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• Questions swirl over legality of SC gov's tryst (AP)
• Thread of pain ran through Jackson's career (AP)
• Questions swirl around doctor in Jackson's death (AP)
• Stonewall rebel reflects 40 years after NYC riots (AP)
• Did toxic chemical in Iraq cause GIs' illnesses? (AP)
• Ky. pastor welcomes guns, their owners to church (AP)
• Tampa runway closed after rocky USAirways landing (AP)
• Spain's Renaissance armor, portraits on view in DC (AP)
• Unlike SC's Sanford, most governors easy to find (AP)
• New laws prod police, protect kids, push tax cuts (AP)
• News of Jackson's death prompts fight on Fla. bus (AP)
• Former law student gets life in PlayStation murder (AP)
• Former mayor in Georgia arrested for nudity (AP)
• Calif. man working 3 jobs wins $39M lottery (AP)
• Court order seeks to strip Madoff of $171 billion (AP)
• Texas' prison guard shortage eases (AP)
• 9 killed in Okla. turnpike traffic wreck (AP)
• Oklahoma troubled by long line of sheriff scandals (AP)

Questions swirl over legality of SC gov's tryst (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 05:25 PM PDT AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admits he used bad judgment when he secretly visited his mistress during a state-funded trip to Argentina last year. But did he break the law?

Thread of pain ran through Jackson's career (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 04:31 PM PDT AP - It was the last day of shooting for a Pepsi commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1984, and the only hiccup had been an argument between Michael Jackson and an ad executive over whether the young superstar would take off his sunglasses.

Questions swirl around doctor in Jackson's death (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 05:02 PM PDT AP - Elvis had one. So did Anna Nicole Smith and Marilyn Monroe. They are the doctors who cater to celebrities, dispensing powerful painkillers and sedatives to some of Hollywood's best-known entertainers.

Stonewall rebel reflects 40 years after NYC riots (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 04:48 PM PDT AP - Raymond Castro was a regular at The Stonewall Inn in 1969, finding it a haven from a world where gay men and women could be arrested for kissing or holding hands in public. Inside the bar, where plywood covered the windows, warning lights served as a signal for couples to stop dancing.

Did toxic chemical in Iraq cause GIs' illnesses? (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - Larry Roberta's every breath is a painful reminder of his time in Iraq. He can't walk a block without gasping for air. His chest hurts, his migraines sometimes persist for days and he needs pills to help him sleep.

Ky. pastor welcomes guns, their owners to church (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 03:13 PM PDT AP - A gun-toting Kentucky pastor says it's OK to pack heat at church — at least for one day.

Tampa runway closed after rocky USAirways landing (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 01:41 PM PDT AP - A Tampa International Airport spokeswoman says a runway was closed after a USAirways jet apparently blew its front tires while landing.

Spain's Renaissance armor, portraits on view in DC (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 11:34 AM PDT AP - During the first three centuries of American history — from the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the new world, through the years that revolutionaries struggled for independence for the fledgling United States — Spain was already one of the word's great empires.

Unlike SC's Sanford, most governors easy to find (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 10:26 AM PDT AP - Texas Gov. Rick Perry was raising money at campaign headquarters when an Associated Press reporter called his press staff to ask what he was doing. An hour later, he walked into AP's statehouse bureau to show he was alive and well and not, say, in South America for a romantic rendezvous.

New laws prod police, protect kids, push tax cuts (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 10:07 AM PDT AP - Government records will be more open in South Dakota, Florida is cracking down on illicit prescription drug sales and downing a cold one at the corner bar will be easier in Utah.

News of Jackson's death prompts fight on Fla. bus (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 03:46 PM PDT AP - Florida officials say one passenger chased another down the aisle of a county bus during a fight over news of Michael Jackson's death.

Former law student gets life in PlayStation murder (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 10:30 AM PDT AP - A former criminal law student has been sentenced to life in a California prison for killing one man and wounding two others in a dispute over a Sony PlayStation console.

Former mayor in Georgia arrested for nudity (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 08:19 AM PDT AP - Naked time got a little too public for a former Georgia mayor.

Calif. man working 3 jobs wins $39M lottery (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 06:25 AM PDT AP - A man who works three jobs to support his family — including one as a limousine driver — has won a $39 million jackpot in California's SuperLotto Plus.

Court order seeks to strip Madoff of $171 billion (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 11:16 AM PDT AP - Bernard Madoff would be stripped of all his possessions under a $171 billion forfeiture order handed down only days before prosecutors seek to put the disgraced financier away in prison for the rest of his life.

Texas' prison guard shortage eases (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 08:15 AM PDT AP - Hundreds of state convicts in Texas are going to be moving.

9 killed in Okla. turnpike traffic wreck (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 03:43 PM PDT AP - Two survivors of an Oklahoma traffic wreck that killed nine people when a tractor-trailer slammed into stopped cars were in critical condition Saturday.

Oklahoma troubled by long line of sheriff scandals (AP) Posted: 27 Jun 2009 01:35 AM PDT AP - A small-town sheriff and his top deputy kept close watch over a lonely stretch of interstate in eastern Oklahoma, looking for drug couriers to fleece. But one motorist carrying $30,000 in cash turned out to be an undercover federal agent.

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