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Inferno on the Gulf: Witnesses recount rig blast (AP)
Obama: Education a responsibility of all Americans (AP)
What next? After failure, BP mulls gusher options (AP)
NTSB: No engine alarms before NY ferry dock crash (AP)
For more children, dinner is coming from Uncle Sam (AP)
1st lady echoes King's call to brace for hardship (AP)
DA seeks hate crime charges in NM swastika case (AP)
A bullet in Baghdad, a son's need, a mother's love (AP)
Alaskans mourn death of former Gov. Walter Hickel (AP)

Inferno on the Gulf: Witnesses recount rig blast (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 12:59 PM PDT

AP - Oleander Benton was chatting with a friend in the laundry when the lights went out. The other woman had just gotten up to find a maintenance person when the deep-sea oil rig shook with an ear-shattering "BANG," followed by a long, loud "hisssss."

Obama: Education a responsibility of all Americans (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 08:29 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama, addressing graduates at historically black Hampton University on Sunday, said that it is the responsibility of all Americans to offer every child the type of education that will make them competitive in an economy in which just a high school diploma is no longer enough.

What next? After failure, BP mulls gusher options (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 05:13 PM PDT

AP - A day after icy slush clogged the massive box they hoped would contain an out-of-control oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials on Sunday said they may try again — this time with a smaller box.

NTSB: No engine alarms before NY ferry dock crash (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 05:22 PM PDT

AP - Engine conditions appeared normal and no engine alarms sounded before a Staten Island ferry malfunctioned while approaching its terminal and slammed into a pier, injuring dozens of people, federal investigators said Sunday.

For more children, dinner is coming from Uncle Sam (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 01:08 PM PDT

AP - While the other preschoolers were warming up to the vegetable pesto lasagna, 3-year-old Avery Bennett dived in with no hesitation.

1st lady echoes King's call to brace for hardship (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 05:24 PM PDT

AP - Michelle Obama told graduates Saturday to prepare to overcome adversity, building on Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1958 commencement address at the same university, when he told students to summon their courage to fight segregation.

DA seeks hate crime charges in NM swastika case (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 04:17 PM PDT

AP - Prosecutors in northwestern New Mexico said they will pursue hate crime charges against three men accused of branding a swastika on a mentally challenged man's arm using a heated metal clothes hanger.

A bullet in Baghdad, a son's need, a mother's love (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 09:01 PM PDT

AP - There are mothers who will spend today missing sons and daughters fighting overseas. There are women who have lost children in those wars, for whom Mother's Day will never be the same.