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Warrant charges Craigslist suspect with RI assault (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 06:25 PM PDT AP - A medical student jailed in Boston on suspicion of killing a masseuse he met on Craigslist was charged Monday in an arrest warrant with pulling a gun on a stripper in a Rhode Island hotel.

Schoolkids get 'flu days' even as CDC reconsiders (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 03:30 PM PDT AP - Federal health officials said Monday they were rethinking their advice that schools consider closing for as long as two weeks because of swine flu, a recommendation that has already given an unscheduled vacation to 330,000 children in schools nationwide.

Students back at NYC school after swine flu scare (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 03:18 PM PDT AP - Students streamed into St. Francis Preparatory School on Monday morning, happy to return after an outbreak of swine flu but wary of close contact, and some equipped with hand sanitizer in their backpacks.

Authorities seek SoCal tot reported kidnapped (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 03:29 PM PDT AP - Investigators were searching Monday for a 3-year-old boy kidnapped by two gunmen who broke into his family's home, tied up his mother and four siblings, and stole property, authorities said.

Teen son escapes Fla. family slaying; 4 dead (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 03:29 PM PDT AP - His father and stepmother had fought before, and 13-year-old Nathan Bellar had no reason to believe their latest exchange would turn violent.

Slain toddler's mom wants trial moved to S. Fla. (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 03:09 PM PDT AP - The attorney for a Florida mother charged with killing her toddler daughter asked a judge Monday to move the trial to South Florida.

AP exclusive: N.Y. rampage victim recounts horror (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 10:18 AM PDT AP - For an hour, the Asian man cowered amid the chaos of what had been his adult English class. Blood soaked through his jeans where a bullet had fractured the bones of his lower right leg. More blood flowed into his eye from a bullet wound on his temple; a hole in his sweater sleeve marked the path of another shot.

Run-down S.C. school mentioned in Obama speech gets facelift (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 11:37 AM PDT AP - Students who had grown resigned to old, "nasty" furnishings at their dilapidated middle school in rural South Carolina were elated Monday to find new furniture and a freshly painted cafeteria, thanks to a student's plea, a president's speech and a businessman's response.

Empty neighborhoods fill U.S. Rust Belt (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 05:36 PM PDT AP - Meet the forgotten housing crisis. While most attention has focused on the wave of foreclosures sweeping mostly middle-class, suburban Sunbelt neighborhoods from California to Florida, the nation's emptiest neighborhoods have remained concentrated in the same place for nearly a generation: the mostly minority, poor, urban neighborhoods of the American Rust Belt.

Rice takes question from 4th-grader on torture (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 03:15 PM PDT AP - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Jewish elementary school students that the Bush administration did not use illegal interrogation tactics. Her remarks were in response to a question from Misha Lerner, a fourth-grader at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Developments on swine flu worldwide (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 04:15 PM PDT AP - Key developments on swine flu outbreaks, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, and government officials:

Georgia leads the nation in bank failures (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 11:46 AM PDT AP - The banner above FirstCity Bank still reads "Celebrating 100 Years of Service," but the 690 residents of this rural community aren't in the mood — not since government regulators locked the door, emptied the vault and closed the only bank within nearly 20 miles.

3 hurt in La. as more storms batter Southeast (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 04:34 PM PDT AP - A tornado injured three people and damaged nearly two dozen homes Monday in southern Louisiana, a day after severe thunderstorms across the Southeast killed one person.

Judge in Fla. terror trial denies mistrial (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 08:34 AM PDT AP - A judge has denied a request for a mistrial in the Miami case of six men accused of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices.

Police find passport of prof wanted in killings (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 07:58 AM PDT AP - Police say they've found the passport of a University of Georgia professor suspected of killing his wife and two others outside a community theater.

Inspectors examine Cowboys' flattened facility (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 01:13 PM PDT AP - Government inspectors sorted through the Dallas Cowboys' flattened practice facility Monday, trying to figure out why fierce winds sent the tentlike structure crashing during a rookie workout session.

Ala. judge: No court power to let kids miss school (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 12:47 PM PDT AP - A mother and father wanted a judge to force school officials to let their two sons do their school work from home because of the swine flu scare, but the judge said no.

Some Muslims rethink close ties to law enforcement (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 08:56 AM PDT AP - Mohammad Qatanani's mosque was full of FBI agents the night before he was to find out if he would be deported.

Some fear flu rebound as Mexico seeks 'normalcy' (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - Mexico announced a return to "normalcy" on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20 countries. World health officials said the global epidemic is still in its early stages, and that a pandemic could be declared in the days to come.

Job guarantees cause impasse in Globe, union talks (AP) Posted: 04 May 2009 01:52 PM PDT AP - Negotiations between The Boston Globe and its largest union reached an impasse Monday, largely over lifetime job guarantees that the 137-year-old newspaper says it has to end if it will survive.

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