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• Ariz. governor signs immigration enforcement bill (AP)
• Oil drilling accidents prompting new safety rules (AP)
• NY man pleads guilty in plot to bomb NYC subway (AP)
• Scouts ordered to pay $18.5M in sex abuse case (AP)
• Atheists, religious groups lobby on Day of Prayer (AP)
• Man detained after trying to open plane's door (AP)
• Condemned Utah killer will face firing squad (AP)
• Ex-Rwandan diplomat now in Ala. probed in genocide (AP)
• Pa. incumbent: Foe feigning bisexuality for votes (AP)
• A day to honor poets? Quoth the raven 'Evermore' (AP)
• Vet gets prison for faking paralysis to avoid Iraq (AP)
• Minn. man charged with aiding suicides via the Web (AP)
• Ex-cop 'never intended to lie' in NYC cyclist case (AP)
• Grant's brigade fights push for Reagan on $50 bill (AP)
• Oil drilling accidents prompted new safety rules (AP)
• Spanish hospital claims 1st full-face transplant (AP)
• Tax evader who blamed Holocaust gets 10 months (AP)
• 11 Somalis appear in US court on piracy charges (AP)
• US families persevere in seeking Kyrgyz adoptions (AP)

Ariz. governor signs immigration enforcement bill (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:32 PM PDT AP - Gov. Jan Brewer ignored criticism from President Barack Obama on Friday and signed into law a bill supporters said would take handcuffs off police in dealing with illegal immigration in Arizona, the nation's busiest gateway for human and drug smuggling from Mexico.

Oil drilling accidents prompting new safety rules (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:13 PM PDT AP - Federal regulators did not need this week's explosion aboard a state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries over the last several years had already convinced them that changes were needed.

NY man pleads guilty in plot to bomb NYC subway (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:31 PM PDT AP - A New York man said Friday that a plan to attack the city subway system was ordered by al-Qaida leaders two years ago while he was in Pakistan with a friend, a former airport shuttle driver who has admitted to building the homemade explosives in the plot.

Scouts ordered to pay $18.5M in sex abuse case (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:22 PM PDT AP - A jury on Friday ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $18.5 million to a man sexually abused by a former assistant Scoutmaster in what is believed to be the largest such award against the national organization.

Atheists, religious groups lobby on Day of Prayer (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:13 PM PDT AP - To pray or not to pray? That's the issue government leaders across the country are facing after a federal judge ruled that the National Day of Prayer set for May 6 was unconstitutional.

Man detained after trying to open plane's door (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:10 PM PDT AP - A flight from Los Angeles to Florida was diverted to Albuquerque early Friday after a passenger sprayed the first-class cabin with a water bottle, tried to open a cabin door and threatened to blow up the aircraft.

Condemned Utah killer will face firing squad (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:13 PM PDT AP - Utah is set to execute a convicted killer by firing squad after a judge agreed Friday to the inmate's request, renewing a debate over what critics see as an antiquated, Old West-style of justice.

Ex-Rwandan diplomat now in Ala. probed in genocide (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 01:15 PM PDT AP - Aside from his name and accent, Jean-Damascene Bizimana blends in almost perfectly in small-town Alabama. He has a house on a corner lot, an SUV, a Polo shirt, a job and a mortgage.

Pa. incumbent: Foe feigning bisexuality for votes (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:37 PM PDT AP - The old tactic of dragging out an opponent's sexual skeletons for political gain is being turned on its head in the City of Brotherly Love.

A day to honor poets? Quoth the raven 'Evermore' (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - A former teacher who founded the Dead Poets Society of America and traveled 15,000 miles to document the graves of poets has a new mission — to create a Dead Poets Remembrance Day on Oct. 7, the date master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe died.

Vet gets prison for faking paralysis to avoid Iraq (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 03:44 PM PDT AP - A military veteran who claimed a rollover wreck left him paralyzed collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer benefits and was kept stateside when his Army unit shipped off to Iraq. Yet doctors could never pinpoint why he couldn't use his legs.

Minn. man charged with aiding suicides via the Web (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT AP - A former Minnesota nurse who told police he went on the Internet and encouraged dozens of depressed people to kill themselves for the "thrill of the chase" was charged Friday with helping a Canadian woman and a British man commit suicide, authorities said.

Ex-cop 'never intended to lie' in NYC cyclist case (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 03:07 PM PDT AP - A former police officer accused of knocking down a bike-riding demonstrator and lying about it told jurors Friday he was just trying to protect himself and never meant to misrepresent what happened in a clash caught on video.

Grant's brigade fights push for Reagan on $50 bill (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 02:01 PM PDT AP - Bugler, sound the charge! Folks in southern Ohio are mounting a counterattack against a congressional proposal to replace native son Ulysses S. Grant with Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill.

Oil drilling accidents prompted new safety rules (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:25 PM PDT AP - A federal agency that oversees offshore oil drilling identified so many accidents in a study published last year that officials were moving to create new safety rules before this week's oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

Spanish hospital claims 1st full-face transplant (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:08 PM PDT AP - A team of surgeons has carried out the world's first full-face transplant on a young Spanish farmer unable to breathe or eat on his own since accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago.

Tax evader who blamed Holocaust gets 10 months (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:50 PM PDT AP - A tax evader was sentenced Friday to 10 months in federal prison after claiming his Jewish parents' experience fleeing the Nazi Holocaust drove him to compulsively hide more than $10 million in secret accounts at Swiss bank UBS AG and other offshore tax havens.

11 Somalis appear in US court on piracy charges (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 01:31 PM PDT AP - Eleven suspected Somali pirates accused in separate attacks on two Navy ships off the coast of Africa were indicted in U.S. federal court Friday.

US families persevere in seeking Kyrgyz adoptions (AP) Posted: 23 Apr 2010 01:03 PM PDT AP - Amid high-profile furor over adoptions from Haiti and Russia, about 60 American families are persevering with a two-year struggle to complete adoptions from Kyrgyzstan â€" an already emotionally draining quest further complicated by recent political upheaval.

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