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Tornado kills at least 4 in southern Oklahoma (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 12:35 AM CST

AP - A large, violent tornado ripped through a southern Oklahoma town late Tuesday evening, killing four people and injuring up to 50, authorities said. Severe weather also caused damage and power outages in metro Oklahoma City and western Texas.

Medical society probes octuplet fertility doctor (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 10:52 PM CST

AP - A national medical society is investigating whether a fertility doctor followed its guidelines when he implanted six embryos into a Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets last month.

Mayor: Obama should apologize for Vegas trips quip (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 09:29 PM CST

AP - Sin City's mayor wants President Barack Obama to apologize for saying companies shouldn't visit Las Vegas on the taxpayer's dime.

African American Pullman porters honored (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 08:40 PM CST

AP - In an era when America traveled by train, one of the best jobs an African-American man could land was working as a Pullman porter. It also was one of the worst.

Ex-wife says Phoenix shooting suspect attacked her (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 09:57 PM CST

AP - A judge ruled Tuesday that the ex-wife of Phoenix's Serial Shooter suspect can tell jurors about an alleged threat he made and a confrontation in which she claims he ripped off her clothes after chasing her in a car.

Lab tests show possible salmonella at Texas plant (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 06:36 PM CST

AP - Private lab tests show there may have been salmonella at a second plant operated by the peanut company at the center of a national outbreak, but the potentially tainted products were not sent to consumers, Texas health officials said Tuesday.

Slain Florida girl Caylee Anthony remembered (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 05:41 PM CST

AP - The grandmother of slain Florida toddler Caylee Anthony told hundreds of mourners Tuesday that her granddaughter was able to win the love of strangers and inspired them to come together for a common purpose.

Senate judges order count of 23 rejected ballots (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 08:46 PM CST

AP - The judges in Minnesota's Senate trial on Tuesday ordered that 23 previously rejected absentee ballots be opened and added to the race, setting the stage for counting perhaps thousands more such ballots and giving Republican Norm Coleman a shot at erasing Democrat Al Franken's 225-vote lead.

Appeals court acquits man because he isn't Indian (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 06:56 PM CST

AP - A federal appeals court Tuesday reversed the conviction of a Montana man imprisoned for assaulting a woman because the law under which he was charged required that he be an American Indian.

Texas executes man tied to 'bathtub slayings' (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 07:05 PM CST

AP - A Louisiana man condemned for strangling and drowning a suburban Dallas woman, charged with a second slaying and blamed for the rapes of at least five other women was executed Tuesday evening.

US soldier who abandoned unit returns from Canada (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 04:53 PM CST

AP - Sporting a dragon tattoo on his forearm and skulls on both biceps, Cliff Cornell looks tough. But he dissolves into tears as he reflects on his return to the Army four years after he fled to Canada to avoid the war in Iraq.

Pot activists rip Kellogg Co. for dropping Phelps (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 05:39 PM CST

AP - Snap, crackle ... pot?

Midwife births raise questions about citizenship (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 05:39 PM CST

AP - The citizenship of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people who insist they are Americans is being called into question because they were delivered by midwives near the U.S.-Mexico border. The federal government's doubts have arisen as many people in the border region try to meet a June 1 deadline to obtain U.S. passports so they can freely cross from one country to the other.

Man leads LA police on 3-hour chase, shoots self (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST

AP - An assault suspect who ran a luxury-car-rental business and was distraught over financial troubles led police on a more than three-hour chase in a Bentley sedan before fatally shooting himself in the head early Tuesday as officers surrounded the $100,000-plus vehicle.

Noted Miss. attorney pleads guilty to mail fraud (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:56 PM CST

AP - A noted anti-tobacco attorney jailed for conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge pleaded guilty to mail fraud Tuesday in a second bribery scheme.

Alaska's top lawyer, Troopergate figure, resigns (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:21 PM CST

AP - Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg, a major figure in the abuse-of-power investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin, has resigned, the governor's office said Tuesday.

DNA match breaks open Wisconsin slaying from 1976 (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:14 PM CST

AP - A man accused of killing a young go-go dancer three decades ago told his soon-to-be wife years later that at the same nightclub, he had met someone once and things went "horribly wrong," according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.

A Maine event of 50 below excites scientists (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:13 PM CST

AP - Teeth are chattering in New England, where scientists just spent about a month scrutinizing weather data before proclaiming Tuesday that, yes, Maine has pulled even with Vermont in bragging rights for the region's lowest recorded temperature 50 below.

Sobering results for cost-cutting Medicare project (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 05:24 PM CST

AP - An ambitious effort to cut costs and keep aging, sick Medicare patients out of the hospital mostly didn't work, a government-contracted study found. The disappointing results show how tough it is to manage older patients with chronic diseases, who often take multiple prescriptions, see many different doctors and sometimes get conflicting medical advice.