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NTSB: Plane crew saw significant ice before crash (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:50 PM CST AP - The crew of the commuter plane that fell on a house, killing all 49 people aboard and one person on the ground, noticed significant ice buildup on the wings and windshield just before the aircraft began pitching and rolling violently, investigators said Friday.

Phila. police officer shot, killed (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 11:21 PM CST AP - A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed while responding to a street fight Friday night, city officials said. Police returning fire shot and wounded the gunman.

Peanut Corp. of America files for bankruptcy (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:24 PM CST AP - The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak is going out of business. The Lynchburg, Va.-based Peanut Corp. of America filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Virginia Friday, the latest bad news for the company that has been accused of producing tainted peanut products that may have reached everyone from poor school children to disaster victims.

Neighborhood's quiet night explodes in tragedy (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 06:41 PM CST AP - In the white clapboard two-story set back from the sidewalk, the Wielinski family was getting ready to settle in for the night. Karen Wielinski, a secretary for the local school district, busied herself in the family room. Jill, her 22-year-old daughter, watched television in her bedroom upstairs. Husband Doug, an engineer, said he was heading up to bed.

Calif. zoo, teen's family settle over tiger attack (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 09:13 PM CST AP - The parents of a 17-year-old boy killed by an escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo reached a settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit, their lawyer announced Friday.

In shift, Blackwater dumps tarnished brand name (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 04:33 PM CST AP - Blackwater Worldwide is still protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq, but executives at the beleaguered security firm are taking their biggest step yet to put that work and the ugly reputation it earned the company behind them.

Calif. polygamist gets life term for family abuses (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 05:46 PM CST AP - A self-proclaimed polygamist was sentenced Friday to seven consecutive life prison terms for torturing seven of his 19 children, abusing four others and imprisoning two of his three wives.

'Clark Rockefeller' to use insanity defense (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 04:19 PM CST AP - The man who authorities say pretended to be a member of the famous Rockefeller dynasty and fabricated elaborate stories about his past will use an insanity defense when he goes on trial in the kidnapping of his 7-year-old daughter, his lawyers said Friday. Lawyers for the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller filed notice of the mental health defense in Suffolk Superior Court on Friday, three days after Rockefeller rejected a plea deal.

US churches to discuss evolution vs creation (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST AP - After a lifetime in the church, the Rev. William L. Rhines Jr. lately has started to question one of the Bible's fundamental teachings, that God created man. It's an especially touchy topic in his Wilmington, Del., congregation, where generations of black worshippers have leaned on faith to endure the indignities of racism.

VA clinic warns of possible contaminant exposure (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:20 PM CST AP - Thousands of patients at a Veterans Administration clinic in Tennessee may have been exposed to the infectious body fluids of other patients when they had colonoscopies in recent years, and now VA medical facilities all over the U.S. are reviewing their own procedures.

2 NYC tenants acquitted in firefighter deaths (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 09:27 PM CST AP - Two tenants were acquitted Friday of creating a deadly maze of illegal walls in their apartment building, forcing two firefighters responding to a blaze to jump to their deaths.

San Francisco weighs ban on new head shops (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 06:16 PM CST AP - Counterculture tourists hoping to catch a whiff of Flower Power still make their way to the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets, where the spirits of Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead rock on in stores offering T-shirts, posters and pot-smoking paraphernalia.

2 Pa. judges sued in $2.6M kickback scheme (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 05:54 PM CST AP - Two lawsuits have been filed against two Pennsylvania judges accused of taking more than $2 million in kickbacks to send youth offenders to privately run detention centers.

A year later, no final report on NIU shooting (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 02:08 PM CST AP - If the police chief of Northern Illinois University had his way, the name of the man who gunned down five students in a lecture hall one year ago Saturday would fade into oblivion.

Texas man gets life for killing 6-year-old girl (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 05:31 PM CST AP - A man charged with killing a 6-year-old girl whose half nude, lifeless body was found hanging from the rafters of her family's garage pleaded guilty to capital murder Friday and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Clinton urges NKorea against 'provocative' actions (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:44 PM CST AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged North Korea on Friday not to take any "provocative" actions that could undermine peace efforts.

Wife: Affair began money manager's downward spiral (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:24 PM CST AP - An Indiana money manager charged with trying to fake his death in a plane crash began to change over the past year — ultimately revealing a double life — after he started an affair, his estranged wife said Friday.

Software exec. defends hiring former Detroit mayor (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 03:18 PM CST AP - The head of a computer software company defended the hiring of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as an account executive Friday, saying the convicted felon is "uniquely qualified" to sell high-tech services in the health care field.

Publicist: 2 Mangione musicians die in plane crash (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 12:36 PM CST AP - A publicist says two members of jazz musician Chuck Mangione's band were among those killed on the plane that crashed into a Buffalo, New York, house.

