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• SC Gov. Sanford admits affair after going AWOL (AP)
• Iowa coach who helped launch NFL careers is slain (AP)
• Hubris, remorse drove Sanford's week of decisions (AP)
• Scientists study foes' ways at Creation Museum (AP)
• Even cops losing their jobs in recession (AP)
• California doomsday: State could run out of cash (AP)
• Doctor in 1999 South Pole rescue dies in Mass. (AP)
• 2 suspects freed in Texas yogurt shop murder case (AP)
• Calif. Legislature begins debate over budget fix (AP)
• Conn. church creates stir with gay exorcism video (AP)
• Weingarten resigns from NYC teachers union (AP)
• Lavish NYC jailhouse bar mitzvah not so kosher (AP)
• NASA plans fueling test for space shuttle (AP)
• Texas race for gov. a Republican slugfest (AP)
• Telescope finds space blobs are pubescent galaxies (AP)
• Jobs' liver transplant shows power of the rich (AP)
• Hotel suicide suspect pleads innocent to smuggling (AP)
• Feds arrest head of anti-gang group in LA (AP)

SC Gov. Sanford admits affair after going AWOL (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:35 PM PDT AP - After going AWOL for seven days, Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit a woman with whom he was having an affair. Wiping away tears, he apologized to his family and gave up a national Republican Party post, but was silent on whether he would resign.

Iowa coach who helped launch NFL careers is slain (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 03:34 PM PDT AP - A high school coach who helped launch several professional football careers was gunned down by a former player Wednesday morning in front of students taking part in an offseason workout, authorities said.

Hubris, remorse drove Sanford's week of decisions (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:44 PM PDT AP - How did he think he could get away with it? To visit his lover in Argentina, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford slipped his security detail, lied to his staff about his whereabouts and neglected to transfer executive power to the lieutenant governor in case of a state emergency.

Scientists study foes' ways at Creation Museum (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 03:56 PM PDT AP - In a dimly lit corner of the Creation Museum stands a life-size replica of a wrecking ball labeled "Millions of Years" demolishing the facade of a brick church.

Even cops losing their jobs in recession (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:28 PM PDT AP - As hundreds of jobs in Chicago's police department go unfilled, officers who once patrolled the streets with partners are riding alone in what some cops bitterly call "rolling coffins."

California doomsday: State could run out of cash (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:30 PM PDT AP - To hear Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state finance officials tell it, July 28 is California's last stand before fiscal Armageddon.

Doctor in 1999 South Pole rescue dies in Mass. (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 03:39 PM PDT AP - Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole a decade ago, has died after the disease recurred. She was 57.

2 suspects freed in Texas yogurt shop murder case (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 03:09 PM PDT AP - Two men awaiting retrial in the 1991 murders of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop were released from jail Wednesday while prosecutors search for a match to new DNA evidence that didn't come from either of them.

Calif. Legislature begins debate over budget fix (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 03:38 PM PDT AP - Lawmakers have begun a sharp debate about a Democratic plan to close California's projected $24 billion deficit but a quick resolution seems unlikely.

Conn. church creates stir with gay exorcism video (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 10:59 AM PDT AP - The video shows the 16-year-old boy lying on the floor, his body convulsing, as elders of a small Connecticut church cast a "homosexual demon" from his body.

Weingarten resigns from NYC teachers union (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 03:28 PM PDT AP - The president of the nation's largest teachers union announced Wednesday that she is resigning from her other job as head of New York's United Federation of Teachers.

Lavish NYC jailhouse bar mitzvah not so kosher (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 11:49 AM PDT AP - It was like any other bar mitzvah, complete with kosher food, singing and a reading from the Torah — except that it was in a Manhattan jailhouse.

NASA plans fueling test for space shuttle (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 01:41 PM PDT AP - NASA will conduct a fueling test next week on space shuttle Endeavour to see if a hydrogen gas leak has been plugged.

Texas race for gov. a Republican slugfest (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:59 PM PDT AP - Gov. Rick Perry is ready to raise campaign cash, while Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison may finally be ready to raise a ruckus as the Republican heavyweights begin combat for the governor's office next year.

Telescope finds space blobs are pubescent galaxies (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 03:35 PM PDT AP - Mysterious space blobs aren't infant galaxies as astronomers once thought. Scientists say they mostly consist of galaxies going through puberty, all hot and bothered.

Jobs' liver transplant shows power of the rich (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 01:02 PM PDT AP - A celebrity like Apple CEO Steve Jobs scores a rare organ transplant and the world wonders: Did he game the system? The rich have plenty of advantages that others don't. But winning the "transplant lottery" involves more than the size of your wallet — and true medical need.

Hotel suicide suspect pleads innocent to smuggling (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 10:08 AM PDT AP - A man suspected of aiding in a woman's suicide in a Mexican hotel last month has pleaded not guilty to U.S. drug smuggling charges.

Feds arrest head of anti-gang group in LA (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:29 PM PDT AP - A man who said he left a ruthless street gang in Central America and later won praise for his anti-gang work in Los Angeles was arrested Wednesday by authorities who allege he conspired to kill a rival even as he spoke out against gang life.

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