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• AP Source: Coroner rules Jackson's death homicide (AP)
• Murder mystery ends with suicide in Canadian hotel (AP)
• Mother: Slain Okla. pastor 'just loved people' (AP)
• NJ town wishes to make no room for Gadhafi (AP)
• Former athletes' adviser charged in Ponzi scheme (AP)
• Traffic stop yields cash, phones, IDs and mystery (AP)
• Fire, explosions at Detroit chemical factory (AP)
• 9 men in tuxedos charged in Boston beating death (AP)
• Cop: Mom, son hysterical, bloody after gang rape (AP)
• Official: Smoking banned at Ky. prison after riot (AP)
• Swine flu shot protection? Maybe by Thanksgiving (AP)
• Court: Delaware sports betting would violate ban (AP)
• Candidates in NJ governor's race spar over ethics (AP)
• No mercy for SC men in $9.8M armored car heist (AP)
• Maine spectators ignored warnings before wave hit (AP)
• RI gov to shut down state government for 12 days (AP)
• Reality show contestant found dead in Canada motel (AP)
• New methamphetamine formula avoids anti-drug laws (AP)
• Ala. families' quarrel escalates to all-out riot (AP)
• SC senator: Gov took pricier flights on more trips (AP)

AP Source: Coroner rules Jackson's death homicide (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:12 PM PDT AP - The Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Michael Jackson's death a homicide and a combination of drugs was the cause, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press, a finding that makes it more likely criminal charges will be filed against the doctor who was with the pop star when he died.

Murder mystery ends with suicide in Canadian hotel (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:24 PM PDT AP - Like so many things in Hollywood, Ryan Jenkins' life was not as it seemed.

Mother: Slain Okla. pastor 'just loved people' (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:11 PM PDT AP - A pastor who came alone to a small church in southwest Oklahoma every Sunday on the chance that that someone would join her to pray was found slain inside the weathered building, police said Monday, but who would want to kill her was a mystery.

NJ town wishes to make no room for Gadhafi (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:09 PM PDT AP - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will set foot on U.S. soil for the first time next month when he comes to address the U.N. General Assembly. Now he wants to put down stakes in the middle of American suburbia.

Former athletes' adviser charged in Ponzi scheme (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:51 PM PDT AP - Federal prosecutors have charged a woman who once advised Michael Vick and several other NFL players with stealing $3 million from eight victims in a Ponzi scheme.

Traffic stop yields cash, phones, IDs and mystery (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:09 PM PDT AP - Sheriff's deputies in suburban St. Louis who pulled over a speeding BMW have stumbled into some international intrigue.

Fire, explosions at Detroit chemical factory (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:05 PM PDT AP - Explosions and a fire at a chemical factory Monday forced firefighters to evacuate employees and police to caution nearby residents to stay inside their homes.

9 men in tuxedos charged in Boston beating death (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:58 PM PDT AP - Nine men who had just attended a funeral and were wearing tuxedos when they beat a man to death outside a nightclub were charged Monday with assault and battery, prosecutors said.

Cop: Mom, son hysterical, bloody after gang rape (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:32 PM PDT AP - A mother and her young son were hysterical, battered and bloodied at a hospital just hours after she says she was gang-raped and beaten by several masked, gun-toting teenagers, a police officer testified Monday.

Official: Smoking banned at Ky. prison after riot (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:13 PM PDT AP - A government official says smoking has been banned — at least temporarily — at a Kentucky prison where several buildings were burned down during an inmate riot.

Swine flu shot protection? Maybe by Thanksgiving (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:11 PM PDT AP - It will likely be Thanksgiving before a significant number of Americans who get the swine flu vaccine are protected, health officials said Monday.

Court: Delaware sports betting would violate ban (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:10 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court ruled Monday that sports betting in Delaware would violate a 1992 federal ban on such wagering, essentially halting the state's plans to start taking bets next month.

Candidates in NJ governor's race spar over ethics (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:47 PM PDT AP - New Jersey GOP gubernatorial contender Chris Christie accused Democrats of "fake outrage" over a $46,000 loan he made to a federal prosecutor he supervised.

No mercy for SC men in $9.8M armored car heist (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:41 PM PDT AP - Five young men who staged one of the largest armored car heists in U.S. history, then spent their loot on strippers, Mother's Day gifts and other luxuries were denied pleas for mercy Monday and ordered to spend at least 25 years in prison.

Maine spectators ignored warnings before wave hit (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:40 PM PDT AP - Rangers at Acadia National Park insisted Monday that they had done all they could to warn visitors before beauty suddenly turned brutal, launching a hurricane-generated wave over a group of gawkers, dragging several into the roiling Atlantic and killing a 7-year-old girl.

RI gov to shut down state government for 12 days (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:32 PM PDT AP - Rhode Island will shut down its state government for 12 days and trim millions of dollars in funding for local governments under a plan Gov. Don Carcieri proposed Monday to balance a budget hammered by surging unemployment and plummeting tax revenue.

Reality show contestant found dead in Canada motel (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:59 PM PDT AP - Police said Monday they have identified and are investigating a woman who allegedly helped a former reality television show contestant hide from authorities in his native Canada after his ex-wife was found dead in the U.S.

New methamphetamine formula avoids anti-drug laws (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:10 PM PDT AP - This is the new formula for methamphetamine: a two-liter soda bottle, a few handfuls of cold pills and some noxious chemicals. Shake the bottle and the volatile reaction produces one of the world's most addictive drugs.

Ala. families' quarrel escalates to all-out riot (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:00 PM PDT AP - Two Alabama families that had been fighting for years turned their feud into a full-scale riot Monday outside a small-town city hall, with up to 150 screaming people hurling tire irons and wielding baseball bats.

SC senator: Gov took pricier flights on more trips (AP) Posted: 24 Aug 2009 11:46 AM PDT AP - A state senator says he's found four more pricey flights by South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford that violated rules requiring officials to use lowest-cost travel.

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