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• Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought (AP)
• Promotion day arrives for white Conn. firefighters (AP)
• NYC police: Officer kills Times Square scammer (AP)
• Western NY frets as 100-year-old molester is freed (AP)
• SC Gov. Sanford wants to reconcile with first lady (AP)
• Fire crews extinguish propane blaze at Neb. plant (AP)
• Man agrees to plead guilty in ESPN reporter case (AP)
• NYer cleared after woman says rape claim was lie (AP)
• Pa. police: Artist's son swipes $20M in paintings (AP)
• Jeweler: White House gate-crasher's watch a fake (AP)
• Pakistani police: 5 detained US men sought jihad (AP)
• 1 year later, fallout from Madoff's massive fraud (AP)
• Judge: Jon Gosselin must stop unofficial events (AP)
• Asian carp raises fear and loathing on Great Lakes (AP)
• Man bets against Saints, gets his TV shot to bits (AP)
• Justices making new push to abolish elected judges (AP)
• Stuck Mars rover struggles with faulty wheel (AP)
• Police end SF State Univ sit-in; 33 arrested (AP)
• 1 dead, 12 injured in Chicago high-rise fire (AP)

Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 03:10 PM PST AP - On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding a crude furnace and a box of silver iodide solution that some scientists believe could help offer relief from searing droughts.

Promotion day arrives for white Conn. firefighters (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 05:13 PM PST AP - Amid blaring bagpipes, the crowd erupted with even louder cheers, whistles and shouts when firefighters entered a high school auditorium to receive their promotional badges after a 5-year legal battle that ended with a U.S. Supreme Court victory.

NYC police: Officer kills Times Square scammer (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 05:21 PM PST AP - A plainclothes cop chased a scam artist through sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday in the heart of Times Square, killing the suspect near a landmark Broadway hotel after a gunfight that shattered box office and gift shop windows, police said.

Western NY frets as 100-year-old molester is freed (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 12:54 PM PST AP - Everything that pedophile Theodore Sypnier has to show for his 100 years on Earth is packed in a single duffel bag as he prepares to begin a new chapter in life: freedom.

SC Gov. Sanford wants to reconcile with first lady (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 05:13 PM PST AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Thursday he still wants to reconcile with the first lady even though Jenny Sanford has made clear she won't be standing by his side in the wake of his affair.

Fire crews extinguish propane blaze at Neb. plant (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 12:57 PM PST AP - The propane-fueled blaze at a closed manufacturing plant in Nebraska is out.

Man agrees to plead guilty in ESPN reporter case (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 05:57 PM PST AP - An Illinois insurance executive agreed to plead guilty to interstate stalking after secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, according to court documents filed Thursday and first obtained by The Associated Press.

NYer cleared after woman says rape claim was lie (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 03:59 PM PST AP - A construction worker behind bars for nearly four years for a gang rape that never happened was cleared Thursday after his accuser admitted she lied to make her friends feel sorry for her.

Pa. police: Artist's son swipes $20M in paintings (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 03:49 PM PST AP - A Pennsylvania man used a backhoe to break into a museum owned by his father — the pioneering fantasy artist Frank Frazetta — in an attempt to steal 90 paintings valued at $20 million, police said Thursday.

Jeweler: White House gate-crasher's watch a fake (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 03:07 PM PST AP - A couple that crashed a White House party turned over a watch to pay a landscaping debt, but a jeweler is saying it's a fake luxury timepiece.

Pakistani police: 5 detained US men sought jihad (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 05:13 PM PST AP - Five young American Muslims detained in Pakistan wanted to join militants in the country's Taliban-ruled tribal region, battle U.S. troops in neighboring Afghanistan and die as martyrs, police officials said Thursday.

1 year later, fallout from Madoff's massive fraud (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 05:05 PM PST AP - The FBI agents who arrived at Bernard Madoff's luxury penthouse apartment on the morning of Dec. 11, 2008, found a broken man in a bathrobe who knew his time was up.

Judge: Jon Gosselin must stop unofficial events (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 03:26 PM PST AP - A Maryland judge is ruling in the dispute between Jon Gosselin and the TLC network that the father must stop making media appearances that are at odds with his contract.

Asian carp raises fear and loathing on Great Lakes (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 02:33 PM PST AP - After nearly four decades as a fishing guide on the Great Lakes, Pat Chrysler has seen enough damage from invasive species to fear what giant, ravenous Asian carp could do to the nation's largest bodies of freshwater.

Man bets against Saints, gets his TV shot to bits (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 02:11 PM PST AP - A Louisiana man who bet against the New Orleans Saints has lost his 60-inch high-definition, flat-screen TV to a backyard firing squad, but he also became an Internet star.

Justices making new push to abolish elected judges (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 02:03 PM PST AP - An old debate about whether judges should be elected or appointed is heating up again.

Stuck Mars rover struggles with faulty wheel (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 02:38 PM PST AP - A faulty wheel on the Mars rover Spirit is complicating efforts to free it from a sand trap where it has been stuck for the past eight months.

Police end SF State Univ sit-in; 33 arrested (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 07:05 AM PST AP - Police have arrested several San Francisco State University students who barricaded themselves inside a campus building to protest budget cuts and fee hikes.

1 dead, 12 injured in Chicago high-rise fire (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2009 08:37 AM PST AP - Hundreds of Chicago firefighters worked to put out a high-rise fire that left one person dead and 12 people injured.

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