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• Police: Kidnapped newborn found safe in Alabama (AP)
• Olympics loss forces Chicago to rethink city plans (AP)
• Mormon church to build 5 new temples worldwide (AP)
• Jackson, Farrakhan at beaten Ill. teen's funeral (AP)
• Police chiefs endorse anti-terror community watch (AP)
• Somalia's president says terrorism growing there (AP)
• Insurance man accused of stalking ESPN's Andrews (AP)
• Water canal sparks skepticism, lawsuits in Calif. (AP)
• NM bookmobiles: Books for those without libraries (AP)
• Space tourism yet to fly, 5 years since 1st flight (AP)
• 19 chocolatiers prep for scrumdidlyumptious show (AP)
• Typhoon Melor begins move from Northern Marianas (AP)
• Large universities changing freshman experience (AP)
• Everyday act leads to violence on NYC street (AP)
• Homes evacuated as fire threatens Williams, Ariz. (AP)
• Olaf weakens to tropical depression (AP)
• Bible verses banned from Ga. school football field (AP)
• Remote part of eastern Calif. shaken by temblors (AP)

Police: Kidnapped newborn found safe in Alabama (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 03:47 PM PDT AP - A newborn boy abducted by a knife-wielding woman posing as an immigration agent was safe Saturday and being held by child welfare officials as authorities charged a woman with his kidnapping.

Olympics loss forces Chicago to rethink city plans (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 04:27 PM PDT AP - Chicago's dream of an Olympics-sized stimulus was dashed when the 2016 Summer Games were awarded to Rio de Janeiro, and the loss amounts to more than a bruised ego for the nation's third-largest city.

Mormon church to build 5 new temples worldwide (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 04:23 PM PDT AP - Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson on Saturday announced plans to build five new temples in the United States and abroad.

Jackson, Farrakhan at beaten Ill. teen's funeral (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 04:40 PM PDT AP - The funeral of a Chicago teen who was beaten to death on his way home from school drew civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday, both calling for an end to youth violence.

Police chiefs endorse anti-terror community watch (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 04:18 PM PDT AP - A store clerk's curiosity about why Najibullah Zazi was buying large quantities of beauty supply products indicated that something about the transaction wasn't quite right — and it's an example of the kind of citizen vigilance that can combat terror, a police commander said Saturday.

Somalia's president says terrorism growing there (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 03:33 PM PDT AP - The president of Somalia said Saturday his government is challenged by terrorism — which he called a "foreign idea" — and asked the Somali diaspora support him as he struggles to create peace in his war-torn country.

Insurance man accused of stalking ESPN's Andrews (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 04:24 PM PDT AP - An insurance man called "as regular a guy as you'll ever meet" was ordered back to California on Saturday to face charges that he stalked ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and video taped her nude by aiming a cell phone camera through an altered peephole in her hotel room door.

Water canal sparks skepticism, lawsuits in Calif. (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 01:16 PM PDT AP - Peter Hunn has a simple wish: He'd like his children to farm the land in California's delta that his great, great grandfather settled more than a century ago.

NM bookmobiles: Books for those without libraries (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:45 AM PDT AP - It's the last stop of the day for Rural Bookmobile West, snugged up against a curb in a corner of the Ramah Post Office parking lot, where a few customers-to-be wait in their cars protected from looming dark clouds that smell of rain.

Space tourism yet to fly, 5 years since 1st flight (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 12:20 PM PDT AP - When a private spaceship soared over California to claim a $10 million prize, daredevil venture capitalist Alan Walton was 68 and thought he'd soon be on a rocket ride of his own.

19 chocolatiers prep for scrumdidlyumptious show (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 09:30 AM PDT AP - Lionel Clement's training regimen for a scrumdidlyumptious showdown in Paris with 18 other chocolate chefs would make Willy Wonka himself proud.

Typhoon Melor begins move from Northern Marianas (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 04:42 PM PDT AP - A typhoon churning across the western Pacific moved away from the Northern Mariana Islands on Sunday as residents began cleaning up after gusting winds and minor flooding.

Large universities changing freshman experience (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:13 AM PDT AP - The freshman experience at large state universities can still resemble a failed social experiment more than the start of a four-year journey to enlightenment.

Everyday act leads to violence on NYC street (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 02:21 AM PDT AP - New Yorkers bump into each other countless times on crowded sidewalks, and sometimes there's an "excuse me," sometimes a terse "watch where you're going," and then disappearance again into the sea of faces.

Homes evacuated as fire threatens Williams, Ariz. (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 12:14 PM PDT AP - Some residents of the scenic northern Arizona city of Williams spent Saturday away from their homes as a prescribed burn that grew out of control threatened the town known as the "Gateway to the Grand Canyon."

Olaf weakens to tropical depression (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 03:14 AM PDT AP - Olaf is weakening in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico and is now a tropical depression.

Bible verses banned from Ga. school football field (AP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 10:20 PM PDT AP - The Warriors of Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High took the field on Friday night without any Bible verses written on the cheerleaders' banner.

Remote part of eastern Calif. shaken by temblors (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 12:11 PM PDT AP - More earthquakes have struck a remote area of eastern California that has been shaken by a sequence of tremors since Thursday.

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