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Plane crash in upstate NY kills 49 people (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:40 AM CST AP - A commuter plane crashed into a suburban Buffalo home and erupted in flames late Thursday, killing all 48 people aboard and one person on the ground, authorities said.

Winds knock out power to thousands on East Coast (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 09:51 PM CST AP - Wild winds with gusts topping 65 mph blew from the Great Lakes to the East Coast on Thursday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers, disrupting travel and killing at least five people.

Gay couples protest at marriage bureaus across US (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 08:10 PM CST AP - Same-sex couples seeking to wed showed up at marriage license counters nationwide Thursday to highlight a right they don't have in 48 states, part of an annual protest that took on renewed urgency given recent election setbacks.

From kids to Obama, nation marks Lincoln's 200th (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:27 PM CST AP - Folksy, melancholy Abraham Lincoln would have been dumbfounded by the fuss over his birthday Thursday.

LA police to investigate threats to octuplet mom (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 10:34 PM CST AP - Police said Thursday they will investigate death threats against octuplet mother Nadya Suleman and advise her publicist on how to handle a torrent of other nasty messages that have flooded his office.

Ariz. boy, 9, offered plea deal in dad's killing (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 09:35 PM CST AP - A 9-year-old charged with killing his father and another man has been offered a plea deal that would spare him any jail time, his attorney said Thursday.

Mom doesn't buy ruling on Miss. athlete shooting (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 08:12 PM CST AP - The family of star Mississippi high school football player Billey Joe Johnson isn't done pressing for an explanation of how the 17-year-old accidentally shot and killed himself with his own shotgun during a traffic stop, as a grand jury has concluded.

Miss. judge pleads not guilty in bribery case (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:48 PM CST AP - A judge known for successfully prosecuting a white supremacist decades after a civil rights-era killing pleaded not guilty Thursday to five federal charges in an unrelated judicial bribery scheme that has snared some of the state's wealthiest attorneys.

Investigators think missing Fla. girl was abducted (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 10:36 PM CST AP - Investigators were treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old north Florida girl as an abduction and continued searching for the child Thursday.

Lincoln 1864 manuscript sets record at NYC auction (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 07:51 PM CST AP - A handwritten manuscript of an 1864 Abraham Lincoln speech sold for $3.44 million on the bicentennial of his birthday Thursday, setting a new auction record for any American historical manuscript.

TX officials order Peanut Corp. to recall products (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 10:20 PM CST AP - Texas health officials ordered the recall Thursday of peanut products from a plant operated by the company at the center of a national salmonella outbreak, days after tests indicated the likely presence of the bacteria there.

Obama visits plant hit by layoffs to pitch plan (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:16 PM CST AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday pitched his economic plan at a Caterpillar Inc. plant reeling from layoffs, his message blunted when the company's chairman warned that it may be up to a year before the multibillion-dollar program has a positive impact the economy.

Cultures offer chemical cues for aspiring Cupids (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:06 PM CST AP - Those who think flowers and chocolate are insufficient for their sweetie on Valentine's Day might try something a little more worldly — like a rhinoceros tusk or poisonous fish.

Lawyers: Is sheriff too aggressive in Phelps case? (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:08 PM CST AP - Even if a South Carolina sheriff is successful in building a marijuana case against swimming superstar Michael Phelps, it might be hard to make the charges stick, defense attorneys say.

Ohio governor grants clemency for death row inmate (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:48 PM CST AP - Gov. Ted Strickland on Thursday spared the life of a death row inmate who killed his mother in a cocaine-induced rage and whose upcoming execution was opposed by his entire family, including his mother's siblings.

Ala. man executed for stepdaughter's rape, murder (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:28 PM CST AP - Danny Joe Bradley was executed Thursday for the rape and strangulation of his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Rhonda Hardin.

Martin Luther King III marks parents' India trip (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:02 PM CST AP - Martin Luther King III will lead a delegation including civil rights icons John Lewis and Andrew Young on a 13-day trip to India to mark the 50th anniversary of his parents' pilgrimage to the country to study nonviolence.

AP Exclusive: Hazards unnoticed at shelter in fire (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:59 PM CST AP - Fire officials failed to identify serious safety concerns, including a lack of smoke detectors and proper exits, when they inspected an east Texas homeless shelter where five men later died in a fire, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

Court weighs contempt motion in Calif. prison case (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:43 PM CST AP - A federal appeals court on Thursday began considering whether Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger can be held in contempt for refusing to release money to improve inmate health care, testing the limits of federal intrusion into states' control of their prisons.

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