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Okla. tea parties and lawmakers envision militia (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 06:30 PM PDT

Al Gerhart, co-founder of the Sooner Tea Party and founder of Oklahoma Constitutional Alliance, is shown in the showroom of his business, The Carpenter Shop, holding a 'Sooner Tea Party' poster from their 2009 convention, Monday, April 12, 2010, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Bill Waugh)AP - Frustrated by recent political setbacks, tea party leaders and some conservative members of the Oklahoma Legislature say they would like to create a new volunteer militia to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty.

Ohio terrorist ties to al-Qaida operative revealed (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:58 PM PDT

AP - A convicted Ohio terrorist had ties to a man convicted of plotting an attack on a French island as well as an al-Qaida suspect who met with some of the Sept. 11 hijackers and told them how to reach Afghanistan to train for jihad, according to a federal court ruling.

Mother testifies at hearing in Nev. ax attack case (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:14 PM PDT

FILE - This undated image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Harold Montague. On Monday, April 12, 2010, Sonia Lisset Castro said through tears and a translator that Montague laughed as she pleaded for him to stop striking her and her 4-month-old son with a medieval-style battle ax on a residential street. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)AP - A woman testified through tears and a translator Monday that a Las Vegas man mocked her as she pleaded for him to stop hacking her and her 4-month-old son with a medieval-style battle ax on a residential street.

Father wages court battle against funeral protests (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:17 PM PDT

In this Monday, April 5, 2010 photo, Albert Snyder pauses during an interview in York, Pa. The funeral of Albert Snyder's son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, was picketed by members of the Westboro Baptist Church. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Some nights Albert Snyder wakes up at 3 a.m. Other nights he doesn't sleep at all, tormented by thoughts of the hateful signs carried by a fundamentalist church outside his Marine son's funeral.

Polish air crash puts spotlight on pilots' duties (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:18 PM PDT

This Monday April 12, 2010 satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows the site, lower right, of a Tu-154 plane crash outside of Smolensk, Russia. Russian investigators on Monday suggested human error may have been to blame in the plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others, saying there were no technical problems with the Soviet-made plane. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe)AP - Even up against tough weather and tight schedules, pilots are supposed to have the last word on when, where and how to land their aircraft. But aviation veterans, trying to make sense of the fog-shrouded crash that killed Poland's president, say pressures on pilots to keep VIP passengers on schedule can sometimes override safety considerations.

Mine blast probe awaits recovery of final 9 bodies (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:46 PM PDT

A miner's helmet is placed amid the floral arrangements surrounding the casket of miner William Roosevelt Lynch of Oak Hill, W.Va. during funeral services on Sunday, April 11, 2010, in Beckley, W.Va. Lynch was one of 29 miners who died in the explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W. Va. on Monday. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - Federal investigators arrived Monday at the West Virginia mine where 29 men died in an explosion last week to begin piecing together what caused the worst U.S. coal mining disaster since 1970.

OJ lawyers get Nevada Supreme Court oral argument (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:53 PM PDT

AP - A Nevada Supreme Court panel is scheduling oral arguments June 11 in Las Vegas on pending appeals by O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges in a September 2007 hotel room heist.

Va. paper wins Pulitzer for gas-royalties coverage (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:04 PM PDT

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Raquel Rutledge, center, celebrates in the newsroom after hearing she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting Monday, April 12, 2010 at the paper in Milwaukee, Wis. At left is managing editor George Stanley and to the left of Rutledge is editor Marty Kaiser. The award was for investigating the $350 million taxpayer-financed child-care system known as Wisconsin Shares and uncovered a trail of phony companies, fake reports and shoddy oversight (AP Photo/Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, Mark Hoffman)AP - The Bristol Herald Courier, a small paper in the coalfields of Appalachia, beat out journalism's powerhouses to win the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for uncovering a scandal in which Virginia landowners were deprived of millions in natural gas royalties.

3 crew dead in north Ga. Navy plane crash (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 08:29 PM PDT

AP - A Florida-based Navy plane just missed a house and crashed in dense woods in north Georgia on Monday, killing three crew members, and authorities were looking for a fourth person believed to be aboard, officials said.

Foes of tea party movement to infiltrate rallies (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:30 PM PDT

AP - Opponents of the fiscally conservative tea party movement say they plan to infiltrate and dismantle the political group by trying to make its members appear to be racist, homophobic and moronic.

