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• Elizabeth Edwards shared private pain with public (AP)
• Chewing tobacco maker agrees to $5M settlement (AP)
• Court weighs constitutionality of gay marriage ban (AP)
• Working Out The Costs Of Obama's Grand Tax Cut Bargain (Time.com)
• Will Madoff's Investors Break Even? (Time.com)
• Innocent Wis. convict wavers between anger, hope (AP)
• Dozens look for Ill. mom missing since fatal crash (AP)
• NY feds: Boston businessman giving up $625 million (AP)
• Lake-fed storm leaving big snow totals in NY, Pa. (AP)
• NYC officials bust Ivy League coke, LSD, pot ring (AP)
• Top Catholic educator concealed abuse knowledge (AP)
• Prosecution rests in 1975 AIM slaying trial (AP)
• Pearl Harbor survivors gather 69 years later (AP)
• 86-year-old Pa. man hunts from recliner, bags buck (AP)
• Ala. dad admits burying children, blames stepmom (AP)
• Mass. judge: Jurors can see video of Uzi death (AP)
• Beating video shown at murder trial of Chicago boy (AP)
• Showdown nears on release of NYC teacher ratings (AP)
• Teen arrested in Oregon car bomb plot led 2 lives (AP)
• Ill. casino plan could amp up gambling competition (AP)

Elizabeth Edwards shared private pain with public (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 05:57 PM PST AP - Elizabeth Edwards lost her hair to cancer, her son to an accident, her husband to another woman.

Chewing tobacco maker agrees to $5M settlement (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 02:25 PM PST AP - The maker of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a man who died of mouth cancer in what is believed to be the first wrongful-death settlement won from a chewing tobacco company.

Court weighs constitutionality of gay marriage ban (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 03:49 AM PST AP - A line of questioning at an appeals court hearing over California's gay marriage ban suggested the three judges could issue a decision that would legalize same-sex marriage in that state but leave intact bans in other western states under the court's jurisdiction.

Working Out The Costs Of Obama's Grand Tax Cut Bargain (Time.com) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 02:25 PM PST Time.com - Like the 2009 Recovery Act, there are good reasons for the government to do short term borrowing to avoid deep recessions and therefore boost longer-term growth.

Will Madoff's Investors Break Even? (Time.com) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 02:25 PM PST Time.com - Bernie Madoff investors might end up getting more of their money back then they thought

Innocent Wis. convict wavers between anger, hope (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 01:37 PM PST AP - It wasn't the 23 years behind bars that made Robert Lee Stinson's prison sentence so agonizing. Nor was it the humiliating treatment by prison guards.

Dozens look for Ill. mom missing since fatal crash (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 05:20 PM PST AP - After three days of scouring in the frigid cold, investigators have turned up very few clues in their search for the northern Illinois mother of four who has vanished since a weekend car crash that killed her husband.

NY feds: Boston businessman giving up $625 million (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:29 PM PST AP - A 97-year-old Boston-area apparel entrepreneur agreed Tuesday to forfeit $625 million to be distributed to cheated investors in jailed Bernard Madoff's historic Ponzi scheme, authorities revealed, as a court trustee said negotiations are under way to recover money as well from the owners of the New York Mets.

Lake-fed storm leaving big snow totals in NY, Pa. (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 01:55 PM PST AP - Bands of snow blasting off the Great Lakes buried one western New York town under four feet of snow and caused a pileup that left motorists stranded for hours on a stretch of Interstate 80 in northwestern Pennsylvania.

NYC officials bust Ivy League coke, LSD, pot ring (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST AP - Five Columbia University students were charged Tuesday with selling LSD-spiked candy and other drugs at three fraternity houses and other residences on the Ivy League campus, with two allegedly claiming they needed the drug money to cover tuition.

Top Catholic educator concealed abuse knowledge (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 12:11 PM PST AP - Kevin Price was struggling with memories of the sexual abuse he says he suffered at the hands of a high school teacher, so he reached out to the religious order that runs the Catholic school he attended.

Prosecution rests in 1975 AIM slaying trial (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 05:51 PM PST AP - The prosecution rested its case Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of shooting an American Indian Movement activist in late 1975 and leaving her to die, after two federal agents testified that the suspect became nervous while discussing the crime.

Pearl Harbor survivors gather 69 years later (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 03:12 PM PST AP - Aging Pearl Harbor survivors on Tuesday heard reassurances their sacrifice would be remembered and passed on to future generations as they gathered to mark the 69th anniversary of the attack.

86-year-old Pa. man hunts from recliner, bags buck (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 03:21 PM PST AP - Lester Warner left the hospital in a weakened state last month, his frail body wracked by late-stage cancer. At 86 years old, he and his family had decided to stop treatment. But that didn't mean he planned to stop hunting.

Ala. dad admits burying children, blames stepmom (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 05:24 AM PST AP - A father whose missing children are believed to be dead told investigators he buried one of them in Mississippi and the other in Alabama but says it was their stepmother who killed them, police said.

Mass. judge: Jurors can see video of Uzi death (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 10:13 AM PST AP - A graphic video showing an 8-year-old boy accidentally killing himself with an Uzi submachine gun at a fair can be shown to the jury during the manslaughter trial of a former police chief, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Beating video shown at murder trial of Chicago boy (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 03:13 PM PST AP - The trial of a teen charged in the beating death of a 16-year-old Chicago honor student began Tuesday with jurors watching a video showing the teen punching the other boy in the face — a recording played around the world that drew attention to school violence.

Showdown nears on release of NYC teacher ratings (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 10:31 AM PST AP - A dispute over whether to release performance ratings for 12,000 New York City schoolteachers is pitting the public's right to know which teachers are making the grade against teachers' fears that they will be unfairly subjected to ridicule based on student test scores.

Teen arrested in Oregon car bomb plot led 2 lives (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:26 PM PST AP - The plot described by the FBI was horrific: a 19-year-old Somali-born Muslim with a grudge against the West, ready to kill and maim thousands at a busy Portland Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

Ill. casino plan could amp up gambling competition (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 01:21 PM PST AP - Cash-strapped Illinois is considering a massive casino expansion in Chicago and elsewhere that could leave nearby competitors playing for smaller stakes.

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