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• Wildfire makes menacing advance near Los Angeles (AP)
• NJ judge halts work on driveway at Libyan estate (AP)
• Huge chest of drawers hoisted aboard space station (AP)
• Slain pastor remembered as loving woman of God (AP)
• Va. candidate distances self from college thesis (AP)
• Warrant seeks arrest of Hartford, Conn., mayor (AP)
• After 35 years, next Atlanta mayor could be white (AP)
• Raging wildfire menaces observatory, TV towers (AP)
• Police find bone fragment near CA suspect's home (AP)
• Life goes on in smoky downtown LA as fire rages (AP)
• Erin Andrews to Oprah: Nude video was "nightmare" (AP)
• Trial starts for Ill. man accused of killing 7 (AP)
• Mailman charged after thousands of pieces found (AP)
• Ousted Ill. governor explains himself in new book (AP)
• Ohio teen convert's attorney claims safety at risk (AP)
• Mich. man decries deportation case linked to WWII (AP)
• Gears move on possibly naming Kennedy replacement (AP)
• Schwarzenegger: Calif. fire devastation 'painful' (AP)
• Cocaine laced with dangerous medicine blamed for deaths (AP)

Wildfire makes menacing advance near Los Angeles (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 06:17 PM PDT AP - A deadly wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of tinder-dry forest around Los Angeles took another menacing turn Monday as five people became hopelessly trapped inside a smoky canyon and thousands of suburban homes and a vital mountaintop broadcasting complex grew dangerously close to being devoured by explosive, towering flames.

NJ judge halts work on driveway at Libyan estate (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - A judge has ordered a halt to work being done outside a northern New Jersey mansion where Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi (MOO'-ah-mahr gah-DAH'-fee) wanted to stay during his first U.S. visit.

Huge chest of drawers hoisted aboard space station (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 05:26 PM PDT AP - Astronauts hitched a giant chest of drawers to the international space station on Monday that contained a brand new freezer, sleeping compartment and treadmill bearing a TV comedian's name.

Slain pastor remembered as loving woman of God (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 05:11 PM PDT AP - As many as 1,000 people packed a church Monday for a nearly three-hour service to celebrate the life of a pastor who was found slain inside her church in southwest Oklahoma and to remember her as a sweet, loving woman of God.

Va. candidate distances self from college thesis (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 04:43 PM PDT AP - Virginia's Republican candidate for governor said Monday he no longer believes his argument in a graduate thesis written 20 years ago that discrimination against gays and other groups is acceptable for the benefit of straight, married couples.

Warrant seeks arrest of Hartford, Conn., mayor (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 04:19 PM PDT AP - Mayor Eddie Perez, already scheduled to go on trial on bribery charges, said Monday a state judge had signed a new arrest warrant accusing him of wrongdoing involving a former state lawmaker.

After 35 years, next Atlanta mayor could be white (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 04:00 PM PDT AP - The city that became a post-civil rights movement emblem of the political power held by African-Americans could have a white mayor for the first time in a generation — a possibility that has some in the black community scrambling to hold on to City Hall.

Raging wildfire menaces observatory, TV towers (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:53 PM PDT AP - Mount Wilson opened the heavens and then became a modern hub for communications on Earth. Now it is threatened by a force of nature that humans may be powerless to control.

Police find bone fragment near CA suspect's home (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 04:53 PM PDT AP - Police say they have found one small bone fragment on the property next door to the home of a Northern California man charged with kidnapping a little girl and hiding her in his backyard for 18 years.

Life goes on in smoky downtown LA as fire rages (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:28 PM PDT AP - The air quality turned hazardous, a brownish mushroom cloud billowed in the distance, and a gauze of gray smoke draped the Hollywood sign.

Erin Andrews to Oprah: Nude video was "nightmare" (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 04:06 PM PDT AP - ESPN reporter Erin Andrews said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that having secretly videotaped nude footage of her distributed on the Internet was a "nightmare."

Trial starts for Ill. man accused of killing 7 (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:23 PM PDT AP - A man charged with killing seven people during a robbery at a suburban Chicago fast food restaurant 16 years ago did it because he "wanted to do something big," not because he needed the money, a prosecutor told jurors Monday.

Mailman charged after thousands of pieces found (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:18 PM PDT AP - Federal agents say they've recovered more than 20,000 pieces of mail from a suburban Detroit postal carrier who stored them in his car, kitchen and garage instead of delivering them.

Ousted Ill. governor explains himself in new book (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:09 PM PDT AP - Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says in a new book that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wanted his help in arranging to leave the Obama administration after two years to reclaim his seat in Congress.

Ohio teen convert's attorney claims safety at risk (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:05 PM PDT AP - An attorney for a teenager who says she ran away from home because she feared for her safety after she converted to Christianity from Islam claimed in court documents Monday that her family's mosque in Ohio has terrorist ties — a charge disputed by the Islamic center's leader.

Mich. man decries deportation case linked to WWII (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 02:55 PM PDT AP - Crying on his front porch, an 88-year-old Michigan man targeted for deportation firmly denied shooting anyone when he was a member of a Nazi-controlled police force during World War II.

Gears move on possibly naming Kennedy replacement (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 02:42 PM PDT AP - The push to name a successor to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy gained momentum Monday, with state lawmakers scheduling a hearing on whether to allow an appointee to serve until a special election in January.

Schwarzenegger: Calif. fire devastation 'painful' (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 02:31 PM PDT AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday toured the remains of a Northern California neighborhood leveled by a quickly moving grass fire over the weekend, marveling at the extent of the devastation and consoling a sobbing resident whose home burned to the ground.

Cocaine laced with dangerous medicine blamed for deaths (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2009 03:03 PM PDT AP - Nearly a third of all cocaine seized in the United States is laced with a dangerous veterinary medicine — a livestock de-worming drug that might enhance cocaine's effects but has been blamed in at least three deaths and scores of serious illnesses.

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