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• BP taps vast pool of crude in deepest oil well (AP)
• Schilling expresses some interest in Kennedy seat (AP)
• Levi Johnston: Palin wanted to adopt grandchild (AP)
• Stranger accused of slapping crying child at store (AP)
• FAA will modify airspace rules over Hudson River (AP)
• Facebook scam leads Mo. woman to wire $4K abroad (AP)
• WWII vets mark Japan's surrender aboard battleship (AP)
• Hurricane Jimena makes landfall on Baja California (AP)
• Experts: Little to be gained by exhuming NY driver (AP)
• Feds failed to clear brush in LA wildfire area (AP)
• Mich. woman hoped to freeze eggs, headed to prison (AP)
• Pit bull that chewed off baby's toes is euthanized (AP)
• Boy falls into Boston zoo movie set's lion pit (AP)
• Wildfire battle waged up close and from the air (AP)
• Judge: Cuba must pay $27.5M for jailing journalist (AP)
• Accused Holocaust shooter denied release from jail (AP)
• FDA says frog or toad was in Fla. man's soda can (AP)
• 3 indicted in racially Md. motivated beating (AP)
• Seattle libraries close for week to save money (AP)

BP taps vast pool of crude in deepest oil well (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT AP - Nearly seven miles below the Gulf of Mexico, oil company BP has tapped into a vast pool of crude after digging the deepest oil well in the world. The Tiber Prospect is expected to rank among the largest petroleum discoveries in the United States, potentially producing half as much crude in a day as Alaska's famous North Slope oil field.

Schilling expresses some interest in Kennedy seat (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT AP - Curt Schilling, the former major league pitcher who won the allegiance of Bostonians by leading the Red Sox to the 2004 World Series, said Wednesday that he has "some interest" in running for the seat held for nearly 50 years by Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

Levi Johnston: Palin wanted to adopt grandchild (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT AP - Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin's grandchild, said the former Republican vice presidential candidate wanted to adopt his child so that people wouldn't know her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Johnston said Palin had a plan to deal with Bristol's pregnancy.

Stranger accused of slapping crying child at store (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT AP - Police say a 61-year-old man annoyed with a crying 2-year-old girl at a suburban Atlanta Walmart slapped the child several times after warning the toddler's mother to keep her quiet.

FAA will modify airspace rules over Hudson River (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 05:35 PM PDT AP - The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will change rules for the airspace over the Hudson River in New York City following last month's deadly midair crash of a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter.

Facebook scam leads Mo. woman to wire $4K abroad (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:14 PM PDT AP - A Missouri woman was tricked into wiring about $4,000 to someone in England after receiving faked messages from a friend on Facebook asking for help, police said Wednesday.

WWII vets mark Japan's surrender aboard battleship (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 05:27 PM PDT AP - The famous battleship where Japanese officials signed the surrender documents that officially ended World War II played host on Wednesday to about 20 aging U.S. veterans and dozens of observers as they marked the 64th anniversary of the war's end.

Hurricane Jimena makes landfall on Baja California (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT AP - Hurricane Jimena plowed over Baja California on Wednesday, tearing off roofs, knocking down power poles and bringing welcome rainfall to a drought-stricken state.

Experts: Little to be gained by exhuming NY driver (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:06 PM PDT AP - A New York man who hopes to prove that his wife wasn't drunk when she killed herself and seven others in a wrong-way crash won't find supporting evidence in the autopsy report, and exhuming her body probably won't help his case, experts said Wednesday.

Feds failed to clear brush in LA wildfire area (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT AP - Federal authorities failed to follow through on plans earlier this year to burn away highly flammable brush in a forest on the edge of Los Angeles to avoid the very kind of wildfire now raging there, The Associated Press has learned.

Mich. woman hoped to freeze eggs, headed to prison (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:53 PM PDT AP - A Detroit-area woman who wanted to freeze her eggs before going to prison for six years has failed to persuade a judge to delay her sentence by two weeks.

Pit bull that chewed off baby's toes is euthanized (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:33 PM PDT AP - A pit bull that chewed the toes off of a 4-month old baby in North Carolina has been euthanized, while the child's mother and her boyfriend remain in custody, charged with felony child abuse.

Boy falls into Boston zoo movie set's lion pit (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:53 PM PDT AP - A teenage boy visiting a zoo on Wednesday fell into a lion pit that's part of a set for the upcoming Kevin James and Adam Sandler movie "The Zookeeper," but he wasn't badly hurt.

Wildfire battle waged up close and from the air (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:43 PM PDT AP - A firefighter points a gun at the enemy. Crack! A projectile zips across a canyon and a shower of sparks explode in a thick tangle of dangerously dry scrub.

Judge: Cuba must pay $27.5M for jailing journalist (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:33 PM PDT AP - A federal judge ordered the Cuban government and the ruling Communist Party on Wednesday to pay $27.5 million in damages to the mother of a journalist jailed since a 2003 crackdown on dissent.

Accused Holocaust shooter denied release from jail (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 02:23 PM PDT AP - An 89-year-old white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was ordered to remain in jail Wednesday after prosecutors said the frail man was still dangerous because he had "no true friends" and "nothing to lose."

FDA says frog or toad was in Fla. man's soda can (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:03 PM PDT AP - The Food and Drug Administration says a test shows that either a frog or a toad was in a Florida man's soda can, but it's not clear how it got there.

3 indicted in racially Md. motivated beating (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:29 PM PDT AP - A grand jury has indicted a man and two teenagers arrested last month on charges of beating an elderly black fisherman in a Baltimore park.

Seattle libraries close for week to save money (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2009 01:21 PM PDT AP - The main library in this book-loving city is an architectural landmark: a daring, contemporary temple to the written word that draws tourists as well as literary locals and those who just want a place to sit, read, rest or think.

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