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• Lawyer: Woman will enter guilty plea in Smart case (AP)
• NC searchers find body of missing 5-year-old girl (AP)
• Palin, Winfrey talk about book and Levi Johnston (AP)
• Police: Chicago schools president commits suicide (AP)
• Skip mammograms in 40s and start at 50, gov't panel says (AP)
• Soldier mom refuses deployment to care for baby (AP)
• Twitter to overhaul user list seen as partisan (AP)
• Ill. town would rather get Gitmo prisoners (AP)
• Bishops assert moral duty in health care debate (AP)
• Ohio chief's trial begins in Parker-Broderick case (AP)
• Frank floats loan plan for unemployed homeowners (AP)
• Sheriff: Michigan man shot wife, sons before self (AP)
• FAA splits Hudson River airspace into 2 low zones (AP)
• All 'Bull': Madoff's yacht, boats on auction block (AP)
• Goodell fines Titans owner $250,000 for gesture (AP)
• Feds: Kuwaiti company conspired to defraud US (AP)
• Red Cross sells pieces of history to cut deficit (AP)
• Eek! Rats giving RI Statehouse staffers a scare (AP)
• Mich. caseworkers worry about threats from clients (AP)
• Wis. releases grenade video to settle AP lawsuit (AP)

Lawyer: Woman will enter guilty plea in Smart case (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 04:38 PM PST AP - The wrenching saga of Elizabeth Smart's abduction and improbable recovery is showing the first signs of resolution seven years after it began.

NC searchers find body of missing 5-year-old girl (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 05:16 PM PST AP - For a week, authorities feverishly searched for a 5-year-old girl across central North Carolina, only to find her body Monday off a rural road following accusations the girl's mother offered her for sex.

Palin, Winfrey talk about book and Levi Johnston (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 03:19 PM PST AP - Sarah Palin said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that it's heartbreaking to see the road that Levi Johnston, the father of her grandson, has taken and that the soon-to-be Playgirl model hasn't seen his baby in awhile.

Police: Chicago schools president commits suicide (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 04:30 PM PST AP - Chicago's school board president apparently shot himself in the head near the Chicago River before dawn Monday, officials said as his death was met with disbelief by civic leaders and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Skip mammograms in 40s and start at 50, gov't panel says (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 05:16 PM PST AP - Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50, a government task force said Monday. It's a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's long-standing position.

Soldier mom refuses deployment to care for baby (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 05:16 PM PST AP - An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas.

Twitter to overhaul user list seen as partisan (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 04:23 PM PST AP - Social-networking site Twitter plans to end a service that links prominent message posters with new users, a service that was criticized in California because of perceived unfairness toward GOP gubernatorial candidates.

Ill. town would rather get Gitmo prisoners (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 04:15 PM PST AP - Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in despair over the lack of jobs.

Bishops assert moral duty in health care debate (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 05:23 PM PST AP - The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops defended their involvement in the health care debate, saying Monday that church leaders have a duty to the nation and God to raise moral concerns on any issue, including on abortion rights and coverage for the poor.

Ohio chief's trial begins in Parker-Broderick case (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 04:01 PM PST AP - A police chief on trial in Ohio acknowledges that he joked with paparazzi about working with them to snoop on the woman who carried twins for celebrity couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, his lawyer told jurors Monday.

Frank floats loan plan for unemployed homeowners (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 01:21 PM PST AP - Rep. Barney Frank said Monday he is pushing a proposal to use some of the interest the government collects from the financial industry bailout to give loans to unemployed homeowners struggling to pay the mortgage.

Sheriff: Michigan man shot wife, sons before self (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 04:21 PM PST AP - If Phillip Parsons was having financial or other troubles, he didn't let on to his friend, Russ Whittaker, as they cut trees or talked about high school sports.

FAA splits Hudson River airspace into 2 low zones (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 01:27 PM PST AP - The crowded airspace over the Hudson River, where nine people died in the collision of a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter, will be split into a low-altitude zone for local traffic and a higher one for longer-distance flights, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday.

All 'Bull': Madoff's yacht, boats on auction block (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 02:36 PM PST AP - A vintage 55-foot yacht named "Bull" and two smaller boats that once belonged to imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff are headed for the auction block, along with an even bigger yacht once owned by Madoff's right-hand man.

Goodell fines Titans owner $250,000 for gesture (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 03:08 PM PST AP - The NFL has fined Titans owner Bud Adams $250,000 for making an obscene gesture at Buffalo fans while celebrating Tennessee's victory over the Bills.

Feds: Kuwaiti company conspired to defraud US (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 01:58 PM PST AP - The chief food supplier for the U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq inflated prices and defrauded the U.S. government for multibillion-dollar contracts to feed American troops, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Red Cross sells pieces of history to cut deficit (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 12:43 PM PST AP - Rose Percy has a long history with the American Red Cross. Complete with an extensive wardrobe and her own Tiffany jewelry, this 23-inch wax doll was first sold for $1,200 back in 1864 to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission — the precursor to one of best-known U.S. charities.

Eek! Rats giving RI Statehouse staffers a scare (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 01:45 PM PST AP - Sue Stenhouse spends her days figuring out how Rhode Island officials should calmly deal with disaster. But when a rat scurried through her office, her natural response was to jump on a chair, snap it with rubber bands and threaten to spritz it with Obsession.

Mich. caseworkers worry about threats from clients (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 12:57 PM PST AP - One frustrated client hurled a piece of concrete through the window of a welfare agency. Another threw her car keys at a welfare worker before being escorted away. At one point, a woman on public assistance even took a swing at a worker.

Wis. releases grenade video to settle AP lawsuit (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 10:44 AM PST AP - Wisconsin prison officials released a video that shows a guard tossing a non-lethal grenade designed for outdoor crowd control into an inmate's cell and running away as it explodes.

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