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Couple, their 3 kids found dead in Maryland home (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 03:35 PM PDT AP - A father killed his wife and their three children before fatally shooting himself in a northwest Maryland home, leaving a gruesome scene that was discovered Saturday by the youngsters' grandfather, authorities said.

Fla. deputies catch 2 men who escaped from jail (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 04:24 PM PDT AP - Authorities in Florida have caught two men who escaped from a jail there and are suspected of killing a 66-year-old woman after the breakout.

Shoot first: Columbine transformed police tactics (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 10:30 AM PDT AP - The first officers on the scene had never trained for what they found at Columbine High School: No hostages. No demands. Just killing.

Grisly slayings brings Mexican drug war to US (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 12:53 PM PDT AP - Five men dead in an apartment. In a county that might see five homicides in an entire year, the call over the sheriff's radio revealed little about what awaited law enforcement at a sprawling apartment complex.

Public skeptical that woman killed, raped girl (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 11:11 AM PDT AP - Callers have inundated the phone lines of Tracy police, saying it can't be. Veteran homicide and sex-crime researchers say they cannot recall a case quite like it. Even the investigators themselves looked at the evidence and initially said "no way."

Boats used to search for marooned ND farmers (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 11:54 AM PDT AP - Boat crews from federal agencies including the Coast Guard patrolled farming country in southeast North Dakota on Saturday, looking for people stranded by flooding from the Sheyenne River.

Evacuation order of entire Minn. town lifted (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 10:27 AM PDT AP - Residents have started returning to a town in southeastern Minnesota after city officials lifted an evacuation order prompted by a large fire at a meat-processing plant.

New laws treat teen prostitutes as abuse victims (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 11:18 AM PDT AP - Her pimp beat her weekly to keep her working, stitching up her wounds himself to avoid questions at a hospital. Her average earnings of $600 for a 13-hour day of turning tricks bought him a car.

Colo Guard takes aid to snowbound travelers (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 03:12 PM PDT AP - Colorado transportation officials on Saturday reopened a lengthy section of Interstate 70 that was closed overnight, stranding hundreds of travelers, by a storm that dumped more than 3 feet of snow in the region west of Denver.

Reverse discrimination case could transform hiring (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 12:57 PM PDT AP - Inside a burning building, fire doesn't discriminate between Matthew Marcarelli and Gary Tinney. Inside the New Haven Fire Department, however, skin color has put them on opposite sides of a lawsuit that could transform hiring procedures nationwide.

Car-crazed LA tries to rev up taxi culture (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 11:10 AM PDT AP - Try hailing a cab in this car-centric town and you're likely to be left standing on a curb, waving your arm like a fool in a cloud of exhaust.

Man accused of triple stabbing deaths denied bail (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 10:39 AM PDT AP - An Illinois man accused of killing his girlfriend's sister, father and grandmother has been denied bail.

Fight against syphilis, AIDS goes online (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 09:58 AM PDT AP - As life moves to the Internet, a growing number of public health agencies are signing on to social networking sites — not to find friends but to fight syphilis, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Government statistics on syphilis, HIV (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 10:26 AM PDT AP - A summary of federal government figures on syphilis and HIV:

Bogus waiter tricks customers at 2 NJ restaurants (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 10:55 AM PDT AP - Police say a man posing as a waiter collected $186 in cash from diners at two restaurants in New Jersey and walked out with the money in his pocket.

Radio show leads the way for Gaelic comeback (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 09:57 AM PDT AP - To Seamus Blake's immigrant parents from Ireland, the language of prosperity was English.

Report: MA woman tried before to kill unborn child (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 09:05 AM PDT AP - A Massachusetts woman suspected of killing one of her daughters and her unborn child tried to kill the fetus two months earlier by drinking poison, according to police.

Parents of schoolyard slaying victims seek closure (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 09:01 AM PDT AP - When Shalga Hightower remembers her daughter Iofemi, she doesn't dwell on the brutal attack on the 20-year-old and three of her friends in a Newark schoolyard.

Police: 7 wounded in shooting near Detroit party (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 10:16 AM PDT AP - Police in Detroit say seven people have been wounded in a shooting outside a party.

Illinois Holocaust Museum opens in Chicago suburb (AP) Posted: 18 Apr 2009 09:08 AM PDT AP - Fritzie Fritzshall gazed up at the illuminated wall and scanned the rows of victim names engraved in Hebrew, Yiddish and English, when one suddenly jumped out: Bella.

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