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Tornadoes tear through Southeast, killing 10 (AP)
Arizona law raises fears of racial profiling (AP)
Goldman e-mails show how crash turned into cash (AP)
Coast Guard: Oil leaking from well at blast site (AP)
The good and bad of life on an offshore oil rig (AP)
Fear lingers for some years after civil rights era (AP)
Obama's home congressional district in play (AP)
Plans percolate to revive some SF native creeks (AP)
Palin raises money for GOP in liberal Oregon town (AP)
Police: Detroit strip club employed 14-year-old (AP)
Obama pal Patrick banks on 3-way Mass. gov. race (AP)
Sandwich-board job hunter finds work after 2 years (AP)
Tracheostomy tubes recalled after 3 deaths (AP)
Mich. hookah fanciers fume about smoking ban (AP)
Alaska dog honored for leading troopers to fire (AP)

Tornadoes tear through Southeast, killing 10 (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 05:26 PM PDT

AP - Tornadoes ripped through the Southeast on Saturday, killing 10 people in Mississippi and injuring more than a dozen others. Roofs were torn off businesses, homes were splintered, vehicles were overturned and roads were blocked by toppled trees.

Arizona law raises fears of racial profiling (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 06:09 PM PDT

AP - Arodi Berrelleza isn't one of the targets of Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law — he's a U.S. citizen.

Goldman e-mails show how crash turned into cash (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 03:15 PM PDT

AP - As the U.S. housing turned downward in January 2007, a Goldman Sachs trader wrote in e-mails to a woman he apparently was courting that investments he had sold were "like Frankenstein turning against his own inventor."

Coast Guard: Oil leaking from well at blast site (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 05:17 PM PDT

AP - The Coast Guard discovered Saturday that oil is leaking from the damaged well underneath a massive rig that exploded this week off Louisiana's coast, while bad weather halted efforts to clean up the mess that threatens the area's fragile marine ecosystem.

The good and bad of life on an offshore oil rig (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 01:57 PM PDT

AP - Life on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has come a long way since the black gold was discovered underwater here 60 years ago.

Fear lingers for some years after civil rights era (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 11:01 AM PDT

AP - More than 50 years after Emmett Till was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman, one of his relatives still worries that her brother might suffer violence for being a black man married to a white woman.

Obama's home congressional district in play (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 04:51 PM PDT

AP - Republicans believe they've seen this movie before: Campaign ads blanketing the airwaves. Money from national political parties flowing in. And polls showing their candidate virtually tied with the competition.

Plans percolate to revive some SF native creeks (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 02:58 PM PDT

AP - Riffling through old maps while researching a history project for San Francisco public schools, landscape architect Bonnie Sherk made a discovery: a century ago a creek coursed where two school campuses stand today.

Palin raises money for GOP in liberal Oregon town (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 02:07 PM PDT

AP - Sarah Palin praised Republicans at a fundraising dinner in a liberal-leaning Oregon town for having the boldness to invite her to speak.

Police: Detroit strip club employed 14-year-old (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 07:25 PM PDT

AP - The manager of a Detroit strip club was charged after authorities learned a 14-year-old girl was employed as a topless dancer, making several hundred dollars a night, authorities said Friday.

Obama pal Patrick banks on 3-way Mass. gov. race (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 04:22 PM PDT

AP - In a tough year for Democrats, the political fate of Obama pal Deval Patrick is on the line in his bid for a second term as Massachusetts' governor.

Sandwich-board job hunter finds work after 2 years (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 08:30 AM PDT

AP - When laid-off toy company executive Paul Nawrocki hit the streets of Manhattan wearing a sandwich board and handing out his resume, he became the face of the recession.

Tracheostomy tubes recalled after 3 deaths (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 09:52 PM PDT

AP - A Massachusetts company is recalling tracheostomy tubes used to help patients on ventilators breathe after receiving reports that three people died while using them.

Mich. hookah fanciers fume about smoking ban (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 01:40 AM PDT

AP - The main thoroughfares of this Detroit suburb, like those of many Michigan cities, aren't as busy as they used to be. Thousands of jobs shed locally by the Ford Motor Co. have forced smaller businesses to shutter and left fewer customers for those that remain.