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Owner now says she never gave slain chimp Xanax (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 08:34 PM CST AP - As authorities considered criminal charges, the woman whose 200-pound domesticated chimpanzee went berserk and mauled a friend backtracked Wednesday on whether she gave the animal the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. Sandra Herold told The Associated Press on Wednesday that she never gave the drug to her 14-year-old chimp, Travis, who was shot dead by Stamford police Monday after he grievously wounded Herold's friend Charla Nash.

Burris saga is corruption deja vu for Illinois (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 06:42 PM CST AP - Should he resign? Can he be forced out? Will he face criminal charges?

Grand jury indicts alleged KKK group leader in La. (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 08:14 PM CST AP - The alleged leader of a Ku Klux Klan group was indicted on a second-degree murder charge Wednesday in the shooting death of an Oklahoma woman who police said was killed during an initiation in south Louisiana.

GOP governors consider turning down stimulus money (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 08:37 PM CST AP - A handful of Republican governors are considering turning down some money from the federal stimulus package, a move opponents say puts conservative ideology ahead of the needs of constituents struggling with record foreclosures and soaring unemployment.

Geronimo descendants suing Yale secret society over remains (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 04:36 PM CST AP - Geronimo's descendants have sued Skull and Bones — the secret society at Yale University linked to presidents and other powerful figures — claiming that its members stole the remains of the legendary Apache leader decades ago and have kept them ever since.

Missouri man convicted of '92 slaying released (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 09:58 PM CST AP - A man who spent half of his life in prison for a 1992 slaying was freed Wednesday after a judge ruled that he was wrongly convicted and had to be retried or released.

Lawyer: Religion not an issue in NY beheading case (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 06:11 PM CST AP - A Muslim-American television executive accused of decapitating his wife remained jailed without bail Wednesday as his lawyer dismissed suggestions that culture played a role in the crime.

Sheriff: Ohio man kills family, then himself (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 09:05 PM CST AP - A man who told a sheriff's dispatcher he had money problems strangled his wife and 11-year-old son, then shot and killed himself, authorities said Wednesday.

Report: ICE agents pressured to meet arrest quotas (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 07:04 PM CST AP - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 24 Hispanics at a convenience store in Baltimore two years ago after their supervisor told them to "bring more bodies" because they were behind their annual quota of 1,000 arrests per team, according to an ICE report released Wednesday.

Man kills self in SoCal televangelist's cathedral (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 09:17 PM CST AP - A man shot and killed himself in front of a cross inside televangelist Robert H. Schuller's Crystal Cathedral on Wednesday as a nearby volunteer told a group of visitors about the church's suicide-prevention program, police and church officials said.

Doc hurt in Ark. blast appears not to remember it (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 06:23 PM CST AP - The chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board has no memory of a bombing that severely burned him and destroyed his left eye, a family friend said Wednesday.

Hispanics' Texas primary suit to be reconsidered (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 07:13 PM CST AP - Latino voters who sued the Texas Democratic Party, claiming its presidential delegate system discriminates against Hispanics, are getting another chance to make their case.

Outcry prompts LA to rethink billboard regulations (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 06:34 PM CST AP - David Allan works in advertising — literally. The six-story building where the chiropractor works is draped in it.

Work for America: Nonprofits see applications rise (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 02:55 PM CST AP - Meghan McCloskey heard the call to service when she was in college, applying to the Peace Corps during her senior year. That call only got louder as she realized her shrinking job options in the faltering economy.

Florida smoker's widow gets $8M in damages (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 05:52 PM CST AP - Philip Morris was ordered by a jury Wednesday to pay $8 million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a standard for some 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits.

NY Post cartoon of dead chimpanzee stirs outrage (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 05:20 PM CST AP - A New York Post cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police drew outrage Wednesday from civil rights leaders and elected officials who said it echoed racist stereotypes of blacks as monkeys.

Soldier pleads guilty to assault in Iraq death (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 06:00 PM CST AP - An Army staff sergeant who was facing a murder charge in the death of an Iraqi detainee pleaded guilty to assault on Wednesday and received more than a year's confinement.

Analysis: Meltdown could force college aid shift (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 03:18 PM CST AP - Johnny's a middle-class student who worked hard to get good grades and a high SAT score. Jane's record isn't as good, but her family is low-income, and without help she might not be able to go to college at all.

Sheriff: Body found identified as missing Ark. boy (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 05:16 PM CST AP - Searchers on Wednesday found the body of a 3-year-old boy missing for more than a week, floating in a southwestern Arkansas lake near his mother's home.

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