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After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger (AP)
Police: Search turns up head of slain Calif. man (AP)
Muggles take to broomsticks for Quidditch in NYC (AP)
Future pope refused defrocking of convicted priest (AP)
Oil complicates forecasts on hurricane season eve (AP)
First family enjoys sleepover in own Chicago home (AP)
Soldier widows caught in military, civilian worlds (AP)
AP: Spill grew, BP's credibility faded (AP)
BP CEO disputes claims of underwater oil plumes (AP)
BP unsure how much oil in reservoir in Gulf spill (AP)
Dennis Hopper, Hollywood hero and antihero, dies (AP)
1,000th GI killed in Afghan war was on 2nd tour (AP)
A tad over? Under? Inaccurate scales can be costly (AP)
Radioactive leak found, fixed at Vt. nuke plant (AP)
Military couples balance raising children, warfare (AP)
Calif. DA finds no crime around Palin contract (AP)
Poll finds debt-dogged Americans stressed out (AP)

After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 05:28 PM PDT

AP - There is still a hole in the Earth, crude oil is still spewing from it and there is still, excruciatingly, no end in sight. After trying and trying again, one of the world's largest corporations, backed and pushed by the world's most powerful government, can't stop the runaway gusher.

Police: Search turns up head of slain Calif. man (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 05:24 PM PDT

AP - Authorities searching a Long Beach park found the final missing body part — a severed head — believed to belong to a community college student killed and dismembered in a double murder-for-profit plot in Orange County, police said Sunday.

Muggles take to broomsticks for Quidditch in NYC (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 02:20 PM PDT

AP - The seeker from the Bronx High School of Science had to jump a fence and follow the snitch down Fifth Avenue. He caught the snitch but it didn't count because his broom wasn't between his legs.

Future pope refused defrocking of convicted priest (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 11:15 AM PDT

AP - The future Pope Benedict XVI refused to defrock an American priest who confessed to molesting numerous children and even served prison time for it, simply because the cleric wouldn't agree to the discipline. The case provides the latest evidence of how changes in church law under Pope John Paul II frustrated and hamstrung U.S. bishops struggling with an abuse crisis that would eventually explode.

Oil complicates forecasts on hurricane season eve (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 09:41 AM PDT

AP - As hurricane season approaches, the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is taking weather forecasters into nearly uncharted waters.

First family enjoys sleepover in own Chicago home (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 02:20 PM PDT

AP - Good friends, good food and the comforts of his own home.

Soldier widows caught in military, civilian worlds (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 09:44 AM PDT

AP - Joann Yost still feels the stares of the other military wives five years after her husband was killed in Iraq: It happens at ceremonies honoring fallen soldiers or when she's grocery shopping with her son.

AP: Spill grew, BP's credibility faded (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 11:15 PM PDT

AP - At nearly every step since the Deepwater Horizon exploded more than a month ago, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. history, rig operator BP PLC has downplayed the severity of the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP CEO disputes claims of underwater oil plumes (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 05:55 PM PDT

AP - Disputing scientists' claims of large oil plumes suspended underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC's chief executive on Sunday said the company has largely narrowed the focus of its cleanup to surface slicks rolling into Louisiana's coastal marshes.

BP unsure how much oil in reservoir in Gulf spill (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 01:23 PM PDT

AP - BP spokesman John Curry says the company does not know how much oil is contained the vast reservoir nearly three miles beneath the seafloor.

Dennis Hopper, Hollywood hero and antihero, dies (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 05:26 AM PDT

AP - Dennis Hopper, who brought the counterculture to Hollywood with "Easy Rider" and led a career marked by successes, failures and comebacks, has died at age 74.

1,000th GI killed in Afghan war was on 2nd tour (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 03:28 AM PDT

AP - The 1,000th American serviceman killed in Afghanistan was born on the Fourth of July. He died several days before Americans honor fallen troops on Memorial Day.

A tad over? Under? Inaccurate scales can be costly (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 12:21 PM PDT

AP - A cover illustration from an old "Saturday Evening Post" shows a shopkeeper and woman standing on each side of a butcher-shop scale that holds a chicken. His finger pushes down on one end to add a bit of weight, while she pokes a finger up on the other side.

Radioactive leak found, fixed at Vt. nuke plant (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 11:37 PM PDT

AP - A new leak of radioactive material has been found and fixed at the troubled Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, officials said Saturday.

Military couples balance raising children, warfare (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 06:12 PM PDT

AP - Four-year-old Ava abandons her playmates at school, flying into the arms of Air Force Sgt. Stacia Zachary. The mother and daughter head to the playground.