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• Officer praised for taking down suspected gunman (AP)
• Fort victims had different reasons for enlisting (AP)
• But for heroes, bloodbath could have been worse (AP)
• Wis. man donates cheesehead hat signed by Obama (AP)
• Computers, records seized at ACORN offices in La. (AP)
• Stepfather convicted in death of 'Baby Grace' (AP)
• Fort Hood suspect said his goodbyes before rampage (AP)
• Circus elephant that escaped and was hit by SUV OK (AP)
• Police: Fla. gunman thought company nixed benefit (AP)
• Hospital: Fort Hood suspect moved to San Antonio (AP)
• Exhaust cone falls off jet onto NY home's lawn (AP)
• Fla. cops: Wife faked own abduction to scam hubby (AP)
• In Europe, most swine flu shots by invitation only (AP)
• Police: Man posed as Ariz. student for scholarship (AP)
• Gay marriage foes win with message about schools (AP)
• Crowds roar, confetti falls as NYC fetes Yankees (AP)
• Neighbors: Suspected serial killer seemed harmless (AP)
• AZ 'honor killing' victim just wanted to be normal (AP)
• NJ jurors convict Fla. man in 'fat defense' trial (AP)
• Perot pledges $6.1M to Army college in Kansas (AP)

Officer praised for taking down suspected gunman (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 03:13 PM PST AP - A civilian police officer is being praised for taking down a man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood when she shot him in the torso.

Fort victims had different reasons for enlisting (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 04:27 PM PST AP - The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Here is a look at some of the victims.

But for heroes, bloodbath could have been worse (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 04:23 PM PST AP - Pfc. Marquest Smith, on his way to Afghanistan in January, was completing routine paperwork about a bee-sting allergy when the sounds erupted.

Wis. man donates cheesehead hat signed by Obama (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 04:22 PM PST AP - A Wisconsin man who got his cheesehead hat signed by President Barack Obama has decided to donate it to a museum rather than sell it on eBay.

Computers, records seized at ACORN offices in La. (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 04:06 PM PST AP - State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and tax fraud when the organization's national headquarters was based in New Orleans.

Stepfather convicted in death of 'Baby Grace' (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 03:38 PM PST AP - A Southeast Texas man was convicted Friday of capital murder in the 2007 beating death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter whose battered body was found in a container floating in Galveston Bay.

Fort Hood suspect said his goodbyes before rampage (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 04:39 PM PST AP - As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the killing spree that left 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, dead.

Circus elephant that escaped and was hit by SUV OK (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 03:28 PM PST AP - An animal rights group on Friday asked a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency to look into an owner's treatment of a circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport utility vehicle on a northwestern Oklahoma highway.

Police: Fla. gunman thought company nixed benefit (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 04:57 PM PST AP - Police say a former employee accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others at an Orlando, Fla., engineering firm thought it had blocked his efforts to obtain unemployment benefits.

Hospital: Fort Hood suspect moved to San Antonio (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:34 PM PST AP - An Army medical official says the man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood has been transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.

Exhaust cone falls off jet onto NY home's lawn (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:27 PM PST AP - An engine tailcone fell off a Delta Air Lines jet shortly after takeoff Thursday and plummeted thousands of feet before landing harmlessly on a lawn in a Long Island residential neighborhood.

Fla. cops: Wife faked own abduction to scam hubby (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 03:27 PM PST AP - A wealthy health care executive came home one night in September to find a terrifying note from his wife, Quinn Gray: The 37-year-old housewife and mother of two had been abducted from her posh Florida beach community.

In Europe, most swine flu shots by invitation only (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:50 PM PST AP - In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy corporations or healthy people who don't really need it.

Police: Man posed as Ariz. student for scholarship (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 01:49 PM PST AP - A 22-year-old man accused of posing as a student at two Arizona high schools wanted to play basketball and hoped to get a college scholarship, authorities said.

Gay marriage foes win with message about schools (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:30 PM PST AP - Gay marriage opponents pulled off another victory at the ballot box this week by using a tried-and-tested argument: Approve it and children will be taught homosexuality in school.

Crowds roar, confetti falls as NYC fetes Yankees (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 01:40 PM PST AP - Crowds roared, church bells rang and streams of paper rained down on Broadway as the New York Yankees celebrated their 27th championship Friday in a way only this city can, with a parade up the Canyon of Heroes.

Neighbors: Suspected serial killer seemed harmless (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 01:26 PM PST AP - The man who lived in the house of rotting corpses never gave people a reason to wonder what he was really doing behind closed doors.

AZ 'honor killing' victim just wanted to be normal (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:55 PM PST AP - Noor Faleh Almaleki just wanted to be a normal American woman.

NJ jurors convict Fla. man in 'fat defense' trial (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 03:27 PM PST AP - A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man's defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway.

Perot pledges $6.1M to Army college in Kansas (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 01:13 PM PST AP - Texas billionaire and two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot has pledged $6.1 million to a private foundation to pay for programs at the Army's Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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