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• 7 dead, 19 missing in W. Va. coal mine blast (AP)
• Priest accused of US abuse still working in India (AP)
• 4 shot, 33 arrested and dozens cited in NYC mayhem (AP)
• Tiger says he's coming back to win at Augusta (AP)
• Study: Northeast seeing more, fiercer rainstorms (AP)
• Census Bureau urges same-sex couples to be counted (AP)
• Leibovitz accused anew of not paying her bills (AP)
• Police patrol quake-damaged Calif. border town (AP)
• Jackson doctor's case assigned to LA trial judge (AP)
• Sanitation workers find body parts in NJ trash (AP)
• Lawyer: US terror suspect to plead not guilty (AP)
• Hawaii man's China military secrets trial to begin (AP)
• Phones in remote Washington come at high cost (AP)
• Powerful Baja quake less devastating than Haiti (AP)
• Conn. murder suspect's lawyer opposes guilty plea (AP)
• Mexican drug cartel honcho gets 40-year sentence (AP)
• More alcohol agents in Fla. town where player died (AP)
• NYC doormen may strike April 21 (AP)
• Flooded RI residents hear Easter renewal messages (AP)
• New dispute over boy brought to NJ from Brazil (AP)

7 dead, 19 missing in W. Va. coal mine blast (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 05:21 PM PDT AP - Seven miners were killed and at least 19 unaccounted for Monday in an explosion at an underground coal mine, the state mining director said.

Priest accused of US abuse still working in India (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 05:04 PM PDT AP - A Roman Catholic priest was in his native India in 2007 when he was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl at his former post in Minnesota. Three years later, he is still serving as a priest in India with the blessing of his local bishop.

4 shot, 33 arrested and dozens cited in NYC mayhem (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:01 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of young people spilled into midtown Manhattan near Times Square early Monday, brawling and shooting guns after the New York International Auto Show in an annual night of mayhem the mayor called "wilding."

Tiger says he's coming back to win at Augusta (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:57 PM PDT AP - He looked like the same Tiger Woods, head down as he walked along the first fairway at the Masters, no one suspecting the jangled nerves he felt from taking his golf public for the first time since his private life unraveled.

Study: Northeast seeing more, fiercer rainstorms (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:34 PM PDT AP - The Northeast is seeing more frequent "extreme precipitation events" in line with global warming predictions, a study shows, including storms like the recent fierce rains whose floodwaters swallowed neighborhoods and businesses across New England.

Census Bureau urges same-sex couples to be counted (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 02:30 PM PDT AP - With strong backing from the Census Bureau, gay-rights activists are urging maximum participation by their community in the first U.S. census that will tally same-sex couples who say they're married — even those without a marriage license.

Leibovitz accused anew of not paying her bills (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:36 PM PDT AP - Photographer Annie Leibovitz is facing new accusations of balking at bills, less than a month after she struck a deal intended to resolve financial problems that had risked her rights to some of pop culture's most famous images.

Police patrol quake-damaged Calif. border town (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:30 PM PDT AP - Inspectors found a landscape of smashed windows and caved-in roofs in this struggling border city's historic downtown on Monday after a deadly Easter earthquake in nearby Mexico.

Jackson doctor's case assigned to LA trial judge (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:00 PM PDT AP - With Michael Jackson's mother, father and three siblings looking on, Dr. Conrad Murray began a slow process toward trial Monday with the appointment of a judge and the setting of another hearing to handle pending matters in his involuntary manslaughter case.

Sanitation workers find body parts in NJ trash (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:18 PM PDT AP - Police are trying to learn the identities of a man and woman whose dismembered body parts were found Monday stuffed in bags and dumped on a quiet residential street in northern New Jersey.

Lawyer: US terror suspect to plead not guilty (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:12 PM PDT AP - A pregnant American charged in a global terrorism plot will plead not guilty this week in Philadelphia, her lawyer said Monday.

Hawaii man's China military secrets trial to begin (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 02:28 PM PDT AP - A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer from Maui who is accused of selling military secrets to China is due to face trial in federal court this week.

Phones in remote Washington come at high cost (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:32 PM PDT AP - This remote outpost in the rugged Cascades is so cut off from the outside world that it has no roads leading to town and little telephone service. The 80-or-so locals relish the isolation and pristine beauty and sell it as an escape to tourists.

Powerful Baja quake less devastating than Haiti (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:38 PM PDT AP - LOS ANGELES — The Easter earthquake that rattled 20 million people in three U.S. states and Mexico was bigger than the one in Haiti — yet the outcome couldn't be more different.

Conn. murder suspect's lawyer opposes guilty plea (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:06 PM PDT AP - An attorney for a man who wants to plead guilty to charges in the home invasion killings of a Connecticut mother and her two daughters opposed the move Monday, saying his client is driven by a desire to die.

Mexican drug cartel honcho gets 40-year sentence (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 12:45 PM PDT AP - A man who helped make the Arellano Felix family one of the most powerful Mexican drug cartels was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison Monday after nearly a decade of legal wrangling.

More alcohol agents in Fla. town where player died (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:44 PM PDT AP - Even before a Notre Dame football recruit died in a drunken fall from a hotel balcony, extra alcohol enforcement agents were on duty in this Panhandle town, just as they are every year for spring break, officials said Monday.

NYC doormen may strike April 21 (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 02:49 AM PDT AP - They collect the laundry and the mail, baby-sit, call 911 and, of course, open doors.

Flooded RI residents hear Easter renewal messages (AP) Posted: 04 Apr 2010 06:16 PM PDT AP - A stream of water pumping from the basement of St. Vincent De Paul Church to the parking lot outside welcomed parishioners arriving for Easter services on Sunday, a lingering reminder of the flooding that devastated this town and others in the Northeast in the past week.

New dispute over boy brought to NJ from Brazil (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 10:31 AM PDT AP - The grandmother of a boy brought from Brazil to his father's New Jersey home to resolve an international abduction case is complaining that she's not allowed to see the child.

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