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Exotic dancer set on fire outside LA bar (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2009 01:30 AM CST AP - An exotic dancer was set on fire outside the club where she worked early Thursday, burning more than 60 percent of her body, police said. They were searching for two suspects.

Calif. octuplets' mom's veil of secrecy vanishes (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 09:24 PM CST AP - The veil of secrecy octuplets' mother Nadya Suleman shrouded herself in for more than a week was lifted Thursday with the release of public documents showing that the 33-year-old struggled with depression for years until she finally began to realize her childhood dream of having a huge family.

FBI takes sudden new interest in 'Tylenol Man' (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 10:39 PM CST AP - James W. Lewis has a habit of getting into trouble. And a knack for getting out of it, too. He was charged with killing and dismembering a man in Kansas City, Mo., in 1978, but the case was thrown out. He was jailed on rape charges decades later in Massachusetts, but went free when the victim refused to testify.

Pilot: `Sickening' feeling before NY river landing (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 11:51 PM CST AP - Hero pilot Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger says the moments after both engines of US Airways Flight 1549 lost power were the worst of his life.

Recalled peanut butter was in meals sent to Ky. (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 08:31 PM CST AP - Nearly 168,000 emergency meal kits sent to Kentucky in the wake of an ice storm had been recalled more than two weeks earlier because some contained peanut butter that could have been contaminated by salmonella, federal officials said Thursday.

Judges: Miami school board can ban book about Cuba (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 07:52 PM CST AP - Miami school officials can remove from library shelves a book about Cuba that depicts smiling children in communist uniforms but avoids mention of problems in the country, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

Assets of Ind. money manager's wife ordered frozen (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 06:32 PM CST AP - The estranged wife of an indicted Indiana money manager withdrew tens of thousands of dollars from bank accounts that also included investor money in the week before she filed for divorce, a judge ruled Thursday in freezing her assets in hopes that clients can recoup their losses.

Tire, files examined in Arkansas car bombing case (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 06:28 PM CST AP - Federal agents investigating a car bombing that critically injured a state medical board official focused Thursday on a tire the victim reportedly was trying to move from his driveway just before the blast.

Transport company loses inmate on way to Philly (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 04:32 PM CST AP - A private prison transportation company lost an attempted-murder suspect somewhere between Florida and Pennsylvania, leading to a search for the cuffed and shackled inmate and drawing complaints that such companies are poorly regulated.

Daughter: Mother should `pay' in Mo. incest case (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2009 01:31 AM CST AP - The older sister of a girl allegedly molested and impregnated four times by their father said Thursday their mother allowed the abuse and should face more than a child-endangerment charge.

Israel: Militants launch rocket, violating truce (AP) Posted: 06 Feb 2009 12:38 AM CST AP - The Israeli military says Palestinian militants have launched a rocket from Gaza, violating an unwritten cease-fire that ended Israel's Gaza offensive.

Mom of boy in hanging death may seek 2nd autopsy (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 07:31 PM CST AP - The mother of a 10-year-old boy found hanged in a bathroom at a suburban Chicago school does not believe her son committed suicide and may seek a second autopsy, her attorney said Thursday.

Calif. agencies scramble to meet Friday furloughs (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 07:11 PM CST AP - State agencies were scrambling Thursday to implement the first employee furloughs in California history, ordered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to save money in the face of a massive budget crisis.

Reputed Chicago mob boss gets life in prison (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 07:24 PM CST AP - Reputed mob boss James Marcello, one of five men convicted in the city's biggest underworld trial in decades, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for his role as the leader of a racketeering conspiracy that also included two gangland murders more than 22 years ago.

Ex-turkey farm workers indicted on abuse charges (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 04:56 PM CST AP - Three former turkey farm workers who were videotaped stomping on birds' heads and wringing their necks have been indicted on 19 counts of animal abuse, 11 of them felony charges that could carry significant jail time.

Wis. religious leader: No contest in corpse case (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 03:35 PM CST AP - A religious leader pleaded no contest Thursday to charges that he stashed a rotting corpse for two months in a follower's bathroom. Alan Bushey was charged last year with hiding a corpse, causing mental harm to a child and theft. Investigators said the body of a 90-year-old member of his religious group was concealed at another group member's home in a scheme to collect the dead woman's Social Security checks.

Former Fla. reform school inmates sue the state (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 05:19 PM CST AP - Nearly 100 men who spent time at two Florida reform schools a half century ago are suing the state claiming they were raped and severely beaten by state employees.

Fla. woman in adoption scam gets more prison time (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 12:05 PM CST AP - A Florida woman accused of abusing 11 disabled children she adopted — while pocketing more than $1 million in subsidies — has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Octuplet mom got more than $165K in disability (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 05:20 PM CST AP - A California agency says it paid the mother of newborn octuplets more than $165,000 in disability payments for an on-the-job back injury. The payments made over six years to Nadya Suleman were disclosed Thursday to The Associated Press following a public records request to the Department of Mental Health. The payments were made between 2002 and 2008, during which time the single mother gave birth to most of her six other children.

Base realignment boon becomes burden in recession (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2009 02:59 PM CST AP - Like most states on the receiving end of big military base moves, leaders in Maryland crowed four years ago when the Pentagon announced thousands of jobs would be transferred to the Aberdeen Proving Ground from Fort Monmouth, N.J.

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