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• Some US executions held up by shortage of drug (AP)
• Ga. megachurch pastor's flock standing by him (AP)
• LA teacher who killed himself recalled as caring (AP)
• Segway owner dies after falling off river cliff (AP)
• Md. man charged with slaying other mental patient (AP)
• CA gov delays execution to allow review of appeal (AP)
• Hearing begins in alleged plot to murder Afghans (AP)
• Wis. neighborhood becomes island as levee weakens (AP)
• Case of Arizona deputy's shooting reopened (AP)
• Downtown Los Angeles bakes at record 113 degrees (AP)
• Texan imprisoned for child sex assault exonerated (AP)
• Philly tow truck driver charged with killing rival (AP)
• Enraged man kills estranged wife, 4 stepchildren (AP)
• Despite economy, Americans don't want farm work (AP)
• 2nd deadly shooting has Ohio church mourning anew (AP)
• Prosecutors: Fear of jail motivated Tenn. slayings (AP)
• 'Titanic' co-star Gloria Stuart dies at 100 (AP)
• Attorney says 'sexting' Wis. prosecutor to resign (AP)
• Analysis: Freeze non-renewal bodes ill for talks (AP)
• Oil gusher is dead, but not residents' anguish (AP)

Some US executions held up by shortage of drug (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:57 PM PDT AP - Some executions in the U.S. have been put on hold because of a shortage of one of the drugs used in lethal injections from coast to coast.

Ga. megachurch pastor's flock standing by him (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:13 PM PDT AP - Many followers of embattled Baptist megachurch leader Bishop Eddie Long remained unwavering in their support as their pastor vowed to fight like David versus Goliath against claims he lured four young men into sex.

LA teacher who killed himself recalled as caring (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:45 PM PDT AP - Rigoberto Ruelas Jr. was considered much more than a fifth-grade teacher at Miramonte Elementary School — he was a mentor to youth tempted to join gangs and a tireless booster that kids could make it to college.

Segway owner dies after falling off river cliff (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:17 PM PDT AP - All police found at the bottom of a cliff was a man's body in a frigid river and a Segway, the two-wheeled electric device that was supposed to revolutionize personal transport.

Md. man charged with slaying other mental patient (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:42 PM PDT AP - On a medium-security wing at a state mental hospital, El Soundani El-Wahhabi befriended the woman in the room three doors down who, like him, was committed there after a murder trial. He's now accused of killing her.

CA gov delays execution to allow review of appeal (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:51 PM PDT AP - California's first execution in nearly five years was pushed back almost two days Monday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to provide more time for the state Supreme Court to consider an appeal by the condemned inmate.

Hearing begins in alleged plot to murder Afghans (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT AP - A soldier's videotaped statements describing how he and his colleagues randomly killed three Afghan civilians came under scrutiny Monday at a hearing into one of the most serious war-crimes cases from the war in Afghanistan.

Wis. neighborhood becomes island as levee weakens (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:39 PM PDT AP - Flood waters from the burgeoning Wisconsin River turned a rural neighborhood into a virtual island Monday, cutting off dozens of homes from the outside world.

Case of Arizona deputy's shooting reopened (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:14 PM PDT AP - Arizona officials on Monday reopened the investigation into a deputy's explanation of how he was shot in the remote desert south of Phoenix amid speculation it was a hoax timed to enflame the debate over illegal immigration.

Downtown Los Angeles bakes at record 113 degrees (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:07 PM PDT AP - California's blistering fall heat wave sent temperatures to an all-time record high of 113 degrees Monday in downtown Los Angeles, and many sought refuge at the beach or in the shade.

Texan imprisoned for child sex assault exonerated (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:16 PM PDT AP - A judge on Monday overturned the 1993 conviction of a deaf man who was sent to prison for raping a 5-year-old girl despite an absence of physical evidence linking him to the attack.

Philly tow truck driver charged with killing rival (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:44 PM PDT AP - Turf wars among tow truck drivers are nothing new in Philadelphia, but they have turned unusually violent — and now deadly — in 2010.

Enraged man kills estranged wife, 4 stepchildren (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:39 PM PDT AP - A man who terrorized his estranged wife for months, threatening her with a knife and telling her she would end up in the morgue, killed the woman and four of his stepchildren during a middle-of-the-night rampage, police said Monday.

Despite economy, Americans don't want farm work (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:21 PM PDT AP - It's a question rekindled by the recession: Are immigrants taking jobs away from American citizens? In the heart of the nation's biggest farming state, the answer is a resounding no.

2nd deadly shooting has Ohio church mourning anew (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:20 PM PDT AP - A church community haunted by the parking-lot shooting death of an 80-year-old member is mourning the killing of another elderly parishioner minutes after leaving church.

Prosecutors: Fear of jail motivated Tenn. slayings (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:19 PM PDT AP - Jessie Dotson had been out of prison several months when an argument at his brother's house turned violent, authorities said, and he gunned the man down. Desperate not to return to jail, he tried to rid the scene of witnesses — shooting and killing three other adults, then using knives and boards to kill two of his brother's children and seriously injure three others, a prosecutor said at his trial Monday.

'Titanic' co-star Gloria Stuart dies at 100 (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:49 PM PDT AP - Gloria Stuart, the 1930s Hollywood beauty who gave up acting for 30 years and later became the oldest Academy Award acting nominee as the spunky survivor in "Titanic," has died. She was 100.

Attorney says 'sexting' Wis. prosecutor to resign (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:55 PM PDT AP - A Wisconsin prosecutor facing removal from office over accusations that he abused his position in seeking relationships with vulnerable women will resign instead, his attorney said Monday.

Analysis: Freeze non-renewal bodes ill for talks (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:19 PM PDT AP - Less than a month after they began, Middle East peace talks are in trouble over Israel's refusal to extend its 10-month-old curbs on new West Bank settlement — in defiance of President Barack Obama's explicit request, delivered last week at the United Nations.

Oil gusher is dead, but not residents' anguish (AP) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:14 PM PDT AP - Her income down to virtually nothing because of the BP oil spill, Margaret Carruth put her face in her hands and wept recently at a town hall meeting before walking outside to what passes for home these days, her blue pickup truck.

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