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• Attorney: OKC bombing tapes appear edited (AP)
• Woman charged in Smart case expects life in prison (AP)
• William Safire, speechwriter, NY columnist, dies (AP)
• Report: Stanford to be released soon from hospital (AP)
• Study: Fewer terrorism suspects going to trial (AP)
• Migrant kids take long step from fields to schools (AP)
• Intense tracking for swine flu shot's side effects (AP)
• What's ugly, smells, kills dogs? Blue-green algae (AP)
• Risky business: States tax the rich at their peril (AP)
• Paper: Dialysis patients not told of transplants (AP)
• Bloomberg, others press for federal security funds (AP)
• In Cheyenne, glass pile shows recycling challenges (AP)
• Analysis: NY gov pushed to quit, goes it alone (AP)
• Welcome tradition: Old Home Days endures 110 years (AP)
• What's true cost of a Starbucks latte, author asks (AP)
• Ben & Jerry's, GE work on greener freezers for US (AP)
• More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation (AP)
• Calif. GOP looks to 2010 races for gov., US Senate (AP)
• Feds: Zazi trips, shopping led to NY terror threat (AP)
• Glenn Beck gets ceremonial key to hometown city (AP)

Attorney: OKC bombing tapes appear edited (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 01:26 PM PDT AP - Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.

Woman charged in Smart case expects life in prison (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:28 PM PDT AP - In letters written to her mother, the woman charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart has sought forgiveness for any pain she has caused and says she expects to spend the rest of her life in prison.

William Safire, speechwriter, NY columnist, dies (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 03:28 PM PDT AP - William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday at age 79.

Report: Stanford to be released soon from hospital (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 03:25 PM PDT AP - A U.S. Marshals Service spokesman says jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford may be released from an undisclosed hospital either Sunday or Monday following a fight with another inmate.

Study: Fewer terrorism suspects going to trial (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 03:48 PM PDT AP - The government is prosecuting only about one out of four of those charged in connection with terrorism, according to a study that suggests federal agencies don't agree on who is a terrorist.

Migrant kids take long step from fields to schools (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 01:51 PM PDT AP - Elizabeth Pineda climbs out of bed, her 4-year-old son Adrian asleep nearby. She lays out a tiny pair of shorts and a white T-shirt for his first day of school, gathers her purse and tiptoes outside. Her cousin will get the boy up and off to class in a few hours.

Intense tracking for swine flu shot's side effects (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:27 PM PDT AP - More than 3,000 people a day have a heart attack. If you're one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries?

What's ugly, smells, kills dogs? Blue-green algae (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 01:11 PM PDT AP - Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that's killed dozens of dogs and sickened many people.

Risky business: States tax the rich at their peril (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:24 PM PDT AP - This year, New York's deep-pocketed rich were required to dig even deeper to help shore up state finances.

Paper: Dialysis patients not told of transplants (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:54 PM PDT AP - Thousands of kidney patients in the United States start dialysis without first being told of kidney transplants that would be cheaper and lead to longer lives, according to a four-month newspaper investigation published Sunday.

Bloomberg, others press for federal security funds (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 10:43 AM PDT AP - The arrest last week of former coffee vendor Najibullah Zazi on charges of plotting to attack New York City gives added urgency to the city's pleas for federal funding to deter nuclear attacks, Mayor Bloomberg and area lawmakers said Sunday.

In Cheyenne, glass pile shows recycling challenges (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:57 PM PDT AP - After working out at a gym, Amy Mahaffy dropped off a half-dozen glass jars in a city recycling container before heading home.

Analysis: NY gov pushed to quit, goes it alone (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 03:21 PM PDT AP - David Paterson thrived politically as a state senator, working his way up in a nearly all-white Albany political structure.

Welcome tradition: Old Home Days endures 110 years (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 10:54 AM PDT AP - Old Home Days: New Hampshire's original economic stimulus plan.

What's true cost of a Starbucks latte, author asks (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 10:28 AM PDT AP - If Bryant Simon owned a coffee shop, it would not have conversation-killing Wi-Fi. It probably wouldn't offer to-go cups. But it would have a big, round table strewn with newspapers to stimulate discussion.

Ben & Jerry's, GE work on greener freezers for US (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 09:56 AM PDT AP - Think propane and butane are just for barbecuing? Think again: The common cooking fuels can also chill your drinks and ice cream with less energy and almost none of the global warming worries of current refrigerants.

More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 03:01 PM PDT AP - Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.

Calif. GOP looks to 2010 races for gov., US Senate (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:11 PM PDT AP - The Republican race to challenge liberal stalwart Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat next year is shaping up as a likely contest between a socially conservative state lawmaker and a former Silicon Valley chief executive whose views are barely known to GOP voters in the state.

Feds: Zazi trips, shopping led to NY terror threat (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 04:27 AM PDT AP - It was midsummer in suburban Denver when an unassuming, bearded man pushed a red shopping cart between shelves stacked with hair coloring and nail polish remover.

Glenn Beck gets ceremonial key to hometown city (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2009 01:16 AM PDT AP - Glenn Beck received a ceremonial, plaque-mounted key to the city from the mayor of his hometown, as well as a minute-long standing ovation as hundreds of protesters gathered outside.

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