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• Clues point to inside job in Yale killing (AP)
• $30M bail set for Calif. kidnap suspect (AP)
• Calif. community mourns loss of Yale grad student (AP)
• Police question woman in Blago fundraiser's death (AP)
• Mo. woman sentenced for kidnapping of Kansas girl (AP)
• 1st trial over FEMA trailer fumes opens in La. (AP)
• NJ teens sue over 'God Bless America' ejection (AP)
• Judge: King children must meet to discuss estate (AP)
• Studies: Swine flu spreads long after fever stops (AP)
• NFL players promise brains to concussion research (AP)
• Fla. police: No credible threat to runaway convert (AP)
• New York residences raided in terrorism probe (AP)
• Pregnant NC teen fatally shot at school bus stop (AP)
• Military high court to hear Abu Ghraib appeals (AP)
• Some govs say Medicaid growth could hammer budgets (AP)
• Male bass in many US rivers feminized, study finds (AP)
• Prosecutor to pursue death penalty in Ga. slayings (AP)
• Contractor shot in Iraq worked with family on base (AP)
• Ohio man indicted in wife's death, abuse of corpse (AP)
• Former Carter press secretary Jody Powell dies (AP)

Clues point to inside job in Yale killing (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 05:49 PM PDT AP - Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job Monday in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured lab building accessible only to university employees.

$30M bail set for Calif. kidnap suspect (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 05:08 PM PDT AP - A judge on Monday set bail at $30 million for a Northern California man accused of kidnapping a girl and holding her captive for 18 years. In setting the high amount, El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimister cited the serious nature of the charges, injuries to the girl and the fact that Phillip Garrido was on parole at the time of the alleged abduction.

Calif. community mourns loss of Yale grad student (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 05:21 PM PDT AP - When those who knew her talk about Annie Le, they do so in superlatives — best student they ever had, most dedicated volunteer, smartest teenager they've ever known.

Police question woman in Blago fundraiser's death (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 04:28 PM PDT AP - Police investigating the death of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's chief fundraiser questioned his girlfriend for more than an hour Monday, saying afterward she had cooperated but refusing to say in detail what was discussed.

Mo. woman sentenced for kidnapping of Kansas girl (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 04:10 PM PDT AP - A 43-year-old Missouri woman who already has been sentenced to nine consecutive life sentences for a 2006 crime spree has been given another one.

1st trial over FEMA trailer fumes opens in La. (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 03:44 PM PDT AP - For the first time since Hurricane Katrina left tens of thousands of families living in FEMA trailers, a federal jury heard allegations Monday that the government-issued shelters exposed Gulf Coast storm victims to hazardous formaldehyde fumes.

NJ teens sue over 'God Bless America' ejection (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 03:32 PM PDT AP - Three teenagers who say they were tossed from a New Jersey ballpark over their refusal to stand during the song "God Bless America" are suing the minor league Newark Bears.

Judge: King children must meet to discuss estate (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 03:30 PM PDT AP - A judge has ordered the surviving children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King to hold a shareholders' meeting to discuss their father's estate.

Studies: Swine flu spreads long after fever stops (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 03:30 PM PDT AP - When the coughing stops is probably a better sign of when a swine flu patient is no longer contagious, experts said after seeing new research that suggests the virus can still spread many days after a fever goes away.

NFL players promise brains to concussion research (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 05:28 PM PDT AP - Three NFL players announced Monday they will donate their brains and spinal cord tissue to a Boston University medical school program that studies sports brain injuries.

Fla. police: No credible threat to runaway convert (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 03:16 PM PDT AP - An investigation by Florida authorities has found that there were no credible threats to a teenager who ran away from her Ohio home because she says she feared for her life after converting to Christianity from Islam.

New York residences raided in terrorism probe (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 04:06 PM PDT AP - FBI agents and police on a terrorism task force raided residences in New York City before dawn Monday after a visit from a person believed to be linked to al-Qaida.

Pregnant NC teen fatally shot at school bus stop (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 02:14 PM PDT AP - A pregnant 15-year-old was shot in the head and killed Monday as she waited at a North Carolina school bus stop, and her baby was in critical condition.

Military high court to hear Abu Ghraib appeals (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 01:54 PM PDT AP - The U.S. military's highest court has scheduled oral arguments next month on two appeals stemming from the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Some govs say Medicaid growth could hammer budgets (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 01:41 PM PDT AP - States with high levels of poverty and unemployment have been struggling with growing Medicaid budgets during the recession, and some governors worry their financial burdens could get worse as Congress works on a comprehensive health care bill.

Male bass in many US rivers feminized, study finds (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 02:54 PM PDT AP - Government scientists figure that one out of five male black bass in American river basins have egg cells growing inside their sexual organs, a sign of how widespread fish feminizing has become.

Prosecutor to pursue death penalty in Ga. slayings (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 01:43 PM PDT AP - A prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old man charged with killing his father and seven others inside the family's mobile home in coastal Georgia.

Contractor shot in Iraq worked with family on base (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 01:21 PM PDT AP - Lucas "Trent" Vinson was due home from Iraq for a break in October. Instead, the 27-year-old civilian contractor's father will accompany his body on a flight back to the United States.

Ohio man indicted in wife's death, abuse of corpse (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 12:02 PM PDT AP - A southwest Ohio man faces murder charges in the death of the wife he had reported missing.

Former Carter press secretary Jody Powell dies (AP) Posted: 14 Sep 2009 05:58 PM PDT AP - Jody Powell, who was White House press secretary and among the closest and most trusted advisers to President Jimmy Carter, died Monday of a heart attack. He was 65.

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