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• Thunderstorms cause 5th delay for space shuttle (AP)
• Lay Catholic group fears demise amid budget woes (AP)
• Boston zoos may get funds after euthanasia scare (AP)
• Grand jury indicts 2 in Minn. missing Somalis case (AP)
• Cameras captured 'chilling' break-in at Fla. home (AP)
• Hawaii condo buyers sue developer of Trump project (AP)
• Ex-GOP official: Sanford must repair party brand (AP)
• Even in death, no rest for lynching victim Till (AP)
• NAACP to use latest technology to fight racism (AP)
• Amtrak unveils first rail car funded by stimulus (AP)
• Catholic priest convicted of abusing Md. altar boy (AP)
• Former ND nuclear missile site gets first visitors (AP)
• Fontainebleau founder's son found dead in NY hotel (AP)
• From storm-tossed Ala. clinic to top doctor post (AP)
• Baby cut from womb turns 1; a grandfather grieves (AP)
• Dance the night away? Not in Des Moines, please (AP)
• Fla. judge delays hearings in UBS secrecy case (AP)
• States ask FCC's OK to jam prison cell phones (AP)
• 1 of 3 escapees from Ind. prison caught in Mich. (AP)
• Stanford exec to appear in court (AP)

Thunderstorms cause 5th delay for space shuttle (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 04:03 PM PDT AP - Thunderstorms once again forced NASA to call off the launch of space shuttle Endeavour on Monday, the fifth delay for the space station construction mission.

Lay Catholic group fears demise amid budget woes (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 04:50 PM PDT AP - A lay Catholic group founded in the worst days of the church's clergy sex abuse scandal said Monday it may be forced to cease operations because of a downturn in donations.

Boston zoos may get funds after euthanasia scare (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 04:46 PM PDT AP - Massachusetts lawmakers said Monday they would try to restore $4 million in state funds for two local zoos after operators suggested that without the money, animals might have to be destroyed — a claim the governor called a scare tactic.

Grand jury indicts 2 in Minn. missing Somalis case (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 04:30 PM PDT AP - Two men have been indicted in Minnesota on federal terror charges in the case of several missing young Somali men.

Cameras captured 'chilling' break-in at Fla. home (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 04:05 PM PDT AP - Byrd and Melanie Billings had a growing brood of adopted children with autism, Down syndrome and other disabilities, and took care to make their nine-bedroom house a safe place for them, wiring it with surveillance cameras in every room.

Hawaii condo buyers sue developer of Trump project (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 04:24 PM PDT AP - The buyers of 11 luxury condominiums at the soon-to-open Trump International Hotel & Tower Waikiki Beach Walk have filed a lawsuit seeking to cancel their sales contracts.

Ex-GOP official: Sanford must repair party brand (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 03:03 PM PDT AP - South Carolina's former GOP chairman says Gov. Mark Sanford needs to use the $1.7 million left in his 2006 election account to rebuild the GOP image his extramarital affair tarnished.

Even in death, no rest for lynching victim Till (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 03:15 PM PDT AP - When his mother put the battered body of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the ground more than 50 years ago, it was supposed to be the end of a sad saga for the boy whose lynching became a rallying point for the civil rights movement.

NAACP to use latest technology to fight racism (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 01:05 PM PDT AP - Combining its century-old mission of fighting for equality with the instantaneous reach of modern-day technology, the NAACP has launched a program that lets people use their cell phones to report incidents of police misconduct.

Amtrak unveils first rail car funded by stimulus (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 03:59 PM PDT AP - Amtrak has wasted little time using its $1.3 billion slice of the federal stimulus package, unveiling the first of 81 passenger cars to be restored with the help of economic recovery funds.

Catholic priest convicted of abusing Md. altar boy (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 02:45 PM PDT AP - A Roman Catholic priest has been convicted of sexually abusing an altar boy at a Germantown church more than seven years ago.

Former ND nuclear missile site gets first visitors (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 02:08 PM PDT AP - A former nuclear missile launch center that closed as the Cold War was winding down opened Monday to a public curious to see what life was like at the once-top secret site.

Fontainebleau founder's son found dead in NY hotel (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 02:26 PM PDT AP - The son of the founder of Florida's storied Fontainebleau Hotel was killed in his room at a hotel in suburban New York during a convention he organized, police said Monday.

From storm-tossed Ala. clinic to top doctor post (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 03:03 PM PDT AP - When Hurricane Katrina wrecked the little clinic here in the coastal backwaters of Alabama, Dr. Regina Benjamin laid out medical charts to dry in the post-storm sun and hopped in a pickup truck to check on her patients.

Baby cut from womb turns 1; a grandfather grieves (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 12:43 PM PDT AP - Terrell Kian Johnson is turning 1 on Wednesday. It's also the first anniversary of the day his mother died — when she was kidnapped and bound with duct tape and Terrell sliced from her womb.

Dance the night away? Not in Des Moines, please (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 07:54 AM PDT AP - Dancing the night away in Des Moines doesn't seem to be at the top of many must-do lists. Maybe because it's illegal.

Fla. judge delays hearings in UBS secrecy case (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 07:25 AM PDT AP - Negotiations aimed at settling the Internal Revenue Service's tax evasion lawsuit against Swiss bank UBS AG gained traction Monday when a federal judge agreed to postpone the case until early August or possibly longer.

States ask FCC's OK to jam prison cell phones (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 10:22 AM PDT AP - A Southern prison official says correctional leaders from more than two dozen states have signed a petition asking permission to jam cell phone signals inside state penitentiaries and thwart inmates' forbidden phone calls.

1 of 3 escapees from Ind. prison caught in Mich. (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 11:57 AM PDT AP - A convicted killer who escaped from the Indiana State Prison was caught Monday near the Michigan vacation home of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley by an officer on the mayor's security detail, authorities said.

Stanford exec to appear in court (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2009 07:20 AM PDT AP - The former top finance officer of indicted Texas financier R. Allen Stanford's business empire is set to make his first court appearance after being charged with helping to swindle investors out of $7 billion.

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