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• Lab tech charged with Yale grad student's murder (AP)
• Colo. man faces more questioning in terror probe (AP)
• Kentucky coach acquitted in rare player death case (AP)
• Wis. paper faces backlash for outing Web critic (AP)
• Jewish leaders calling for ethical renewal (AP)
• Coldest place in the solar system? Right nearby (AP)
• NYC synagogue bomb defendants may claim entrapment (AP)
• Lawyers try to stop second Ohio execution try (AP)
• DA: Word of video led NY rape accuser to recant (AP)
• Pick up the phone! It's Rex Ryan, and he wants you (AP)
• NC doctor removes plastic fragment lodged in lung (AP)
• Identified amnesia patient doesn't know who he is (AP)
• Mass. House gives initial OK to succession bill (AP)
• Calif. jury says father who drowned son was sane (AP)
• Some businesses near G-20 protest camp to close (AP)
• Wis. passes tougher drunken driving bill (AP)
• Feds fight for key evidence against Bonds (AP)
• Magazine signed by John Lennon sells for $12,713 (AP)
• SC rep files suit over letter alleging gov affair (AP)
• Mafia assassin gets life for 4 NYC murders (AP)

Lab tech charged with Yale grad student's murder (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 04:49 PM PDT AP - As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began to emerge Thursday of an unpleasant stickler for the rules who often clashed with researchers and considered the mice cages his personal fiefdom.

Colo. man faces more questioning in terror probe (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 04:25 PM PDT AP - A man identified by law enforcement as having a possible link to al-Qaida met with the FBI for a second day Thursday as part of a terrorism investigation in New York and Colorado.

Kentucky coach acquitted in rare player death case (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - A former Kentucky high school football coach was found not guilty Thursday in the death of a player who collapsed at a practice where the team was put through a series of sprints on a hot summer day.

Wis. paper faces backlash for outing Web critic (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 01:42 PM PDT AP - Getting named the local paper's Person of the Year was supposed to be an honor for small-town politician Dean Zuleger. But the award only enraged many townspeople.

Jewish leaders calling for ethical renewal (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 03:05 PM PDT AP - Jewish leaders are calling on U.S. rabbis to emphasize the faith's ethical requirements in their sermons during Rosh Hashana in response to recent financial scandals involving its members, including Bernard Madoff.

Coldest place in the solar system? Right nearby (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT AP - Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system and it may be a little close for comfort. It's on our moon, right nearby.

NYC synagogue bomb defendants may claim entrapment (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 04:24 PM PDT AP - Four ex-convicts accused of plotting to bomb synagogues and shoot down military planes apparently will claim they were lured into the conspiracy with gifts including cash and fried chicken.

Lawyers try to stop second Ohio execution try (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:39 PM PDT AP - Lawyers plan state and federal lawsuits and a request to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland to stop next week's unprecedented second execution attempt of a man whose lethal injection failed on Tuesday.

DA: Word of video led NY rape accuser to recant (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:15 PM PDT AP - A Hofstra University freshman who had claimed she was raped by five men in a dormitory bathroom changed her story after prosecutors confronted her with the revelation that a video of the encounter may have been recorded, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Pick up the phone! It's Rex Ryan, and he wants you (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 05:10 PM PDT AP - Pick up the phone! Rex Ryan is calling, and he wants you.

NC doctor removes plastic fragment lodged in lung (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 01:38 PM PDT AP - Doctors say a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested since he apparently inhaled it nearly two years ago while sucking down a soft drink at a Wendy's restaurant.

Identified amnesia patient doesn't know who he is (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 12:10 PM PDT AP - It was seven weeks ago that Edward Lighthart walked out of a Seattle park with no idea of who he was and how he got there, the apparent victim of a bizarre case of amnesia.

Mass. House gives initial OK to succession bill (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 03:30 PM PDT AP - The Massachusetts House of Representatives has given initial approval to a bill allowing Gov. Deval Patrick to name an interim appointment to the Senate seat left vacant when Edward Kennedy died last month.

Calif. jury says father who drowned son was sane (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:22 PM PDT AP - An Orange County jury says a father was legally sane when he drowned his 4-year-old son in a bathtub.

Some businesses near G-20 protest camp to close (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:42 PM PDT AP - Barely a block from a parking lot where Pittsburgh will house protesters of the Group of 20 summit is one of the city's most eclectic neighborhoods — a strip of mom-and-pop, homegrown grocery stores, restaurants and businesses that exemplify the kind of world the protesters say they want.

Wis. passes tougher drunken driving bill (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 02:33 PM PDT AP - Unlike the criminal penalties it can draw elsewhere, a first-time drunken driving offense in Wisconsin will still mean a mere traffic ticket under a proposal lawmakers have touted as getting tough on the issue.

Feds fight for key evidence against Bonds (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 03:18 PM PDT AP - Federal prosecutors urged a federal appellate court to reverse a trial judge and let them present critical evidence they say shows Barry Bonds knowingly used steroids.

Magazine signed by John Lennon sells for $12,713 (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:24 AM PDT AP - A 1966 magazine signed by John Lennon containing his remark that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus has sold for $12,713.

SC rep files suit over letter alleging gov affair (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 12:56 PM PDT AP - A South Carolina legislator has filed a defamation lawsuit over an anonymous letter mailed to her Spartanburg County constituents that suggests she had an affair with Gov. Mark Sanford.

Mafia assassin gets life for 4 NYC murders (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:27 AM PDT AP - An aging hit man once used as an enforcer by mob boss John Gotti has been sentenced to life in prison for four cold-blooded killings.

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