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• Who will succeed Kennedy? Speculative list is long (AP)
• Kennedy's absence leaves Senate void of dealmaker (AP)
• SC gov rebuffs call to quit; vows to finish term (AP)
• Pitino: Sex scandal 'pure hell' for family (AP)
• Sale of big-ticket items soar, bolstering economy (AP)
• Court: Investigators wrong to seize MLB drug list (AP)
• Kidney transplant between 2 clergy abuse survivors (AP)
• Crime story author Dominick Dunne, 83, dies in NYC (AP)
• Obama asks docs to promote health care fix (AP)
• LAPD looking for 3 suspects in Lohan burglary (AP)
• Judge: Ky. can't legislate dependence on God (AP)
• LA trial in Thai film festival bribery case begins (AP)
• Sentence of life without parole in Tenn. slayings (AP)
• Agric. Secretary assesses Calif. water problems (AP)
• Kennedy tributes pour in from Democrats — and GOP (AP)
• La. man convicted of killing 5 teens after Katrina (AP)
• Army report: Gaps in training for recovery unit (AP)
• Ted Kennedy: Family senator, patriarch, dead at 77 (AP)
• To the moon, NASA? Not on this budget, experts say (AP)
• US rep. says Gadhafi should be 'barred' from NJ (AP)

Who will succeed Kennedy? Speculative list is long (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:27 PM PDT AP - For the first time in nearly half a century, Massachusetts voters will be handed ballots for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Edward Kennedy without his name on them.

Kennedy's absence leaves Senate void of dealmaker (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:05 PM PDT AP - In an era of bitter political division, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death silenced a singular voice of bipartisanship at a time when colleagues are struggling with angry constituents and each other over an elusive plan to overhaul the nation's health care system.

SC gov rebuffs call to quit; vows to finish term (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:53 PM PDT AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford rebuffed his lieutenant governor's call to resign Wednesday, two months after he admitted an affair, saying he will not be "railroaded" out of office.

Pitino: Sex scandal 'pure hell' for family (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:04 PM PDT AP - Louisville coach Rick Pitino said Wednesday a sex scandal involving a woman accused of trying to extort millions from him has been "pure hell" for his family, fuming that newly released video of her police interview revived her "total fabrication."

Sale of big-ticket items soar, bolstering economy (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:57 PM PDT AP - Consumers and businesses went on a big-ticket spending spree in July, sending home, car and equipment sales soaring by the largest amount in years.

Court: Investigators wrong to seize MLB drug list (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 06:09 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that agents had no right to seize baseball's anonymous drug-testing results from 2003, an infamous list that tarnished America's pastime and some of its biggest stars.

Kidney transplant between 2 clergy abuse survivors (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 06:11 PM PDT AP - Phil Saviano and Susan Pavlak led separate lives in different states, both fighting for people who — like them — had been abused by clergy years ago.

Crime story author Dominick Dunne, 83, dies in NYC (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:05 PM PDT AP - Author Dominick Dunne, who told stories of shocking crimes among the rich and famous through his magazine articles and best-selling books including "Another City, Not My Own," about O.J. Simpson's murder trial, died Wednesday in his home at age 83.

Obama asks docs to promote health care fix (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:56 PM PDT AP - The White House is asking doctors to help promote its drive to overhaul health care, marking an effort by President Barack Obama to regain momentum on the issue.

LAPD looking for 3 suspects in Lohan burglary (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:04 PM PDT AP - Police are looking for three suspects in the burglary of Lindsay Lohan's home.

Judge: Ky. can't legislate dependence on God (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:58 PM PDT AP - A judge says it's unconstitutional to require the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to acknowledge it can't keep the state safe without God's help.

LA trial in Thai film festival bribery case begins (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:29 PM PDT AP - A filmmaking couple devised an intricate system of bribes to Thai officials in order to land lucrative projects such as the Bangkok International Film Festival, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday during opening statements of their trial.

Sentence of life without parole in Tenn. slayings (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:23 PM PDT AP - The first of four defendants to be tried in the carjacking, rape and murder of a young Tennessee couple was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday by the same jury that convicted him of murder.

Agric. Secretary assesses Calif. water problems (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:17 PM PDT AP - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack promised California farmers Wednesday he'll press for solutions to the water crisis hitting the state's San Joaquin Valley, one of the most prolific farm regions in the world.

Kennedy tributes pour in from Democrats — and GOP (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:09 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama marked Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death Wednesday by declaring his fellow Democrat "one of the single most effective senators" in U.S. history, praise that was hardly a shock to the partisan senses.

La. man convicted of killing 5 teens after Katrina (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:38 PM PDT AP - A Louisiana man was convicted Wednesday of gunning down five teenagers in a grisly crime that prompted the governor to bring National Guard troops back to New Orleans to help curb violence in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Army report: Gaps in training for recovery unit (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:22 PM PDT AP - Soldiers recovering in special Army medical units have faced inconsistent discipline because the military hasn't adopted standards for how they and their commanders should act, according to a military review.

Ted Kennedy: Family senator, patriarch, dead at 77 (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:01 PM PDT AP - In the quiet of a Capitol elevator, one of Edward M. Kennedy's fellow lawmakers asked whether he had plans for a family Thanksgiving away from the nation's capital. No, the Massachusetts senator said with a shake of his head, and mentioned something about visiting his brothers' gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery.

To the moon, NASA? Not on this budget, experts say (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:55 PM PDT AP - NASA will test the powerful first stage of its new Ares moon rocket Thursday, a milestone in a program that has already spent $7 billion for a rocket that astronauts may never use.

US rep. says Gadhafi should be 'barred' from NJ (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:01 PM PDT AP - Gov. Jon Corzine and New Jersey federal legislators joined an angry chorus of opposition Wednesday to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's expected stay in the state, where 38 victims of the bombing of Pan American Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, lived before their deaths in 1988.

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