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• Across US, outpouring of grief and help for Haiti (AP)
• Tight penalties weighed for air security scofflaws (AP)
• Pa. state trooper shot, killed, suspect found dead (AP)
• Consumer chief warns: take cheap jewelry from kids (AP)
• Stiller, Pitt, other celebs urge quake relief (AP)
• Why Haiti keeps getting hammered by disasters (AP)
• Former minister in Texas on trial for wife's death (AP)
• Study shows extent of affiliate losses (AP)
• Perry: Texas won't seek federal education funding (AP)
• NY's Tavern on the Green restaurant items for sale (AP)
• More than 100 neglected animals found at Nev. farm (AP)
• Texas debates the way history will be taught (AP)
• High court: No cameras at gay marriage trial (AP)
• Government decides not to seek 5th Gotti trial (AP)
• SpaghettiOs creator Donald Goerke dies at 83 (AP)
• Standard & Poor's lowers ratings on Calif. debt (AP)
• Judge orders $500K for each of preacher's victims (AP)
• US has sent millions to Haiti since 2000 (AP)
• SC House rebukes gov, Senate sidelines censure (AP)

Across US, outpouring of grief and help for Haiti (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 04:13 PM PST AP - Hans Mardy has dialed the numbers hundreds of times, praying someone — his father, his sister, one of four brothers — will pick up the phone.

Tight penalties weighed for air security scofflaws (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 02:59 PM PST AP - A Georgia man dashes through a checkpoint at the Atlanta airport and gets 10 days in jail. A hairdresser in a hurry bypasses security in Philadelphia and gets a $500 fine. A drunken man stumbles onto a Chicago airfield and gets 18 months' supervision. All caused major air travel delays costing millions of dollars — and all got what critics call a slap on the wrist.

Pa. state trooper shot, killed, suspect found dead (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:24 PM PST AP - A state trooper responding to a domestic call Wednesday was fatally shot as he got out of his cruiser, and the suspected gunman was later found dead inside the home along with the body of his wife.

Consumer chief warns: take cheap jewelry from kids (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST AP - The country's top product safety regulator warned parents and caretakers Wednesday to take cheap metal jewelry away from children out of concern they could be exposed to toxic heavy metals such as lead and cadmium.

Stiller, Pitt, other celebs urge quake relief (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:48 PM PST AP - Oprah Winfrey, Paris Hilton, Ben Stiller, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are among the celebrities and artists urging support for survivors of the earthquake in Haiti.

Why Haiti keeps getting hammered by disasters (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 04:30 PM PST AP - When it comes to natural disasters, Haiti seems to have a bull's-eye on it. That's because of a killer combination of geography, poverty, social problems, slipshod building standards and bad luck, experts say.

Former minister in Texas on trial for wife's death (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:42 PM PST AP - A minister's wife told her therapist a few days before she died that she thought her husband was going to kill her and was having an affair, her therapist testified Wednesday at his murder trial.

Study shows extent of affiliate losses (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:45 PM PST AP - With NBC still trying to untangle its late-night mess, a study emerged Wednesday illustrating just how damaging Jay Leno's prime-time show was to its local stations.

Perry: Texas won't seek federal education funding (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 03:21 PM PST AP - Texas won't compete for up to $700 million in federal stimulus money for education because the program "smacks of a federal takeover of our public schools," Republican Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday.

NY's Tavern on the Green restaurant items for sale (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 04:13 PM PST AP - The chandeliers and Tiffany stained glass from New York City's landmark Tavern on the Green were being sold at an auction of just about everything in the bankrupt restaurant.

More than 100 neglected animals found at Nev. farm (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:55 PM PST AP - In one of the worst cases they can remember, Nevada agriculture officials have cited a woman for animal cruelty for neglecting more than 100 barnyard animals, including 35 starving horses and a goat that died from eating wool off a sheep carcass.

Texas debates the way history will be taught (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST AP - Students, parents and lawmakers lobbied Wednesday for more diversity in Texas' social studies curriculum, before the state board of education adopts new classroom standards that will determine how history is taught for the next decade.

High court: No cameras at gay marriage trial (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:28 PM PST AP - The Supreme Court on Wednesday indefinitely blocked cameras from covering the high-profile federal court trial on the constitutionality of California's ban on same-sex marriage.

Government decides not to seek 5th Gotti trial (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:12 PM PST AP - The federal government decided Wednesday not to seek a fifth racketeering trial against John "Junior" Gotti, son of the notorious Gambino family crime boss who also was noted — for a time — for avoiding conviction.

SpaghettiOs creator Donald Goerke dies at 83 (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 03:44 PM PST AP - The Campbell Soup Co. executive who was behind the enduring brands SpaghettiOs and Chunky Soup has died.

Standard & Poor's lowers ratings on Calif. debt (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 02:14 PM PST AP - A major credit-rating agency lowered California's debt rating Wednesday, putting pressure on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers to start tackling the state's $20 billion deficit.

Judge orders $500K for each of preacher's victims (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 02:31 PM PST AP - Five young women who testified last year that evangelist Tony Alamo took them as "wives" and sexually assaulted them when they were minors are entitled to $500,000 each from his multi-million-dollar ministry, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

US has sent millions to Haiti since 2000 (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 02:52 PM PST AP - The U.S. Agency for International Development has responded to the following disasters in Haiti with disaster aid since 2000:

SC House rebukes gov, Senate sidelines censure (AP) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:11 PM PST AP - South Carolina state representatives formally reprimanded a governor for the first time Wednesday, admonishing Gov. Mark Sanford for secret trips to see his Argentine mistress and improper use of state aircraft.

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