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• Calif. lawmakers pass plan to balance state budget (AP)
• Brooklyn man accused of buying and selling kidneys (AP)
• Black officer at scholar's home supports arrest (AP)
• Judge: Terror shield law doesn't apply to officers (AP)
• Girl shunned by family after rape sparks outcry (AP)
• Gulf's 'dead zone' much smaller than predicted (AP)
• Palin's mid-term resignation comes with costs (AP)
• 4 in Md. chopper crash had been at charity event (AP)
• Convicted pastor says he's 'one of the prophets' (AP)
• 150 dogs found dead in freezers at Mich. home (AP)
• Family aches for kids found starving in bathroom (AP)
• Fla. school back to normal after report of gunman (AP)
• McCain to consider support of nuclear test ban (AP)
• Autopsy: 3 NC Slim Jim plant workers were crushed (AP)
• Alabama liquor agency says no to nude nymph (AP)
• Mystery substance sickens La. cops; 18 quarantined (AP)
• SMU settles George W. Bush library land dispute (AP)
• 5 ancient Roman shipwrecks found off Italy coast (AP)
• Alamo rift divides group over revered Texas site (AP)
• Officials lambast NJ corruption after 44 arrested (AP)

Calif. lawmakers pass plan to balance state budget (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 05:37 PM PDT AP - Lawmakers on Friday approved a complex package of spending cuts, accounting maneuvers and raids on local government coffers to fill California's gigantic budget deficit, providing hope that the state might begin a slow climb out of a deep financial hole.

Brooklyn man accused of buying and selling kidneys (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 04:00 PM PDT AP - Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn called himself a "matchmaker," but his business wasn't romance. Instead, authorities say, he brokered the sale of black-market kidneys, buying organs from vulnerable people from Israel for $10,000 and selling them to desperate patients in the U.S. for as much as $160,000.

Black officer at scholar's home supports arrest (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 10:57 AM PDT AP - A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation.

Judge: Terror shield law doesn't apply to officers (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 05:20 PM PDT AP - A shield law for those who report suspected terrorist activities does not apply to law enforcement, a judge ruled Friday in a discrimination lawsuit filed by six imams who were removed from a US Airways flight in 2006.

Girl shunned by family after rape sparks outcry (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 05:17 PM PDT AP - Lured by promises of chewing gum and raped in a shed by four boys barely older than her, an 8-year-old Liberian girl is now in foster care and living with strangers instead of the family that raised her and brought her to America.

Gulf's 'dead zone' much smaller than predicted (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 04:59 PM PDT AP - The Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" — where there is too little oxygen in the water for anything to live — is less than half the size predicted earlier this year but also unusually severe, a scientist said Friday.

Palin's mid-term resignation comes with costs (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 04:43 PM PDT AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she is quitting Sunday to save the state the cost of investigating what she says are frivolous ethics complaints against her, but even her mid-term resignation comes with a price tag for taxpayers.

4 in Md. chopper crash had been at charity event (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 01:59 PM PDT AP - One of four people killed when a helicopter crashed on a Maryland highway told his son he was delaying his flight home because of foul weather.

Convicted pastor says he's 'one of the prophets' (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 02:17 PM PDT AP - Tony Alamo, a one-time street preacher who built a multimillion-dollar ministry and became an outfitter of the stars, was convicted Friday of taking girls as young as 9 across state lines for sex. Alamo stood silently as the verdict was read, a contrast to his occasional mutterings during testimony. His five victims sat looking forward in the gallery. One, a woman he "married" at age 8, wiped away a tear.

150 dogs found dead in freezers at Mich. home (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 03:09 PM PDT AP - Police on Friday found about 150 dead dogs packed in freezers in the basement of a Michigan house littered with feces and trash where more than 110 live dogs, mostly Chihuahuas, were rescued this week.

Family aches for kids found starving in bathroom (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 01:31 PM PDT AP - In letters to her mother from jail, a woman accused of starving three of her children in a hotel bathroom for at least nine months says she felt so hopeless and ineffective that she was willing to endure "a thousand beatings."

Fla. school back to normal after report of gunman (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 12:15 PM PDT AP - Students and staff at the University of South Florida were told to stay indoors Friday after a man called police to say he was on campus with a gun, but authorities never found him and no shots were fired.

McCain to consider support of nuclear test ban (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 01:51 PM PDT AP - Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who helped vote down U.S. ratification of a nuclear test ban treaty ten years ago, said he would now consider supporting it.

Autopsy: 3 NC Slim Jim plant workers were crushed (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 11:03 AM PDT AP - Autopsies show three workers killed in the collapse of a Slim Jim factory in North Carolina were crushed to death.

Alabama liquor agency says no to nude nymph (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 01:23 PM PDT AP - A wine label showing a nude nymph is too racy for Alabama's liquor control agency, which has told restaurants and stores not to sell the product.

Mystery substance sickens La. cops; 18 quarantined (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 11:34 AM PDT AP - A mystery substance found in a truck that authorities believe was hauling narcotics has sickened numerous law enforcement officers in Louisiana, and at least 18 have been quarantined as a precaution.

SMU settles George W. Bush library land dispute (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 04:37 PM PDT AP - The dispute between Southern Methodist University and condominium owners over land for the George W. Bush presidential library is over.

5 ancient Roman shipwrecks found off Italy coast (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 04:04 PM PDT AP - Archaeologists have found five well-preserved Roman shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of vases, pots and other objects largely intact, officials said Friday.

Alamo rift divides group over revered Texas site (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 10:35 AM PDT AP - Remember the Alamo — and don't forget who's running the place.

Officials lambast NJ corruption after 44 arrested (AP) Posted: 24 Jul 2009 05:47 AM PDT AP - Officials are decrying political corruption in New Jersey after more than 40 people, among them rabbis and elected officeholders, were arrested in an investigation in which some were accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars and of black-market trafficking of kidneys and fake Gucci handbags.

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