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• Lutherans to allow sexually active gays as clergy (AP)
• Tribune finalizes sale of Cubs to Ricketts family (AP)
• Officials: NYC man killed 4 of girlfriend's cats (AP)
• Seattle mystery man still going by Jon Doe (AP)
• Ex-Vietnam lieutenant apologizes for massacre (AP)
• Egyptian man released from immigration detention (AP)
• Va. Tech gunman's care typical for taxed centers (AP)
• AP INVESTIGATION: SC gov didn't disclose flights (AP)
• US families of Lockerbie victims plan next move (AP)
• Pilot pleaded to evacuate stranded passengers (AP)
• Calif. city reeling from gang violence spike (AP)
• Men walk away from fiery small plane crash in NJ (AP)
• Longer, hotter days strain Islamic holy month (AP)
• Legal battle heats up in Roethlisberger case (AP)
• Son: Sen. Kennedy 'frustrated' by absence from DC (AP)
• Ex-La. congressman's brother convicted of bribery (AP)
• Spike Lee's Jackson birthday bash could draw 10K (AP)
• Burst pipe at Boston high-rise sends 3 to hospital (AP)
• W.Va. textbook protest marked pivotal moment (AP)

Lutherans to allow sexually active gays as clergy (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 05:29 PM PDT AP - Leaders of the nation's largest Lutheran church voted Friday to allow sexually active gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy.

Tribune finalizes sale of Cubs to Ricketts family (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 05:24 PM PDT AP - Media conglomerate Tribune Co. announced a definitive agreement Friday to sell all but a 5 percent stake in the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field to the billionaire Ricketts family, capping a tortuous process that began nearly 2 1/2 years ago.

Officials: NYC man killed 4 of girlfriend's cats (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 05:22 PM PDT AP - Authorities say a New York City man secretly killed at least four of his live-in girlfriend's cats, slaying the pets as the woman unsuspectingly adopted new ones.

Seattle mystery man still going by Jon Doe (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 04:54 PM PDT AP - Little snippets of memories have been coming back to the man who now calls himself Jon Doe: being treated in Shanghai for a kidney stone, a high school girlfriend, a wife who died while pregnant.

Ex-Vietnam lieutenant apologizes for massacre (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 04:46 PM PDT AP - Speaking in a soft, sometimes labored voice, the only U.S. Army officer convicted in the 1968 slayings of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai made an extraordinary public apology while speaking to a small group near the military base where he was court-martialed.

Egyptian man released from immigration detention (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 04:02 PM PDT AP - An Egyptian man acquitted earlier this year of terrorism-related charges but then taken into custody by immigration officials was released Friday to his joyous family.

Va. Tech gunman's care typical for taxed centers (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 03:43 PM PDT AP - As counselor Sherry Lynch Conrad said goodbye to Seung-Hui Cho after a 45-minute session, she urged him to return in January. He never made an appointment.

AP INVESTIGATION: SC gov didn't disclose flights (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 03:41 PM PDT AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford took dozens of undisclosed flights on private planes since taking office in 2003 despite a state law requiring him to report who paid for the travel, an Associated Press investigation has found.

US families of Lockerbie victims plan next move (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 02:40 PM PDT AP - Relatives of Americans killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, plan to converge on New York City in September to protest Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's speech at the United Nations.

Pilot pleaded to evacuate stranded passengers (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 03:41 PM PDT AP - Continental Express Flight 2816 smelled like diapers. It had no food and a full toilet. Its 47 passengers had been stranded on a tarmac in southern Minnesota since after midnight.

Calif. city reeling from gang violence spike (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 02:40 PM PDT AP - Beneath the stained-glass windows of a tiny white stucco church, one woman pored intently over a Bible and another wiped away tears while they prayed for an end to bloodshed in this Central California farming town.

Men walk away from fiery small plane crash in NJ (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 03:17 PM PDT AP - Two men walked away from a fiery small-plane crash Friday morning and were found by emergency responders at a bus stop minutes later — alert and conscious but badly burned. The mishap occurred after the pilot of the twin-engine Beechcraft Baron aborted a landing at Teterboro Airport and crashed into a tree and sign just after 3 a.m.

Longer, hotter days strain Islamic holy month (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 03:04 PM PDT AP - During most of his high school football career, Baquer Sayed broke the Ramadan fast during halftime, when the stadium lights began to flood the field after sundown.

Legal battle heats up in Roethlisberger case (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 03:29 PM PDT AP - A lawyer for the woman who claims Ben Roethlisberger raped her at Lake Tahoe last summer is asking a judge to sanction the Steelers quarterback's legal team, saying they tried to "bully" her into dropping her civil lawsuit.

Son: Sen. Kennedy 'frustrated' by absence from DC (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 04:47 PM PDT AP - Rep. Patrick Kennedy said Friday that his father, Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, has been "very frustrated" to be absent from Washington during the debate over health care reform.

Ex-La. congressman's brother convicted of bribery (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 03:04 PM PDT AP - A federal jury has convicted New Orleans political operative Mose Jefferson of bribery charges less than a month after his brother, a former Louisiana congressman, was found guilty of unrelated corruption charges.

Spike Lee's Jackson birthday bash could draw 10K (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 02:45 PM PDT AP - New York City officials want to find a larger place for Spike Lee to hold his celebration of Michael Jackson's birthday.

Burst pipe at Boston high-rise sends 3 to hospital (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 02:39 PM PDT AP - A pipe burst in the 52-story Prudential Center on Friday, sending three people to the hospital and flooding the building's bottom floors with more than 60,000 gallons of water.

W.Va. textbook protest marked pivotal moment (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 02:40 PM PDT AP - Bishop Avis Hill can't help feeling a little like a pioneer these days.

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