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OJ Simpson faces spartan prison as lawyers appeal (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 12:34 AM CST

AP - In the harsh light of the morning after his sentencing, O.J. Simpson's future was clear Saturday. His new home will be a prison cell in the Nevada desert with his door to freedom hinging on an appeal of a trial that his lawyers say was filled with errors.

Endeavour to begin return trip to Fla. on Monday (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 12:28 AM CST

AP - NASA says space shuttle Endeavour will begin its cross-country return trip to Florida on Monday, one day later than expected.

Calif. city at loss to explain shackled teen case (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 07:37 PM CST

AP - City officials and child-abuse experts don't understand how the abduction and torture of a teenage boy could have gone undetected for more than a year in this middle-class community once dubbed the second-safest in Northern California.

Police: NYC woman disappears after leaving club (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 02:01 AM CST

AP - Authorities scoured a swath of upstate New York on Saturday in hopes of finding a woman last seen leaving a trendy Manhattan club with a registered sex offender.

Girl, 10, dies in Christmas parade float accident (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 12:07 AM CST

AP - A trailer carrying children in a Christmas parade struck and killed a 10-year-old girl who had jumped out of a pickup truck driving among the floats Saturday, police said.

Court OKs diaper evidence at ex-astronaut's trial (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 03:24 PM CST

AP - Diapers, latex gloves and other items found in an ex-astronaut's car can be used as evidence when the woman accused of driving 1,000-miles to confront a romantic rival goes to trial, an appeals court ruled.

Sunny von Bulow dead after 28 years in coma (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 05:49 PM CST

AP - Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, an heiress who spent the last 28 years of her life in oblivion after what prosecutors alleged in a pair of sensational trials were two murder attempts by her husband, died Saturday at age 76.

Angry laid-off workers occupy factory in Chicago (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 09:59 PM CST

AP - Workers who got three days' notice that their factory was shutting its doors have occupied the building and say they won't go home without assurances they'll get severance and vacation pay.

Montana judge: Man has right to assisted suicide (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 05:15 PM CST

AP - A Montana judge has ruled that doctor-assisted suicides are legal in the state, a decision likely to be appealed as the state argues that the Legislature, not the court, should decide whether terminally ill patients have the right to take their own life.

Pearl Harbor commemoration to focus on US response (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 03:34 PM CST

AP - With an eye on the immediate aftermath of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, thousands of World War II veterans and other observers are expected on Sunday to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the devastating Japanese military raid.

Raids could force meatpackers to raise worker pay (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 01:46 PM CST

AP - The kosher slaughterhouse whose work force was depleted by a mass immigration raid in May has struggled to remain open because of a problem that few companies in this economy have: It can't find enough workers.

Veteran lawyers battle in Minn. Senate recount (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 02:24 PM CST

AP - Ten years ago, Democratic attorney Marc Elias went to Nevada to help with a recount that would determine the winner of that state's very close U.S. Senate race.

Blackwater guards: Mercenaries or decorated vets? (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 05:06 PM CST

AP - Defense attorneys on Saturday lambasted U.S. indictments against decorated war veterans for deadly 2007 shootings as Iraqis welcomed the charges against five Blackwater guards in a case that fueled anti-Americanism and roiled diplomacy with Baghdad.

Reno murder suspect faces 3 new rape charges (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 05:37 PM CST

AP - Prosecutors in Nevada have filed three new rape charges against a former Marine accused of killing a college student.

Meltdown weakens NYC as global financial capital (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 01:14 PM CST

AP - For the hundreds of camera-toting tourists who visit Wall Street every day, the New York Stock Exchange presents an imposing sight.

Atlantic City: casinos, boardwalk and now sex tape (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 02:26 PM CST

AP - A hooker and a Baptist minister having sex in a seedy motel room, where a camera was hidden in a clock radio. A videotape delivered to a radio talk show host by someone wearing oversized glasses, a fake beard and surgical gloves.

Apartment fire kills 5 in Columbus, Ohio (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 01:15 PM CST

AP - Fire in an apartment complex killed five people early Saturday, four of them children, as water sprayed on the flames by firefighters turned to ice in bitterly cold weather.

Youthfulness an American obsession at what cost? (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 04:42 PM CST

AP - It's one of those photos that make you do a double-take. Dr. Jeffry Life stands in jeans, his shirt off. His face is that of a distinguished-looking grandpa; his head is balding, and what hair there is is white. But his 69-year-old body looks like it belongs to a muscle-bound 30-year-old.