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• Feds: Suspect hit beauty stores for bomb supplies (AP)
• Man arrested after placing inactive bomb in Dallas (AP)
• 'Full attack' on Southern California wildfire (AP)
• G-20 opponents, police clash on Pittsburgh streets (AP)
• Beauty supply stores caught up in NY terror case (AP)
• Jurors: FEMA trailer didn't expose family to fumes (AP)
• In a first, an AIDS vaccine shows some success (AP)
• Feds: NC terror suspects targeted US military (AP)
• Sheriff: Family killed by 'blunt force trauma' (AP)
• Attorney: Stabbing suspect 'mentally disturbed' (AP)
• Regaining footing: SC mayor revokes no-chase call (AP)
• NJ woman celebrates 100th birthday — at work (AP)
• Attorney: Jail says Texas mom competent for trial (AP)
• Court nixes $5M verdict against funeral protesters (AP)
• Veterans awaiting GI Bill turn to loans, parents (AP)
• Ill. high court OKs 'Jews only' inheritance (AP)
• Man charged with plot to bomb Ill. courthouse (AP)
• Federal poultry pollution trial starts in Okla. (AP)
• Reputed mob underboss sentenced in Big Dig bribery (AP)

Feds: Suspect hit beauty stores for bomb supplies (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 05:02 PM PDT AP - An Afghan immigrant who received explosives training from al-Qaida went from one beauty supply store to another, buying up large quantities of hydrogen peroxide and nail-polish remover, in a chilling plot to build bombs for attacks on U.S. soil, authorities charged Thursday.

Man arrested after placing inactive bomb in Dallas (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:34 PM PDT AP - Federal officials say a 19-year-old Jordanian national has been arrested on charges he plotted to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper.

'Full attack' on Southern California wildfire (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:01 AM PDT AP - A fleet of helicopters made water drops as bulldozers carved firebreaks Thursday to stop a 25-square-mile wildfire burning through an agricultural region of Southern California.

G-20 opponents, police clash on Pittsburgh streets (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 05:07 PM PDT AP - Police fired canisters of pepper spray and smoke at marchers protesting the Group of 20 summit Thursday after anarchists responded to calls to disperse by rolling trash bins and throwing rocks.

Beauty supply stores caught up in NY terror case (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 05:06 PM PDT AP - The young man visited the Denver-area beauty supply store more than once in recent weeks, asking about chemicals for sale and engaging in small talk with employees.

Jurors: FEMA trailer didn't expose family to fumes (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:34 PM PDT AP - A federal jury on Thursday rejected a New Orleans family's claims that the government-issued trailer they lived in after Hurricane Katrina exposed them to dangerous fumes, with one juror saying the plaintiffs' attorneys never had the "smoking gun" that proved their case.

In a first, an AIDS vaccine shows some success (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:28 PM PDT AP - Scientists and government leaders have already started mapping out how to try to improve the world's first successful AIDS vaccine, which protected one in three people from getting HIV in a large study in Thailand.

Feds: NC terror suspects targeted US military (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:27 PM PDT AP - Two North Carolina terrorism suspects plotted to kill U.S. military personnel and one of them obtained maps of a Marine Corps base in Virginia to plan an attack, prosecutors said Thursday.

Sheriff: Family killed by 'blunt force trauma' (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:05 PM PDT AP - All five family members slain in their central Illinois home were killed by "blunt force trauma," a sheriff said Thursday, though he declined to provide other details, including whether authorities have recovered any weapons.

Attorney: Stabbing suspect 'mentally disturbed' (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:55 PM PDT AP - A 16-year-old student accused of stabbing his teacher to death at a Texas high school has a "lengthy history" of mental illness, his attorney said Thursday.

Regaining footing: SC mayor revokes no-chase call (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:41 PM PDT AP - The mayor of a small South Carolina town says she's allowing her police officers to run after suspects again.

NJ woman celebrates 100th birthday — at work (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:22 PM PDT AP - Astrid Thoenig got dressed, went to work and sat at her desk smiling Thursday as she slid her finger gently under the envelope flap of yet another identical birthday card. They don't make that many that say "Happy 100th."

Attorney: Jail says Texas mom competent for trial (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:06 PM PDT AP - The attorney for a Texas mother who allegedly told authorities the devil made her kill and mutilate her 3-week-old son said Thursday that a jail psychiatrist believes his client is mentally competent to stand trial.

Court nixes $5M verdict against funeral protesters (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 02:59 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court on Thursday tossed out a $5 million verdict against protesters who carried signs with inflammatory messages like "Thank God for dead soldiers" outside the Maryland funeral of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq.

Veterans awaiting GI Bill turn to loans, parents (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 02:42 PM PDT AP - Brandon Thomas was hit by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade and twice grazed by bullets fired by the Taliban during his final tour with the Army in Afghanistan.

Ill. high court OKs 'Jews only' inheritance (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 02:29 PM PDT AP - Proud of his religion and worried about its future, Chicago dentist Max Feinberg wrote a will with an unusual catch: His grandchildren wouldn't inherit a penny if they married someone who wasn't Jewish.

Man charged with plot to bomb Ill. courthouse (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 02:20 PM PDT AP - A 29-year-old man who idolized American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh has been arrested after attempting to detonate what he thought was a bomb inside a van outside a federal courthouse in the Illinois capital of Springfield, officials said Thursday.

Federal poultry pollution trial starts in Okla. (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 02:08 PM PDT AP - Attorneys for Oklahoma and the Arkansas poultry industry traded barbs in federal court Thursday, disputing whether the companies knew for decades that over-application of chicken waste on farmland was polluting the Illinois River watershed.

Reputed mob underboss sentenced in Big Dig bribery (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 01:47 PM PDT AP - The reputed former underboss of the New England mob has been sentenced to six years in prison for bribing an undercover FBI agent posing as a state official to try to win a $6 million contract on Boston's Big Dig highway project.

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