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• Mourners grieve for soldiers killed at Fort Hood (AP)
• Bernard Madoff's jacket, watch auctioned in NYC (AP)
• Crusading Calif. D.A. retires, leaves painful wake (AP)
• White House: IL prison eyed for Guantanamo inmates (AP)
• Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches are shrinking (AP)
• Ohio: 1 lethal injection drug should end lawsuit (AP)
• Pa. swim club accused of bias to file bankruptcy (AP)
• 3 dead in medical helicopter crash north of Reno (AP)
• Palin says she didn't know Bristol was having sex (AP)
• FBI digs into backyard of Ohio home with 11 bodies (AP)
• Woman widowed by cop husband's suicide sues NYPD (AP)
• New Yorkers worry about trial for 9/11 mastermind (AP)
• Child sex case for Mo. family expands with arrest (AP)
• College students find support in campus 'posses' (AP)
• Disney World takes steps to fight swine flu (AP)
• Colorado parents plead guilty in balloon boy saga (AP)
• Pope names new leader for Milwaukee archdiocese (AP)

Mourners grieve for soldiers killed at Fort Hood (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 05:47 PM PST AP - Hundreds of people lining the main street of an Indiana town on Saturday fell solemnly silent as the white hearse passed. Mourners waited for hours outside a Wisconsin gymnasium to say goodbye to a soldier who once promised to take down Osama bin Laden.

Bernard Madoff's jacket, watch auctioned in NYC (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 05:56 PM PST AP - It was about fascination with big money — and the life of a couple at the center of the biggest financial fraud case in U.S. history.

Crusading Calif. D.A. retires, leaves painful wake (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 05:18 PM PST AP - The molesters drank blood, the children said, and hung them from hooks after forcing them to have sex with their parents. They murdered babies, prosecutors told jurors, and snapped photographs as the horror unfolded.

White House: IL prison eyed for Guantanamo inmates (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 05:39 PM PST AP - The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural northwestern Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with federal inmates, a White House official said Saturday.

Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches are shrinking (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 05:16 PM PST AP - Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to build sand castles.

Ohio: 1 lethal injection drug should end lawsuit (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 02:09 PM PST AP - The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what may have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.

Pa. swim club accused of bias to file bankruptcy (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 12:52 PM PST AP - A suburban swim club accused of discrimination last summer after revoking the memberships of mostly black and Hispanic children plans to declare bankruptcy, a newspaper reported Saturday.

3 dead in medical helicopter crash north of Reno (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:19 PM PST AP - Investigators said the pilot of a medical helicopter issued a mayday moments before the aircraft crashed into a hilly area north of Reno near the Nevada-California state line early Saturday.

Palin says she didn't know Bristol was having sex (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 09:26 AM PST AP - Sarah Palin says she didn't know her daughter Bristol was sexually active before she learned the teenager was pregnant.

FBI digs into backyard of Ohio home with 11 bodies (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 11:01 AM PST AP - FBI agents sifted through dirt with rakes and shovels Saturday in the backyard of a suspected serial killer's home and ran a thermal-imaging device across the ground near the area where the decomposing bodies of several women were found.

Woman widowed by cop husband's suicide sues NYPD (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:26 AM PST AP - Michael Pigott was an experienced NYPD lieutenant with an elite team trained to deal with the most hostile scenarios. He was calm under pressure. A good leader.

New Yorkers worry about trial for 9/11 mastermind (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 09:17 AM PST AP - The move to put the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial just blocks from ground zero raises a host of legal, political and security questions, chief among them: Can a fair-minded jury be found in a city still nursing deep wounds from the attack on the World Trade Center?

Child sex case for Mo. family expands with arrest (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 11:30 AM PST AP - The case against a family accused of child sex abuse expanded with the arrest of a sixth relative — a 72-year-old Florida man who had called the allegations against his kin repulsive and appalling.

College students find support in campus 'posses' (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:24 AM PST AP - When Sharhea Wade arrived at Bryn Mawr College from a big-city high school, it seemed as if every other student on the quiet, leafy campus had graduated from an exclusive private school.

Disney World takes steps to fight swine flu (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 08:47 AM PST AP - How about some hand sanitizer before greeting Mickey Mouse?

Colorado parents plead guilty in balloon boy saga (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 02:16 AM PST AP - The Colorado parents of three children could wind up in jail after admitting in court they fabricated a story about their son in a runaway balloon to gain publicity for a possible reality TV show.

Pope names new leader for Milwaukee archdiocese (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:17 AM PST AP - The Archdiocese of Milwaukee says a successor has been named to the archbishop post once held by Timothy Dolan.

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