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• Lawyers compete for big payoff, control in BP case (AP)
• Foes of health care law lose key court ruling (AP)
• Tax-slashing proposals scare GOP, Democrats (AP)
• Don't Count on 'Waiting for Superman': Think Education Change Is Gonna Come? Think Again (Time.com)
• Richard Stengel: Voice of Influence (Time.com)
• NJ gov. scraps long-planned NJ-NY rail tunnel (AP)
• Recite pledge or go to jail? Lawyer sent to lockup (AP)
• Search for missing tourist thwarted by drug gangs (AP)
• Ind. money manager who crashed plane gets 10 years (AP)
• Wayward baggage handler causes Pa. security scare (AP)
• Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize (AP)
• 9th Circuit upholds Wash. ban on voting by inmates (AP)
• Final defense lawyer offers argument in Smith case (AP)
• Wildfires frequent at Utah base where blaze raged (AP)
• NY seeks to ban sugary drinks from food stamp buys (AP)
• Pa. teens say they covered up assault on immigrant (AP)
• AP-mtvU Poll: Technology brings connection, stress (AP)
• Southern Baptist leader on yoga: Not Christianity (AP)
• FAA proposes new rules for helicopter safety (AP)
• NJ senator calls for anti-bully law after suicide (AP)

Lawyers compete for big payoff, control in BP case (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 12:42 PM PDT AP - More than 100 lawyers are battling for the biggest chunks of what is likely to be a multibillion-dollar settlement for Gulf of Mexico oil spill victims, jockeying for spots on the elite team that will control the plaintiffs' cases.

Foes of health care law lose key court ruling (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:40 PM PDT AP - A federal judge on Thursday upheld the authority of the federal government to require everyone to have health insurance, dealing a setback to groups seeking to block the new national health care plan.

Tax-slashing proposals scare GOP, Democrats (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:58 PM PDT AP - Businessmen gather at an empty Denver Broncos stadium, with an ominous warning: The more than 70,000 vacant seats around them represent the number of state jobs that would be lost if three tax-slashing and debt-cutting measures are approved in next month's election.

Don't Count on 'Waiting for Superman': Think Education Change Is Gonna Come? Think Again (Time.com) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 03:25 PM PDT Time.com - Despite all the attention a high-profile documentary is bringing to education right now, school reformers shouldn't pop the champagne just yet

Richard Stengel: Voice of Influence (Time.com) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 03:25 PM PDT Time.com - Fareed Zakaria, one of the world's most agenda-setting thinkers, joins TIME as a regular columnist and cover-story writer

NJ gov. scraps long-planned NJ-NY rail tunnel (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - Gov. Chris Christie pulled the plug on a decades-in-the-making train tunnel connecting New Jersey and Manhattan, saying Thursday that New Jersey can't afford to pay for cost overruns on the already under-construction project.

Recite pledge or go to jail? Lawyer sent to lockup (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 02:50 PM PDT AP - When a Mississippi judge entered a courtroom and asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, an attorney with a reputation for fighting free speech battles stayed silent as everyone else recited the patriotic oath. The lawyer was jailed.

Search for missing tourist thwarted by drug gangs (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT AP - A search for a missing American tourist presumably shot and killed by Mexican pirates on a border lake has been thwarted by threats of an ambush from drug gangs, U.S. officials said Thursday.

Ind. money manager who crashed plane gets 10 years (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:56 PM PDT AP - A judge Thursday ignored pleas for leniency from an Indiana money manager who conned friends into investing in a fund that didn't exist and tried to fake his death by parachuting out of a plane and crashing it when the scheme started to unravel.

Wayward baggage handler causes Pa. security scare (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:23 PM PDT AP - Two US Airways workers loading a Bermuda-bound plane grew suspicious of whether another baggage handler was allowed to be near the jet and confronted him Thursday, leading the man to flee and forcing transportation security officials to remove passengers and rescan all their luggage.

Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 01:31 PM PDT AP - Mario Vargas Llosa, the newest winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, has never found much honor in boundaries.

9th Circuit upholds Wash. ban on voting by inmates (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:11 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court reversed course Thursday and upheld Washington state's ban on voting by prison inmates in a case that challenged the disproportionate effect it has on minority voters.

Final defense lawyer offers argument in Smith case (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:54 PM PDT AP - Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-manager Howard K. Stern was also her best friend and lover and would never have been part of an alleged plot to provide her with harmful drugs, a defense lawyer said Thursday.

Wildfires frequent at Utah base where blaze raged (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 01:19 PM PDT AP - Firearms and explosives training at a Utah military base have ignited dozens of wildfires in the past three decades, including one that swept into neighborhoods and drove residents from more than 1,600 homes, according to a review of documents requested by The Associated Press.

NY seeks to ban sugary drinks from food stamp buys (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 12:32 PM PDT AP - Using food stamps to buy sodas, teas, sports drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages would not be allowed in New York City under a new government effort to battle obesity.

Pa. teens say they covered up assault on immigrant (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 02:45 PM PDT AP - After beating and kicking an illegal Mexican immigrant and leaving him for dead in the street, a group of white teens in a small Pennsylvania mining town knew they had a serious problem on their hands.

AP-mtvU Poll: Technology brings connection, stress (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 08:23 AM PDT AP - Technology has become so entwined with college students' often frantic lives that most in a new survey say they'd be more frazzled without it.

Southern Baptist leader on yoga: Not Christianity (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 04:04 PM PDT AP - A Southern Baptist leader who is calling for Christians to avoid yoga and its spiritual attachments is getting plenty of pushback from enthusiasts who defend the ancient practice.

FAA proposes new rules for helicopter safety (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 01:47 PM PDT AP - The Federal Aviation Administration proposed stricter flight rules for helicopters Thursday, including many to increase safety for medical helicopters after a recent spike in fatal accidents.

NJ senator calls for anti-bully law after suicide (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2010 07:45 AM PDT AP - Colleges should adopt a code of conduct that prohibits bullying and harassment in the wake of the suicide of a Rutgers University student whose gay sexual encounter in his dorm room was streamed online, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg said at a town meeting on campus.

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