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Letter said to be from NY killer forecast slayings (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 04:12 PM PDT AP - The man who opened fire in an immigrant center, killing 13 people before taking his own life, felt he was persecuted by police, couldn't accept his "poor life" and was intent on killing himself and at least two other people, according to a letter mailed to a television station the day of the massacre.

VA patient tests positive for HIV after mistakes (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 04:14 PM PDT AP - A Veterans Affairs patient who was among thousands treated with unsterilized equipment has tested positive for HIV, the first such case reported since the department warned veterans they could have been exposed to infectious diseases.

NYC's archbishop Cardinal Egan to get pacemaker (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:45 PM PDT AP - Cardinal Edward Egan began Holy Week in a hospital and preparing to receive a pacemaker as a sudden illness threatened to keep him from celebrating Good Friday and Easter Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral before retiring next week.

Experts: Loss, revenge often drive mass murders (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 03:03 PM PDT AP - Mass murderers are as different as their killing field — be it a nursing home or a suburban home — and as diverse as their reasons for killing — whether it's spousal betrayal or the loss of a job.

Neb. family that had been missing now in custody (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 03:01 PM PDT AP - A couple who disappeared with their children, leading to a search of the South Dakota wilderness, turned themselves in to authorities near their Nebraska home on Monday, a sheriff said.

Demjanjuk to appeal, seeking to avoid deportation (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 03:09 PM PDT AP - A U.S. immigration judge in Virginia on Monday revoked John Demjanjuk's stay of deportation. Demjanjuk plans to appeal the decision, which would clear the way for him to be sent to Germany nearly three decades after officials first alleged he was a guard at a Nazi death camp.

Report: No ethical misconduct by engineers (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:38 PM PDT AP - A professional conduct committee found no wrongdoing after looking into allegations that members of the American Society of Civil Engineers colluded with the Army Corps of Engineers to cover up problems with levees after Hurricane Katrina.

Parishes ask Vatican for mediation over closings (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:44 PM PDT AP - The leader of a Boston-based Roman Catholic advocacy group is in Rome to deliver a letter to the Vatican asking that bishops be instructed to enter promptly into mediation with 31 parishes that have closed or are slated to close.

NY court upholds sentence of abortion doc's killer (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:35 PM PDT AP - The life prison sentence given to a militant abortion opponent was appropriate despite his claims that he only meant to injure rather than kill a doctor, a federal appeals court said Monday.

Egyptian student arrested by immigration officials (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:29 PM PDT AP - An Egyptian college student acquitted of federal explosives charges was unexpectedly arrested by immigration officials Monday.

Casey Anthony largely stoic before remains found (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 03:00 PM PDT AP - A Florida woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter rarely showed emotion in jail but became unhinged after she found out a toddler's remains had been found near her family's home, according to interviews with jail staff released Monday.

Among 4-year-olds, 1 in 5 obese, study finds (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:49 PM PDT AP - A striking new study says almost 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is obese, and the rate is alarmingly higher among American Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese.

As Iraq rape trial begins, attorneys attack law (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:18 PM PDT AP - The first former Army soldier to be charged as a civilian under a 2000 law that allows him to be prosecuted for alleged crimes committed overseas faces a trial of his peers — in a federal courtroom in Kentucky.

Ecuador seeks return of Florida death row inmate (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:07 PM PDT AP - Ecuador's government demanded on Monday the return of a man on Florida's death row for killing four people and said he should have never been taken from the South American country, calling it a "kidnapping."

Missouri tries to shed reputation as 'puppy mill' (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 12:12 PM PDT AP - When authorities raided J.B.'s Precious Puppies, they discovered more than 200 dogs standing in their own excrement, crammed three and four to a cage. Some were so sickly they were missing clumps of hair. The skeletal remains of puppies and adult dogs were found inside pet-food bags.

Fawcett treated for cancer's spread to liver (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 03:01 PM PDT AP - Farrah Fawcett is being treated for anal cancer that has spread to her liver and has been hospitalized for a complication from a routine treatment, a producer who worked with the actress and her doctor said Monday.

A look at victims of the Binghamton, NY, shootings (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 08:52 AM PDT AP - A look at some of the victims in the April 3 shootings at the American Civic Association, an immigrant aid center, in Binghamton, N.Y.

Arctic sea ice thinnest ever going into spring (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:19 PM PDT AP - The Arctic is treading on thinner ice than ever before. Researchers say that as spring begins, more than 90 percent of the sea ice in the Arctic is only 1 or 2 years old. That makes it thinner and more vulnerable than at anytime in the past three decades, according to researchers with NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado.

Mich. baby found safe at home with mother's body (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 09:36 AM PDT AP - A 1-year-old boy whose mother apparently died days before has been found with her body in their apartment in the Detroit area.

Fargo, ND, students hit books after flood break (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 09:38 AM PDT AP - Students returned to school Monday after more than two weeks off during which thousands of them contributed to round-the-clock sandbagging efforts to protect their city from potentially devasting flooding.

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