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John, Elizabeth Edwards separate after 30 years (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 10:40 PM PST

FILE - This March 22, 2007 file photo shows two-time presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth during a news conference in Chapel Hill, N.C. Elizabeth Edwards has separated from her husband after a tumultuous three years in which the couple's marital troubles became tabloid fodder. A friend of Elizabeth Edwards told The Associated Press, on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, that the couple has separated. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, file)AP - Elizabeth Edwards has separated from husband John Edwards, the former presidential candidate who lied about cheating on his cancer-stricken wife and the child he fathered during his affair.

Activist touted 'project' before phone tamper case (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 10:42 PM PST

James O'Keefe, center, and Stan Dai walk out of the St. Bernard Parish jail in Chalmette, La., Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. O'Keefe, a conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN, is one of four people arrested by the FBI and accused of trying to interfere with phones at Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Four days before James O'Keefe was charged in a plot to tamper with the office phones of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, the conservative activist promised his audience at a luncheon they would be hearing about a project he was working on in New Orleans.

Poll: Californians say state is on wrong course (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 09:07 PM PST

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at the Sacramento Press Club in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. Schwarzenegger says he doesn't blame Californians for believing that the state will be worse off when he leaves office than when he started. A new Field Poll release Sunday found that Schwarzenegger has just a 27 percent approval rating among registered voters, and lawmakers have an even worse rate of 16 percent. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Californians are in a dour mood, with three-quarters of adults believing the state is on the wrong course, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California.

Report: College endowments suffer huge declines (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 10:06 PM PST

File - Students walk through the Harvard Law School area on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in this Nov. 19, 2002 file photo. The global economic crisis shrunk the ranks of billion-dollar endowments from 77 to 54 in a year's time, according to a report Thursday Jan. 28, 2010 that provides the fullest picture yet of endowment performance in the 2008-2009 fiscal year. While the downturn hit all types of universities, elite schools such as Harvard, Yale and Stanford absorbed some of the deepest losses. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)AP - College and university endowments suffered huge losses in the fiscal year that ended last June, a new report finds, but stronger investment returns in recent months point to a rebound.

Man accused of shooting abortion doctor to testify (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 04:00 PM PST

Scott Roeder, 51, appears during the third day of his murder trial, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010, in Wichita, Kan. Roeder is accused of killing Dr. George Tiller, a Kansas abortion provider. (AP Photo/Mike Hutmacher, Pool)AP - Defense attorneys have "a formidable and daunting task" ahead if the man who has confessed to killing a Kansas abortion provider is hoping for a chance at a lesser sentence by arguing he sincerely believed his actions were necessary to save unborn children, a judge said Wednesday.

Apple introduces new $499 iPad tablet computer (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 10:42 PM PST

Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off the new iPad during an event in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the company's much-anticipated iPad tablet computer Wednesday, calling it a new third category of mobile device that is neither smart phone nor laptop, but something in between.

Onion Field killer denied parole (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 09:54 PM PST

This undated photo released by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows convicted killer Gregory Powell who is facing a parole hearing 47 years after he shot and killed a Los Angeles police officer in a case made famous in the book and movie, 'The Onion Field.' The Los Angeles Police Protective League is opposing release of the 76-year-old prisoner who has spent most of his life behind bars. He is is due to appear before a parole board in San Luis Obispo Wednesday. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)AP - A convicted killer was denied parole Wednesday 47 years after he and a partner kidnapped two Los Angeles police officers and shot one to death in a case made famous by the book and movie "The Onion Field."

Neb. woman accused of having sex with young son (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 06:53 PM PST

AP - A 41-year-old Nebraska woman is accused of having sex nightly with her teenage son when he was in seventh and eighth grades, officials said Wednesday.

Was motivation speaker's NYC death a suicide? (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 04:25 PM PST

AP - From the start, the man accused of killing motivational speaker Jeffrey Locker told a startling tale: He said Locker asked for help stabbing himself to death so his family could collect life insurance money.

Judge in Reno won't stop 'Girls Gone Wild' trial (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 07:11 PM PST

AP - Charges against a former Nevada sheriff's deputy accused of accepting gifts in exchange for giving preferential treatment to the jailed creator of the "Girls Gone Wild" videos won't be dismissed, a federal judge said Wednesday.

