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• Health care advocates pressure Iowa Sen. Grassley (AP)
• Huge wildfire portends bad Calif. fire season (AP)
• US appeals court upholds Internet gambling ban (AP)
• Twitter opens a door to Iowa operating room (AP)
• Customers say kidnap suspect raised no red flags (AP)
• NYC schools to offer free swine flu vaccinations (AP)
• New GI Bill housing checks flowing but some delays (AP)
• Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops director, dies at 74 (AP)
• 1 dead when helicopter hits duplex in Miss. (AP)
• Comic Bill Cosby lends support to Detroit schools (AP)
• Guilty plea for ex-NYC police officer in bank jobs (AP)
• Financier Stanford back in jail with leg aneurysm (AP)
• Killer gets life for Valentine's Day rampage in NY (AP)
• Ga. mobile home slayings hit extended family (AP)
• NJ soldier regains daily access to daughter (AP)
• Best-selling Bible to undergo revision (AP)
• Plane makes emergency landing on Mass. highway (AP)
• Video shows chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery (AP)
• Drug czar kicks off anti-meth ad campaign (AP)
• Duggar brood keeps growing with No. 19 on the way (AP)

Health care advocates pressure Iowa Sen. Grassley (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 05:08 PM PDT AP - A new television ad campaign seeks to ratchet up pressure on Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley among his constituents to accept sweeping reforms to the nation's health care system, but even his political opponents concede there's little that can be done to scare the veteran Republican lawmaker.

Huge wildfire portends bad Calif. fire season (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 05:08 PM PDT AP - Firefighters reported some progress Tuesday against a gigantic blaze on the edge of Los Angeles, but warned that this one might be just a preview of even greater dangers ahead.

US appeals court upholds Internet gambling ban (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 05:07 PM PDT AP - A U.S. appeals court upheld an Internet gambling ban Tuesday, rejecting a challenge from an association of off-shore bookies that the federal prohibition was too vague and violated privacy rights.

Twitter opens a door to Iowa operating room (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 02:54 PM PDT AP - From anesthesia to the recovery room, 70-year-old Monna Cleary's children followed her surgery — 140 characters or less at a time.

Customers say kidnap suspect raised no red flags (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 10:45 AM PDT AP - To those who did business with him, Phillip Garrido was a quirky printing company owner who produced business cards, brochures and flyers for people in his town. His main source of help was a young soft-spoken woman he introduced as his daughter.

NYC schools to offer free swine flu vaccinations (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:37 PM PDT AP - The nation's largest school district said Tuesday it will offer free swine flu vaccinations to its 1 million-plus schoolchildren as New York City takes bold steps to avoid becoming the country's flu epicenter again in the fall.

New GI Bill housing checks flowing but some delays (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:18 PM PDT AP - Facing a rush of last-minute claims, the Department of Veterans Affairs has cut housing checks to tens of thousands of veterans returning to college under the newly expanded GI Bill but officials acknowledge several thousand may get their money later than expected.

Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops director, dies at 74 (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:55 PM PDT AP - Erich Kunzel, the award-winning conductor who headed the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra since it was founded three decades ago and who won international fame through sales of more than 10 million recordings, has died at age 74.

1 dead when helicopter hits duplex in Miss. (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 02:58 PM PDT AP - A helicopter practicing aerial maneuvers crashed into a duplex Tuesday, killing one person on board and injuring another, authorities said. No one on the ground was hurt.

Comic Bill Cosby lends support to Detroit schools (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:22 PM PDT AP - Bill Cosby had heard about the tough-as-nails and uncompromising man tackling fraud and improving education throughout the Detroit's public schools, and wanted to help.

Guilty plea for ex-NYC police officer in bank jobs (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:40 PM PDT AP - A former rookie police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to robbing the same bank twice after a friend who worked as a teller there convinced him it would be "easy money."

Financier Stanford back in jail with leg aneurysm (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:09 PM PDT AP - A lawyer for Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford says his client is back in jail after medical tests detected a non-life-threatening aneurysm in his leg.

Killer gets life for Valentine's Day rampage in NY (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:33 PM PDT AP - A twice-fired nursing supervisor drew a life sentence Tuesday without the possibility of parole for shooting a couple to death during a Valentine's Day rampage that left four people dead in western New York.

Ga. mobile home slayings hit extended family (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 03:32 PM PDT AP - Eight people slain in a coastal Georgia mobile home over the weekend were members of an extended family, police and relatives said Tuesday.

NJ soldier regains daily access to daughter (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 02:52 PM PDT AP - Spc. Leydi Mendoza stood alone among the hugging families in Fort Dix when she and 300 other members of the New Jersey National Guard returned home from Iraq three months ago.

Best-selling Bible to undergo revision (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 02:55 PM PDT AP - The top-selling Bible in North America will undergo its first revision in 25 years, modernizing the language in some sections and promising to reopen a contentious debate about changing gender terms in the sacred text.

Plane makes emergency landing on Mass. highway (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 01:41 PM PDT AP - A small plane with engine trouble made an emergency landing on a Massachusetts highway late Tuesday morning, causing a traffic jam but no injuries.

Video shows chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 04:09 PM PDT AP - An animal rights group publicized a video Tuesday showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa plant and accused egg hatcheries of being "perhaps the cruelest industry" in the world.

Drug czar kicks off anti-meth ad campaign (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 12:24 PM PDT AP - Josh Palmer's story has played out countless times here in the heart of meth country. Introduced to methamphetamine as a teenager, he soon became addicted, couldn't keep a job, lost his house, lost his family.

Duggar brood keeps growing with No. 19 on the way (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2009 01:17 PM PDT AP - No. 19 caught Michelle Duggar by surprise.

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