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• Experts: Women are drinking more, DUIs are up (AP)
• Va. gov. allows 3 in rape-slaying to be freed (AP)
• Pa. shooter had company in feelings of isolation (AP)
• Husband denies alcoholism in NY wrong-way crash (AP)
• Ex-Edwards mistress at court amid campaign probe (AP)
• Prosecutor drops charges in Ohio twin slaying (AP)
• Ouch! Early flu shot season comes with 3 jabs (AP)
• Soldiers warned about ID theft after laptop stolen (AP)
• Man allegedly targeted for love revenge is charged (AP)
• US forecasters lower Atlantic hurricane outlook (AP)
• Aerosmith postpones concert after Tyler's fall (AP)
• '80s teen flick director John Hughes dies in NYC (AP)
• 6 suspects in NC terror case moved to Va. jail (AP)
• Sotomayor watches Senate vote at NYC courthouse (AP)
• Burger King: No shoes rule taken too far with baby (AP)
• Ala. city drops lewdness charge against woman, 81 (AP)
• Rapid tests often wrong about swine flu (AP)
• Dalai Lama to receive Tenn. museum's Freedom Award (AP)
• Grand jury clears Philly officers in taped beating (AP)
• NJ mayor's refusal to resign sparks house protests (AP)

Experts: Women are drinking more, DUIs are up (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT AP - It seemed too horrendous even to imagine. But the case of the mother who caused a deadly wrong-way crash while drunk and stoned is part of a disturbing trend: Women in the U.S. are drinking more, and drunken-driving arrests among women are rising rapidly while falling among men.

Va. gov. allows 3 in rape-slaying to be freed (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:19 PM PDT AP - Three men convicted in the rape and slaying of a fellow sailor's wife more than a decade ago will walk free to the outrage of the victim's family — who blamed the decision on political pressure from novelist John Grisham — and the men's supporters, who say it's not enough and want them declared innnocent.

Pa. shooter had company in feelings of isolation (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:16 PM PDT AP - Before opening fire on an aerobics class, George Sodini wrote about feeling lonely and rejected — yet those very characteristics put him in the company of other mass killers whose isolation helped create a murderous cocktail.

Husband denies alcoholism in NY wrong-way crash (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - She couldn't have been drunk and stoned. Her husband had never seen her intoxicated before. And there were absolutely no marital problems that could have sent her over the edge.

Ex-Edwards mistress at court amid campaign probe (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:10 PM PDT AP - The ex-mistress of John Edwards spent much of Thursday in a federal courthouse in Raleigh where a grand jury was meeting, at a time when federal investigators are examining the two-time presidential candidate's finances.

Prosecutor drops charges in Ohio twin slaying (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:10 PM PDT AP - A prosecutor dropped charges Thursday against an Ohio teenager accused of fatally shooting his identical twin after tests cast doubt on the key piece of evidence — a palm print that was believed to have been cast in blood.

Ouch! Early flu shot season comes with 3 jabs (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:10 PM PDT AP - Get ready to roll up your sleeve three times for flu shots this fall. That's right, three times. This year's flu season is shaping up to be a very different one. Most people will need one shot for the regular seasonal flu and probably two others to protect against the new swine flu.

Soldiers warned about ID theft after laptop stolen (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 01:13 PM PDT AP - The Army National Guard is investigating why a contractor had data including Social Security numbers for 131,000 current and former soldiers on an unsecured personal laptop that was stolen, a spokesman said Thursday.

Man allegedly targeted for love revenge is charged (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 12:43 PM PDT AP - A man who prosecutors say was tied up, humiliated and assaulted by four women as payback for his cheating ways was accused Thursday of hitting his daughter and stealing the ashes of his estranged wife's dead father.

US forecasters lower Atlantic hurricane outlook (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 11:49 AM PDT AP - The Atlantic hurricane season will be less active than originally predicted, government forecasters said Thursday after the first two months of the half-year stretch passed without any named storms developing.

Aerosmith postpones concert after Tyler's fall (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:19 PM PDT AP - Aerosmith's Steven Tyler suffered head, neck and shoulder injuries in a tumble from the stage at a South Dakota show, a concert spokesman said Thursday, and the audience thought it was part of his hip-shaking act until he didn't get up.

'80s teen flick director John Hughes dies in NYC (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:39 PM PDT AP - Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured the teen and preteen market with such favorites as "Home Alone," "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," died Thursday, a spokeswoman said. He was 59.

6 suspects in NC terror case moved to Va. jail (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 11:21 AM PDT AP - Six of the seven North Carolina terrorism suspects have been transferred to a jail in Virginia.

Sotomayor watches Senate vote at NYC courthouse (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:20 PM PDT AP - Sonia Sotomayor bathed in applause from friends and colleagues at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan Thursday as the Senate voted to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.

Burger King: No shoes rule taken too far with baby (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 01:43 PM PDT AP - Like most restaurants, the Burger King in this St. Louis suburb has a no shoes, no shirt, no service policy.

Ala. city drops lewdness charge against woman, 81 (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 10:57 AM PDT AP - Prosecutors asked a judge to throw out a public lewdness charge against an 81-year-old woman accused of urinating in a public park when she couldn't make it to a bathroom, the city attorney said Thursday.

Rapid tests often wrong about swine flu (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 09:16 AM PDT AP - The government's first study of how well rapid tests diagnose swine flu finds they're wrong at least half the time.

Dalai Lama to receive Tenn. museum's Freedom Award (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 10:42 AM PDT AP - The National Civil Rights Museum has chosen the Dalai Lama as the recipient of the International Freedom Award.

Grand jury clears Philly officers in taped beating (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:22 PM PDT AP - Philadelphia police officers involved in the videotaped beating of three suspects after a car chase won't be charged with crimes, according to a grand jury that found no excessive use of force.

NJ mayor's refusal to resign sparks house protests (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:42 PM PDT AP - A feud between the state and the mayor of this northern New Jersey town over whether he should resign as he faces corruption charges spawned dueling citizen protests outside his home Thursday evening.

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