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• Sources: Family tried to sell snatched Tenn. baby (AP)
• Feds: No death penalty for US embassy bomb suspect (AP)
• NYC judge tells Astor jury to keep deliberating (AP)
• Man guilty of murdering boy in Ga. trailer park (AP)
• Judge: Suspect in Iowa coach death can stand trial (AP)
• 8-year sentence for doctoring files on body parts (AP)
• Judge says Dallas bomb plot case to proceed (AP)
• Court won't block release of sex abuse papers (AP)
• 1 in custody after gunman reported on Fla. campus (AP)
• Twin pediatricians fight child sex accusations (AP)
• Kan. official: Illegal sex problem for all prisons (AP)
• W.Va. diverts more child support to poor (AP)
• Ohio gov. delays 2 executions to review injection (AP)
• BET founder mimics Va. gov candidate's speech (AP)
• Can Letterman turn embarrassment into TV triumph? (AP)
• 2 ex-death row inmates released from Okla. prison (AP)
• CDC: Fewer schools selling candy, soda to students (AP)
• Pet bear turns on Pa. owner, kills her in cage (AP)
• NY's junior senator treads a political minefield (AP)
• Man accused of filming Andrews suspended from job (AP)

Sources: Family tried to sell snatched Tenn. baby (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 05:10 PM PDT AP - A Tennessee newborn kidnapped in a knife attack on his mother was placed in foster care with his three siblings after allegations arose that a family member tried to sell the infant, sources familiar with the case said Monday.

Feds: No death penalty for US embassy bomb suspect (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 03:28 PM PDT AP - The U.S. government has decided not to seek the death penalty against a Guantanamo detainee charged in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

NYC judge tells Astor jury to keep deliberating (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:53 PM PDT AP - Signs of stress and a struggle to reach a verdict emerged Monday among jurors in the five-month-long criminal trial over philanthropist Brooke Astor's will.

Man guilty of murdering boy in Ga. trailer park (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 04:42 PM PDT AP - A jury deliberated for about two hours Monday before finding a Georgia man guilty of murder and child molestation in the death of a 6-year-old boy whose body was later discovered wrapped in trash bags and dumped near a road.

Judge: Suspect in Iowa coach death can stand trial (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 04:29 PM PDT AP - A judge ruled Monday that the man accused of gunning down a legendary Iowa high school football coach is mentally competent to stand trial.

8-year sentence for doctoring files on body parts (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 04:28 PM PDT AP - A former North Carolina body parts harvester was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for what prosecutors described as a heinous fraud scheme in which he falsified medical records of cadavers so tissues could be sold for transplant.

Judge says Dallas bomb plot case to proceed (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 04:22 PM PDT AP - A Jordanian teenager accused of trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper researched how to use a cell phone to detonate a bomb and recorded a 7-minute video he believed would be transmitted to Osama bin Laden, an FBI agent who oversaw the investigation testified Monday.

Court won't block release of sex abuse papers (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 03:45 PM PDT AP - The Supreme Court refused on Monday to block the release of documents generated by lawsuits against priests in Connecticut for alleged sexual abuse.

1 in custody after gunman reported on Fla. campus (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:46 PM PDT AP - The University of South Florida was locked down for a time Monday after someone reported a man with a gun and a bomb near the library, and police had one person in custody.

Twin pediatricians fight child sex accusations (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 04:18 PM PDT AP - Twin brother pediatricians are going on trial on charges that for years they used their practices in a middle-class Ohio community to recruit boys for sex, illegally sold them prescription drugs and bribed them not to tell authorities.

Kan. official: Illegal sex problem for all prisons (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 03:00 PM PDT AP - Illegal sex is a problem in Kansas prisons, but it's not as widespread as inmates and staff suggest, the state's top prisons official said Monday.

W.Va. diverts more child support to poor (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:56 PM PDT AP - Changes in how state governments are allowed to disperse child support payments to welfare families has put more money in the pocket of West Virginia resident Becky Salmons, allowing her to buy school supplies and medicine for her 17-year-old daughter.

Ohio gov. delays 2 executions to review injection (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:49 PM PDT AP - Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday delayed the state's next two executions to allow a full review of lethal injection procedures, the latest in a series of unprecedented capital punishment developments in Ohio.

BET founder mimics Va. gov candidate's speech (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:48 PM PDT AP - The billionaire co-founder of Black Entertainment Television apologized Monday for pretending to stutter at a campaign event as she mimicked the Democratic candidate for governor.

Can Letterman turn embarrassment into TV triumph? (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:47 PM PDT AP - David Letterman had his Hugh Grant moment. The question is whether his personal embarrassment will help fuel further professional triumph.

2 ex-death row inmates released from Okla. prison (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:03 PM PDT AP - Two men who spent nearly 15 years on death row for the 1993 killing of a teenage girl during a drive-by shooting in Oklahoma City were released from prison after prosecutors dropped the murder case against them.

CDC: Fewer schools selling candy, soda to students (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 01:51 PM PDT AP - Fewer U.S. high schools and middle schools are selling candy and salty snacks to students, the federal government said in a report released Monday.

Pet bear turns on Pa. owner, kills her in cage (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 01:31 PM PDT AP - For nine years, Kelly Ann Walz kept the black bear she called "Teddy" as a pet, raising it from cubhood at her hilltop menagerie where she also cared for a mountain lion and tiger.

NY's junior senator treads a political minefield (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 01:18 PM PDT AP - New York Gov. David Paterson keeps sinking in the public's opinion, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is stuck in the vortex: She has to avoid getting sucked down by the governor's historic low ratings without appearing ungrateful to the man who picked her to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Man accused of filming Andrews suspended from job (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2009 04:08 PM PDT AP - The Illinois insurance company that employs the man accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews says the man has been suspended from his job.

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