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• DA: Man charged in Letterman plot was deep in debt (AP)
• Gate splits border community, unites it in disdain (AP)
• The joke's on Letterman after on-air confession (AP)
• Bible verses banned from Ga. school football field (AP)
• Polanski agreed to $500,000 payment in civil suit (AP)
• Todd Palin resigns from oil job on North Slope (AP)
• Second City winds up fourth in Olympics bid (AP)
• Ill. man charged in slaying of ex-wife's family (AP)
• Soldier gets 3-year prison term for kidnap hoax (AP)
• Texas jury convicts handyman of 2 slayings in '07 (AP)
• Bloomberg has spent $64.8 million on 3rd campaign (AP)
• Second City winds up 4th in Olympics bid (AP)
• Tropical Storm Olaf moving north in the Pacific (AP)
• Experts: NJ voting buffer zone ruling won't stand (AP)
• 39 indicted in bribery probe of DC taxi industry (AP)
• McNair to suicidal youths: Live to see better days (AP)
• Wyclef Jean to attend Berklee College of Music (AP)
• Expert: Ploy in Tenn. baby abduction used before (AP)
• Report rejects whistleblower in Ala. ex-gov case (AP)
• Jeff Luers back in custody after mistaken release (AP)

DA: Man charged in Letterman plot was deep in debt (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:26 PM PDT AP - A CBS newsman who prosecutors said was desperate and deep in debt was charged Friday with trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million in a plot that forced the late night comic to acknowledge having sex with some of the women who have worked for him.

Gate splits border community, unites it in disdain (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 04:15 PM PDT AP - For decades, the towns of Derby Line, Vt., and Stanstead, Quebec, have functioned as one community.

The joke's on Letterman after on-air confession (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:02 PM PDT AP - So a late-night talk show host, married and a dad, walks on stage and admits to workplace hanky-panky. The punchline? He has long reveled in mocking politicians for their sexual trespasses.

Bible verses banned from Ga. school football field (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 04:12 PM PDT AP - When the Warriors of Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High take the field Friday night, the football team won't be running through the cheerleaders' usual banner bearing a Bible verse.

Polanski agreed to $500,000 payment in civil suit (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:04 PM PDT AP - Film director Roman Polanski agreed to pay his sexual assault victim $500,000 to settle a lawsuit 15 years after he fled the United States, according to court documents provided to media outlets Friday.

Todd Palin resigns from oil job on North Slope (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 04:12 PM PDT AP - The husband of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has quit his oil field job on the North Slope. Todd Palin's resignation as a production operator for oil giant BP PLC comes almost two months after his wife stepped down as Alaska governor and shortly before the release of her highly anticipated memoir in a deal rumored to be worth millions.

Second City winds up fourth in Olympics bid (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:14 PM PDT AP - So much for Da Games.

Ill. man charged in slaying of ex-wife's family (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 04:45 PM PDT AP - An Illinois man was charged with first-degree murder Friday in the slayings of five members of his ex-wife's family, while his stepmother defended him as a gentle man not capable of the crime.

Soldier gets 3-year prison term for kidnap hoax (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 02:27 PM PDT AP - A Fort Hood soldier who tried to fake his kidnapping by a Mexican drug cartel after he went AWOL was sentenced Friday to three years in prison and dishonorably discharged.

Texas jury convicts handyman of 2 slayings in '07 (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 02:57 PM PDT AP - A handyman accused of killing six people in a cross-country spree was convicted Friday in two of the deaths, and could face the death penalty.

Bloomberg has spent $64.8 million on 3rd campaign (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 02:25 PM PDT AP - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent $64.8 million of his own money in his bid for a third term and, since midsummer, has been spending campaign cash at a rate of $15,000 per hour.

Second City winds up 4th in Olympics bid (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 10:46 AM PDT AP - Thousands of people stood in bewildered silence in downtown Chicago on Friday after the International Olympic Committee eliminated the city from the race for the 2016 Summer Olympics in the first round of voting.

Tropical Storm Olaf moving north in the Pacific (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT AP - Tropical Storm Olaf is weakening slightly as it moves north in the Pacific far off Mexico's coast.

Experts: NJ voting buffer zone ruling won't stand (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 01:35 PM PDT AP - A court decision that bars exit polling within 100 feet of New Jersey polling places is unlikely to stand because federal courts around the country have consistently rejected such restrictions, according to legal and polling experts.

39 indicted in bribery probe of DC taxi industry (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 01:07 PM PDT AP - Thirty-nine people connected with the Washington, D.C., taxicab industry have been indicted on bribery charges.

McNair to suicidal youths: Live to see better days (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 02:45 PM PDT AP - Shortly before former NFL quarterback Steve McNair's mistress killed him and then herself, he recorded a public service announcement that urges young people thinking about suicide to call a hotline and "live to see better days."

Wyclef Jean to attend Berklee College of Music (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 01:43 PM PDT AP - Wyclef Jean (ZHAHN') is going back to school to earn a degree from Boston's Berklee College of Music.

Expert: Ploy in Tenn. baby abduction used before (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 12:52 PM PDT AP - The search for a Tennessee newborn whose mom says he was kidnapped by a woman posing as an immigration agent entered its fourth day Friday, and a missing child expert said similar ploys have been used in other abductions.

Report rejects whistleblower in Ala. ex-gov case (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 12:56 PM PDT AP - A Justice Department investigation finds no basis for whistleblower allegations against the team that prosecuted former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman for bribery.

Jeff Luers back in custody after mistaken release (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:28 PM PDT AP - Self-proclaimed anarchist Jeff Luers was released Friday after years in prison for setting trucks ablaze in an environmental protest — but he was back in custody within hours.

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