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Wind cooperates with firefighters in Calif. blaze (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 02:04 AM CST AP - Firefighters were holding their own Friday against a wildfire that destroyed more than 100 homes in a wealthy, celebrity-studded enclave, but another fire raging in Los Angeles had consumed five homes and was threatening dozens more.

Neb. starts work on fixing child abandonment law (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 11:06 PM CST AP - Nebraska lawmakers got to work Friday in a rare special legislative session designed to repair a unique "safe haven" law that has unintentionally allowed parents to abandon nearly three dozen children as old as 17.

Police: Laid-off worker kills 3 in Northern Calif. (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2008 12:28 AM CST AP - A laid-off worker returned to his former office in Northern California and opened fire Friday, killing three people before fleeing and leading police on an intensive search.

Mormon church condemns gay activists for 'attacks' (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 11:02 PM CST AP - A day after it received hoax mailings containing a white powder, the Mormon church on Friday blamed opponents of California's gay marriage ban for recent "attacks" while an allied group condemned "acts of domestic terrorism against our supporters."

3 big-city mayors seek share of federal bailout (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 09:32 PM CST AP - Mayors of three cities hit hardest by the economic crisis — Philadelphia, Atlanta and Phoenix — asked the federal government Friday for a piece of the $700 billion bailout package, saying they need help just like financial institutions.

Judge: Evidence of suicide OK at Web hoax trial (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 08:35 PM CST AP - Evidence from the suicide of a Missouri girl can be used by prosecutors against a woman charged with helping to create a false Internet identity that was used to harass the teenager, a federal judge ruled Friday.

500K illegal immigrants defying deportation orders (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 04:03 PM CST AP - Zeituni Onyango came to the United States seeking asylum from her native Kenya but was turned down and ordered to leave the country in 2004.

Ga. priest facing excommunication will appeal (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 03:20 PM CST AP - A Georgia priest facing excommunication for supporting the ordination of women said Friday he plans to visit the Vatican with a contingent of fellow priests and a bishop to appeal the decision.

Trial opens for Empire State Building parachutist (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 06:41 PM CST AP - A former host of a TV stunt show put himself and others in danger because he was reckless and selfish enough to try to parachute from the Empire State Building 2 1/2 years ago, a prosecutor told jurors Friday.

3 Chicago teens drown during leadership retreat (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 06:14 PM CST AP - Three high school students on a leadership camping retreat sneaked away from their camp beds in the middle of the night and drowned early Friday in paddle boats with floor plugs that had been removed for winter.

Ex-radical Ayers distances himself from Obama (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 04:49 PM CST AP - Vietnam-era radical Bill Ayers said Friday that he doesn't know President-elect Barack Obama any better than "thousands of other Chicagoans" and that the two never talked about Ayers' anti-war activities. In a television interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," the college professor disputed the contention that in the new afterword of a paperback edition of his 2001 memoir "Fugitive Days" he describes himself and Obama as "family friends."

Many Texans calling tents home 2 months after Ike (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 05:39 PM CST AP - Truong Van Cao and two other fishermen share a cramped, muddy tent amid the wreckage of homes, including his own, destroyed when Hurricane Ike stormed across this tiny Southeast Texas town.

GM may run out of gas before Obama arrives (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 05:00 PM CST AP - In recent months, General Motors has been burning through about $3.1 million an hour, or $52,000 — the price of a well-equipped Chevy Tahoe SUV — every minute.

Court: NY killer ex-fugitive can't withdraw pleas (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 05:20 PM CST AP - A former escaped inmate who killed a New York state trooper and wounded two others while on the run in 2006 cannot withdraw his guilty pleas and stand trial, an appeals court ruled Friday.

Vt. town grows divisible over Pledge of Allegiance (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 03:49 PM CST AP - No one is sure when daily recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance fell by the wayside at Woodbury Elementary School.

Former CEO of Iowa kosher slaughterhouse arrested (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 04:03 PM CST AP - A former executive of a kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of one of the nation's largest immigration raids was arrested Friday on a bank fraud charge and ordered jailed until at least next week.

Mass. lawmaker accused of harassing women resigns (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 04:45 PM CST AP - A Massachusetts state senator charged over the summer with sexually harassing four women has resigned.

Schwarzenegger wants to trim Calif.'s 14 holidays (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2008 03:02 PM CST AP - California's generous offering of holidays for state workers — the equivalent of nearly three work weeks — is among the items Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking to trim to help counter a mounting budget deficit.

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