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• Indicted NJ mayor resigns after 1 month on job (AP)
• Ore. faith-healing father gets 60 days in jail (AP)
• As Oklahoma mining town fades, holdouts give up (AP)
• Sen. Dodd has prostate cancer, will have surgery (AP)
• Skeleton wearing a suit found at Ill. cemetery (AP)
• Biggest banks in US reward stars with huge bonuses (AP)
• Jackson's personal doctor was in financial trouble (AP)
• AP IMPACT: Dodd, Conrad told deals were sweetened (AP)
• Plane crashes in W.Va. after missing destination (AP)
• Deliberations continue in ex-congressman's trial (AP)
• Struggles hamper Southern-based civil rights group (AP)
• Family believed baby cut from womb was theirs (AP)
• Biden touts recovery act at Chicago conference (AP)
• New GI Bill sending veterans to school this fall (AP)
• Families struggling, 2 years after Minn. collapse (AP)
• Thousands sweat, and love it, at Mississippi fair (AP)
• Kids to cops: Mom used attic as lockup when angry (AP)
• Ala. county prepares for government shutdown (AP)
• Astronauts return from space to sushi overload (AP)
• TVA raises coal ash tab to $1.2B, reports 3Q loss (AP)

Indicted NJ mayor resigns after 1 month on job (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 03:57 PM PDT AP - Mayor Peter Cammarano III resigned Friday, one month after taking office and a week after vowing to fight federal corruption charges against him while remaining on the job.

Ore. faith-healing father gets 60 days in jail (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 03:19 PM PDT AP - An Oregon City man convicted of criminal mistreatment in the faith-healing death of his 15-month-old daughter has been sentenced to 60 days in jail and five years probation.

As Oklahoma mining town fades, holdouts give up (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 02:34 PM PDT AP - Two years ago, Orval "Hoppy" Ray vowed it would take someone meaner than him to make him leave the town where he was born.

Sen. Dodd has prostate cancer, will have surgery (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 03:30 PM PDT AP - Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd said Friday that he has been diagnosed with an early stage of prostate cancer and will have surgery in early August, but the prognosis is good and the illness will not affect his plans to seek a sixth term next year.

Skeleton wearing a suit found at Ill. cemetery (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 04:20 PM PDT AP - Skeletal remains of a man wearing a suit and tie were found sitting in a burial vault with no casket in sight at a historic black Illinois cemetery where workers allegedly dug up bodies and dumped them in a scheme to resell plots, officials said Friday.

Biggest banks in US reward stars with huge bonuses (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 02:59 PM PDT AP - Even when their profits dried up and they turned to taxpayers to stay afloat, the nation's biggest banks kept paying huge bonuses. But much of the money went not to top executives, but to star traders and salesmen, even as the economy battled through the worst recession in a generation.

Jackson's personal doctor was in financial trouble (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 02:37 PM PDT AP - Dr. Conrad Murray was in dire financial shape when he signed on as Michael Jackson's personal physician earlier this year at $150,000 a month.

AP IMPACT: Dodd, Conrad told deals were sweetened (AP) Posted: 27 Jul 2009 04:03 PM PDT AP - Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from one of the nation's largest lenders, the official who handled their loans has told Congress in secret testimony.

Plane crashes in W.Va. after missing destination (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 02:08 PM PDT AP - A single-engine plane crashed in a heavily wooded area of West Virginia after the pilot apparently lost consciousness and flew hundreds of miles past the airport in Indiana where he was supposed to land.

Deliberations continue in ex-congressman's trial (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 01:33 PM PDT AP - A jury has ended its second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in the corruption trial of a former Louisiana congressman who had $90,000 hidden in his freezer.

Struggles hamper Southern-based civil rights group (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 01:22 PM PDT AP - The organization that gave birth to the modern civil rights movement is in danger of missing out on a chance to capitalize on the country's conversation on race, despite President Barack Obama's historic campaign and election.

Family believed baby cut from womb was theirs (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 04:55 PM PDT AP - Little things nagged at Cindy Dion while her son's girlfriend, Julie Corey, was pregnant: One month Corey said she was four months' pregnant — the next it was eight. Her due date pushed back drastically as it neared. And Corey suddenly refused to let Dion's son, Alex, accompany her to the doctor

Biden touts recovery act at Chicago conference (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 12:57 PM PDT AP - Vice President Joe Biden touted the $787 billion federal stimulus effort on Friday, saying he sees signs that the recession could end soon, but also called the package "the most misunderstood" piece of legislation.

New GI Bill sending veterans to school this fall (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 12:33 PM PDT AP - Spc. Marco Reininger started the year on the dusty streets of Afghanistan. He'll end it on the campus of Columbia University with the government picking up a large chunk of the $100,000 tab for tuition.

Families struggling, 2 years after Minn. collapse (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 12:33 PM PDT AP - It's been two years since Justina Hausmann's father died when a Minneapolis freeway bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River, long enough for some people to ask how she's getting on with life.

Thousands sweat, and love it, at Mississippi fair (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 12:28 PM PDT AP - Out on the cabin porches where fairgoers have gathered for decades, it's old home week.

Kids to cops: Mom used attic as lockup when angry (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 11:35 AM PDT AP - Police responding to a report of a 3-year-old being locked in a sweltering, filthy attic were told by other children, "Mommy does this when she gets angry," a prosecutor said Friday.

Ala. county prepares for government shutdown (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 11:35 AM PDT AP - As a government shutdown loomed, residents of Alabama's most populous county lined up Friday to renew their car registrations and settle their tax bills.

Astronauts return from space to sushi overload (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 02:16 PM PDT AP - Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts returned to Earth on Friday, completing a long but successful construction job that boosted the size and power of the international space station.

TVA raises coal ash tab to $1.2B, reports 3Q loss (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2009 05:03 PM PDT AP - The Tennessee Valley Authority raised its estimates for cleaning up a massive coal ash spill to $1.2 billion on Friday, and partly blamed its third-quarter loss of $167 million on that cleanup.

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