Colo. pot dispensaries welcome state regulation (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 01:22 PM PST

Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver, center, testifies about medical marijuana before the Senate Health & Human Services Committee at the Capitol in Denver on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Romer sponsored a bill aimed at preventing doctors from issuing medical marijuana recommendations to recreational users. Senator Nancy Spence, R-Centennial, left, and Dr. Ned Calonge, right, Chief Medical Officer for the Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment, listens after he testified. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Colorado lawmakers have an unlikely ally in their first attempt to curb the state's booming medical marijuana industry: owners of the some of the shops that sell pot.

Supporters of missing Utah mother decorate home (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 03:36 PM PST

Ciara Hellewell, 10, places one of the ribbon decorations on the front lawn, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 in West Valley City, Utah. Friends and family of Susan Powell, a Utah woman missing since December have decorated her empty home with purple bows and hearts in hopes of renewing public interest in the case. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann) DESERET NEWS OUT; MAGS OUTAP - Friends and family of a Utah woman missing since December have decorated her empty home with purple bows and hearts in hopes of renewing public interest in the case.

'People's History' author Howard Zinn dies at 87 (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 06:33 PM PST

FILE - This Jan. 9, 2008 file photo shows author Howard Zinn, during a visit in Boston at Emerson College. Zinn died in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. He was 87. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)AP - Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist "A People's History of the United States" became a million-selling alternative to mainstream texts and a favorite of such celebrities as Bruce Springsteen and Ben Affleck, died Wednesday. He was 87.

Racial threat puts Ohio college on alert, on edge (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 03:11 PM PST

Students enter Hocking Heights residence hall at Hocking College Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, in Nelsonville, Ohio. Two black students have withdrawn from the Ohio technical college and several others plan to miss class after a message scrawled in a dormitory bathroom made a racial threat. The message found Friday in a men's residence hall at Hocking College said black students would be killed on Feb. 2. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)AP - An attacker could find many places to hide at Hocking College, a campus carved into a forest in the Appalachian foothills. And with the threat of a mass killing looming over black students at the community college, Allen Edwards is steering clear of the trees.

Defense lawyers rest case at gay marriage trial (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 04:23 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 - The first federal case to decide if the U.S. Constitution prevents states from stopping same-sex weddings came to an anti-climatic break Wednesday after a judge heard nearly 12 days of wide-ranging testimony on the meaning of marriage, the nature of sexual orientation, and the role of religion in shaping attitudes about both.

Volunteer Pa. firefighters mourn teen colleagues (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 03:08 PM PST

Zelienople firefighter Spencer Mathew is consoled by a fellow firefighter as he talks during a news conference at the fire department about the two friends and colleagues that were found dead earlier, in Zelienople, Pa., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Two teenage volunteer firefighters had been recovered from a vehicle found submerged in a pond earlier in Zelienople, Pa., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Divers also recovered the third body. Officials have identified the firefighters as 18-year-olds, Elijah Lunsford and Sam Bucci. Police identified the third victim as 17-year-old Trevor Barkley. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Two teenage volunteer firefighters who were reported missing after they didn't show up for a training drill for their small-town department died along with a friend when their SUV slid off a slick road and into an icy western Pennsylvania pond.

NYC jewelry store worker killed in midday robbery (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 03:48 PM PST

Members of the NYPD crime scene unit investigate a robbery at the R.S. Durant jewelry store on Madison Ave, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - A jewelry store worker was shot to death in a brazen midday robbery Wednesday in a shop on posh Madison Avenue, police said.

Chicago man pleads not guilty to terrorism charges (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 09:28 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2009, file courtroom drawing David Coleman Headley, appears before U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber in federal court in Chicago. Headley, accused of scouting out the Indian city of Mumbai for a 2008 terrorist attack and plotting to attack a Danish newspaper, pleaded not guilty during a court appearance Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - A Chicago man accused of helping scout out the Indian city of Mumbai before the 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead and plotting to attack a Danish newspaper pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that could result in a death sentence.

Where to hold 9/11 trial? Not in NYC, some say (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 02:54 PM PST

FILE - This Sept. 8, 2008 file aerial photo shows Governors Island in New York harbor, with lower Manhattan in the background center. Manhattan community activists are pushing a host of alternative locales for the trial of admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four terror suspects in a bid to keep the spectacle out of their neighborhood. The suggestions include Governors Island, an air base in Newburgh and an old prison in upstate New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - Where should the men accused of planning the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks be tried? Not here, say New York City business and community leaders whose list of alternatives includes military bases, federal prisons and a 172-acre island in New York Harbor.
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