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• Senior-citizen volunteers fight Medicare fraud (AP)
• Attorney: PETA worker neglected snakes in his care (AP)
• Coroner: 9 died of smoke inhalation in fire (AP)
• Phone points illegal border crossers to water (AP)
• Drums probed as possible cause of NH anthrax case (AP)
• Police: Young Fla. couple plotted to kill mother (AP)
• Judge who sentenced Boesky in NY to prison dies (AP)
• San Francisco's famous sea lions have vanished (AP)
• Beverly Hills schools move to cut outside pupils (AP)
• Letterman extortion suspect looks to Woods scandal (AP)
• USS Cole bombing survivor dies in Fla. home (AP)
• Tree surfer in Calif slams into car, injures head (AP)
• With a twist, race still a factor in Ala. gov race (AP)
• Hacker pleads guilty in Mass. to fraud case (AP)
• Vt. judge: Birth mom must give child to ex-partner (AP)
• 3 people killed, 1 wounded after Detroit shooting (AP)
• Autopsy on slain Md. girl finds multiple injuries (AP)
• Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture (AP)

Senior-citizen volunteers fight Medicare fraud (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 01:25 PM PST AP - The first box that arrived at Shirley Shupp's door was filled with braces to help with her arthritis. Then came a motorized scooter, just like the one the 69-year-old already owned. She hadn't asked for any of it — but Medicare was apparently footing the bill.

Attorney: PETA worker neglected snakes in his care (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 03:39 PM PST AP - Attorneys for an exotic animal dealer have accused an employee of intentionally neglecting animals to further his work as an undercover investigator for an animal rights group.

Coroner: 9 died of smoke inhalation in fire (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 03:10 PM PST AP - Six children and three adults killed in a Mississippi apartment fire died of smoke inhalation, and their deaths were an accident, the coroner said Tuesday.

Phone points illegal border crossers to water (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:46 PM PST AP - A group of California artists wants Mexicans and Central Americans to have more than just a few cans of tuna and a jug of water for their illegal trek through the harsh desert into the U.S.

Drums probed as possible cause of NH anthrax case (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:45 PM PST AP - A New Hampshire woman diagnosed with a rare gastrointestinal anthrax case may have swallowed spores propelled into the air by vigorous drumming, a state health expert said.

Police: Young Fla. couple plotted to kill mother (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST AP - An 11-year-old Florida girl and her 15-year-old boyfriend are accused of plotting to kill the girl's mother by setting her bedroom on fire while the woman slept Tuesday, police said.

Judge who sentenced Boesky in NY to prison dies (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 02:55 PM PST AP - Morris Lasker, the judge who sentenced Ivan Boesky to prison in a 1980s insider trading scandal and helped eliminate horrid conditions in New York City jails, has died. He was 92.

San Francisco's famous sea lions have vanished (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 03:45 PM PST AP - Last month, marine scientists counted more than 1,500 sea lions on fabled Pier 39, a record number that delighted tourists and baffled experts.

Beverly Hills schools move to cut outside pupils (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 01:21 PM PST AP - Threats on Facebook, name-calling, security guard escorts — tempers are running high around schools these days in this normally sedate enclave of ostentatious wealth.

Letterman extortion suspect looks to Woods scandal (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:09 PM PST AP - The TV producer accused of shaking down David Letterman to keep mum about his affairs is drawing on the Tiger Woods sex scandal to try to bolster his defense.

USS Cole bombing survivor dies in Fla. home (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 11:59 AM PST AP - U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Johann Gokool lost his left foot when a bomb ripped a hole in the side of the USS Cole nearly a decade ago, but the injury was nothing compared with the mental torment that ravaged him almost daily.

Tree surfer in Calif slams into car, injures head (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 11:57 AM PST AP - Authorities say a man in Southern California riding a Christmas tree being dragged behind an SUV slammed into a parked car and was hospitalized with head injuries.

With a twist, race still a factor in Ala. gov race (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 12:06 PM PST AP - The man vying to become Alabama's first black governor is battling some unlikely critics — black Democratic leaders who were on the front lines of the civil rights movement.

Hacker pleads guilty in Mass. to fraud case (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 02:34 PM PST AP - A computer hacker who helped orchestrate the theft of tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from major retailers in one of the largest such thefts in U.S. history pleaded guilty Tuesday in the last of three cases brought by federal prosecutors.

Vt. judge: Birth mom must give child to ex-partner (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 03:20 PM PST AP - The birth mother of a 7-year-old Virginia girl must transfer custody of the child to the woman's former lesbian partner, a Vermont judge ruled, adding that it seems the woman has "disappeared" with her daughter.

3 people killed, 1 wounded after Detroit shooting (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 11:57 AM PST AP - Detroit police say two gunmen opened fire at a house on the city's east side, killing three people and critically wounding a fourth.

Autopsy on slain Md. girl finds multiple injuries (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 11:57 AM PST AP - An autopsy has found that a Maryland girl abducted from her home last week died of multiple injuries.

Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:49 AM PST AP - The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.

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