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Gun laws are getting looser across much of US (AP)
Lawsuit threatened over atheist councilman in NC (AP)
Police still looking for missing Utah mom (AP)
Official: Lead prosecutor named in Fort Hood case (AP)
Detroit stripper's killing unsolved 6 years later (AP)
Mass. woman, 98, accused of killing roommate, 100 (AP)
Fla. judges, lawyers must 'unfriend' on Facebook (AP)
Novel drug combo improves breast cancer survival (AP)
Lawmakers seek emergency steps to halt Asian carp (AP)
Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays (AP)
NYPD IDs seller of gun in Times Square shooting (AP)
Ill. campus cop cleared of threat allegations (AP)
Lifelong criminal tries to put prison behind him (AP)
For one student, a long path to college degree (AP)
Teen charged with running down nurse in NY (AP)
Casey Anthony sobs at account of daughter's death (AP)
Legal case debates classiness of Flynt family smut (AP)
Officer slain in Wash. remembered at Pa. funeral (AP)
Snow strands dozens of motorists in western NY (AP)

Gun laws are getting looser across much of US (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 01:06 PM PST

AP - It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.

Lawsuit threatened over atheist councilman in NC (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:45 PM PST

AP - Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell believes in ending the death penalty, conserving water and reforming government — but he doesn't believe in God. His political opponents say that's a sin that makes him unworthy of serving in office, and they've got the North Carolina Constitution on their side.

Police still looking for missing Utah mom (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:15 PM PST

AP - About 30 detectives hunted down leads Friday in the search for a mother of two who vanished last weekend in what police are calling a suspicious disappearance.

Official: Lead prosecutor named in Fort Hood case (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:24 PM PST

AP - A senior military official in Washington says the lead prosecutor in the Fort Hood shooting case will be a man who secured the death penalty in a similar case four years ago.

Detroit stripper's killing unsolved 6 years later (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:17 PM PST

AP - Stripper Tamara Greene has found more notoriety in death than she ever did dancing under the name "Strawberry" in dimly lit topless clubs and private parties around Detroit.

Mass. woman, 98, accused of killing roommate, 100 (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:19 PM PST

AP - A 98-year-old woman was indicted Friday on a second-degree murder charge that alleges she strangled her 100-year-old nursing home roommate after making the victim's life "a living hell" because she thought the woman was "taking over the room."

Fla. judges, lawyers must 'unfriend' on Facebook (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 01:10 PM PST

AP - Florida's judges and lawyers should no longer "friend" each other on Facebook, the popular social networking site, according to a ruling from the state's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee.

Novel drug combo improves breast cancer survival (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:12 PM PST

AP - Some women with very advanced breast cancer may have a new treatment option. A combination of two drugs that more precisely target tumors significantly extended the lives of women who had stopped responding to other medicines, doctors reported Friday.

Lawmakers seek emergency steps to halt Asian carp (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:43 PM PST

AP - Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating their $7 billion fishery.

Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:12 PM PST

AP - Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu.

NYPD IDs seller of gun in Times Square shooting (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:56 PM PST

AP - New York City police say the machine pistol used by a street hustler shot dead in a Times Square gunfight was purchased at a gun dealer outside of Richmond, Va.

Ill. campus cop cleared of threat allegations (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST

AP - Northern Illinois University has cleared its tough-talking police chief of allegations he threatened an editor of the campus newspaper, and on Friday it reinstated the man seen as a hero after last year's campus shooting as NIU's top cop.

Lifelong criminal tries to put prison behind him (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:09 AM PST

AP - On a rare visit to his childhood home, Eddie Williams is 16 again, peering down a shotgun barrel as he crouches in the kitchen doorway. The intruder then swivels and shoots, and Williams sees his mother, a pastor's widow, tumble face down on the yellow linoleum floor.

For one student, a long path to college degree (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:15 PM PST

AP - She looked like a good bet to beat the odds, but her first try at college, nearly 20 years ago, came up short.

Teen charged with running down nurse in NY (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:41 AM PST

AP - A 16-year-old boy accused of running down a nurse outside a Syracuse hospital has been charged with assault and reckless driving.

Casey Anthony sobs at account of daughter's death (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 11:13 AM PST

AP - A Florida mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter sobbed in court Friday as a prosecutor speculated aloud that the toddler was methodically drugged and suffocated with tape.

Legal case debates classiness of Flynt family smut (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:37 PM PST

AP - When it comes to peddling porn, Larry Flynt wants you to know his videos of people having sex are a cut above other smut on the rack.

Officer slain in Wash. remembered at Pa. funeral (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 02:24 PM PST

AP - Mark Renninger grew up 250 paces from the Boys & Girls Club of Bethlehem. When he heard the lawn mower start up, he would come running — and insist on doing the club's lawn himself.