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Prosecutors must show Peterson's wife was killed (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 12:22 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, May 8, 2009 file photo, former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill. On Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010, a pretrial hearing is scheduled to resume, where prosecutors are trying to convince jurors that the death of Peterson's ex-wife, Kathleen Savio, was not an accident. Prosecutors have been presenting witnesses to counter the 2004 finding that Savio simply drowned in her bathtub. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - The crime scene technician didn't think twice about the bottle of cleaning fluid near the bathroom where the body of Drew Peterson's ex-wife lay slumped in her bathtub — or whether it might have been used to wipe away evidence of a crime.

Jackson calls Oregon police shooting an execution (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 09:08 PM PST

AP - The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Tuesday called the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man an execution and criticized plans to allow the officer to return to regular duty this week.

Astronauts unveil phenomenal new window on world (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 10:16 PM PST

In this Monday Feb. 15, 2010 image provided by NASA, an old docking adapter, the Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 (PMA-3), held by the Canadarm2, is relocated from the Harmony node to the open port on the end of the newly-installed Tranquility node . The adapter will provide an extra parking spot for visiting ships and buffer against micrometeorite hits. Tranquility's Cupola is visible at bottom center. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Astronauts are taking in "absolutely spectacular" views of Earth as they crank open shutters inside the International Space Station's new $27 million observation deck.

Climber's body recovered in St. Helens crater (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 06:10 PM PST

Family members of climber Joseph Bohlig hug at the Marble Mountain trail head parking lot near Mount St. Helens and Cougar, Wash., Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. The body of veteran climber Bohlig, who fell 1,500 feet into the crater atop Mount St. Helens, has been recovered after he spent more than a day in the snow, authorities said Tuesday. Standing at left is fellow climber Scott Salkovics, who was with Bohlig when he fell. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - The body of a veteran climber who fell 1,500 feet into the crater atop Mount St. Helens was recovered Tuesday after he spent more than a day in the snow, authorities said.

Zionist group asks donors to avoid UC Irvine (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 09:55 PM PST

AP - The Zionist Organization of America on Tuesday asked potential students and donors to the University of California, Irvine to look elsewhere after months of growing tension between Jewish and Muslim students.

Ala. prof's story begins with brother's 1986 death (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 08:18 PM PST

This police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Dept.)AP - When a young woman in Massachusetts killed her brother with a shotgun blast in 1986, authorities waited more than a week to question family members and the death was ultimately ruled an accident.

Colo. mortuary that mixed up bodies can stay open (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 08:26 PM PST

AP - A Denver funeral home that mistakenly switched the bodies of two women, burying and then exhuming one, will be allowed to continue operating under a state agreement calling for three years of probation.

West Hollywood moves to ban dog, cat sales (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 08:04 PM PST

AP - This famously quirky city that formally recognizes pets as companions and their owners as guardians put a leash on dog and cat sales Tuesday.

Ga. car auction crash seriously hurts at least 6 (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 08:30 PM PST

AP - A car being shown at a north Georgia auto auction plowed into the crowd and sent a dozen people to the hospital, including at least six with serious injuries.

Family sues over deadly Calif. Coast Guard crash (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 09:18 PM PST

AP - A Coast Guard vessel was traveling at an unsafe speed when it struck and killed an 8-year-old boy who was at a Christmas parade on his family boat, the family alleges in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the federal government.

NC woman guilty of killing Calif. fortuneteller (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 06:33 PM PST

AP - A California jury found a North Carolina woman guilty Tuesday of murdering a Vietnamese fortuneteller and her college-age daughter after the mind reader told her to get over a lost lover.

Kenneth Starr introduced as Baylor president (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 05:18 PM PST

Kenneth Starr, center, speaks to Baylor University faculty and students, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010, in Waco Texas. Starr was named Baylor's 14th president. Starr replaces John M. Lilley. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte)AP - Baylor University's new president Kenneth Starr said Tuesday he is excited to promote the world's largest Baptist university and pleased his time as an independent prosecutor investigating the Clinton White House is long past.

Chilly weather can't stop New Orleans' big party (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 11:40 AM PST

Pete Fountain gives the thumbs-up as he prepares to lead his Half Fast Walking Club through the streets of New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. This is the 50th year Fountain has led his group celebrating the all day street party know as Mardi Gras. AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - Pete Fountain, clarinet in hand and looking dapper in a white tuxedo and fedora trimmed in gold, kicked off Mardi Gras with his "Half Fast Marching Club" the way they have for 50 years: with beads and jazz.

New clip shows JFK arriving in Dallas in 1963 (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 06:08 PM PST

This frame grab from a Nov. 22, 1963, film provided by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, shows President John F. Kennedy on his arrival in Dallas on the day he was assassinated. The short clip was shot on 8mm film by William Ward Warren, then a 15-year-old student. (AP Photo/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, William Ward Warren) NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDIT. DO NOT USE AFTER 11:59 PM EST SUNDAY FEB. 21, 2010.AP - New color video footage showing President John F. Kennedy's arrival in Dallas the day he was assassinated is the best home movie ever made of the event, the curator of the Dallas JFK museum said.

ND scrambles to save hot line ahead of floods (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:23 PM PST

FILE - In this March 27, 2009, file photo snow flurries fall as scores of volunteers build up a dike to hold back the rising Red River flood waters in Fargo, N.D. During last spring's flooding, a statewide 211 number established to take calls for social services fielded more than 40,000 inquiries. Now the number may go out of business in most of the state, which has left supporters scrambling to raise the money needed to keep it going.(AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)AP - When the Red River burst its banks last spring, flooding dozens of surrounding towns and cities, thousands of worried or displaced residents called a statewide 211 hot line to help find shelter or a meal.

Lawyer expects ax attack to be death penalty case (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:30 PM PST

This image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Harold Montague, 33, who is being held on murder and attempted murder charges in the Thursday, Feb. 1, 2010 ax slaying of a four-month-old Damien Avila-Castro in a stroller in a Las Vegas neighborhood and attacks on the boy's mother, Sandra Lisset Castro, and Monica O'Dazier, Montague's sister-in-law. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)AP - A lawyer for a man accused of killing a 4-month-old baby and critically wounding the child's mother with a medieval-style battle ax said Tuesday he expects the state will seek the death penalty against his 33-year-old client.

Fla. executes 45-year-old inmate for 1984 slaying (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 03:24 PM PST

AP - Florida has executed 45-year-old Martin Edward Grossman, who was convicted of killing a state wildlife officer during the 1980s.

3 killed in NJ plane crash were family from Poland (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:00 PM PST

AP - Three of the five people who died when a small plane broke apart and tore through a snowy field next to a runway were members of a family visiting from Poland, police said Tuesday.

Clearing roads in winter requires snowphistication (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 11:40 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2009 file photo, A plow clears snow from a street in Des Moines, Iowa. Many cities in the American snow belt, where the strategy for cleaning the streets of winter's wrath is often based on a calculated risk that snow won't fall where snow usually doesn't. Most years, that gamble pays off. The snow and ice community has struggled with this topic for years as the methods, equipment, availability of resources and most importantly, level of service and winter severity, vary enormously from state to state, region to region. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - The forecast: a mighty winter blizzard sure to dump a record-setting blanket of snow that will grow from inches to feet overnight, just in time for rush hour.

Military court to review Abu Ghraib conviction (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 03:17 PM PST

AP - The U.S. military's highest court says it will review the conviction of an Army reservist who prosecutors said was the ringleader of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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