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• Search for flood victims goes from frantic to grim (AP)
• Ark. campers had only seconds to escape from flood (AP)
• Coast Guard to BP: Speed it up, stop the spill (AP)
• Spirit Airlines pilots strike, stranding thousands (AP)
• 4 bodies found on plane that crashed into school (AP)
• Authorities: 5 killed in Seattle apartment fire (AP)
• In bold move, Colorado alters teacher tenure rules (AP)
• CA teen sailor healthy, weary after 3 days adrift (AP)
• Authorities widen search for missing Oregon boy (AP)
• Va. inmate: 'Only way to stop me' is death row (AP)
• One-time flagship Philly Catholic school closing (AP)
• OJ jury makeup, judge conduct questioned in appeal (AP)
• Calif. hostage standoff ends with man shot dead (AP)
• Pipe bomb, weed found outside Mass. VA hospital (AP)
• Historic Polaroid collection going to NYC auction (AP)
• Ex-Marines, knitter among Blagojevich jurors (AP)
• Van der Sloot taken to prison on murder charge (AP)
• French fishing vessel steams toward stranded teen (AP)
• Conn. man who tried to cut off arm in recovery (AP)

Search for flood victims goes from frantic to grim (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 04:32 PM PDT AP - The search for nearly two dozen people who disappeared after flash floods swept through a popular campground went from desperate to grim on Saturday, after teams that scoured miles of river and rugged wilderness found just two bodies.

Ark. campers had only seconds to escape from flood (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 03:07 PM PDT AP - Some people awoke to roaring floodwaters. Others were roused by panicked banging on their cabin doors. At least a few got out of bed and were plunged almost immediately into deep, churning water.

Coast Guard to BP: Speed it up, stop the spill (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 05:43 PM PDT AP - The Coast Guard has demanded that BP step up its efforts to contain the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the weekend, telling the British oil giant that its slow pace in stopping the spill is becoming increasingly alarming as the disaster fouled the coastline in ugly new ways Saturday.

Spirit Airlines pilots strike, stranding thousands (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 04:14 PM PDT AP - A strike by Spirit Airlines pilots has shut down the discount carrier, stranding thousands of travelers.

4 bodies found on plane that crashed into school (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 06:10 PM PDT AP - Authorities searching through the wreckage of a small plane that nosedived into an Arizona high school and exploded found four bodies Saturday.

Authorities: 5 killed in Seattle apartment fire (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 05:04 PM PDT AP - A blaze tore through a Seattle apartment Saturday and killed five people, including a number of children, fire officials said.

In bold move, Colorado alters teacher tenure rules (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 01:59 PM PDT AP - Colorado is changing the rules for how teachers earn and keep the sweeping job protections known as tenure, linking student performance to job security despite outcry from teacher unions that have steadfastly defended the system for decades.

CA teen sailor healthy, weary after 3 days adrift (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:55 PM PDT AP - A California teenager who spent three days adrift on the turbulent Indian Ocean described her ordeal as "crazy" as she started a long journey home aboard a French fishing boat that rescued her Saturday from her crippled sailboat.

Authorities widen search for missing Oregon boy (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 03:39 PM PDT AP - The search for a missing 7-year-old Portland boy grew larger on Saturday as teams spent another day combing the hills and deep woods near a rural elementary school.

Va. inmate: 'Only way to stop me' is death row (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 09:18 AM PDT AP - For seven days, Robert Gleason Jr. begged correctional officers and counselors at Wallens Ridge State Prison to move his new cellmate. The constant singing, screaming and obnoxious behavior were too much, and Gleason knew he was ready to snap.

One-time flagship Philly Catholic school closing (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 02:26 PM PDT AP - Even as financially strapped Catholic schools continue to close across the country, no one in Philadelphia ever thought the church would shutter Cardinal Dougherty High School.

OJ jury makeup, judge conduct questioned in appeal (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 01:22 AM PDT AP - The racial makeup of the jury and the conduct of the judge who oversaw O.J. Simpson's conviction have emerged as key issues in the former football star's appeal for the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn his conviction in a gunpoint Las Vegas hotel room heist.

Calif. hostage standoff ends with man shot dead (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 09:34 PM PDT AP - An armed man who held a 1-year-old boy hostage in a barricaded Sacramento apartment complex for several days was fatally shot by police Friday evening, authorities said.

Pipe bomb, weed found outside Mass. VA hospital (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 10:20 PM PDT AP - Police detaining a man on an outstanding warrant outside a Massachusetts veterans affairs hospital got a surprise when the man's friend handed them a pipe bomb.

Historic Polaroid collection going to NYC auction (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 11:08 AM PDT AP - A striking black-and-white photograph of the majestic Bridalveil waterfall is among numerous that landscape photographer Ansel Adams took with Polaroid film — a technology many celebrated artists embraced to produce innovative and surprising works.

Ex-Marines, knitter among Blagojevich jurors (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:24 AM PDT AP - A former Marine severely injured serving in the Middle East, a voracious reader of knitting magazines and a man born in a U.S. internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Van der Sloot taken to prison on murder charge (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 11:24 PM PDT AP - Angry onlookers shouted "Disgrace!" and "Murderer!" at Joran van der Sloot on Friday after a judge ordered him jailed on first-degree murder and robbery charges in the beating and strangling death of a young Lima woman.

French fishing vessel steams toward stranded teen (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:30 AM PDT AP - A French fishing vessel was steaming across the southern Indian Ocean on Saturday to reach a stranded California teenager awaiting rescue after the mast on her boat broke, ending her around-the-world sailing effort.

Conn. man who tried to cut off arm in recovery (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 08:15 PM PDT AP - The family of a Connecticut man who tried to amputate his own arm after being trapped for days while working on his basement furnace said they expected him to make a full recovery and that he was ready for life with an artificial limb.

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