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• Senator delivered billions for Alaska's future (AP)
• Hunt for suspected serial killer hits 3 states (AP)
• Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash (AP)
• US govt sending ground zero mosque imam to Mideast (AP)
• Bus driver under investigation for Utah crash (AP)
• Tropical depression forms in Gulf, heads for spill (AP)
• Flight attendant's grand exit draws charges, fans (AP)
• Search for Ariz. fugitive focuses on Mont., Canada (AP)
• SC's top cop disturbed by video of inmate beating (AP)
• Feds: Storms delay drilling for final BP well plug (AP)
• NY governor offers help moving ground zero mosque (AP)
• 9/11 museum going up in NYC offers raw experience (AP)
• Nurses fear even more ER assaults as programs cut (AP)
• New Orleans judge to handle most Gulf spill suits (AP)
• Huge ice island could pose threat to oil, shipping (AP)
• At 101, Neb. woman wins award for older workers (AP)
• NY police find live cat 'marinating' in car trunk (AP)
• Utah cookie bakery finds Doughboy packs a punch (AP)
• US sees drop in dangerous hospital staph illnesses (AP)
• Ex-NASA chief, son survive Alaska plane crash (AP)

Senator delivered billions for Alaska's future (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 03:40 PM PDT AP - To much of the nation, Ted Stevens was the crotchety senator who famously referred to the Internet as "a series of tubes" and fought to build the "Bridge to Nowhere."

Hunt for suspected serial killer hits 3 states (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:27 PM PDT AP - Tony Leno was taking a smoking break outside the Toledo, Ohio, church where he works when a tall, muscular white man pulled over in his Chevy Blazer, got out and asked him for directions.

Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:37 PM PDT AP - An amphibious plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens crashed into a remote Alaska mountainside, killing the state's most beloved political figure and four others and stranding the survivors on a rocky, brush-covered slope overnight until rescuers could reach them.

US govt sending ground zero mosque imam to Mideast (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:11 PM PDT AP - The imam behind controversial plans for a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks is being sent by the State Department on a religious outreach trip to the Middle East, officials said Tuesday, in a move that drew criticism from conservative lawmakers.

Bus driver under investigation for Utah crash (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:42 PM PDT AP - Prosecutors are considering criminal charges against the driver of a tour bus that careened off a Utah highway, killing three Japanese tourists. Eleven other members of the tour group were injured, with seven of them in critical condition late Tuesday.

Tropical depression forms in Gulf, heads for spill (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:59 PM PDT AP - The National Hurricane Center says a tropical depression has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and it is heading toward the oil spill site off the coast of Louisiana.

Flight attendant's grand exit draws charges, fans (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 03:52 PM PDT AP - No fed-up worker has ever said "I've had it" quite like Steven Slater.

Search for Ariz. fugitive focuses on Mont., Canada (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:39 PM PDT AP - Authorities Tuesday focused on western Montana and southwest Canada in the search for an escaped convict from Arizona and his suspected accomplice who fashion themselves a present-day "Bonnie and Clyde."

SC's top cop disturbed by video of inmate beating (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:39 PM PDT AP - South Carolina's top cop said Tuesday that video footage of a now-fired deputy beating a handcuffed inmate with a baton hard enough to break the prisoner's leg is disturbing and raises questions about how force is used.

Feds: Storms delay drilling for final BP well plug (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:21 PM PDT AP - An approaching tropical depression forced crews to suspend drilling Tuesday on the final stretch of a relief well aimed at shooting a permanent underground plug into BP's busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.

NY governor offers help moving ground zero mosque (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:21 PM PDT AP - New York Gov. David Paterson offered state help Tuesday if the developers of a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks agree to move the project farther from the site.

9/11 museum going up in NYC offers raw experience (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:52 PM PDT AP - The Sept. 11 museum is taking shape 70 feet below ground, a cavernous space that provides an emotionally raw journey and ends at bedrock where huge surviving remnants and spacial voids reveal the scale of the devastation of what once was the World Trade Center.

Nurses fear even more ER assaults as programs cut (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:47 AM PDT AP - Emergency room nurse Erin Riley suffered bruises, scratches and a chipped tooth last year from trying to pull the clamped jaws of a psychotic patient off the hand of a doctor at a suburban Cleveland hospital.

New Orleans judge to handle most Gulf spill suits (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:25 PM PDT AP - A federal judge in New Orleans was picked Tuesday to preside over more than 300 lawsuits filed against BP PLC and other companies over the Gulf oil spill, in a move that should please many of the plaintiffs' lawyers and their clients.

Huge ice island could pose threat to oil, shipping (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:55 PM PDT AP - An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland.

At 101, Neb. woman wins award for older workers (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 02:20 PM PDT AP - A 101-year-old woman who works for the Nebraska Legislature has been chosen as America's Outstanding Oldest Worker for 2010.

NY police find live cat 'marinating' in car trunk (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 03:37 PM PDT AP - Police say a traffic stop led to animal cruelty charges after they found a live cat "marinating" in oil and peppers in the trunk of a car.

Utah cookie bakery finds Doughboy packs a punch (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 01:40 PM PDT AP - A tiny Salt Lake City cookie bakery has discovered the giggly Pillsbury Doughboy can pack quite a punch.

US sees drop in dangerous hospital staph illnesses (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 01:21 PM PDT AP - Aggressive, drug-resistant staph infections caught in hospitals or from medical treatment are becoming scarcer, another sign of progress in a prevention effort that has become a national public health priority.

Ex-NASA chief, son survive Alaska plane crash (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2010 01:03 PM PDT AP - A former NASA spokesman says ex-NASA chief Sean O'Keefe survived the plane crash in Alaska that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens.

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