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• 2nd gay bishop for Episcopal Church, Anglicans (AP)
• Baucus: Girlfriend merited US attorney nomination (AP)
• First US ambassador to the Vatican dead at 95 (AP)
• AP: Manufacturing areas lead surprise job comeback (AP)
• Election board certifies Atlanta mayor vote (AP)
• `Junior' Gotti's 4th mob mistrial may be his last (AP)
• Snow dusts the South from Louisiana to Georgia (AP)
• 1 dead, scores injured in Wyoming bus crash (AP)
• Vermont church selling Tiffany window to stay open (AP)
• Va. Tech report: Staff warned their families first (AP)
• Colorado State University bans guns on campus (AP)
• Brooke Astor's son: I'm too sick to be imprisoned (AP)
• Man reported car problems just before 4-dead crash (AP)
• Pawlenty, other aspirants travel for foreign cred (AP)
• In Tuesday speech, Obama to promote new job ideas (AP)
• 1 killed, 2 injured in Texas refinery accident (AP)

2nd gay bishop for Episcopal Church, Anglicans (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:58 PM PST AP - The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected a lesbian as assistant bishop Saturday, the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican fellowship, which is already deeply fractured over the first.

Baucus: Girlfriend merited US attorney nomination (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:34 PM PST AP - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus defended recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana's U.S. attorney, saying Saturday his one-time staff member and the former state prosecutor is "highly qualified" but eventually withdrew her nomination.

First US ambassador to the Vatican dead at 95 (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:17 PM PST AP - William A. Wilson, the first American to serve as ambassador to the Vatican and a member of President Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" of advisers, has died. He was 95.

AP: Manufacturing areas lead surprise job comeback (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST AP - As record numbers of orders flow through Legacy Furniture Group's manufacturing plant, workers toil between towers of piled foam and incomplete end tables precariously stacked five pieces high.

Election board certifies Atlanta mayor vote (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:18 PM PST AP - A Georgia elections board has certified the vote making former state Sen. Kasim Reed Atlanta's mayor-elect.

`Junior' Gotti's 4th mob mistrial may be his last (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:50 AM PST AP - A new judge, new charges, new star witness and a new jury added up to a familiar result — a mistrial for John "Junior" Gotti on racketeering charges. This one, though, might be his last.

Snow dusts the South from Louisiana to Georgia (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:42 PM PST AP - Louisiana got its earliest snowflakes ever as people across the South awakened to a dusting of powder.

1 dead, scores injured in Wyoming bus crash (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:38 AM PST AP - A bus driver was killed and about 40 passengers injured Saturday morning when the bus crashed into an overturned tractor-trailer blocking Interstate 25 in central Wyoming.

Vermont church selling Tiffany window to stay open (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:23 PM PST AP - For almost 100 years, the multicolored image of St. John the Divine has gazed down from a stained glass window in the choir loft of First Baptist Church.

Va. Tech report: Staff warned their families first (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 05:25 AM PST AP - New details on the response to the first shootings of what would become the Virginia Tech massacre show that at least two administrators alerted their family members well before the rest of the campus was notified that a gunman was on the loose.

Colorado State University bans guns on campus (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 03:36 AM PST AP - Joining most major colleges nationwide, Colorado State University has banned concealed weapons on campus with a vote that pitted faculty asking for a prohibition against students demanding the right to carry guns.

Brooke Astor's son: I'm too sick to be imprisoned (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:00 AM PST AP - Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son has turned to friends in high places — including Whoopi Goldberg and Al Roker — to help him make the case that he is too sick and doesn't deserve to go to prison for plundering his philanthropist mother's fortune.

Man reported car problems just before 4-dead crash (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 03:26 AM PST AP - A customer complained of gas-pedal problems with a dealership's loaner Lexus three days before the same car accelerated out of control and killed a California Highway Patrol officer and three family members, a report obtained Friday said.

Pawlenty, other aspirants travel for foreign cred (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 03:28 AM PST AP - Gov. Tim Pawlenty can't see Russia from his house.

In Tuesday speech, Obama to promote new job ideas (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:25 PM PST AP - In his latest job creation effort, President Barack Obama is trying to find practical and politically feasible ways of spurring hiring among skittish employers.

1 killed, 2 injured in Texas refinery accident (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:33 AM PST AP - One worker was killed and two others were injured when a boiler failed at a Valero petroleum refinery in eastern Texas.

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