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5 charged in gang rape of girl, 7, in NJ apartment (AP)
Inquiry begins into deadly Wash. refinery blast (AP)
Nuclear heartland anxious about missile cuts (AP)
Police: Notre Dame recruit 'drunk' on fatal fall (AP)
AP: Vatican waited years to defrock Arizona priest (AP)
Residents of NJ city say cops worse than criminals (AP)
Levada brought back accused priest with conditions (AP)
Friends: Family killed in fire planned 1-day stay (AP)
2nd American woman charged in 'Jihad Jane' case (AP)
Woman in SF drug lab probe charged in San Mateo (AP)
Air Force to launch robotic winged space plane (AP)
Kidnapped Army linguist returning to San Diego (AP)
NASA clears Discovery for Monday morning launch (AP)
Death threats prompt tighter security for Andrews (AP)
RI flooding brings 2 churches closer for Easter (AP)
In NY's Central Park, where goes Peter Cottontail? (AP)

5 charged in gang rape of girl, 7, in NJ apartment (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 05:36 PM PDT

AP - Two men and three teenage boys were charged Saturday with gang-raping a 7-year-old girl who was sold by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party at a crime-ridden apartment building in the state's capital, police said.

Inquiry begins into deadly Wash. refinery blast (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 02:03 PM PDT

AP - Investigators launched an inquiry into a deadly Washington state oil refinery blast as families hoped for the best Saturday for two employees who suffered severe burns over most of their bodies.

Nuclear heartland anxious about missile cuts (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 11:16 AM PDT

AP - Here in America's nuclear heartland, where underground missile silos dot the landscape, a proposed U.S.-Russia treaty to reduce nuclear weapons is nothing short of alarming.

Police: Notre Dame recruit 'drunk' on fatal fall (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 04:47 PM PDT

AP - A "drunk and belligerent" 17-year-old Notre Dame football recruit was killed in a fall from a fifth-floor hotel balcony during his senior-year spring break in Florida, authorities said Saturday.

AP: Vatican waited years to defrock Arizona priest (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 07:21 AM PDT

AP - The abuse cases of two priests in Arizona have cast further doubt on the Catholic church's insistence that Pope Benedict XVI played no role in shielding pedophiles before he became pope.

Residents of NJ city say cops worse than criminals (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 01:35 PM PDT

AP - Josephine Skinner's grandson Dequan was 11 or 12 years old a few summers ago when she says he had a run-in with a Camden police officer who neighbors claim terrorized them for years.

Levada brought back accused priest with conditions (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 05:16 PM PDT

AP - A top Vatican official who now oversees the office that handles cases of alleged abuse by priests once returned an accused priest to administrative duty in Oregon on the condition that he be barred from direct contact with children or teenagers.

Friends: Family killed in fire planned 1-day stay (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 05:21 PM PDT

AP - Andrew Gervais and his three young children were struggling, moving from place to place, but planned to stay just one night with his sister's boyfriend who lived above an Irish pub in Minneapolis, friends said. Now, all are feared dead after the city's deadliest fire in two decades.

2nd American woman charged in 'Jihad Jane' case (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:26 PM PDT

AP - Federal prosecutors filed terrorism charges Friday against a pregnant American woman in the so-called Jihad Jane case. The two American women are accused of plotting online to attend a terror training camp.

Woman in SF drug lab probe charged in San Mateo (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 12:38 PM PDT

AP - The woman accused of skimming drugs from San Francisco's crime lab for her own use is facing a felony cocaine possession charge in San Mateo County.

Air Force to launch robotic winged space plane (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 04:47 PM PDT

AP - After a decade of development, the Air Force this month plans to launch a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology tests in orbit and then glide home to a California runway.

Kidnapped Army linguist returning to San Diego (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 01:17 AM PDT

AP - After more than two months in captivity in Baghdad, a U.S. Army linguist is set to return home to San Diego, authorities said.

NASA clears Discovery for Monday morning launch (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 11:22 AM PDT

AP - NASA has cleared Discovery for a Monday morning launch to the International Space Station, the last scheduled liftoff in darkness for the soon-to-retire shuttle program.

Death threats prompt tighter security for Andrews (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 04:09 AM PDT

AP - First she was secretly videotaped in the nude. Now she's receiving death threats. At least a dozen e-mails had been sent to a media outlet threatening ESPN reporter and "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Erin Andrews since September, her attorney Marshall Grossman said.