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• BP trying to put a lid on the Gulf oil gusher (AP)
• Selig won't reverse ump's mistake on perfect game (AP)
• Upbeat Blagojevich goes on trial for corruption (AP)
• Beach-storming drill returns Marines to roots (AP)
• ACLU sues government for 'spying' information (AP)
• Cannabis caravans fuel medical pot boom in Montana (AP)
• Gulf spill workers complaining of flulike symptoms (AP)
• Wash off tarballs, but brief encounters not risky (AP)
• SC police: Black man shot to death, body dragged (AP)
• BP spill forces choice between ecology and economy (AP)
• Holloway suspect accused of $250K extortion in Ala (AP)
• Rue McClanahan, 'Golden Girl' Blanche, dies in NY (AP)
• High school students face hard lesson in economics (AP)
• 48 advance to semifinals of National Spelling Bee (AP)
• Mass. pol who stuffed money in bra pleads guilty (AP)
• US backs off plan to take Vt. farm for border port (AP)
• Computer models show Gulf oil reaching East Coast (AP)
• Ohio couple arrested on terror conspiracy charges (AP)
• Fla. governor says oil within 4 miles of coast (AP)
• In DC, even the Spelling Bee draws protesters (AP)

BP trying to put a lid on the Gulf oil gusher (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:19 PM PDT AP - One-half of the cut and cap is done. Now comes the hard part — putting a lid on the Gulf oil gusher. BP sliced off the main pipe on the leaking oil well with giant shears Thursday in the latest bid to curtail the worst oil spill in U.S. history, but the cut was jagged, and a looser fitting cap will be needed.

Selig won't reverse ump's mistake on perfect game (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:17 PM PDT AP - The imperfect game stands.

Upbeat Blagojevich goes on trial for corruption (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:18 PM PDT AP - Like a candidate still running for office, a smiling and jovial Rod Blagojevich waded into the crowd waiting outside his corruption trial — making upbeat statements, hugging and shaking hands with supporters holding signs.

Beach-storming drill returns Marines to roots (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:42 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of Marines and sailors set out to sea Thursday for an exercise to storm a picturesque beach in Southern California in a training mission that comes amid a debate in the military about whether D-Day-style amphibious landings are becoming obsolete in modern-day warfare.

ACLU sues government for 'spying' information (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:40 PM PDT AP - Civil rights groups sued the U.S. government Thursday to try to force it to reveal more about the surveillance of Americans' international e-mails and telephone calls.

Cannabis caravans fuel medical pot boom in Montana (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:24 PM PDT AP - As Bob Marley music wailed in the next room, the makeshift clinic hummed along like an assembly line: Patients went in to see a doctor, paid $150 and walked out with a recommendation that they be allowed to buy and smoke medical marijuana.

Gulf spill workers complaining of flulike symptoms (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:25 PM PDT AP - For days now, Dr. Damon Dietrich and other physicians have seen patients come through their emergency room at West Jefferson Medical Center with similar symptoms: respiratory problems, headaches and nausea.

Wash off tarballs, but brief encounters not risky (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:24 PM PDT AP - Oil has now washed up on the beaches of three Gulf states. How dangerous is it?

SC police: Black man shot to death, body dragged (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:54 PM PDT AP - Two men who worked at a South Carolina poultry processing plant had spent most of the day together Tuesday, hanging out late into the evening, maybe rehashing their long shifts.

BP spill forces choice between ecology and economy (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:43 PM PDT AP - Forced to perform a painful kind of environmental triage, emergency workers concentrated on protecting marshes and inlets from the approaching BP oil slick Thursday and left one of the Gulf Coast's biggest tourist attractions -- its white-sand beaches -- largely undefended.

Holloway suspect accused of $250K extortion in Ala (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:36 PM PDT AP - A Dutch man suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba was charged Thursday in Alabama with trying to extort $250,000 in return for disclosing the location of her body.

Rue McClanahan, 'Golden Girl' Blanche, dies in NY (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:29 PM PDT AP - Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76.

High school students face hard lesson in economics (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 11:50 AM PDT AP - Students graduating from high school this spring may be collecting their diplomas just in time, leaving institutions that are being badly weakened by the nation's economic downturn.

48 advance to semifinals of National Spelling Bee (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:36 PM PDT AP - Neetu Chandak had trouble catching her breath after learning Thursday she had made the next round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. To burn off some of the energy, she starting playing peek-a-boo with her 6-month-old cousin.

Mass. pol who stuffed money in bra pleads guilty (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:28 PM PDT AP - A former state senator who was captured on video stuffing bribe money into her sweater and bra pleaded guilty Thursday in a federal corruption case that could send her to prison for up to four years.

US backs off plan to take Vt. farm for border port (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:41 PM PDT AP - Score one for David. Goliath decided it just wasn't worth the fight.

Computer models show Gulf oil reaching East Coast (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:52 PM PDT AP - Computer models show oil leaking from a damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico could wind up on the East Coast and even get carried on currents across the Atlantic Ocean toward Europe.

Ohio couple arrested on terror conspiracy charges (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:37 PM PDT AP - Federal authorities have accused an Ohio couple of conspiring to provide thousands of dollars to a Mideast terrorist group.

Fla. governor says oil within 4 miles of coast (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 01:55 PM PDT AP - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist says oil from the massive Gulf spill is now within four miles of the Panhandle coast.

In DC, even the Spelling Bee draws protesters (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 12:55 PM PDT AP - The nation's capital always draws its share of protesters, picketing for causes ranging from health care reform to immigration policy.

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