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Police: Miami music teacher kills family, self (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 04:08 PM PST AP - A gifted musician and teacher whose piano students included his neighbors' kids fatally shot his wife and two daughters then himself in the family's Miami home, police say, leaving those who described him as friendly and helpful to wonder what happened.

Cops bust bash hosted by Conn. teen pageant winner (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 04:02 PM PST AP - The reigning Miss Connecticut Outstanding Teen, a volunteer for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, held a party that resulted in two dozen people being charged with underage drinking, police said Wednesday.

Body rots in hearse, Ala. funeral director charged (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 04:38 PM PST AP - A funeral director accused of leaving a woman's body to decay in a parked hearse after her relatives failed to pay the bill was arrested on a felony charge of abusing a corpse, police said Wednesday.

Sanctuary warned Conn. chimp owner about dangers (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 03:05 PM PST AP - The founder of a primate rescue sanctuary said Wednesday that she warned a Connecticut woman years ago that her pet chimpanzee was a "ticking time bomb." April Truitt, who runs the Primate Rescue Center in Kentucky, said she took it upon herself to warn chimp owner Sandra Herold of the dangers of keeping the animal in her home after she heard of its escape in 2003.

4 charged in multi-state suicide assistance probe (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 05:16 PM PST AP - Four members of an alleged assisted suicide ring were charged Wednesday with helping a 58-year-old Georgia man end his life, and investigators in eight other states were also looking into whether the group was involved in more deaths.

Closing arguments begin in slaying of Fla. family (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 03:40 PM PST AP - A family of four gunned down on a dark stretch of Florida's Turnpike could have been killed by Mexican drug dealers over an unpaid debt, a defense attorney said Wednesday during closing arguments in the trial of two men charged in the shootings.

NY judge sets $5M bail for Fla. hedge manager (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 03:59 PM PST AP - A Florida hedge fund manager who disappeared for two weeks as investigators closed in on him can be freed on $5 million bail after being accused of ripping off investors of as much as $350 million, a judge said Wednesday.

Key Coleman witness tossed from Minn. Senate trial (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 03:50 PM PST AP - An argument that Republican Norm Coleman hoped would draw him closer to Democrat Al Franken suffered a hard blow Wednesday in the Minnesota Senate trial when the judges threw out the testimony of the only witness to claim seeing errors that may have given some people two votes.

Napolitano orders review of Wash. immigration raid (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 05:16 PM PST AP - Immigration agents this week conducted their first work-site raid since President Barack Obama took office, but it was news to their boss, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who on Wednesday ordered a review of the action.

Bones of 11th body found on mesa near Albuquerque (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 04:29 PM PST AP - Police said Wednesday that they have unearthed an 11th body from Albuquerque's largest crime scene ever: a mesa west of the city where remains were discovered after the area was razed for a housing development.

Green Beret not guilty of murder in Afghan's death (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 03:43 PM PST AP - A military jury found a veteran Green Beret not guilty Wednesday of premeditated murder and mutilation in the death of an unidentified Afghan man who may have been a Taliban insurgent.

FEMA investigating La. hurricane recovery office (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 03:11 PM PST AP - The Federal Emergency Management Agency is investigating allegations of cronyism and other misconduct at the New Orleans office overseeing efforts to rebuild the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast, officials said Wednesday.

Crumbling SC school gets mention in Obama speech (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 03:34 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama didn't need to read a student's letter to learn about bad wiring, peeling paint and noisy trains that drown out teachers at her dilapidated school. He saw it for himself at a campaign stop.

FDA didn't inspect syringe plant despite reports (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 03:07 PM PST AP - A North Carolina syringe factory linked to hundreds of sicknesses and five deaths operated for almost two years without an inspection despite a series of complaints that its needles were dirty or filled with colored particles.

Army manual raises emphasis on electronic warfare (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 03:25 PM PST AP - For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the Army is updating its plans for electronic warfare, calling for more use of high-powered microwaves, lasers and infrared beams to attack enemy targets and control angry crowds.

Miami banker lavishes $60M on his employees (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 02:42 PM PST AP - At a time when bankers are being pilloried on Capitol Hill as heartless and greedy, Leonard Abess Jr. stands apart.

Feds: Misconduct by CIA's Foggo spanned decades (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 02:13 PM PST AP - A former CIA agent rose to the agency's No. 3 rank despite a record of misconduct that stretched over 20 years, prosecutors said, until his career came to an end with his conviction in a bribery scheme.

Cops hit wall in hunt for LA serial killer (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 12:25 PM PST AP - They have a sample of his DNA, a description from a survivor and a $500,000 reward, but detectives investigating the city's most notorious serial killer have hit a wall.

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