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• Feds: Leader of radical Islam group killed in raid (AP)
• Economic growth expected, but can it be sustained? (AP)
• Too fat to kill? Fla. man uses weight as a defense (AP)
• Storm dumps snow on Rockies, plains, more forecast (AP)
• Psychologist: Al-Qaida agent would attack US (AP)
• Bay Bridge failure stirs fear, anger over new span (AP)
• Prosecutor: Bogus orders at heart of Ponzi scheme (AP)
• Birmingham, Ala., mayor convicted of taking bribes (AP)
• Prosecutor: Polygamist sect man assaulted teen (AP)
• Fla. teen accused of stabbing brother in squabble (AP)
• 'I hate tennis': Agassi's book adds to his tale (AP)
• Gay-marriage supporters, opponents square off (AP)
• Navy jet with 2 crew members missing off Texas (AP)
• Mo. community mourns slain 'precious little girl' (AP)
• Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close (AP)
• Woman in sex-for-tix case 'embarrassed' (AP)
• Sexual assault, theft motive in Ill. family deaths (AP)
• Murder counts tossed in Texas yogurt shop slayings (AP)
• More and more warehouse clubs accept food stamps (AP)
• Family welcomes home remains of WWII airman (AP)

Feds: Leader of radical Islam group killed in raid (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:18 PM PDT AP - A man described as a leader of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S. was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon while resisting arrest and exchanging gunfire with federal agents, authorities said.

Economic growth expected, but can it be sustained? (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:34 PM PDT AP - The Great Recession may be over, but the recovery is just beginning — and it doesn't promise to be much easier.

Too fat to kill? Fla. man uses weight as a defense (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 03:16 PM PDT AP - A man accused of running up and down a flight of stairs to kill a former son-in-law is offering a novel defense: At 5 feet 8 and 285 pounds, he was just too fat to have pulled it off.

Storm dumps snow on Rockies, plains, more forecast (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:39 PM PDT AP - A storm bringing the first heavy snows of autumn to a large portion of the Rockies and western plains crippled parts of Colorado and Wyoming Wednesday, forcing road closures and sending students home from school as more than 2 feet piled up with much more expected.

Psychologist: Al-Qaida agent would attack US (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:41 PM PDT AP - A U.S. Air Force psychologist described an al-Qaida sleeper agent as a sometimes kind, respectful man who nonetheless would attack the United States if given a chance.

Bay Bridge failure stirs fear, anger over new span (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:18 PM PDT AP - When 5,000 pounds of metal broke off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and rained down on traffic during rush hour, the accident resurrected fears about the safety of a span that millions watching the 1989 World Series broadcast learned had failed during an earthquake.

Prosecutor: Bogus orders at heart of Ponzi scheme (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:20 PM PDT AP - Businessman Tom Petters wanted to "live the life of a corporate tycoon," so he engineered a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of billions of dollars, prosecutors said at the start of his fraud trial Wednesday.

Birmingham, Ala., mayor convicted of taking bribes (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:06 PM PDT AP - A federal jury convicted Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford on Wednesday on all charges of accepting bribes in exchange for funneling $7.1 million in bond business to a prominent investment banker.

Prosecutor: Polygamist sect man assaulted teen (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:58 PM PDT AP - A prosecutor has told jurors that witnesses, documents and DNA will show that a 38-year-old member of a polygamist group sexually assaulted a teen half his age at a West Texas ranch.

Fla. teen accused of stabbing brother in squabble (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:51 PM PDT AP - Two teenage brothers were home alone in their suburban neighborhood when an argument over loud music spiraled out of control, police said, leaving one brother dead from a knife to the chest and the other accused of killing him.

'I hate tennis': Agassi's book adds to his tale (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:45 PM PDT AP - So much of Andre Agassi's life has been spent in the public eye — the various highs and lows, on and off the court, during his transformation from tennis brat to elder statesman — that it was possible to wonder how much more there was to be said about it all.

Gay-marriage supporters, opponents square off (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:31 PM PDT AP - A supporter and an opponent of same-sex marriage made their respective cases on live television Wednesday, less than a week before a statewide referendum on whether to allow gay marriage in Maine.

Navy jet with 2 crew members missing off Texas (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:16 PM PDT AP - A Navy T-34 jet trainer with two people aboard has gone missing off the Texas gulf coast.

Mo. community mourns slain 'precious little girl' (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:10 PM PDT AP - Mourners wore pink and released balloons Wednesday to honor a slain 9-year-old from Missouri who was remembered at her funeral as a "precious little girl" who liked horses and music.

Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:09 PM PDT AP - The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day.

Woman in sex-for-tix case 'embarrassed' (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 03:54 PM PDT AP - A Philadelphia woman charged with offering sex for World Series tickets says she's embarrassed about her arrest, but did nothing wrong and is still hopeful of attending a game.

Sexual assault, theft motive in Ill. family deaths (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 03:51 PM PDT AP - Indictments released Wednesday claim two brothers armed with a tire iron broke into a family's home to rob them and assault a teenage girl before beating five people to death.

Murder counts tossed in Texas yogurt shop slayings (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:47 PM PDT AP - A judge on Wednesday dismissed murder charges against two men awaiting retrial in the 1991 slayings of four teens at an Austin yogurt shop, after prosecutors admitted they weren't ready to take the case to a jury.

More and more warehouse clubs accept food stamps (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:46 PM PDT AP - With many families suddenly struggling to feed themselves, the big warehouse clubs known for king-size packages of steak and jumbo boxes of Cheerios are increasingly competing with grocery stores for the 36 million Americans now on food stamps.

Family welcomes home remains of WWII airman (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:32 PM PDT AP - For two decades after her son's bomber went down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, Vella Stinson faithfully wrote the U.S. government twice a month to ask if his body had been found — or if anyone was looking.

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