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Police call man LA's 'largest ever' serial killer (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 05:11 PM PDT AP - Police believe a 72-year-old insurance claims adjuster arrested earlier this month is the most prolific serial killer in the city's history, having raped and strangled as many as 30 older women over two decades.

More schools close, swine flu cases pass 100 (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 05:52 PM PDT AP - Nearly 300 schools scattered around the country closed as the nation's swine flu caseload passed 100 Thursday, and U.S. authorities said they eventually could produce enough vaccine for everyone if necessary — but that shots couldn't begin until fall at the earliest.

State labs: US swine flu cases likely higher (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 03:25 PM PDT AP - A hundred cases of swine flu in the U.S.? Health officials say there are likely more. Just how many is not important, they say. As the world faces a potential pandemic, swamped labs are not testing all possible cases. Getting an exact tally has taken a back seat to finding new outbreak hot spots or ways to limits its spread, health officials said.

NC rep calls gay student slaying case a 'hoax' (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 05:17 PM PDT AP - A North Carolina congresswoman said Thursday she chose her words poorly when she called claims that a Wyoming college student was murdered because he was gay a "hoax." Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx said during debate in the House that Matthew Shepard's 1998 death wasn't a hate crime and shouldn't be invoked by supporters of a bill to expand the definition of such crimes to include violence motivated by sexual orientation.

AP: Ad yields no new complaints in Craigslist case (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:18 PM PDT AP - An ad placed on Craigslist by prosecutors has not turned up any new accusations against the Boston University medical student charged with killing one masseuse and robbing a second one.

Remains ID'd of vagabond poet who vanished in '30s (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 05:34 PM PDT AP - Researchers said Thursday that a skeleton found last year in Utah's redrock country is that of a 20-year-old artist, poet and wanderer who disappeared in the 1930s and has been the stuff of Western lore and Navajo legend ever since.

Former 'enemy combatant' pleads guilty in Illinois (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 05:42 PM PDT AP - A man who was locked up without charges for years pleaded guilty Thursday to training in al-Qaida camps and coming to the United States on a mission for the terrorist group the day before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Swine flu could put damper on immigration rallies (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:33 PM PDT AP - The timing is not the best. Immigration-rights rallies are set for Friday as health officials try to clamp down on a swine flu epidemic with roots in the same country as many of the expected demonstrators: Mexico.

Part of vacant NYC building collapses, wounding 3 (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:16 PM PDT AP - Part of a vacant five-story building that had recently been cited collapsed in lower Manhattan on Thursday morning, leaving mounds of rubble and slightly injuring three people, officials said.

Lawsuit says NY failed to protect disabled kids (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:17 PM PDT AP - A federal lawsuit claims New York City failed to properly screen a woman who used fictitious identities to adopt 10 disabled children and later repeatedly abused, starved and imprisoned them in a "house of horrors."

Clinton-era appointee dead in apparent DC suicide (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 03:52 PM PDT AP - An attorney who served in the Clinton administration was found dead Thursday in an apparent suicide at his Washington law office.

Evaluation of Elizabeth Smart suspect due in June (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 03:31 PM PDT AP - A forensic psychologist has met with the man accused in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart to help determine if he is competent to stand trial.

Worship sites seek to keep the faithful flu-free (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 02:06 PM PDT AP - When worshippers clasp hands to "pass the peace" or share the communion cup and offering plates, religious leaders around the country want to be sure they don't also pass on swine flu.

Chrysler succumbs to bankruptcy after struggle (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:57 PM PDT AP - After months of struggling to stay alive on government loans, Chrysler finally succumbed to bankruptcy Thursday, pinning its future on a top-to-bottom reorganization and plans to build cleaner cars through an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat.

Reenactment of George Washington's inauguration (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 01:42 PM PDT AP - Wearing a brown frock coat and knee pants just as George Washington did 220 years ago, Dannell T. Maguire recited the presidential oath of office, took the "huzzahs" from the crowd and read the nation's first inaugural address — well, some if it, anyway.

Stocks' big April could be sign of healing economy (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 02:39 PM PDT AP - April was Wall Street's best month in nine years — offering some of the most powerful evidence yet that maybe, just maybe, the economy is about to begin a turnaround.

Pa. entrepreneur pleads to sex crimes in Russia (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 01:26 PM PDT AP - A wealthy Russian-American car exporter has pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving three Russian girls.

Swine flu name change? Flu genes spell pig (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 03:29 PM PDT AP - No matter what you call it, leading experts say the virus that is scaring the world is pretty much all pig.

Diplomacy key for NC paratroopers training Afghans (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 01:13 PM PDT AP - Col. Brian Drinkwine and his paratroopers had one duty on previous deployments to Afghanistan: security. Protect civilians from the bad guys. Later this year, they'll have to learn the language, immerse themselves in the culture and gain the trust of locals so they can train the Afghan Army to do it.

3 arrested in fatal shooting at LA-area taco truck (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 05:53 PM PDT AP - Authorities say three people have been arrested after a man with a rifle opened fire on a group of people eating at a Los Angeles-area taco truck, killing a man and wounding five other people.

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