of TV's 'Bonanza,' dies (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:19 PM PST

This 1959 picture provided by NBC shows actor Pernell Roberts from the 'Bonanza' television show. Roberts, the ruggedly handsome actor who shocked Hollywood by leaving TV's 'Bonanza' at the height of its popularity, then found fame again years later on 'Trapper John, M.D.,' has died. He was 81. Roberts, the last surviving member of the classic Western's cast, died of cancer Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 at his Malibu home, his wife Eleanor Criswell told the Los Angeles Times. (AP Photo/NBC) NO SALESAP - Pernell Roberts, the ruggedly handsome actor who shocked Hollywood by leaving TV's "Bonanza" at the height of its popularity, then found fame again years later on "Trapper John, M.D.," has died. He was 81.

Actor Gary Coleman released from Utah jail (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 04:44 PM PST

This Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 booking photo provided by the Utah County jail shows Gary Coleman. Coleman, 41, was arrested in Utah Sunday on a warrant for failing to appear in court, police said. (AP Photo/Utah County jail)AP - Actor Gary Coleman was released from a Utah jail Monday after being arrested over the weekend on a warrant for failing to appear in court, police said.
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