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• Calif. falls short of court's order to cut inmates (AP)
• Second man questioned in terror probe (AP)
• Pa. budget deal ends impasse with cuts, taxes (AP)
• Political writer Irving Kristol dead at 89 (AP)
• Chief: Police may never know Yale killing motive (AP)
• In hundreds of cities, parking spaces become parks (AP)
• Authorities dig at home where kidnapped girl found (AP)
• Penn. man gulps 33 1/2 burritos, wins eating contest (AP)
• NYC on pace for record-low number of homicides (AP)
• US asks court to dismiss challenge to marriage law (AP)
• Calif. advances tough flat-screen energy standards (AP)
• 4 Chicago ex-cops say they invaded homes, stole (AP)
• Charges dropped against Laotian hero in Calif. (AP)
• Texas group derides scent IDs as junk science (AP)
• States send mixed message on texting and driving (AP)
• Kidnapped woman Jaycee Dugard wants her pets back (AP)
• Minn. tackles stadium rowdies with breath tests (AP)
• Insane killer escapes on field trip to county fair (AP)
• CDC: First swine flu vaccines may be nasal spray (AP)
• Veteran crew named for final space shuttle flight (AP)

Calif. falls short of court's order to cut inmates (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:22 PM PDT AP - California prison officials on Friday released a plan to reduce the state's inmate population by more than 23,000 over the next two years, falling short of a federal court mandate.

Second man questioned in terror probe (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:14 PM PDT AP - A man under investigation in a terrorism probe in New York and Denver has indicated he is associated with al-Qaida and played a key role in a planned terror attack, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Friday.

Pa. budget deal ends impasse with cuts, taxes (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 05:16 PM PDT AP - Gov. Ed Rendell and legislative leaders are praising a budget deal that would end Pennsylvania's distinction as the last state still fighting over its annual spending plan.

Political writer Irving Kristol dead at 89 (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 05:59 PM PDT AP - Irving Kristol, the writer, editor and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a historic rejection of communism, liberalism and the counterculture, died Friday. He was 89.

Chief: Police may never know Yale killing motive (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 05:01 PM PDT AP - Police may never know the motive for the killing of a Yale University graduate student whose body was found hidden behind a wall on what should have been her wedding day, the police chief said Friday.

In hundreds of cities, parking spaces become parks (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:28 PM PDT AP - Activists across the nation parked themselves curbside Friday, taking up spaces reserved for cars and transforming them into mini parks with sod, potted plants, lawn chairs and even barbecues to raise awareness about how the auto has won the battle over public space in big cities.

Authorities dig at home where kidnapped girl found (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:08 PM PDT AP - The property where Jaycee Dugard was held captive for 18 years became the focus of an archaeological-style dig Friday as authorities revealed the discovery of another bone and a soil "anomaly" that could indicate something lies buried in an area where cadaver dogs earlier picked up a scent.

Penn. man gulps 33 1/2 burritos, wins eating contest (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 05:52 PM PDT AP - Professional eater "Humble Bob" Shoudt ate 33 1/2 burritos in 10 minutes, winning the 2009 World Burrito eating championship on Friday before an excited crowd at the New Mexico State Fair.

NYC on pace for record-low number of homicides (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 05:42 PM PDT AP - More New Yorkers are out of work, and the cash-strapped city isn't graduating a new class of police cadets this year. And yet crime is going down — way down.

US asks court to dismiss challenge to marriage law (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 05:26 PM PDT AP - The Department of Justice on Friday asked a federal judge in Boston to dismiss a lawsuit that claims a federal law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman is unconstitutional because it denies gay couples access to federal benefits given to other married couples.

Calif. advances tough flat-screen energy standards (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 04:07 PM PDT AP - Energy regulators on Friday moved forward with a plan that could ban the sale of the most power-hungry televisions from California retail stores.

4 Chicago ex-cops say they invaded homes, stole (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 03:41 PM PDT AP - Four former members of an now-disbanded Chicago police unit admitted Friday to taking part in a brazen scheme in which they barged into homes and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from suspected drug dealers and others — once after withholding insulin from a diabetic man until he told them where to find the cash.

Charges dropped against Laotian hero in Calif. (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 03:25 PM PDT AP - A federal grand jury in California investigating an alleged plot to overthrow the government of Laos has dropped charges against a leading figure in the nation's Hmong community, the U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento said Friday.

Texas group derides scent IDs as junk science (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:05 PM PDT AP - The Innocence Project of Texas said Friday that scent identification lineups, in which trained dogs determine if a suspect's smell matches the smell of crime scene evidence, are based on faulty science and have led to a number of wrongful convictions.

States send mixed message on texting and driving (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 02:57 PM PDT AP - Fiddling with your iPhone behind the wheel can get you fined across much of the nation. But many states are more than happy to tweet you with up-to-the-minute directions on how to steer clear of a traffic jam.

Kidnapped woman Jaycee Dugard wants her pets back (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 02:55 PM PDT AP - Jaycee Dugard wants her pets back after they were taken from the property where she allegedly was held captive since being kidnapped 18 years ago.

Minn. tackles stadium rowdies with breath tests (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 03:01 PM PDT AP - Students who get kicked out of a University of Minnesota football game for drunken rowdiness won't be allowed back next time unless they pass an alcohol breath test at the gate — one of the most extreme attempts yet by colleges to curb misbehavior in the stands.

Insane killer escapes on field trip to county fair (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 02:34 PM PDT AP - Authorities searched by air and land Friday for a criminally insane killer who escaped during a mental hospital field trip to a county fair that has infuriated residents and officials around Washington.

CDC: First swine flu vaccines may be nasal spray (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 02:28 PM PDT AP - The first doses of swine flu vaccine may all be the nasal spray version, government health officials said Friday.

Veteran crew named for final space shuttle flight (AP) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 02:10 PM PDT AP - NASA's chief astronaut will shut off the lights on America's space shuttle program.

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