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• Company is first to return spacecraft from orbit (AP)
• Police: Ex-con acted alone in publicist slaying (AP)
• Officials: Jihad-obsessed man snared in bomb plot (AP)
• Why the Food Safety Modernization Act Is Flawed but Needed (Time.com)
• Elizabeth Edwards Dies at 61: Public Life, Public Death (Time.com)
• HIV-positive LA porn actor calls for condom use (AP)
• Father, son convicted in fatal Ore. bank bombing (AP)
• Jury convicts teen in beating death of student (AP)
• Judge won't delay burning of Calif. bomb house (AP)
• NY woman says ex-beau raped her, then framed her (AP)
• Pa. couple sought in Calif. man's dismemberment (AP)
• Dad of missing Ala. kids charged with murder (AP)
• Cleveland sued in case of 11 found slain at home (AP)
• Police: Parrot echoed pleas of dying SC mother (AP)
• Wis. Bosnian accused of hiding role in massacre (AP)
• Evidence for ET is mounting daily, but not proven (AP)
• Minn. Gov.-elect reaches out to GOP on budget (AP)
• Richardson to make North Korea trip (AP)

Company is first to return spacecraft from orbit (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:15 PM PST AP - NASA took a giant leap away from the spaceflight business Wednesday as a private company launched a spacecraft into orbit and for the first time guided it safely back to Earth, a feat previously achieved only by large national governments.

Police: Ex-con acted alone in publicist slaying (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST AP - Investigators said Wednesday that they believe a Hollywood publicist was killed by the career criminal who committed suicide last week in a seedy apartment lobby as police closed in on him.

Officials: Jihad-obsessed man snared in bomb plot (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:19 PM PST AP - A 21-year-old part-time construction worker obsessed with jihad was arrested Wednesday when he tried to detonate what he thought was a bomb at a military recruitment center — the second time in less than two weeks that an alleged homegrown terrorist was nabbed in a sting operation.

Why the Food Safety Modernization Act Is Flawed but Needed (Time.com) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 02:05 PM PST Time.com - Yes, it will be expensive, and yes, it might not help much. But I want the legislation to pass, however impotent and futile it may be

Elizabeth Edwards Dies at 61: Public Life, Public Death (Time.com) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 02:05 PM PST Time.com - You may not remember, given all that has happened since, but when Elizabeth Edwards arrived on the Washington scene some 10 years ago, she was golden

HIV-positive LA porn actor calls for condom use (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST AP - A clinic frequented by porn stars stood by findings that an adult film actor contracted HIV through personal sexual activity, contradicting his claims that he was infected through work.

Father, son convicted in fatal Ore. bank bombing (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 03:33 PM PST AP - A father and son were convicted Wednesday of planting a bank bomb that killed two police officers in a botched robbery that prosecutors said was motivated by plans to build a militia in case newly elected President Barack Obama cracked down on their gun rights.

Jury convicts teen in beating death of student (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 03:28 PM PST AP - After deliberating for little more than half an hour, a jury convicted a 15-year-old boy of first-degree murder Wednesday in the 2009 beating of a Chicago high-school honor student that was captured on video and seen around the world.

Judge won't delay burning of Calif. bomb house (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:41 PM PST AP - A judge on Wednesday refused to delay the destruction of a suburban San Diego home after a prosecutor described a detonator-strewn coffee table as "ground zero" of the home so packed with explosives that it was too dangerous to even enter.

NY woman says ex-beau raped her, then framed her (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 02:40 PM PST AP - For more than a year after she accused her ex-boyfriend of rape, Seemona Sumasar said his friends pressured her to drop the charges. City health and buildings inspectors would show up at her Queens restaurant to investigate anonymous complaints that she was sure were filed by the ex-boyfriend.

Pa. couple sought in Calif. man's dismemberment (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:21 PM PST AP - A manhunt was under way Wednesday for a Pennsylvania couple accused of killing a man, cutting up his body and stashing the pieces in a backpack and under a bed in their Skid Row hotel room.

Dad of missing Ala. kids charged with murder (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:34 PM PST AP - An Alabama man who told authorities he dumped his two dead children in the woods, then covered them with twigs, was charged Wednesday with two counts of murder after investigators found remains believed to be his 3-year-old son, police said.

Cleveland sued in case of 11 found slain at home (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 02:32 PM PST AP - More than a year after the decomposing bodies of 11 women were discovered in a sex offender's home, families of five of the victims are suing the city of Cleveland, claiming their loved ones would have lived had the suspect remained in custody in another case.

Police: Parrot echoed pleas of dying SC mother (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 02:06 PM PST AP - Police said Wednesday they believe the dying pleas of a neglected, elderly woman were echoed by her parrot as they combed through her fetid home.

Wis. Bosnian accused of hiding role in massacre (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:55 PM PST AP - Federal prosecutors charged a 46-year-old Bosnian Serb with lying to gain refugee status in the U.S., saying he failed to disclose that he served in a police unit that took part in the massacre of thousands of Muslim men and boys during Bosnia-Herzegovina's three-year civil war.

Evidence for ET is mounting daily, but not proven (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:30 PM PST AP - Lately, a handful of new discoveries make it seem more likely that we are not alone — that there is life somewhere else in the universe.

Minn. Gov.-elect reaches out to GOP on budget (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 02:20 PM PST AP - Minnesota Gov.-elect Mark Dayton reached out to Republicans who will lead the Legislature within hours Wednesday of his opponent conceding the close governor's race, saying they must join together to tame a massive budget deficit.

Richardson to make North Korea trip (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2010 01:48 PM PST AP - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will visit North Korea next week at the invitation of the Pyongyang regime, the governor's office said Wednesday.

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