Beneath NYC, police protect tunnels from terror (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:37 AM PDT

In this April 1, 2010 photo, NYPD transit officer Robert McMillan patrols the tunnel while riding the 4 train from the Bowling Green station in Manhattan to the Borough Hall station in the borough of Brooklyn in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The tidy, three-story brownstone looks like any other on the cobblestone block in Brooklyn, but it isn't. It's a fake, leading directly to the belly of the nation's largest subway system.

Sources: Jackie Kennedy interviews to be published (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 06:05 PM PDT

AP - During the first half of 1964, just months after her husband was assassinated, Jacqueline Kennedy sat for seven interviews with historian and family friend Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

DA: No charges against Steelers' Roethlisberger (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger reads a statement in the team's locker room on Monday, April 12, 2010 in Pittsburgh. Roethlisberger, reading a statement for 74 seconds on Monday night but not taking questions from reporters, said Georgia prosecutors reached the right conclusion by deciding not to charge him in the case. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP - Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who won't face criminal charges after a 20-year-old college student accused him of sexually assaulting her inside a nightclub's bathroom, said Monday he knows he'll have to work to regain the trust of teammates and fans.

NYC terror probe nabs 4th suspect in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:14 AM PDT

File - Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning on in this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo. FBI agents late Saturday Sept. 19, 2009 arrested Najibullah Zazi, and his father, Muhammad Zazi during a raid Zazi's home in the Denver suburb of Aurora according to a spokeswoman for Najibullah Zazi's defense team. The new reality that there is a threat from violent Islamic extremism from within the U.S. It is difficult to say whether the uptick in cases is because law enforcement has gotten better at catching suspects or if there are simply more to catch. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - A fourth suspect in a disrupted plot to bomb New York City subways has been arrested in Pakistan, law enforcement officials said Monday.

Closing arguments start in NY hate crime trial (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:10 PM PDT

AP - The lawyer for a Long Island teenager accused in the hate crime stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant told jurors Monday that his client didn't inflict the fatal blow and that even if they found him culpable, the crime didn't rise to the level of intentional murder.

Vatican to bishops: Follow law, report sex abuse (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:58 PM PDT

FILE - This Thursday, March 25, 2010 file photo shows a view of St. Peter's Basilica during a youth meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican. The Vatican on Monday, April 12, 2010 for the first time made it clear that bishops and other high-ranking clergy should report clerical sex abuse to police. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, file)AP - The Vatican responded Monday to allegations it long concealed clerical sex abuse by making it clear for the first time that bishops and clerics worldwide should report such crimes to police if they are required to by law.

Washington state moves to ban copper in brake pads (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:36 AM PDT

AP - When a driver hits the brakes, friction releases copper shavings that fall onto the road and are eventually washed into rivers, where environmentalists say the metal could pose a hazard to marine life — especially salmon, one of the Pacific Northwest's most prized products.

Kennedy cousin loses appeal in murder conviction (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 17, 2007 file photo, Michael Skakel sits in the courtroom at Superior Court in Stamford, Conn., on the first day of a hearing to determine whether he will get a new trial for the 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley. The Connecticut Supreme Court is planning to release its ruling Monday, April 12, 2010, on Skakel's appeal of his conviction in the 1975 slaying. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)AP - The state Supreme Court on Monday rejected Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's bid for a new trial in the 1975 killing of his 15-year-old neighbor, ruling that a claim implicating two other men, including a large black man, was not credible.

Hitler book, weapons, ammo found in militia raids (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT

FILE - This file photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows David Brian Stone Sr., 44, of Clayton, Mich. Search warrant records show federal agents seized gas masks, hand grenade instructions, guns, knives, a container of potassium chlorate and dozens of other items during a raid at the home of David Brian Stone Sr., the suspected leader of a Christian militia based in southern Michigan. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals, File)AP - Federal agents investigating what they describe as a Christian militia bent on violence against police seized suspected crack cocaine and steroids, weapons, gas masks and a book of Adolf Hitler's speeches during raids of members' homes last month, according to search warrant records.

Orcas seen in rare Puget Sound gray whale attack (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:41 PM PDT

AP - Whale watchers in Puget Sound caught a rare and dramatic sight from their tourist boat: a pod of orcas speeding by in attack mode and then ramming a gray whale under water.
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