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• Chief blames 'knuckleheads' for Lakers disturbance (AP)
• Immigrants' files to be opened to public in Mo. (AP)
• Obama puts his name behind Dems' pick for Va. gov. (AP)
• 2 men, including driver, killed at Va. bus station (AP)
• Mo. woman pleads guilty to kidnapping 5-year-old (AP)
• High court won't review 'Cuban 5' espionage case (AP)
• Ohio murder trial focuses on woman's old memories (AP)
• NC plant workers to 911: 'ConAgra just blew up' (AP)
• Indicted eye doctor, wife found dead at his office (AP)
• Hunting deaths pose challenge for prosecutors (AP)
• Momentum builds for broad debate on legalizing pot (AP)
• Calif wants to cut legal aid attorneys for poor (AP)
• NC man enters plea in death of son tied to tree (AP)
• Teen pleads guilty in killing on Chicago bus (AP)
• PE requirement isn't enough to fight obesity (AP)
• Friend says boy responding to forced chemotherapy (AP)
• A&M president quits, regents pick temp replacement (AP)
• Brad Pitt, family give $1M to Missouri hospital (AP)
• What a steal! Disgraced financier's stuff on sale (AP)
• Higher-ed pinching pushes college presses to brink (AP)

Chief blames 'knuckleheads' for Lakers disturbance (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 02:20 PM PDT AP - Looting and vandalism that broke out in the aftermath of the Los Angeles Lakers' basketball championship won't keep the city from celebrating the team's victory: City officials and the Lakers are planning to foot the bill for a victory parade they hope will overshadow unrest the police chief blames on a mob of "knuckleheads."

Immigrants' files to be opened to public in Mo. (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:38 PM PDT AP - Millions of files containing information about U.S. immigrants will soon be open to the public through a federal facility in suburban Kansas City.

Obama puts his name behind Dems' pick for Va. gov. (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:35 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama plugged his party's candidate for Virginia governor into his fundraising and organizational pipeline by e-mailing hundreds of thousands of Democrats on Monday.

2 men, including driver, killed at Va. bus station (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 03:28 PM PDT AP - A bus driver and another man were shot and killed Monday in the employee lot of a northern Virginia bus station about a mile from a busy shopping mall.

Mo. woman pleads guilty to kidnapping 5-year-old (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 02:54 PM PDT AP - A suburban Kansas City woman who already pleaded guilty to murder in a spree of videotaped sex killings also pleaded guilty Monday to kidnapping a 5-year-old girl while fleeing police in 2006.

High court won't review 'Cuban 5' espionage case (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 02:45 PM PDT AP - Cuban exiles said Monday they were relieved the Supreme Court refused to review the convictions of five intelligence agents for the communist country, despite calls from Nobel Prize winners and international legal groups to consider the case.

Ohio murder trial focuses on woman's old memories (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 01:26 PM PDT AP - Desiree Andaverde was 3 years old when she told police she watched "daddy put mommy in the trunk."

NC plant workers to 911: 'ConAgra just blew up' (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 01:20 PM PDT AP - Emergency tapes released Monday show workers dialed 911 in a frenzy after escaping an explosion that killed three workers at a Slim Jim processing plant, with one panicked woman telling dispatchers: "ConAgra just blew up!"

Indicted eye doctor, wife found dead at his office (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:46 PM PDT AP - An eye surgeon and his wife were found shot to death Monday, hours before they were scheduled to surrender to authorities on charges of performing unnecessary surgeries on patients, including children, and bilking money from health insurers.

Hunting deaths pose challenge for prosecutors (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 11:42 AM PDT AP - "He was trying to talk to his son, encouraging him to hang on," Warden David Gregory said.

Momentum builds for broad debate on legalizing pot (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 11:23 AM PDT AP - The savage drug war in Mexico. Crumbling state budgets. Weariness with current drug policy. The election of a president who said, "Yes — I inhaled."

Calif wants to cut legal aid attorneys for poor (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 10:59 AM PDT AP - Lawyers for the poor, who say they already are stretched to the breaking point by huge caseloads and dwindling staff, face layoffs across the country as local governments slash spending in these hard economic times.

NC man enters plea in death of son tied to tree (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 12:37 PM PDT AP - A North Carolina man whose 13-year-old son died after being tied to a tree overnight has entered a plea to second-degree murder in which he acknowledges prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him.

Teen pleads guilty in killing on Chicago bus (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 11:22 AM PDT AP - A Chicago teen has pleaded guilty in the killing of a boy who was shot while he tried to shield a classmate aboard a city bus.

PE requirement isn't enough to fight obesity (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 02:53 PM PDT AP - The gym at Eberhart Elementary School is bright and spacious — with high ceilings, several basketball hoops, even a large, colorful climbing wall.

Friend says boy responding to forced chemotherapy (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 01:48 PM PDT AP - X-rays show the tumor in the chest of a 13-year-old boy who resisted treatment has shrunk significantly after two courses of court-ordered chemotherapy, a family spokesman said Monday.

A&M president quits, regents pick temp replacement (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT AP - Texas A&M University named an interim president Monday, a day after the school's first female and first Hispanic president stepped down following a scathing performance review of her first year on the job.

Brad Pitt, family give $1M to Missouri hospital (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 09:18 AM PDT AP - Brad Pitt and his siblings have given $1 million to help a Missouri hospital open a new pediatric cancer center that will be named for their mother.

What a steal! Disgraced financier's stuff on sale (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 11:37 AM PDT AP - Sal Lazzara needed some new office furniture. Thanks to a flamboyant financier's downfall, he found a matching set with an infamous pedigree.

Higher-ed pinching pushes college presses to brink (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 12:34 PM PDT AP - Chancellor Michael Martin doesn't question the prestige the Louisiana State University Press brings to his school, with Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction and poetry, tomes on Southern history and culture and other noted works to its credit.

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