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• Spill investigators want to find undersea evidence (AP)
• Bernice King leads crowd in prayer for SCLC unity (AP)
• Man tied to 2nd prison killing befriended victim (AP)
• Mich. police search for suspected serial killer (AP)
• Unique exercise to test US-Russia hijack response (AP)
• Judge's personal life debated after gay ruling (AP)
• Bodyguard: Anna Nicole's boyfriend supplied drugs (AP)
• Teachers hope $26M jobs bill keeps them employed (AP)
• Vince McMahon sick of Sen. campaign WWE smackdowns (AP)
• Camden, NJ, preparing to close all its libraries (AP)
• Al-Qaida's new leader lived in U.S. for 15 years (AP)
• Schwarzenegger calls for same-sex weddings (AP)
• Radical jailed for role in deadly heist dies in NY (AP)
• 10 years on, mystery of Confederate sub remains (AP)
• NTSB investigates deadly school bus accident (AP)
• Cops mum on probe of Conn. shooter's racism claim (AP)
• States respond in health care overhaul lawsuit (AP)
• Man charged in NYC subway plot pleads not guilty (AP)
• Tropical Storm Estelle forms in the Pacific (AP)
• Oregon girl not bitter after lemonade stir (AP)

Spill investigators want to find undersea evidence (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 06:14 PM PDT AP - Now that BP appears to have vanquished its ruptured well, authorities are turning their attention to gathering evidence from what could amount to a crime scene at the bottom of the sea.

Bernice King leads crowd in prayer for SCLC unity (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 06:14 PM PDT AP - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter is calling for the fractured membership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to come together after months of bitter infighting that have pushed the famed civil rights organization to the brink of extinction.

Man tied to 2nd prison killing befriended victim (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 02:02 PM PDT AP - Robert Gleason Jr. was already convicted of killing one person, had pleaded guilty to killing another, and vowed to kill yet again if he wasn't sentenced to death — but that didn't bother his new prison friend.

Mich. police search for suspected serial killer (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 03:12 PM PDT AP - Investigators say a knife-wielding serial killer has been attacking men on Flint-area streets since May, killing five people and wounding eight others in a vicious spate of violence that may be motivated by racial hatred.

Unique exercise to test US-Russia hijack response (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:13 PM PDT AP - The U.S. and Russia, which have more bluster than cooperation in their often-contentious history, will have their jet fighters take turns pursuing a civilian plane across the Pacific next week in a first-of-its-kind exercise to test their response to a potential international hijacking.

Judge's personal life debated after gay ruling (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:52 PM PDT AP - Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker has always been characterized as a conservative with libertarian leanings. But after he struck down California's voter-approved gay marriage ban this week, he was accused by some of being something else entirely: a gay activist.

Bodyguard: Anna Nicole's boyfriend supplied drugs (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:44 PM PDT AP - Anna Nicole Smith was "obsessed" with pills and was assisted in taking drugs by her lawyer-boyfriend in the weeks before her death, the celebrity model's bodyguard testified Friday.

Teachers hope $26M jobs bill keeps them employed (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 11:48 AM PDT AP - Gretchen Marfisi was enjoying her summer, reading a book when the call came: The high school where she taught art would not be hiring her back in the fall.

Vince McMahon sick of Sen. campaign WWE smackdowns (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:26 PM PDT AP - Vince McMahon, chairman and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, says his wife's political opponents are taking unfair shots at his company using out-of-context footage — such as old images of a wrestler committing necrophilia or McMahon demanding that a scantily clad female wrestler bark like a dog — as part of an attempt to discredit her U.S. Senate candidacy.

Camden, NJ, preparing to close all its libraries (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:15 PM PDT AP - The library board in Camden, one of the nation's poorest cities, is preparing to close all three of its libraries by the end of the year, saying its funding has been slashed so drastically that it cannot afford to keep operating.

Al-Qaida's new leader lived in U.S. for 15 years (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:04 AM PDT AP - A suspected al-Qaida operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network's global operations, the FBI says, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attacks.

Schwarzenegger calls for same-sex weddings (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 06:04 PM PDT AP - Lawyers for gay couples, California Gov. Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown filed legal motions Friday telling a federal judge that allowing same-sex marriages to resume immediately in the state was the right thing to do.

Radical jailed for role in deadly heist dies in NY (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:29 PM PDT AP - Marilyn Buck, a violent leftist incarcerated for 25 years for her role in some of the most notorious radical acts of the 1980s, including the bombing of the U.S. Capitol and a deadly armored car heist, has died in Brooklyn. She was 62.

10 years on, mystery of Confederate sub remains (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:19 PM PDT AP - A decade after the raising of the Confederate submarine Hunley off the South Carolina coast, the cause of the sinking of the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship remains a mystery. But scientists are edging closer.

NTSB investigates deadly school bus accident (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 01:18 PM PDT AP - National Transportation Safety Board investigators examining the Missouri crash that killed a 15-year-old school bus passenger and the teen driver of a pickup truck are hopeful they'll learn something to make school buses and road work zones safer, an NTSB official said Friday.

Cops mum on probe of Conn. shooter's racism claim (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 02:12 PM PDT AP - The man who fatally shot eight co-workers at a Connecticut beer distributor told a 911 operator before he killed himself that he was avenging racism.

States respond in health care overhaul lawsuit (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 12:16 PM PDT AP - Twenty states and the nation's most influential small business lobby demanded Friday that a federal court in Florida hear their challenge to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul because they face imminent harm from its mandates.

Man charged in NYC subway plot pleads not guilty (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 02:07 PM PDT AP - A man charged in an al-Qaida-sponsored plot to attack the New York City subway system pleaded not guilty Friday, keeping the case on track for a trial that would feature testimony from turncoat terrorists about the network's inner-workings.

Tropical Storm Estelle forms in the Pacific (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 01:50 PM PDT AP - Tropical Storm Estelle has formed in the Pacific, while in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Colin is heading toward Bermuda.

Oregon girl not bitter after lemonade stir (AP) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 04:15 PM PDT AP - After a county inspector squeezed out a kid's lemonade business, so many Oregonians puckered up in disgust that the county chairman had to pour on a little sugar.

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