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Tornado kills at least 4 in southern Oklahoma (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2009 12:35 AM CST AP - A large, violent tornado ripped through a southern Oklahoma town late Tuesday evening, killing four people and injuring up to 50, authorities said. Severe weather also caused damage and power outages in metro Oklahoma City and western Texas.

Medical society probes octuplet fertility doctor (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 10:52 PM CST AP - A national medical society is investigating whether a fertility doctor followed its guidelines when he implanted six embryos into a Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets last month.

Mayor: Obama should apologize for Vegas trips quip (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 09:29 PM CST AP - Sin City's mayor wants President Barack Obama to apologize for saying companies shouldn't visit Las Vegas on the taxpayer's dime.

African American Pullman porters honored (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 08:40 PM CST AP - In an era when America traveled by train, one of the best jobs an African-American man could land was working as a Pullman porter. It also was one of the worst.

Ex-wife says Phoenix shooting suspect attacked her (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 09:57 PM CST AP - A judge ruled Tuesday that the ex-wife of Phoenix's Serial Shooter suspect can tell jurors about an alleged threat he made and a confrontation in which she claims he ripped off her clothes after chasing her in a car.

Lab tests show possible salmonella at Texas plant (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 06:36 PM CST AP - Private lab tests show there may have been salmonella at a second plant operated by the peanut company at the center of a national outbreak, but the potentially tainted products were not sent to consumers, Texas health officials said Tuesday.

Slain Florida girl Caylee Anthony remembered (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 05:41 PM CST AP - The grandmother of slain Florida toddler Caylee Anthony told hundreds of mourners Tuesday that her granddaughter was able to win the love of strangers and inspired them to come together for a common purpose.

Senate judges order count of 23 rejected ballots (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 08:46 PM CST AP - The judges in Minnesota's Senate trial on Tuesday ordered that 23 previously rejected absentee ballots be opened and added to the race, setting the stage for counting perhaps thousands more such ballots and giving Republican Norm Coleman a shot at erasing Democrat Al Franken's 225-vote lead.

Appeals court acquits man because he isn't Indian (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 06:56 PM CST AP - A federal appeals court Tuesday reversed the conviction of a Montana man imprisoned for assaulting a woman because the law under which he was charged required that he be an American Indian.

Texas executes man tied to 'bathtub slayings' (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 07:05 PM CST AP - A Louisiana man condemned for strangling and drowning a suburban Dallas woman, charged with a second slaying and blamed for the rapes of at least five other women was executed Tuesday evening.

US soldier who abandoned unit returns from Canada (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 04:53 PM CST AP - Sporting a dragon tattoo on his forearm and skulls on both biceps, Cliff Cornell looks tough. But he dissolves into tears as he reflects on his return to the Army four years after he fled to Canada to avoid the war in Iraq.

Pot activists rip Kellogg Co. for dropping Phelps (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 05:39 PM CST AP - Snap, crackle ... pot?

Midwife births raise questions about citizenship (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 05:39 PM CST AP - The citizenship of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people who insist they are Americans is being called into question because they were delivered by midwives near the U.S.-Mexico border. The federal government's doubts have arisen as many people in the border region try to meet a June 1 deadline to obtain U.S. passports so they can freely cross from one country to the other.

Man leads LA police on 3-hour chase, shoots self (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST AP - An assault suspect who ran a luxury-car-rental business and was distraught over financial troubles led police on a more than three-hour chase in a Bentley sedan before fatally shooting himself in the head early Tuesday as officers surrounded the $100,000-plus vehicle.

Noted Miss. attorney pleads guilty to mail fraud (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:56 PM CST AP - A noted anti-tobacco attorney jailed for conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge pleaded guilty to mail fraud Tuesday in a second bribery scheme.

Alaska's top lawyer, Troopergate figure, resigns (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:21 PM CST AP - Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg, a major figure in the abuse-of-power investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin, has resigned, the governor's office said Tuesday.

DNA match breaks open Wisconsin slaying from 1976 (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:14 PM CST AP - A man accused of killing a young go-go dancer three decades ago told his soon-to-be wife years later that at the same nightclub, he had met someone once and things went "horribly wrong," according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.

A Maine event of 50 below excites scientists (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:13 PM CST AP - Teeth are chattering in New England, where scientists just spent about a month scrutinizing weather data before proclaiming Tuesday that, yes, Maine has pulled even with Vermont in bragging rights for the region's lowest recorded temperature — 50 below.

Sobering results for cost-cutting Medicare project (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 05:24 PM CST AP - An ambitious effort to cut costs and keep aging, sick Medicare patients out of the hospital mostly didn't work, a government-contracted study found. The disappointing results show how tough it is to manage older patients with chronic diseases, who often take multiple prescriptions, see many different doctors and sometimes get conflicting medical advice.