Moms offer sober reality check on multiple births (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 02:09 PM CST AP - Nadya Suleman's daunting future of raising octuplets into adulthood may best be understood by the exhausted but proud parents of other multiples and the researchers who study them.

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Plane crash in upstate NY kills 49 people (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:40 AM CST AP - A commuter plane crashed into a suburban Buffalo home and erupted in flames late Thursday, killing all 48 people aboard and one person on the ground, authorities said.

Winds knock out power to thousands on East Coast (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 09:51 PM CST AP - Wild winds with gusts topping 65 mph blew from the Great Lakes to the East Coast on Thursday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers, disrupting travel and killing at least five people.

Gay couples protest at marriage bureaus across US (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 08:10 PM CST AP - Same-sex couples seeking to wed showed up at marriage license counters nationwide Thursday to highlight a right they don't have in 48 states, part of an annual protest that took on renewed urgency given recent election setbacks.

From kids to Obama, nation marks Lincoln's 200th (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:27 PM CST AP - Folksy, melancholy Abraham Lincoln would have been dumbfounded by the fuss over his birthday Thursday.

LA police to investigate threats to octuplet mom (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 10:34 PM CST AP - Police said Thursday they will investigate death threats against octuplet mother Nadya Suleman and advise her publicist on how to handle a torrent of other nasty messages that have flooded his office.

Ariz. boy, 9, offered plea deal in dad's killing (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 09:35 PM CST AP - A 9-year-old charged with killing his father and another man has been offered a plea deal that would spare him any jail time, his attorney said Thursday.

Mom doesn't buy ruling on Miss. athlete shooting (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 08:12 PM CST AP - The family of star Mississippi high school football player Billey Joe Johnson isn't done pressing for an explanation of how the 17-year-old accidentally shot and killed himself with his own shotgun during a traffic stop, as a grand jury has concluded.

Miss. judge pleads not guilty in bribery case (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:48 PM CST AP - A judge known for successfully prosecuting a white supremacist decades after a civil rights-era killing pleaded not guilty Thursday to five federal charges in an unrelated judicial bribery scheme that has snared some of the state's wealthiest attorneys.

Investigators think missing Fla. girl was abducted (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 10:36 PM CST AP - Investigators were treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old north Florida girl as an abduction and continued searching for the child Thursday.

Lincoln 1864 manuscript sets record at NYC auction (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 07:51 PM CST AP - A handwritten manuscript of an 1864 Abraham Lincoln speech sold for $3.44 million on the bicentennial of his birthday Thursday, setting a new auction record for any American historical manuscript.

TX officials order Peanut Corp. to recall products (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 10:20 PM CST AP - Texas health officials ordered the recall Thursday of peanut products from a plant operated by the company at the center of a national salmonella outbreak, days after tests indicated the likely presence of the bacteria there.

Obama visits plant hit by layoffs to pitch plan (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:16 PM CST AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday pitched his economic plan at a Caterpillar Inc. plant reeling from layoffs, his message blunted when the company's chairman warned that it may be up to a year before the multibillion-dollar program has a positive impact the economy.

Cultures offer chemical cues for aspiring Cupids (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:06 PM CST AP - Those who think flowers and chocolate are insufficient for their sweetie on Valentine's Day might try something a little more worldly — like a rhinoceros tusk or poisonous fish.

Lawyers: Is sheriff too aggressive in Phelps case? (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:08 PM CST AP - Even if a South Carolina sheriff is successful in building a marijuana case against swimming superstar Michael Phelps, it might be hard to make the charges stick, defense attorneys say.

Ohio governor grants clemency for death row inmate (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:48 PM CST AP - Gov. Ted Strickland on Thursday spared the life of a death row inmate who killed his mother in a cocaine-induced rage and whose upcoming execution was opposed by his entire family, including his mother's siblings.

Ala. man executed for stepdaughter's rape, murder (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:28 PM CST AP - Danny Joe Bradley was executed Thursday for the rape and strangulation of his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Rhonda Hardin.

Martin Luther King III marks parents' India trip (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:02 PM CST AP - Martin Luther King III will lead a delegation including civil rights icons John Lewis and Andrew Young on a 13-day trip to India to mark the 50th anniversary of his parents' pilgrimage to the country to study nonviolence.

AP Exclusive: Hazards unnoticed at shelter in fire (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:59 PM CST AP - Fire officials failed to identify serious safety concerns, including a lack of smoke detectors and proper exits, when they inspected an east Texas homeless shelter where five men later died in a fire, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

Court weighs contempt motion in Calif. prison case (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:43 PM CST AP - A federal appeals court on Thursday began considering whether Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger can be held in contempt for refusing to release money to improve inmate health care, testing the limits of federal intrusion into states' control of their prisons.

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