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Freight brakeman in deadly LA train collision sues (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2008 01:26 AM CDT AP - The brakeman on the freight train involved in a deadly collision with a commuter train filed a lawsuit Friday against the commuter railroad and the companies that provide its engineers.

Neb. lawmakers consider revising 'safe-haven' law (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2008 01:25 AM CDT AP - When Nebraska lawmakers passed a unique "safe-haven" law that allowed parents to abandon children as old as 19, they never seriously thought such dropoffs would become common. But their worst fears have come true: At least 16 children, some of them teenagers, have been abandoned since the law took effect in July.

4 students killed in bus-truck collision in Ind. (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2008 12:14 AM CDT AP - A school bus collided with two dump trucks in a horrific crash Friday in rural northern Indiana, killing the four young special-needs students on board and injuring the bus driver, authorities said.

Texas residents of ravaged peninsula head home (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2008 03:19 AM CDT AP - Terrie Robbins expected to find storm damage when she and other residents were allowed to return home on Bolivar Peninsula for the first time Friday since fleeing Hurricane Ike.

Sen. Kennedy back home after brief hospital trip (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2008 01:22 AM CDT AP - Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has brain cancer, was taken by ambulance to a hospital Friday near his Cape Cod vacation home after complaining of feeling ill but returned home a few hours later.

Star witness: O.J. asked me to bring gun to hotel (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 10:07 PM CDT AP - The man who is expected to be the prosecution's final witness in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case testified Friday that the former football star asked him to bring a gun to a hotel room confrontation at which they planned to recover memorabilia.

Schwarzenegger focuses on McCain at GOP meeting (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2008 03:10 AM CDT AP - California Republican leaders say they have a lot to feel good about these days.

Detroit police sergeant found hanged in park (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 11:24 PM CDT AP - A Detroit police sergeant whose wife was shot to death in a suspected contract killing has been found hanged in a suburban park.

Japanese man can't be tried in LA for murder (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 08:23 PM CDT AP - A Japanese businessman cannot be tried for murder in the 1981 shooting death of his wife, but prosecutors may proceed with a charge of conspiracy to commit murder, a judge ruled Friday.

New weather balloons aim for better hurricane data (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 04:00 PM CDT AP - A fleet of special balloons may soon help hurricane forecasters better predict the path of storms. But at a cost of up to $2,000 a pop, these aren't your average birthday party decorations.

Schwarzenegger to convene global climate summit (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 06:40 PM CDT AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican who has challenged many members of his party to take climate change seriously, said Friday that he plans to invite lawmakers and governmental executives from around the globe to California this fall to address solutions to the problem.

2 weeks after Ike, kids are still not in school (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 03:37 PM CDT AP - Since Hurricane Ike knocked out power at their elementary school two weeks ago, Jakin and Jared Cordova have been playing a lot of video games.

Investigators say former NBA star misused grants (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 09:07 PM CDT AP - A nonprofit run by mayoral candidate and former NBA star Kevin Johnson used AmeriCorps grants to pay volunteers to engage in school-board political activities, run personal errands for Johnson and even wash his car, federal investigators say.

Evangelist Tony Alamo agrees to return to Arkansas (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 07:22 PM CDT AP - Evangelist and convicted tax evader Tony Alamo waived his right to fight extradition to Arkansas after his arrest on charges that he took minors across state lines for sexual purposes.

Judge bars SoCal paper from covering its own trial (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 06:10 PM CDT AP - The Orange County Register ended up in the headlines this week after a judge barred the newspaper from covering testimony in a $100 million lawsuit filed against it by newspaper deliverers.

Atheist soldier alleges discrimination by military (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 06:33 PM CDT AP - An atheist soldier says in a federal lawsuit that his superiors required him to be present for Christian prayers, and that the military allows fundamentalist Christians to proselytize.

'Clark Rockefeller' indicted on kidnapping charges (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 05:57 PM CDT AP - A German who calls himself Clark Rockefeller has been indicted on kidnapping charges for the alleged snatching of his 7-year-old daughter from a Boston street during a supervised visit in July.

Court: Philly can't enact tougher its own gun laws (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 05:09 PM CDT AP - Philadelphia officials cannot enact gun laws tougher than Pennsylvania's law, a state appeals court ruled Friday in throwing out city ordinances that included limiting gun purchases to one a month and banning assault weapons.

2 Iraqi researchers sue Texas A&M, alleging bias (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 02:22 PM CDT AP - Two former Texas A&M University researchers allege colleagues threw animal feces and urine on their prayer rug and routinely mocked and mistreated them because they are Muslims from Iraq, according to a federal lawsuit.

Chinese woman sentenced in sensor smuggling case (AP) Posted: 26 Sep 2008 04:30 PM CDT AP - A Chinese woman was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison for seeking to buy military equipment, used to gauge the power of nuclear explosions, for export to China.

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