The big 2-0-0: Lincoln to be feted coast to coast (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:19 PM CST AP - Two centuries after Abraham Lincoln's birth, everybody suddenly wants a piece of him.

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FBI raids Ga. plant at center of salmonella scare (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 10:38 PM CST AP - Federal agents on Monday raided a Georgia peanut processing plant linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak that has prompted one of the largest product recalls in U.S. history.

Jar peanut butter sales fall amid salmonella fears (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 09:34 PM CST AP - Shoppers are leaving jarred peanut butter off their grocery lists, according to sales figures, even though familiar brands have not been affected by the salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds and led to one of the largest product recalls in U.S. history.

Captain of ship stuck off Hawaii relieved of duty (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 09:11 PM CST AP - The commanding officer of a $1 billion warship that ran aground along the coast of Honolulu has been relieved of duty, the Navy said Monday.

Smoking curbs clear hurdle in home of Marlboro man (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 10:23 PM CST AP - In a sign of how vilified smoking has become, lawmakers in Virginia — where the world's largest cigarette factory churns out Marlboros — passed curbs on smoking in restaurants.

Judges tentatively order Calif. inmates released (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 08:57 PM CST AP - A special panel of federal judges tentatively ruled Monday that California must release tens of thousands of inmates to relieve overcrowding.

Octuplet mom was treated at Beverly Hills clinic (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 10:27 PM CST AP - The mother of octuplets was implanted with those embryos at a Beverly Hills fertility clinic run by a well-known — and controversial — specialist who pioneered a method of implantation. Dr. Michael Kamrava's name emerged Monday as a result of an interview aired Monday on NBC with Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to eight babies Jan. 26.

Scholastic chided for selling toys in book clubs (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 04:05 PM CST AP - Scholastic Corp., the U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter books, has come under criticism from a children's advocacy group for using its vast, venerable network of school-based book clubs to market toys and other non-educational items such as video games to lip gloss.

Friends: Professor loved son charged in beating (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 07:48 PM CST AP - A Kent State University professor who was fatally beaten in her home was devoted to caring for her 18-year-old autistic son, who is charged with attacking her, friends say.

Disabled men put to work at Iowa plant for decades (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 07:26 PM CST AP - State officials say 21 mentally disabled men lived for 20 years or more in an old building with boarded-up windows and nothing but space heaters for heat. It wasn't some neglectful group home — it was the bunkhouse for Henry's Turkey Service.

Judge considers revoking bond for Miss. mayor (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 07:14 PM CST AP - Prosecutors asked a judge Monday to jail the mayor of Mississippi's largest city during his trial for destroying a suspected crack house with a sledgehammer.

Maine's GOP senators thrust into stimulus debate (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 05:24 PM CST AP - Thousands of lost jobs and a deep streak of independence have thrust Maine into the middle of the debate over President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package.

Prosecutors: Jail ex-D.C. mayor Barry over taxes (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 04:50 PM CST AP - Prosecutors asked a federal judge Monday to send former Washington mayor Marion Barry to jail for failing to file his tax returns for the eighth time in nine years.

Friend: Doctor injured in bombing could soon talk (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 06:52 PM CST AP - The head of the Arkansas State Medical Board likely will speak by the end of the week to detectives investigating the bombing that severely wounded him, a family friend said Monday.

Conn. judge suspended 8 months for slurs at arrest (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 08:16 PM CST AP - A judge charged with drunken driving and videotaped using racial slurs while arguing with police officers was suspended without pay Monday for eight months by a judicial review panel.

Widow sues over man's death at immigration center (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 05:31 PM CST AP - A Chinese immigrant held at a privately operated detention center was denied medical care, abused and accused of faking his illness in the weeks before he died of cancer, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by the man's widow.

Md. lab germ research halted for records probe (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 04:26 PM CST AP - The Army said Monday it has suspended much of the research at its flagship biological weapons defense laboratory at Fort Detrick while it makes sure it has accounted for all of its dangerous germs and poisons.

Minn. Senate trial judges hope to speed up process (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 06:21 PM CST AP - The judges in Minnesota's Senate trial rejected a complaint from Al Franken on Monday that Norm Coleman's lawyers weren't following trial rules and were slowing things down. But the judges said they would explore other ways to go faster.

Mexican drug violence spills over into the US (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 04:39 PM CST AP - Just as government officials had feared, the drug violence raging in Mexico is spilling over into the United States.

Calif. artist sues AP over image of Obama (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 03:27 PM CST AP - An artist who created a famous image of Barack Obama before he became president sued The Associated Press on Monday, asking a judge to find that his use of an AP photo in creating the poster did not violate copyright law.

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