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Using ladder, vet rescued people from Texas office (AP)
Obama sets record straight: 'I love Vegas' (AP)
Texas plane crash exposes gap in US air security (AP)
Small stolen plane lands at Los Angeles airport (AP)
Official: FBI probing Pa. school webcam spy case (AP)
NJ Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 86, has stomach lymphoma (AP)
Hearsay hearing for Drew Peterson comes to an end (AP)
Ex-Detroit mayor fails to make restitution payment (AP)
Rap star says Romney first touched him on plane (AP)
Jury: Killing of Vegas courthouse gunman justified (AP)
Woman charged with murder in Lottery winner death (AP)
3 men charged in Miami with financing Hezbollah (AP)
Ky. man charged with threatening Obama in Web poem (AP)
Police probe how teenage Ohio convert fled to Fla. (AP)
Shuttle Endeavour undocks from space station (AP)
Judge: Joe Jackson can get Jackson's medical files (AP)
Wannabe-hero firefighter convicted of murder in NY (AP)
Navy agrees to fund toxic water study at NC base (AP)
Unclaimed $2.5M Ind. jackpot has winner after all (AP)

Using ladder, vet rescued people from Texas office (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 06:18 PM PST

AP - Robin De Haven was driving the company truck to a job when he saw something that didn't look right — a small plane, flying extremely low over a heavily congested area of Austin.

Obama sets record straight: 'I love Vegas' (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 06:43 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama is setting the record straight — he loves Las Vegas. And Las Vegas was glad to hear it.

Texas plane crash exposes gap in US air security (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 10:54 PM PST

AP - After 9/11, cockpit doors were sealed, air marshals were added and airport searches became more aggressive, all to make sure an airliner could never again be used as a weapon. Yet little has been done to guard against attacks with smaller planes.

Small stolen plane lands at Los Angeles airport (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 06:14 PM PST

AP - A man with an expired student pilot license allegedly stole a single-engine plane from a small airfield near San Diego, flew it north and made an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport early Friday, authorities said.

Official: FBI probing Pa. school webcam spy case (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 10:58 PM PST

AP - The FBI is investigating a Pennsylvania school district accused of secretly activating webcams inside students' homes, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press on Friday.

NJ Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 86, has stomach lymphoma (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 10:59 PM PST

AP - Sen. Frank Lautenberg, at 86 the nation's second oldest U.S. senator, has curable lymphoma of the stomach, his office said Friday. Doctors for the Democrat found B-cell lymphoma that will require treatment over the next few months, spokesman Caley Gray said in a news release. He will not be resigning, Gray said.

Hearsay hearing for Drew Peterson comes to an end (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 08:21 PM PST

AP - A hearing for Drew Peterson ended Friday night with the same question it began with a month ago: Is there enough evidence to convince a judge that the former police officer may have killed his third and fourth wives to keep them from testifying before a jury?

Ex-Detroit mayor fails to make restitution payment (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 03:28 PM PST

AP - The prosecutor who forced Kwame Kilpatrick out of the Detroit mayor's office said he violated his probation by missing a Friday deadline to make a $79,011 payment toward his $1 million restitution to the city.

Rap star says Romney first touched him on plane (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST

AP - A rapper with the Grammy-nominated club act LMFAO says former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney first touched him — and not the other way around — during a confrontation aboard an Air Canada flight that was preparing to take off from Vancouver, British Columbia.

Jury: Killing of Vegas courthouse gunman justified (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 05:02 PM PST

AP - A coroner's jury cleared federal agents Friday in the slaying of a shotgun-wielding assailant seen on video killing a security guard during a furious gunbattle at a Nevada federal courthouse.

Woman charged with murder in Lottery winner death (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 06:03 PM PST

AP - The woman already facing charges related to the death of a Florida Lottery winner was charged Friday with first-degree murder.

3 men charged in Miami with financing Hezbollah (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 04:25 PM PST

AP - Three men were charged in an indictment unsealed Friday with illegally exporting electronics and video games to a South American shopping center that U.S. officials claim funnels money to the Hezbollah militant group.

Ky. man charged with threatening Obama in Web poem (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 05:41 PM PST

AP - A Kentucky man has been charged with posting a poem threatening President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on a white supremacist Web site.

Police probe how teenage Ohio convert fled to Fla. (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 02:49 PM PST

AP - An Ohio minister accused of driving a teenage runaway to a bus station last year has retained a lawyer as police say they're investigating whether anyone broke the law in helping the Christian convert leave home for Florida.

Shuttle Endeavour undocks from space station (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 05:33 PM PST

AP - Shuttle Endeavour departed the International Space Station on Friday night and headed home, leaving behind an outpost that is nearly complete and now has the best windows ever on the world.

Judge: Joe Jackson can get Jackson's medical files (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 03:04 PM PST

AP - Michael Jackson's father can receive some medical records related to his superstar son's death, a judge ruled Friday.

Wannabe-hero firefighter convicted of murder in NY (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 02:42 PM PST

AP - A young volunteer firefighter who prosecutors say wanted to be a hero was convicted Friday of murder for setting a fire that killed a mother and three of her children. He tried to bolt from the courtroom after the verdict was announced but was tackled and subdued by about a dozen court officers.

Navy agrees to fund toxic water study at NC base (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 09:45 AM PST

AP - The Navy has agreed after months of fighting to fund a study into the health effects of past water pollution at Camp Lejeune on Marines.

Unclaimed $2.5M Ind. jackpot has winner after all (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 01:24 PM PST

AP - Eric White didn't realize he'd left $2.5 million sitting on the desk in the office in his Indianapolis home for six months.