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• NYC terror suspect pleads not guilty, kept in jail (AP)
• Guilty verdict in 1993 Ill. restaurant slayings (AP)
• Armory guards: Teen covered with bruises, scars (AP)
• Ex-Dem fundraiser sentenced in NYC to 24 years (AP)
• Drug researcher dies, boyfriend faces drug charges (AP)
• State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids (AP)
• Book: Conn. family killing suspect was gleeful (AP)
• Boston-area college bans sex with roommate around (AP)
• Background check leads to arrest in 1976 killing (AP)
• 92-year-old sky diver still finding adventure (AP)
• SC gov's state flights may raise tax liabilities (AP)
• Feds: Smooth global swindler is nabbed at border (AP)
• Dan Rather's $70M lawsuit against CBS thrown out (AP)
• Son of hanged census worker says father was slain (AP)
• Ex-Penn prof gets 25 years for child porn, lies (AP)
• Worker misconduct cases rise at science foundation (AP)
• Judge: No 9/11 mention at ex-commissioner's trial (AP)
• Homeless Ga. sex offenders ordered to move (AP)
• Arias warns Honduran elections won't be recognized (AP)
• Skull piece thought to be Hitler's is from woman (AP)

NYC terror suspect pleads not guilty, kept in jail (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:20 PM PDT AP - As a suspected al-Qaida operative pleaded not guilty Tuesday to plotting a bomb attack in New York, the city's police commissioner pronounced the threat neutralized and said there is nothing to fear from the defendant's three alleged accomplices.

Guilty verdict in 1993 Ill. restaurant slayings (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:48 PM PDT AP - A former handyman was convicted Tuesday in the slayings of seven people whose bodies were found in a walk-in freezer and cooler at a suburban Chicago fast food restaurant 16 years ago.

Armory guards: Teen covered with bruises, scars (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - A 14-year-old boy had deep cuts around his wrists and was covered with burns, bruises and scars when he wandered into a National Guard armory last week and said he had escaped from a home where he was locked in a bedroom closet, officials said Tuesday.

Ex-Dem fundraiser sentenced in NYC to 24 years (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:36 PM PDT AP - Former Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was sentenced Tuesday to more than 24 years in prison by a judge who accused him of funding his fraud by manipulating the political process in a way that "strikes at the very core of our democracy."

Drug researcher dies, boyfriend faces drug charges (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:42 PM PDT AP - A neuroscientist who studied the effects of drugs on the brain is dead of an apparent overdose and her live-in boyfriend, who did similar research, is facing drug charges, Baltimore police said Tuesday.

State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:23 PM PDT AP - Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.

Book: Conn. family killing suspect was gleeful (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:13 PM PDT AP - One of two men charged with murder in a deadly home invasion smiled and laughed during the horrific crime two years ago and, during his escape, wore the school hat of one of the girls who was killed, according to a new book.

Boston-area college bans sex with roommate around (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:44 PM PDT AP - Sex in a Tufts University dorm is fine. Sex in a Tufts dorm with your roommate present? That's a no-no.

Background check leads to arrest in 1976 killing (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:05 PM PDT AP - A man who walked into an Atlanta suburb's police department seeking a criminal background check for a job application wound up under arrest as a suspect in the slaying of a former University of Missouri student in 1976, authorities said Tuesday.

92-year-old sky diver still finding adventure (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 12:58 PM PDT AP - Taking a 13,000-foot plunge from an airplane will earn most jumpers a certificate. Instructor Paul Peckham Jr. knew that wouldn't be enough for 92-year-old Jane Bockstruck.

SC gov's state flights may raise tax liabilities (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:36 PM PDT AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's use of state planes for personal and political trips could open him and the state to federal tax penalties because the flights never were recorded as taxable fringe benefits.

Feds: Smooth global swindler is nabbed at border (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:52 PM PDT AP - A smooth-talking, globe-trotting serial swindler who is wanted in Nevada on a burglary charge has been arrested after crossing illegally from Canada to Vermont, federal authorities said.

Dan Rather's $70M lawsuit against CBS thrown out (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:28 PM PDT AP - A New York court on Tuesday dismissed Dan Rather's $70 million breach of contract lawsuit against CBS Corp., noting that the network continued to pay the anchor $6 million a year even after he left the evening news broadcast.

Son of hanged census worker says father was slain (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:26 PM PDT AP - Josh Sparkman lost the only family he ever really had when his census worker father was found hanging from a tree in rural Kentucky, his feet and hands duct-taped and the word "fed" scrawled on his chest.

Ex-Penn prof gets 25 years for child porn, lies (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 01:42 PM PDT AP - A longtime Ivy League professor preyed on vulnerable teenage boys at home and abroad as he pursued them for sexual encounters and pornographic videos, prosecutors argued at his sentencing Tuesday.

Worker misconduct cases rise at science foundation (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 12:59 PM PDT AP - A watchdog responsible for stopping fraud involving taxpayer-funded science grants said it has been forced to divert its attention to government employee misconduct, much of it involving pornography.

Judge: No 9/11 mention at ex-commissioner's trial (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 12:59 PM PDT AP - The terror attack on the World Trade Center, which made New York City's police commissioner a national figure, cannot be brought up by the defense at his corruption trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Homeless Ga. sex offenders ordered to move (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 12:58 PM PDT AP - Nine homeless sex offenders scrambled to find housing Tuesday after they were kicked out of a makeshift tent city behind a suburban Atlanta office park where state officials had told them to live.

Arias warns Honduran elections won't be recognized (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 12:35 PM PDT AP - Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias on Tuesday commended the interim president of Honduras for saying he will reverse an emergency decree suspending civil liberties in his country.

Skull piece thought to be Hitler's is from woman (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2009 01:04 PM PDT AP - A piece of skull with a bullet hole through it that Russian officials claimed belonged to Adolf Hitler actually came from a woman, scientists at the University of Connecticut concluded.

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