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• Chief: Ala. prof held in 3 killings shot Mass. kin (AP)
• Walls of water overwhelm N. Calif. surfing contest (AP)
• Man escapes burning home; girlfriend, 2 kids die (AP)
• Lawyer misconduct rises with foreclosure record (AP)
• Power outages, ice slow cleanup from Southern snow (AP)
• Cyclone misses American Samoa, turns toward Tonga (AP)
• Windy Wyoming debates excise tax for wind energy (AP)
• String of snow days deprives many students of food (AP)
• Officials release Phillip Garrido parole file (AP)
• Pa. police mum on motive in disabled woman's death (AP)
• Bus tunnel victim says she sought help from police (AP)
• New uncertainty surrounds Sept. 11 trial (AP)
• Individual insurance rates soar in 4 states (AP)

Chief: Ala. prof held in 3 killings shot Mass. kin (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 04:40 PM PST AP - An Alabama university professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues at a faculty meeting this week shot her younger brother dead at their home in the Boston suburbs more than 20 years ago, but records of it are missing, police said Saturday.

Walls of water overwhelm N. Calif. surfing contest (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 04:45 PM PST AP - Despite big wave warnings, two walls of water caught dozens of spectators off-guard and knocked them to a rocky beach as they watched a Northern California surfing contest Saturday, leaving some with broken bones but sparing them from being pulled into the ocean.

Man escapes burning home; girlfriend, 2 kids die (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 12:34 PM PST AP - A man trying to find a way out his burning home got trapped in its bathroom Saturday and could only listen in horror to the screams of two of his children, who died in the fire along with his girlfriend, friends and authorities said. The man escaped by breaking a window and jumping out.

Lawyer misconduct rises with foreclosure record (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 12:56 PM PST AP - Warren Jacobs was desperate when he received a "robo-call" promising to help him stave off foreclosure of his home near Dallas.

Power outages, ice slow cleanup from Southern snow (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 12:38 PM PST AP - The Big Chill turned into the Big Dig on Saturday for many Southerners — the Americans who least expect to open their doors to see up to a foot of snow.

Cyclone misses American Samoa, turns toward Tonga (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 01:35 PM PST AP - A powerful tropical storm missed American Samoa early Saturday morning, causing heavy rains and high winds but sparing more devastation to the U.S. territory battered by a deadly autumn tsunami.

Windy Wyoming debates excise tax for wind energy (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 10:48 AM PST AP - A proposal in Wyoming to impose the nation's first state excise tax on wind energy production is generating debate over how the state should handle the arrival of massive wind farms to its wind-swept plains and plateaus.

String of snow days deprives many students of food (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 12:32 PM PST AP - As back-to-back snowstorms shuttered schools for the week across the mid-Atlantic states, parents fretted about lost learning time, administrators scheduled makeup days and teachers posted assignments online. But Marla Caplon worried about a more fundamental problem: How would students eat?

Officials release Phillip Garrido parole file (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 09:23 AM PST AP - Newly released parole records show that accused kidnapper Phillip Garrido complained in 2008 about having to wear a monitoring device because he had not been in trouble with the law for 19 years — nearly as long as he allegedly held Jaycee Dugard captive in his backyard.

Pa. police mum on motive in disabled woman's death (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 04:41 AM PST AP - Jennifer Daugherty's mom and stepdad didn't press for details when she mentioned she had made some new friends. The 30-year-old had the mental abilities of an adolescent but wasn't the kind to get in trouble, and she was even thinking about getting her own place soon.

Bus tunnel victim says she sought help from police (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 12:39 AM PST AP - A teenage girl beaten in a Seattle bus tunnel as three security guards who were following company orders looked on said Friday that she sought help from the guards and police but was rebuffed.

New uncertainty surrounds Sept. 11 trial (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2010 08:26 AM PST AP - The Obama administration appears increasingly unsure what to do with professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after officials indicated they are reconsidering not just where he should go on trial, but whether he should face civilian or military justice.

Individual insurance rates soar in 4 states (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:39 PM PST AP - Consumers in at least four states who buy their own health insurance are getting hit with premium increases of 15 percent or more — and people in other states could see the same thing.

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