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Piracy charge with mandatory life penalty looms (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 05:26 PM PDT AP - The sole surviving pirate from an attack on an American cargo ship off the Somali coast will be tried as an adult after he was portrayed Tuesday as the brazen ringleader of a band of pirates who shot at the ship's captain and bragged about prior acts of piracy.

Police: Med student targeted women on Craigslist (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 05:27 PM PDT AP - Philip Markoff seemed to have a good life: The handsome, clean-cut, 23-year-old medical student was planning a lavish beachfront wedding this summer to a beautiful woman. But authorities say his computer and surveillance video paint a picture of a suspected serial criminal who targeted women offering erotic services through Craigslist. Now he's accused of killing one and suspected of robbing and tying up another.

Police say mom ordered daughters out, drove off (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT AP - Usually, it's an empty threat: "If you kids don't stop fighting, I'm going to stop this car right now and leave you here!" But a mother from an upper-crust New York suburb went through with it, ordering her battling 10- and 12-year-old daughters out of her car in White Plains' business district and driving off, police said Tuesday.

Blagojevich denied trip to Costa Rica for reality show (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 03:29 PM PDT AP - A federal judge told ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday to forget about starring in a reality TV show in the Costa Rican jungle and focus instead on the corruption charges that could send him to prison for years.

Criminal probe of dead horses opened in Florida (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:18 PM PDT AP - Organ by organ, veterinarians are taking apart 21 prized polo horses to uncover what killed them mysteriously over the weekend during preparations for a match in one of the sport's top championships. Simultaneously, state authorities have opened a criminal probe to determine whether the deaths were intentional, a result of negligence or simply a terrible accident.

Crewman says pirate glad to have attacked US ship (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 05:22 PM PDT AP - A crew member from a U.S. ship attacked by Somali pirates said the sole surviving pirate from the group counted himself lucky to have raided an American vessel and carried himself as the pirates' leader.

Lawyer: USS Cole familes to get at least $200K (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:51 PM PDT AP - Nearly nine years after 17 sailors were killed in a terrorist attack on the USS Cole, some relatives of the victims are set to receive at least $200,000 each from Sudan, a lawyer said Tuesday.

NY family's murder-suicide deaths baffle friends (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 03:25 PM PDT AP - They seemed like an ideal Long Island family: William Parente was a lawyer, his wife Betty a stay-at-home mom active in the community. Their daughters were well-liked by teachers and classmates.

Document: Photo radar shooting suspect apologized (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 03:16 PM PDT AP - A suspect arrested in the shooting death of a man operating a photo radar van along a freeway told police he didn't mean for anyone to get hurt, according to a court document released Tuesday.

Wanted for fraud, man caught after 21 years on run (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 01:47 PM PDT AP - After 21 years on the run, a Michigan man convicted of defrauding the Defense Department returned to a Virginia courtroom Tuesday to face a charge of failure to appear at his 1988 sentencing, federal prosecutors said.

Sheriff: Md. dad who killed family had $450K debt (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:54 PM PDT AP - A Maryland father who shot his wife and three children to death and then killed himself struggled with depression, had $450,000 in debt and nearly decapitated his kids after they had died, Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins said Tuesday.

Helmsley estate: $136M to charity, $1M to dogs (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:54 PM PDT AP - Real estate baroness Leona Helmsley's estate gave away $136 million Tuesday to hospitals, foundations and the homeless and left $1 million to animal charities, prompting one advocate to accuse the estate of failing to honor the hotel tycoon's wishes.

Prospectors hope new Calif. gold rush will pan out (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 04:11 PM PDT AP - There's still gold in California's Sierra Nevada foothills, and a new rush is under way to find it.

Latino pastor group urging census boycott (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:42 PM PDT AP - A nationwide group of Latino ministers has a message for illegal immigrants: Stand up, but refuse to be counted in the 2010 U.S. census.

Mystery donor keeps giving to woman-run colleges (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 01:56 PM PDT AP - The mystery college donor has struck again — this time at Binghamton University in New York, whose financial aid office phone started ringing off the hook as word of an anonymous $6 million contribution spread across campus.

Miami Cuban-Americans muted on Obama policy shift (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:07 PM PDT AP - Just a few years ago, any U.S. president who suggested restoring relations with Fidel Castro's Cuban government would have been loudly called a communist or worse on the streets and airwaves of Miami. Protests would have sprung up, and Cuban-Americans who offered their support would have feared being blacklisted.

Pirate comes to NY, world away from home in Africa (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 02:31 PM PDT AP - Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse grew up destitute in Somalia, the product of a violent, lawless nation where his mother scraped together a few dollars a day selling milk and tending to a small herd of camels, cows and goats.

Federal judge hears challenge to Iraq war (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 01:13 PM PDT AP - Opponents of the Iraq war are leaning on an unlikely source to bolster their efforts to declare the invasion unconstitutional: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Some counties also turning down stimulus money (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 12:40 PM PDT AP - Governors have made headlines for refusing at least some of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package, but at the local level, cash-strapped cities and counties have been less vocal about turning down money.

Marine pleads not guilty to ammo in bag at airport (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:55 AM PDT AP - A U.S. Marine pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges that he had bomb making materials, a gun and ammunition in his baggage at a Boston airport.

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