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Shuttle aims for pre-dawn launch as clouds move in (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 11:09 PM PST

Space shuttle Endeavour stands ready on launch pad 39A as preparations for it's launch are finalized at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Endeavour, with a crew of six astronauts is set to launch early Sunday to the International Space Station.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - As threatening clouds moved in, astronauts boarded space shuttle Endeavour for an early morning launch in darkness Sunday with the last major pieces of the International Space Station.

Palin tells 'tea party': It's revolution time (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 10:47 PM PST

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addresses attendees at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - Sarah Palin declared "America is ready for another revolution" and repeatedly assailed President Barack Obama on Saturday before adoring "tea party" activists. They make up a seemingly natural constituency should she run for president.

La. lt. gov. replaces Nagin as New Orleans mayor (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 09:37 PM PST

New Orleans Democratic candidate Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu address supporters at his election night headquarters in New Orleans, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Landrieu was elected mayor of New Orleans. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Frustrated by term-limited Mayor Ray Nagin's leadership of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, voters elected Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu to succeed him Saturday, turning to a political scion to speed up the city's recovery.

'Snowmageddon' blankets Mid-Atlantic in white (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 09:40 PM PST

Foot prints are seen in front of the West Wing of the White House in Washington Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. The White House driveway is one of the very few unburdened by snow after mid-Atlantic residents were buried by a blizzard that the president jokingly called 'Snowmageddon.' (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Skiers lapped the Reflecting Pool along the National Mall; others used the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for a slope. Hundreds crowded Dupont Circle for a snowball fight organized online, while elsewhere the capital's famed avenues were all but desolate.

Mudslides sweep away cars, assault homes near LA (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 11:01 PM PST

A Los Angeles County Fire Department Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) member, carries a 91-year-old woman from her flood-damaged home on Ocean View Boulevard Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010 in La Canada Flintridge, Calif. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)AP - Thunderous mudslides damaged dozens of homes, swept away cars and pushed furniture into the streets of the foothills north of Los Angeles on Saturday as intense winter rain poured down mountains denuded by a summer wildfire.

Missionary who was held in N. Korea arrives in US (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 09:22 PM PST

U.S. Missionary Robert Park sits in a car with his mother and father following his return to the U.S. at the to the Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday, Feb. 06, 2010. Park was detained in North Korea after crossing the border from China on Christmas Day. (AP Photo/David Zentz)AP - An American missionary who strode illegally into North Korea on Christmas Day and was detained by the communist regime for 43 days was welcomed back to the United States Saturday evening in an emotional reunion with family members at Los Angeles International Airport.

Authorities: 2 planes collide in Colorado; 3 die (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 09:10 PM PST

Investigators survey the scene of a midair accident northeast of Boulder, Colo., Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. The Federal Aviation Administration says a plane towing a glider and another aircraft collided in Colorado, killing at least two people. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - A small plane clipped the towline of another plane pulling a glider Saturday, sparking a fiery midair crash in Colorado and killing three people, authorities said.

House fire in Warwick, RI, kills 5, including baby (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 08:29 PM PST

AP - A house fire that officials said might have simmered undetected for hours Saturday killed five people, including a mother and her 7-month-old baby, in one of Rhode Island's deadliest blazes since a 2003 fire at a crowded nightclub killed 100 people.

Federal law barring lies about medals is tested (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 09:35 AM PST

The Colorado Springs Police Department provided this June 4, 2009 photo of Rick Glen Strandlof, aka Rick Duncan, who claimed he was an ex-Marine wounded in Iraq and received the Purple Heart and Silver Star. He founded an organization in Colorado Springs that advocated for homeless veterans, and members of the group accused him of being an impostor. He pleaded not guilty and his case is still pending in federal court. (AP Photo/Colorado Springs Police)AP - The federal courts are wrestling with a question of both liberty and patriotism: Does the First Amendment right to free speech protect people who lie about being war heroes?

WA among states weighing sale of liquor business (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 02:22 AM PST

In this photo taken Jan. 29, 2010, Delmico Baxley loads rum into a small truck for shipping from the Washington State Liquor warehouse in Seattle. The 250,000-square-foot warehouse is the nexus from which all the state's liquor is shipped in, processed, and shipped out to the 315 state and contract stores for sale to the public. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Thousands of cases of whiskey, vodka and rum zip along three miles of conveyor belts inside a massive distribution center in industrial south Seattle, the sole location for shipping booze to liquor stores across Washington state.

Internet rape case jolts Wyoming city (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 01:21 PM PST

AP - Authorities say a Wyoming woman was assaulted at her front door, raped at knifepoint in her living room and left bound on the floor, and they say one of the men charged in the brutal attack claimed that he thought it was invited.

Haitians at US colleges worry: stay in school? (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 10:57 AM PST

In this Jan. 26, 2010 photo, Jeff Paul, a Haitian student and president of the Haitian American Student Association at Medgar Evers College, reacts during an interview in Brooklyn, New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Every payday, Jeff Paul sent whatever dollars he could spare to his mother and little brother back home in Haiti. They've become even more desperate since the Jan. 12 earthquake, compounded by thieves, destroyed his mother's business; they had to sleep in the streets of Port-au-Prince before a relative took them in.
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