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Colleges warn students about Mexico travel (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:19 PM PST AP - The U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning college students headed for Mexico for some spring-break partying of a surge in drug-related murder and mayhem south of the border.

APNewsBreak: Terrorist in NYC bomb plot deported (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 05:29 PM PST AP - A Black September terrorist who served about half his 30-year sentence for planting three car bombs in New York City in 1973 was deported Thursday, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

3 charged in La. swap of 2 kids for pet bird, cash (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 02:10 PM PST AP - A Louisiana woman is accused of trading two young children in her care for a pet cockatoo and $175 cash from a couple who had been trying for years to have their own child, authorities said Thursday.

Jury gets Phoenix's serial shooter case (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 05:22 PM PST AP - Jurors began deliberating Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing eight people and attacking 20 others in dozens of random nighttime shootings in 2005 and 2006.

Pa. man could serve 6 months for boy's 1985 death (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 12:28 PM PST AP - For more than two decades, only Joseph Geiger knew how David Reed had died — a fatal punch to the 13-year-old he suspected of stealing his marijuana plants.

Parents criticize SF cops' probe into son's death (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 05:32 PM PST AP - The parents of a French-American man found stabbed to death in his San Francisco apartment nearly two years ago accused police on Thursday of failing to properly investigate evidence collected in the mysterious case.

Judge to Detroit reporter: Explain your silence (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 04:55 PM PST AP - A judge declined to hold a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter in contempt Thursday for refusing to reveal unnamed sources but ordered him to attend another deposition for more questions about a 2004 story about a federal terrorism prosecutor.

FBI agent shot during roundup of drug suspects (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 05:04 PM PST AP - An FBI agent was shot and wounded Thursday morning during a roundup of suspects in an alleged cocaine distribution ring, a Buffalo-area sweep that also led to the arrest of a former NBA player in Nevada.

Woman infected with herpes wins $7M in Calif. suit (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 02:20 PM PST AP - A jury awarded nearly $7 million to a 56-year-old woman who said she was unknowingly infected with herpes by the 77-year-old founder of a hair-care company.

Sewage spills foul San Francisco Bay over and over (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 12:23 PM PST AP - Last weekend, 890,000 gallons of raw sewage and stormwater spilled into San Francisco Bay from an overloaded World War II-era treatment plant. Five days earlier, a ruptured pipe released 400,000 gallons of filth into the bay.

Letter says ex-Kan. AG faces ethics complaint (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:55 PM PST AP - Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, who received national attention and judicial criticism for his work investigating abortion clinics, will face a professional ethics complaint, a state document shows.

Wiesel recounts meeting Madoff, losing millions (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 03:16 PM PST AP - There wasn't a sales pitch.

NYPD seeks 2nd suspect in immigrant's death (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 02:53 PM PST AP - Police on Thursday were seeking one man in the beating death of an Ecuadorean immigrant while another suspect pleaded not guilty to a hate crime murder charge in the attack.

Alleged Ohio terror plotter sentenced to 20 years (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 11:09 AM PST AP - An Ohio man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday over allegations he joined al-Qaida and helped plot terrorist bombings in the U.S. and overseas.

Bullet holes found after Mo. death ruled natural (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 01:13 PM PST AP - Police and medical examiners who thought a man died of natural causes changed their minds after funeral-home workers found bullet holes in his head.

DC on verge of getting a vote in the US House (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 02:28 PM PST AP - They live in the shadow of the Capitol dome, but District of Columbia residents have never had what Americans in all 50 states do: A voting member of Congress.

Americans receiving unemployment top 5 million (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 02:24 PM PST AP - As bad as it is already, the economy keeps getting worse — and government figures Thursday provided more evidence that the downward spiral won't end anytime soon.

Former CIA exec gets more than 3 years in prison (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 11:36 AM PST AP - The highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of a federal felony was sentenced to more than three years in prison Thursday as part of a bribery and fraud investigation that previously resulted in the conviction of a California congressman.

Ill. gov looks into state's hiring of Burris' son (AP) Posted: 26 Feb 2009 11:53 AM PST AP - Gov. Pat Quinn is reviewing how the son of embattled Sen. Roland Burris got a state job as a housing-agency lawyer under ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration, just weeks after he landed in tax and foreclosure trouble.

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