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• AP IMPACT: Fed'l inspections on rig not as claimed (AP)
• RI school district agrees to rehire fired teachers (AP)
• BP: Mile-long tube sucking oil away from Gulf well (AP)
• Miss USA hopefuls take stage at Vegas pageant (AP)
• States' budget woes hitting programs for kids hard (AP)
• Detroit police say 7-year-old shot in home search (AP)
• Drilling critics warn of spill in Arctic Ocean (AP)
• Shuttle Atlantis arrives at space station (AP)
• BP's own probe finds safety issues on Atlantis rig (AP)
• Preservationists: Don't change West's 1st freeway (AP)
• Clinton to WVU grads: Face change with confidence (AP)
• Metal legend Ronnie James Dio dead at 67 (AP)
• Episcopal church ordains its 2nd openly gay bishop (AP)
• Calif. coach makes players drink soda from shoe (AP)
• Official: Machine was origin of NH explosions (AP)
• Former NTSB chief dies in Clinton, Ark., hometown (AP)
• Virginia lacrosse coasts in return to field (AP)

AP IMPACT: Fed'l inspections on rig not as claimed (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 01:34 PM PDT AP - The federal agency responsible for ensuring that the Deepwater Horizon was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that the rig be inspected at least once per month, an Associated Press investigation shows.

RI school district agrees to rehire fired teachers (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 03:20 PM PDT AP - A school district that gained the support of President Barack Obama for promoting accountability after it fired all its teachers from a struggling school announced on Sunday it had reached an agreement with the union to return all the current staffers to their jobs.

BP: Mile-long tube sucking oil away from Gulf well (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 04:14 PM PDT AP - Oil company engineers on Sunday finally succeeded in keeping some of the oil gushing from a blown well out of the Gulf of Mexico, hooking up a mile-long tube to funnel the crude into a tanker ship after more than three weeks of failures.

Miss USA hopefuls take stage at Vegas pageant (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 04:48 PM PDT AP - A group of 51 beauty queens had their eyes set on the 2010 Miss USA title Sunday, but just 15 remained in the competition after the pageant's opening number in Las Vegas.

States' budget woes hitting programs for kids hard (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 03:01 PM PDT AP - Now the crisis is reaching the children.

Detroit police say 7-year-old shot in home search (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 04:45 PM PDT AP - A sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot and killed when an officer's gun went off while Detroit police were searching a duplex for a suspect in the slaying of a teenager, a police official said.

Drilling critics warn of spill in Arctic Ocean (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 04:08 PM PDT AP - Inupiat Eskimo whale hunter George Kingik follows news accounts of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He cringes when he imagines crude fouling his backyard, Alaska's Chukchi Sea.

Shuttle Atlantis arrives at space station (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 02:00 PM PDT AP - Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday for what could be its last visit, delivering fresh batteries and other equipment to help keep the outpost running long after the shuttle program ends.

BP's own probe finds safety issues on Atlantis rig (AP) Posted: 15 May 2010 09:18 PM PDT AP - The company whose drilling triggered the Gulf of Mexico oil spill also owns a rig that operated with incomplete and inaccurate engineering documents, which one official warned could "lead to catastrophic operator error," records and interviews show.

Preservationists: Don't change West's 1st freeway (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 04:35 PM PDT AP - You don't typically hear Southern Californians rhapsodize about a freeway.

Clinton to WVU grads: Face change with confidence (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 02:24 PM PDT AP - Today's college graduates must face change with confidence in a "highly unstable, unequal and unsustainable" world and help others do the same, former President Bill Clinton said Sunday at West Virginia University.

Metal legend Ronnie James Dio dead at 67 (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 02:41 PM PDT AP - Ronnie James Dio, whose soaring vocals, poetic lyrics and mythic tales of a never-ending struggle between good and evil broke new ground in heavy metal, died Sunday, according to a statement from his wife and manager. He was 67.

Episcopal church ordains its 2nd openly gay bishop (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 02:28 AM PDT AP - The Episcopal Church has consecrated a woman as its second openly gay bishop, seven years after stirring lingering controversy by ordaining a man to a similar post.

Calif. coach makes players drink soda from shoe (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 05:56 AM PDT AP - A California high school girl's softball coach has apologized for requiring eight players who struck out during a recent game to drink soda pop out of a team member's shoe, a school district official said.

Official: Machine was origin of NH explosions (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 12:53 AM PDT AP - The investigation into a series of explosions at a gun and ammunition manufacturing plant in far northern New Hampshire that killed two people has led to one machine, the state's fire marshal said Saturday.

Former NTSB chief dies in Clinton, Ark., hometown (AP) Posted: 16 May 2010 04:24 PM PDT AP - Jim Burnett, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board for six years, has died at the age of 62, a funeral home official said.

Virginia lacrosse coasts in return to field (AP) Posted: 15 May 2010 09:12 PM PDT AP - Moments before Virginia played its first game since one of its players was charged with murder, the Cavaliers paused for a moment of silence to remember Yeardley Love, the popular member of the school's women's team who was slain two weeks ago.

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