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After Calif. loss, gays get right to wed in Conn. (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 02:58 AM CST

AP - Same-sex couples exchanged vows Wednesday for the first time in Connecticut amid cheers and tears of joy, while gay activists planned protests across the country over the vote that took away their right to marry in California.

Disgraced pastor Haggard: I was abused as child (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 12:20 AM CST

AP - Disgraced evangelical pastor Ted Haggard says he was sexually abused as a child and that the experience "started to rage in my mind and in my heart" when he was caught up in a sex scandal involving a male prostitute. Haggard made the remarks in two recent sermons in Morrison, Ill., ABC's "Good Morning America" reported Wednesday.

Police: Fla. girl shot peer in crowded school hall (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 03:17 AM CST

AP - A sophomore high school student shot and killed one of her peers after an argument in a crowded hallway between classes, then walked to a nearby restaurant to call authorities and turn herself in, police said.

Atty's: War vet won't testify at other vet's trial (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 09:13 PM CST

AP - Defying the terms of his plea agreement, an Iraq war veteran will not testify against a fellow soldier charged with murdering another veteran after a drunken dispute, his lawyers said Wednesday.

Michael Jackson gives Neverland to corporation (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 07:54 PM CST

AP - Michael Jackson has given up title to his Neverland ranch, transferring the deed to a company he partly controls.

11-year-old boy is 31st Nebraska 'safe haven' case (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 08:19 PM CST

AP - An 11-year-old Florida boy was abandoned at a Nebraska hospital Wednesday, just days before lawmakers meet to change the much-criticized "safe haven" law.

Texas man executed; killed ex-girlfriend's sister (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 07:37 PM CST

AP - A man who went on a murderous rampage against the family of his ex-girlfriend was executed Wednesday after he apologized and asked his family to pray for him.

Pa. lieutenant governor dies at 78; had cancer (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 09:59 PM CST

AP - Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll, who was the first woman to be elected in that position, died Wednesday after battling cancer. She was 78.

Obamas discuss public school options for daughters (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:07 PM CST

AP - President-elect Barack Obama's family has discussed public school options for their two young daughters with District of Columbia officials, the mayor and schools chief said Wednesday.

Ike-damaged hospital, med school laying off 3,800 (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 07:41 PM CST

AP - The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, a teaching hospital severely damaged by Hurricane Ike, will lay off about 3,800 workers nearly a third of its work force because it is running out of money.

8 new indictments issued in Texas polygamist case (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:13 PM CST

AP - A grand jury on Wednesday indicted another three members of a polygamist sect that was the focus of a massive raid in west Texas during the spring.

FBI investigating failed funeral contract company (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 06:42 PM CST

AP - The FBI is looking into alleged misconduct by a funeral contract company that guaranteed hundreds of millions of dollars of services to families before becoming insolvent.

Minnesota Senate race never-ending campaign (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 04:52 PM CST

AP - There are no voters left to persuade. But as Minnesota's U.S. Senate race heads toward a statewide recount, the bare-knuckle fight between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken feels like Election Day had never come and gone.

Judge dismisses US Rep. Davis' traffic ticket (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:19 PM CST

AP - An Illinois judge has dismissed a traffic ticket issued to a black Democratic congressman who accused police of racial profiling.

Office holiday parties are getting downsized (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 04:14 PM CST

AP - In this brutal season of cutbacks, the office holiday party is getting downsized, too.

Imprisoned Mich. pastor says free speech violated (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 03:55 PM CST

AP - The American Civil Liberties Union is taking up the case of a southwestern Michigan minister who was sent to prison for warning that a judge could be tortured by God.

Judge rejects fundraiser Rezko's bid for new trial (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 03:48 PM CST

AP - A federal judge on Wednesday turned down a request for a new trial from convicted influence peddler Tony Rezko, the pivotal figure in a major Illinois political corruption scandal.

Group says Great Lakes, Mississippi basins should be separated (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:32 PM CST

AP - Connections engineered more than a century ago between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed should be changed to block the advance of invasive species that can cause irreversible damage, an environmental advocacy group says.