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• Suspect ordered to trial in death of porn model (AP)
• Judge: Closing court before appeal wasn't a ruling (AP)
• Suspects who sparked fire may be linked to cartels (AP)
• 911 calls released in Milwaukee mayor attack (AP)
• Ga. animal lovers killed by pack of wild dogs (AP)
• Woman charged with harassment over suggestive post (AP)
• Police: Tornado collapses Texas retail store roof (AP)
• Seattle voters deciding on 20-cent grocery bag fee (AP)
• Inmates grow, gather veggies, to feed the hungry (AP)
• Political columnist Robert Novak dies at 78 (AP)
• Britney Spears shows her new figure on Letterman (AP)
• Michael Jackson's doctor posts video (AP)
• Judge in Santa Monica divides Simpson memorabilia (AP)
• No karaoke for you! Bad wiring spells tone-deaf (AP)
• Indictment of card hacker unlikely to end thefts (AP)
• AP IMPACT: Man says he sold kidney in US for $20k (AP)
• Foster-care for 2 Liberian boys charged in rape (AP)
• What retirement? Favre coming back with Vikings (AP)
• S. Florida police find 3 dead, 1 critical in home (AP)
• OK judge tosses abortion law requiring ultrasound (AP)

Suspect ordered to trial in death of porn model (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:29 PM PDT AP - A 26-year-old suspect in the killing of a Kansas college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn model has pleaded not guilty.

Judge: Closing court before appeal wasn't a ruling (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:38 PM PDT AP - A Texas judge on trial for closing her court despite knowing that a death-row inmate's final appeal was running late testified Tuesday that denying a request to stay open was no judicial ruling on her part.

Suspects who sparked fire may be linked to cartels (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 04:53 PM PDT AP - Investigators said Tuesday they believe marijuana growers with possible ties to Mexican drug cartels caused an 88,650-acre wildfire in northern Santa Barbara County, and there are many more pot farms hidden in remote areas around the nation.

911 calls released in Milwaukee mayor attack (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 04:47 PM PDT AP - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's niece told a 911 operator after seeing a man beat him up while he was answering a grandmother's cries for help that her uncle was "bleeding all over the place."

Ga. animal lovers killed by pack of wild dogs (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:46 PM PDT AP - A shredded piece of shirt, some strands of hair and bloodstained dirt are all that remain along the rural stretch of road where authorities believe a pack of wild dogs fatally mauled an elderly couple.

Woman charged with harassment over suggestive post (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 03:17 PM PDT AP - A Missouri woman is accused of cyberbullying for allegedly posting photos and personal information of a teenage girl on the "Casual Encounters" section of Craigslist after an Internet argument.

Police: Tornado collapses Texas retail store roof (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 04:48 PM PDT AP - A tornado swept through a southeast Texas shopping district without warning Tuesday, collapsing a department store roof, overturning vehicles and leaving several people in stores and parking lots with minor injuries, authorities said.

Seattle voters deciding on 20-cent grocery bag fee (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:14 PM PDT AP - Voters in eco-conscious Seattle were deciding Tuesday whether to pay a 20-cent fee for every paper or plastic bag they get from supermarkets, drug stores and convenience stores.

Inmates grow, gather veggies, to feed the hungry (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 01:40 PM PDT AP - The nation's food banks, struggling to meet demand in hard times, are turning to prison inmates for free labor to help feed the hungry.

Political columnist Robert Novak dies at 78 (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:22 PM PDT AP - Political columnist Robert Novak, a conservative, pugilistic debater and proud owner of the "Prince of Darkness" moniker, died Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer that was diagnosed in July 2008. He was 78.

Britney Spears shows her new figure on Letterman (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:27 PM PDT AP - What would a President Spears administration be like? Apparently, very tasty.

Michael Jackson's doctor posts video (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 03:17 PM PDT AP - The doctor who was with Michael Jackson when he died and is now the center of a manslaughter probe posted a short video Tuesday thanking his supporters.

Judge in Santa Monica divides Simpson memorabilia (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 04:48 PM PDT AP - A California judge ordered some memorabilia returned to O.J. Simpson Tuesday, even as the football Hall of Famer sits in a Nevada prison for stealing it during a hotel room heist.

No karaoke for you! Bad wiring spells tone-deaf (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:07 PM PDT AP - Do your friends cover their ears when you sing along with the radio? Does the choir director ask you to lip-sync?

Indictment of card hacker unlikely to end thefts (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 02:24 PM PDT AP - This week's indictment of a hacker believed responsible for the biggest retail-store data breaches in U.S. history doesn't necessarily make shoppers safer from having their credit card numbers plundered.

AP IMPACT: Man says he sold kidney in US for $20k (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 04:43 PM PDT AP - In 2005, a rebellious and sporadically employed Israeli man flew to New York to give up a kidney to save an American businessman. For that, he says he was paid $20,000, which appeared in a brown envelope on his hospital bed after the operation.

Foster-care for 2 Liberian boys charged in rape (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 04:33 PM PDT AP - Two 10-year-old boys charged in the alleged gang-rape of an 8-year-old Liberian girl must be released from juvenile detention and placed in therapeutic foster-care homes rather than with their own families, judges ruled Tuesday.

What retirement? Favre coming back with Vikings (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 04:01 PM PDT AP - Brett Favre's latest retirement lasted all of three weeks.

S. Florida police find 3 dead, 1 critical in home (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 04:01 PM PDT AP - Police in South Florida searched for clues Tuesday after a woman, her 15-year-old son and another person were killed at a home in a quiet neighborhood.

OK judge tosses abortion law requiring ultrasound (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2009 03:37 PM PDT AP - An Oklahoma judge on Tuesday overturned a state law that required women seeking an abortion to receive an ultrasound and a doctor's description of the fetus.

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