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• Police: 4 dead, 1 missing in mid-NJ plane crash (AP)
• Investigators seek cause of deadly Illinois fire (AP)
• Husband: Ala. prof went to range before shooting (AP)
• Calif. sheriff: Woman tied up, assaulted for days (AP)
• Florida family gives up on small-town North Dakota (AP)
• Carbon monoxide leak prompts NH hotel evacuation (AP)
• Democrat Evan Bayh of Ind. to retire from Senate (AP)
• South gets 2nd dose of snow in days (AP)
• Space station's fancy new $27M lookout attached (AP)
• Ex-Clinton prosecutor Starr named Baylor president (AP)
• NY man recants story about killing, burning wife (AP)
• Police: Man stabs, kills estranged wife at Walmart (AP)
• Nurseries struggle with lagging economy (AP)
• Hundreds turn out for viewing of Murtha in W.Pa. (AP)
• Unemployed Ohio man chills out in extreme igloo (AP)
• Brees leads major New Orleans Carnival parade (AP)
• Weather halts Alaska search for avalanche victim (AP)

Police: 4 dead, 1 missing in mid-NJ plane crash (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 04:10 PM PST AP - A small plane preparing to land broke apart and nose-dived into a snowy field alongside a runway Monday, a witness reported. Four people are dead and one missing after the crash, which happened in an affluent section of the state, officials said.

Investigators seek cause of deadly Illinois fire (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:32 AM PST AP - Firefighters are sifting through a burned out home in a Chicago suburb, trying to pinpoint the cause of a weekend blaze that killed seven people, including a 3-day-old baby.

Husband: Ala. prof went to range before shooting (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 04:09 PM PST AP - The husband of an Alabama professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues said Monday that the couple went to a shooting range recently, but that he didn't know where she got the gun she used for practice that day.

Calif. sheriff: Woman tied up, assaulted for days (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 03:59 PM PST AP - Sheriff's deputies rescued a woman who had been kidnapped, then beaten and raped for three days in a mobile home, authorities said.

Florida family gives up on small-town North Dakota (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 02:22 PM PST AP - A tiny North Dakota town's promise of cash and free land lured only one family from out of state. Now, Michael and Jeanette Tristani and their 12-year-old twins are trying to move from the town without a traffic light back to Miami.

Carbon monoxide leak prompts NH hotel evacuation (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 02:23 PM PST AP - Eleven people were taken to the hospital Monday after being sickened by a carbon monoxide leak at a New Hampshire hotel.

Democrat Evan Bayh of Ind. to retire from Senate (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 01:23 PM PST AP - Sen. Evan Bayh, a centrist Democrat from Indiana, announced Monday that he won't seek a third term in Congress, giving Republicans a chance to pick up a Senate seat.

South gets 2nd dose of snow in days (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:04 AM PST AP - Snow and ice pelted parts of the South on Monday for the second time in a matter of days, glazing Tennessee highways and reaching into northern Alabama.

Space station's fancy new $27M lookout attached (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 03:37 AM PST AP - Astronauts successfully attached a fancy new observation deck to the International Space Station early Monday after a long, frustrating night spent dealing with stuck bolts and wayward wiring.

Ex-Clinton prosecutor Starr named Baylor president (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 02:18 PM PST AP - Baylor University named former Clinton White House nemesis Kenneth Starr its new president on Monday, saying the one-time independent prosecutor's Christian ideals and experience heading a law school made him the ideal candidate to lead the world's largest Baptist university.

NY man recants story about killing, burning wife (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST AP - Werner Lippe knows a lot about fire.

Police: Man stabs, kills estranged wife at Walmart (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2010 09:24 PM PST AP - Police in Georgia say a man stabbed his estranged wife to death in a Walmart parking lot where they met to exchange custody of their two children.

Nurseries struggle with lagging economy (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:08 AM PST AP - Like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, David Niklas feels the quickening of spring as the season ramps up at his wholesale nursery in a farming community south of Portland. Niklas and his workers busily package plants for shipment.

Hundreds turn out for viewing of Murtha in W.Pa. (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2010 07:08 PM PST AP - Hundreds of mourners braved light snow and bitter cold Sunday before slowly filing past the casket of late congressman John Murtha at a funeral home less than a mile from where he lived.

Unemployed Ohio man chills out in extreme igloo (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:22 AM PST AP - It's quite the man cave.

Brees leads major New Orleans Carnival parade (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2010 05:59 PM PST AP - One of the most accurate arms in the NFL had no trouble finding receivers Sunday night.

Weather halts Alaska search for avalanche victim (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2010 09:23 PM PST AP - Rain, low clouds and predicted high winds Sunday grounded searchers seeking the body of a ConocoPhillips Alaska employee missing and presumed dead in an avalanche that killed the head of the company.

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