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• Sen. Kennedy's body takes final poignant tour (AP)
• Shirtless man hijacks, crashes Atlanta school bus (AP)
• Woman kidnapped as child resurfaces 18 years later (AP)
• Pacific Ocean garbage patch worries researchers (AP)
• Bernanke personal bank account struck by ID theft (AP)
• Calif. firefighters battle wilderness blazes (AP)
• Pregnant women, new parents urged to get vaccine (AP)
• NTSB: Controller didn't warn plane in midair crash (AP)
• Tighter oversight on border laptop searches (AP)
• Warrant: Jackson family told cops about drugs (AP)
• Mom charged with neglect in adult daughter's death (AP)
• Mass. court OKs $102M wrongful-conviction award (AP)
• Problem cancels moon rocket test firing in Utah (AP)
• Police to detail findings in model slaying probe (AP)
• NM governor's future brighter as fed probe ends (AP)
• Mom in Pa.-to-Fla. abduction hoax gets prison time (AP)
• Driver in deadly Texas bus crash had used cocaine (AP)
• New impetus for bill banning anti-gay bias at work (AP)
• Arbiter rules for Jeremy Piven in contract dispute (AP)
• Milwaukee mayor doesn't rule out run for governor (AP)

Sen. Kennedy's body takes final poignant tour (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 06:29 PM PDT AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy began his final journey Thursday, first past landmark after landmark bearing his family's famous name and then to his slain brother's presidential library where mourners lined up by the thousands to bid farewell to him and an American political dynasty.

Shirtless man hijacks, crashes Atlanta school bus (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 06:28 PM PDT AP - A shirtless man leaped through the window of an Atlanta school bus with about a dozen students aboard Thursday, overpowered the driver to take the wheel, then left the bus driverless as it careened down a steep hill, authorities said.

Woman kidnapped as child resurfaces 18 years later (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 06:20 PM PDT AP - Joyous, miraculous news that a little girl kidnapped nearly two decades ago was found alive gave way Thursday to the horrifying details of how police say she has lived all those years: Kept by a convicted rapist in his backyard as a sex slave and forced to bear two of his children.

Pacific Ocean garbage patch worries researchers (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 05:56 PM PDT AP - A tawny stuffed puppy bobs in cold sea water, his four stiff legs tangled in the green net of some nameless fisherman.

Bernanke personal bank account struck by ID theft (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 05:05 PM PDT AP - No one is safe from identity theft, not even the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Calif. firefighters battle wilderness blazes (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:58 PM PDT AP - California firefighters working in withering heat battled wildfires Thursday in rugged mountains above the foothill suburbs of Los Angeles, in the central coast region and on the outskirts of Yosemite National Park.

Pregnant women, new parents urged to get vaccine (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:38 PM PDT AP - Health officials are stressing that it is vital for pregnant women and new parents to get the swine flu vaccine to protect themselves and their children.

NTSB: Controller didn't warn plane in midair crash (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 06:11 PM PDT AP - An air traffic controller should have warned the pilot of a small plane about aircraft in its path before it collided with a sightseeing helicopter over New York's Hudson River in a crash that claimed nine lives, federal officials said Thursday in making safety recommendations.

Tighter oversight on border laptop searches (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 06:07 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration on Thursday put new restrictions on searches of laptops at U.S. borders to address concerns that federal agents have been rummaging through travelers' personal information.

Warrant: Jackson family told cops about drugs (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 06:18 PM PDT AP - Police who searched Michael Jackson's home the day after he died were acting on information from family members who said they'd found a bag of heroin in his bedroom, but a person with knowledge of subsequent test results on the substance said it turned out not to be the drug.

Mom charged with neglect in adult daughter's death (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:42 PM PDT AP - On the quiet street where she spent the last few years of her life, Emily Errico might as well have been a ghost.

Mass. court OKs $102M wrongful-conviction award (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 05:05 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a $102 million judgment against the government for withholding evidence that could have cleared four men who spent decades in prison — including two who died there — for a murder they didn't commit.

Problem cancels moon rocket test firing in Utah (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:42 PM PDT AP - A mechanical failure forced a NASA contractor on Thursday to call off the first test firing of the main part of NASA's powerful new moon rocket.

Police to detail findings in model slaying probe (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:26 PM PDT AP - Police said Thursday they planned to disclose what they found in the car of an ex-model whose brutal slaying prompted a massive manhunt for the reality TV contestant wanted in her murder.

NM governor's future brighter as fed probe ends (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:42 PM PDT AP - A dark cloud over Gov. Bill Richardson's political future has lifted after the federal government's decision against indictments in a pay-to-play investigation that prompted the governor to withdraw his nomination as U.S. commerce secretary earlier this year.

Mom in Pa.-to-Fla. abduction hoax gets prison time (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:41 PM PDT AP - A white suburban mother who placed a 911 call claiming two black men had carjacked her — but instead flew to Disney World with her child to escape a looming arrest — was sent to prison Thursday for nine to 23 months.

Driver in deadly Texas bus crash had used cocaine (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 02:53 PM PDT AP - A drug test conducted on the driver involved in the Texas charter bus crash that killed 17 passengers last year showed he had recently used cocaine but was apparently not under its influence at the time of the wreck, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

New impetus for bill banning anti-gay bias at work (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 11:54 AM PDT AP - Momentum is building for Congress to pass the first major civil rights act protecting gays and transsexuals, supporters say, and one of the stars in the debate is a barrier-breaking transgender staffer on Capitol Hill.

Arbiter rules for Jeremy Piven in contract dispute (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:06 PM PDT AP - Score one for Jeremy Piven.

Milwaukee mayor doesn't rule out run for governor (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:26 PM PDT AP - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who has been hailed as a hero since he was beaten while coming to the aid of a grandmother calling for help, told The Associated Press on Thursday that he isn't ruling out a run for governor.

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