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• Son of alleged museum shooter expresses remorse (AP)
• Idol auditions attract thousands in Mass. (AP)
• Hearing to air VA mistakes with hospital equipment (AP)
• 18-year old charged in Florida cat mutilations (AP)
• Fiery Calif. freeway crash kills trucker (AP)
• Ailing factory towns face tougher road to recovery (AP)
• AP Impact: Weak security enables credit card hacks (AP)
• Future of feminism an issue in NOW leadership vote (AP)
• Sick sea critters aided by Marine Mammal Center (AP)
• Once he was lost, but now is found (AP)
• Promises, Promises: Indian health care needs unmet (AP)
• Deadline nears for settlement in church land fight (AP)
• Texas teen hopes to raise $1 million for hospital (AP)
• Hearing for museum shooting suspect set for Monday (AP)
• Mich. town mourns as 5-year-old girl laid to rest (AP)
• Pastor Jakes says he barely avoided home blast (AP)
• Calif authorities ID suspect in deadly 2003 blaze (AP)
• 'Hangover' hangs on as No. 1 movie with $33.4M (AP)
• Ariz. home invasion suspects tied to border group (AP)
• Albin, who fed luminaries at Four Seasons, dies (AP)

Son of alleged museum shooter expresses remorse (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 04:11 PM PDT AP - The son of James von Brunn said Sunday that his father, who is accused of killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, had long burdened his family with his white supremacist views and that he wishes his father would have died in the shooting instead.

Idol auditions attract thousands in Mass. (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 03:05 PM PDT AP - Yes, they were singing in the rain.

Hearing to air VA mistakes with hospital equipment (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 12:44 PM PDT AP - A congressional panel is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs to disclose on Tuesday whether non-sterile equipment that may have exposed 10,000 veterans to HIV and other infections was isolated to three Southeast hospitals or is part of a wider problem.

18-year old charged in Florida cat mutilations (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 04:51 PM PDT AP - A teenager faces charges in a gruesome string of cat mutilations and killings that have horrified his neighbors and shaken animal lovers in two South Florida communities.

Fiery Calif. freeway crash kills trucker (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 11:41 AM PDT AP - A tanker truck hauling 8,000 gallons of ethanol crashed and exploded into an inferno that sent a river of fire into storm drains, killed the driver and blocked major highways.

Ailing factory towns face tougher road to recovery (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 11:01 AM PDT AP - Tim Holt was among the men and women who wove fabric and prosperity here for generations, until the textile factories left town in a global manufacturing shift that the rest of the country hardly seemed to notice.

AP Impact: Weak security enables credit card hacks (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 09:54 AM PDT AP - Every time you swipe your credit card and wait for the transaction to be approved, sensitive data including your name and account number are ferried from store to bank through computer networks, each step a potential opening for hackers.

Future of feminism an issue in NOW leadership vote (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 01:27 PM PDT AP - After years on the defensive during the Bush administration, the National Organization for Women is elated to have a president sharing many of its goals. Yet NOW heads into its own leadership contest — a sharp contrast of age and race — mindful of the need to energize its ranks.

Sick sea critters aided by Marine Mammal Center (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 11:05 AM PDT AP - A recent surge in weakened and malnourished sea lions found along the Northern California coast is mystifying scientists and keeping workers hopping at the newly expanded Marine Mammal Center here.

Once he was lost, but now is found (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 11:00 AM PDT AP - His hair had grayed and he'd lost several teeth.

Promises, Promises: Indian health care needs unmet (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 04:39 PM PDT AP - Ta'Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt.

Deadline nears for settlement in church land fight (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 02:47 PM PDT AP - Despite some 40 hours of negotiations, it's unlikely a settlement can be reached by Monday in a dispute over a property trust once run by polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs, Utah's attorney general said.

Texas teen hopes to raise $1 million for hospital (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 10:13 AM PDT AP - Ben Sater was 10 when he realized that Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children never charged his family for the orthopedic treatment he'd been getting for several years.

Hearing for museum shooting suspect set for Monday (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 04:08 PM PDT AP - A judge is expected to hear a report on the health of a white supremacist accused of killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Mich. town mourns as 5-year-old girl laid to rest (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 07:41 AM PDT AP - Mourners embraced family members Saturday as they filed past the closed casket of a 5-year-old found buried along a river, paying final respects to a girl described by one of them as "Monroe's little angel."

Pastor Jakes says he barely avoided home blast (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 10:11 AM PDT AP - Dallas megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes says a last-minute change of plans saved him from being killed in a natural gas explosion at his home.

Calif authorities ID suspect in deadly 2003 blaze (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 07:19 AM PDT AP - Authorities in California have identified a suspect in a huge wildfire that destroyed almost 1,000 homes and was blamed for six deaths.

'Hangover' hangs on as No. 1 movie with $33.4M (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 11:57 AM PDT AP - Hollywood nursed another big weekend hangover.

Ariz. home invasion suspects tied to border group (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 07:37 AM PDT AP - Two of three people arrested in a southern Arizona home invasion that left a little girl and her father dead had connections to a Washington state anti-illegal immigration group that conducts border watch activities in Arizona.

Albin, who fed luminaries at Four Seasons, dies (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 01:46 PM PDT AP - Christian "Hitsch" Albin, who fed the world's luminaries for decades as executive chef of The Four Seasons — a restaurant that invented the "power lunch" — has died. He was 61.

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