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• One week delay in Jackson guardianship case (AP)
• Attempt to beat train in Mich. ends 5 young lives (AP)
• Prosecutors: Jailed evangelist 'married' girls (AP)
• Burris out of 2010 run, Ill. Senate race wide open (AP)
• Cemetery workers made $300K in gravedigging scheme (AP)
• NYPD: Missing high-rise worker might be in trash (AP)
• Thousands show up for event in Jackson's hometown (AP)
• Pa. swim club defends self against race accusation (AP)
• Jackson doctor's office reports harassing calls (AP)
• DC Council to probe Marion Barry contract (AP)
• Man jailed 14 years for court contempt is freed (AP)
• Fla. couple who adopted 12 children found slain (AP)
• Obama artist admits to 3 Boston vandalism charges (AP)
• SC gov hangs on to office, 2 weeks after scandal (AP)
• Iranian-American academic detained in Tehran (AP)
• LA wants reports on Jackson memorial cost, revenue (AP)
• Appeals court rejects DC police checkpoints (AP)
• Police: Man kills woman in Ark., then is shot dead (AP)
• Paris Hilton insists she plugged sorority movie (AP)
• Prosecutor says foreign students neglected in Pa. (AP)

One week delay in Jackson guardianship case (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 03:56 PM PDT AP - A guardianship hearing for Michael Jackson's three children has been delayed for a week to give the singer's mother and ex-wife time to reach an agreement, an attorney said Friday.

Attempt to beat train in Mich. ends 5 young lives (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 03:46 PM PDT AP - Fourteen-year-old Jessica Sadler wanted to go to the beach with her boyfriend on a warm summer day, but her mother said no, absolutely not. She had better come home or she would be in big trouble.

Prosecutors: Jailed evangelist 'married' girls (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:20 PM PDT AP - Jailed evangelist Tony Alamo "married" the underage girls he allegedly forced into sex, exchanging wedding vows and rings, prosecutors said.

Burris out of 2010 run, Ill. Senate race wide open (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:02 PM PDT AP - Embattled Sen. Roland Burris may have relieved Illinois Democrats of their biggest political headache and reduced Republican chances of capturing a valuable Senate seat next year by announcing Friday he won't run for a full term. Still, his withdrawal sets the stage for a major clash of political forces in 2010.

Cemetery workers made $300K in gravedigging scheme (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:20 PM PDT AP - Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300,000 in a scheme believed to have stretched back at least four years, authorities said Friday.

NYPD: Missing high-rise worker might be in trash (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 03:56 PM PDT AP - Police believe that a cleaning woman who vanished from a Manhattan high-rise may be dead, that her body was dumped in the trash and that she could turn up in a Pennsylvania landfill.

Thousands show up for event in Jackson's hometown (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 03:54 PM PDT AP - Thousands of Michael Jackson fans flocked Friday to the city where he spent the first 11 years of his life for a memorial celebration for the King of Pop.

Pa. swim club defends self against race accusation (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 03:44 PM PDT AP - The head of a private suburban Philadelphia swim club on Friday defended its cancellation of the memberships of dozens of minority children, saying safety, not racism, was the reason.

Jackson doctor's office reports harassing calls (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 03:31 PM PDT AP - Police are investigating suspicious calls being made to the office of Michael Jackson's Beverly Hills dermatologist.

DC Council to probe Marion Barry contract (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 03:28 PM PDT AP - The head of the District of Columbia Council says a former federal prosecutor will look into a contract between former mayor Marion Barry and his ex-girlfriend.

Man jailed 14 years for court contempt is freed (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:35 PM PDT AP - A Pennsylvania attorney who was released from prison Friday after serving the longest imprisonment on a civil contempt charge in U.S. history said judges have too much discretion in cases like his.

Fla. couple who adopted 12 children found slain (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:50 PM PDT AP - Investigators asked the public to be on the lookout Friday for a red van they believe carried three men involved in the deaths of a Florida Panhandle couple who were shot in their rural home while eight of their children slept.

Obama artist admits to 3 Boston vandalism charges (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 02:39 PM PDT AP - The artist who created the "Hope" poster of President Barack Obama was sentenced to two years of probation Friday after pleading guilty to three vandalism charges. Prosecutors dropped 11 other charges.

SC gov hangs on to office, 2 weeks after scandal (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 02:28 PM PDT AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has had a lot of indirect help holding on to office in the two weeks since his mysterious disappearance and revelations of a sultry yearlong affair with an Argentine woman.

Iranian-American academic detained in Tehran (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 02:22 PM PDT AP - An Iranian-American scholar whom Iran once accused of fomenting political unrest has been arrested by authorities there for the second time in two years, the State Department and the man's family said Friday.

LA wants reports on Jackson memorial cost, revenue (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 02:33 PM PDT AP - The financial fallout from the Michael Jackson memorial service continues, with Los Angeles city officials calling for reviews on who should pick up the tab for municipal services related to the event.

Appeals court rejects DC police checkpoints (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 01:57 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court said Friday that police checkpoints in a crime-plagued Washington neighborhood are unconstitutional and ordered a lower court to reconsider its refusal to block the program.

Police: Man kills woman in Ark., then is shot dead (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 02:17 PM PDT AP - A fugitive on a two-day rampage across Arkansas who police said had just fatally shot his pregnant former girlfriend was killed by a sheriff's sniper Friday as he tried to escape from authorities.

Paris Hilton insists she plugged sorority movie (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:39 PM PDT AP - Paris Hilton repeatedly fussed with her hair and makeup in a federal courtroom Friday, sported six-inch stiletto heels and a black dress and amused the judge with a little wave on the way to the witness stand.

Prosecutor says foreign students neglected in Pa. (AP) Posted: 10 Jul 2009 01:41 PM PDT AP - A California nonprofit placed foreign exchange students in deplorable conditions in Pennsylvania, with some becoming malnourished or living in homes strewn with dog feces, and a prosecutor said the neglect merits criminal charges.

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