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• For $65, tourists get peek at Los Angeles gangland (AP)
• JFK terminal is evacuated after security breach (AP)
• NYC crews sent to Haiti draw on 9/11 experience (AP)
• Denver Post owner plans prepackaged Ch. 11 filing (AP)
• Ratings soaring for O'Brien (AP)
• Spanish lawmaker's photo used for bin Laden poster (AP)
• Portland high-rise to get 250-foot-tall trellises (AP)
• Survivors of Hudson crash toast to anniversary (AP)
• Police: Ky. census worker had told of suicide plan (AP)
• N. Dakota school's mascot fight goes into overtime (AP)
• Junior Gotti says he may write true crime stories (AP)
• Suspicious airplane passenger questioned in Mich. (AP)
• Lawyer plans to leave Blagojevich defense team (AP)
• Biden: Haiti relief will remain a priority for US (AP)
• Coakley hopes for historic win in Kennedy seat bid (AP)
• Federal Judge Florence Cooper dies in California (AP)

For $65, tourists get peek at Los Angeles gangland (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:27 PM PST AP - Only miles from the scenic vistas and celebrity mansions that draw sightseers from around the globe — but a world away from the glitz and glamour — a bus tour is rolling through the dark side of the city's gang turf.

JFK terminal is evacuated after security breach (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:20 PM PST AP - A busy terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport was evacuated Saturday after a passenger opened a restricted door and set off an alarm, officials said.

NYC crews sent to Haiti draw on 9/11 experience (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:42 AM PST AP - When the twin towers came down on Sept. 11, 2001, deputy police inspector Robert Lukach was there, working on the pile, digging through the rubble for survivors.

Denver Post owner plans prepackaged Ch. 11 filing (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 08:40 AM PST AP - The holding company for MediaNews Group Inc. newspapers, including The Denver Post and San Jose Mercury News, says it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Ratings soaring for O'Brien (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:46 PM PST AP - Conan O'Brien's ratings are soaring as he nears a bitter exit from NBC's "Tonight" show, his ridicule of his network executives apparently resonating in a country filled with the unemployed.

Spanish lawmaker's photo used for bin Laden poster (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:04 PM PST AP - A Spanish lawmaker was horrified to learn that the FBI used an online photograph of him to create an image showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today.

Portland high-rise to get 250-foot-tall trellises (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:29 AM PST AP - They haven't figured out yet how to get the pruning done, but architects and federal officials plan one of the world's most extensive vertical gardens in downtown Portland — what amounts to a series of 250-foot-tall trellises designed to shade the west side of an 18-story office building.

Survivors of Hudson crash toast to anniversary (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:09 AM PST AP - They looked like they were posing for an eclectic class picture: dozens of smiling faces, everyone carefully lined up. As cameras clicked, the survivors of US Airways Flight 1549 cheered and laughed loudly enough to remind everyone that they had made it.

Police: Ky. census worker had told of suicide plan (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 10:10 PM PST AP - An eastern Kentucky census worker found naked, bound and hanging from a tree had told a friend he intended to kill himself and that he had chosen the time, place and method to do it, police records show.

N. Dakota school's mascot fight goes into overtime (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:33 PM PST AP - Some University of North Dakota officials were hoping that a long-running dispute over the school's Fighting Sioux nickname would be settled this week. Now it appears it could continue for several months.

Junior Gotti says he may write true crime stories (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:06 AM PST AP - Now that the government has given up trying to put him in prison, John "Junior" Gotti says he may leave New York and try his hand at writing true crime stories.

Suspicious airplane passenger questioned in Mich. (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 08:31 PM PST AP - Police questioned a passenger on a small commercial plane that flew from Chicago to a northern Michigan resort town on Friday after the crew reported he was acting suspiciously.

Lawyer plans to leave Blagojevich defense team (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 08:56 PM PST AP - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY'-uh-vich) may be losing a lawyer.

Biden: Haiti relief will remain a priority for US (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 07:33 AM PST AP - Vice President Joe Biden says rebuilding Haiti in the wake of a devastating earthquake will remain a priority for the U.S. long after the story fades from media headlines.

Coakley hopes for historic win in Kennedy seat bid (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:16 AM PST AP - For much of her campaign, Martha Coakley steered clear of the Kennedy mystique, methodically crafting a low-key campaign to fill the late Edward Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat the way the seasoned prosecutor would build a case in court.

Federal Judge Florence Cooper dies in California (AP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 08:28 PM PST AP - U.S. District Court Judge Florence Marie Cooper, whose reputation for brilliance and fairness made her a star of the federal judiciary, died Friday of lymphoma. She was 69.

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