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• Storm lingers over Ariz after battering Calif (AP)
• Teen violist alleges Pittsburgh police brutality (AP)
• Did Calif. lawmakers' private lunch violate law? (AP)
• Stars unite to help Haiti victims in telethon (AP)
• Census to launch count in Alaska village (AP)
• Trial begins in slaying of Kan. abortion provider (AP)
• Dog bites firefighter who rescued it from LA River (AP)
• Polanski loses bid to be sentenced in absentia (AP)
• Donation of Spears' dress OK for Haiti relief (AP)
• Ill. wrongly reported early release prisoners (AP)
• AP Exclusive: A look at 9/11 memorial waterfalls (AP)
• Country's first legal gigolo starts work in Nevada (AP)
• Interest up in students learning personal finance (AP)
• Family dies in crossfire after sleepover drop-off (AP)
• Police: Woman poisoned boyfriend with antifreeze (AP)
• Unemployment rose in 43 states last month (AP)
• Mass. health model, not Obama's, pleases voters (AP)
• Prosecutor cool to plea shift in recruiter killing (AP)
• Vt. judge sets deadline in women's custody dispute (AP)
• Oracle exec admits affair with billboard woman (AP)

Storm lingers over Ariz after battering Calif (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 05:59 PM PST AP - The remnants of the biggest storm to hit Arizona in nearly two decades lingered over the state Friday after drenching California, while authorities in both states continued to tally the damage.

Teen violist alleges Pittsburgh police brutality (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 01:37 PM PST AP - The photos taken by Jordan Miles' mother show his face covered with raw, red bruises, his cheek and lip swollen, his right eye swollen shut. A bald spot mars the long black dreadlocks where the 18-year-old violist says police tore them from his head.

Did Calif. lawmakers' private lunch violate law? (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 05:34 PM PST AP - Majorities of both houses of California's Legislature RSVP'd for a private lunch with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after he delivered his State of the State address earlier this month, raising questions about whether the gathering violated state law.

Stars unite to help Haiti victims in telethon (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 06:26 PM PST AP - With no words, simply photos of Haiti's desperate citizens as a backdrop, the all-star, international "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon began on Friday night, as Alicia Keys called for the help of angels in somber tune.

Census to launch count in Alaska village (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 05:47 PM PST AP - The U.S. Census Bureau chief is heading to Alaska to formally launch the nation's 2010 count in a remote Inupiat Eskimo village, where residents are planning a huge reception of traditional dancing and a feast of caribou, moose and other subsistence foods.

Trial begins in slaying of Kan. abortion provider (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 06:13 PM PST AP - On the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, prosecutors who charged a man with killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers managed to get through the first day of testimony without mentioning the word abortion in front of jurors.

Dog bites firefighter who rescued it from LA River (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 06:07 PM PST AP - A firefighter splashed into a rain-swollen river Friday to rescue a German shepherd and managed to hang on safely, even after the dog furiously bit his arm and hand.

Polanski loses bid to be sentenced in absentia (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 05:27 PM PST AP - Director Roman Polanski lost his bid Friday to be sentenced without returning to the U.S. when a judge ruled the director must be present in court if he wants to resolve his 32-year-old sex case.

Donation of Spears' dress OK for Haiti relief (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 06:04 PM PST AP - Britney Spears is lending a hand, or rather a dress, to help out Haiti.

Ill. wrongly reported early release prisoners (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 06:18 PM PST AP - Nearly six weeks after Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn halted an early prisoner release program that set free hundreds of potentially violent inmates, his administration is still struggling to identify which criminals — or even how many — got out.

AP Exclusive: A look at 9/11 memorial waterfalls (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 01:27 PM PST AP - The waterfalls meant to evoke memories of the Sept. 11 dead stand three stories high in a field in Brooklyn, spilling down into a pool. Four large American flags poke through the grass to mark off each corner of a World Trade Center tower footprint.

Country's first legal gigolo starts work in Nevada (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 01:34 PM PST AP - A brothel in a Nevada desert town has hired the state's first male prostitute, a muscular college dropout who abandoned a brief stint as a porn actor in Los Angeles to become the only legal gigolo in the United States.

Interest up in students learning personal finance (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 02:38 PM PST AP - Each day after school, 17-year-old Phyllis Quach goes to a warehouse filled with silk flowers, stuffed animals and other gift items her parents sell through their South Florida wholesale business.

Family dies in crossfire after sleepover drop-off (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 04:18 PM PST AP - There was no school the next day, so 15-year-old Emily Quarles had a friend sleep over. As she and her mother took the friend home the next morning, they became targets for a rampaging gunman. When Emily's father and boyfriend went looking for them, they were slain too.

Police: Woman poisoned boyfriend with antifreeze (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 11:05 AM PST AP - They met in a Veterans Affairs hospital, a former airman with bipolar disorder who drank too much and a clerical assistant struggling to cope with her teenage son's drug-overdose death.

Unemployment rose in 43 states last month (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 02:33 PM PST AP - Unemployment rates rose in 43 states last month, the government said Friday, painting a bleak picture of the job market and illustrating nationwide data released two weeks ago.

Mass. health model, not Obama's, pleases voters (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 02:37 PM PST AP - When Mary Foote cast her ballot in this week's special Senate election, she was thinking about how the national health care bill strayed too far from the Massachusetts model and would force her to shoulder the financial burden of expanding health care in the other 49 states.

Prosecutor cool to plea shift in recruiter killing (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 10:41 AM PST AP - A prosecutor said Friday he won't waive the death penalty in the slaying of a soldier outside an Arkansas military recruiting center after the suspect asked to change his plea and claimed ties to al-Qaida.

Vt. judge sets deadline in women's custody dispute (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 01:47 PM PST AP - A judge refereeing a child-custody dispute between former lesbian partners balked Friday at issuing a contempt citation for one of them and instead gave her 30 days to appear in court with the girl or face arrest.

Oracle exec admits affair with billboard woman (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:44 PM PST AP - A co-president of software maker Oracle acknowledges he had an affair with a woman he was shown snuggling with on billboards in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco.

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