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• Ill. terrorism suspects indicted in Mumbai attack (AP)
• In ravaged Haiti, aid workers among the victims (AP)
• Flood of aid to Haiti looks like chaos, but normal (AP)
• Texas murder suspect searched 'overdose' online (AP)
• Mass. doctor accused of fraud by faking research (AP)
• Trinkets in trash after cadmium warning (AP)
• Life sentence for Seattle Jewish office shooting (AP)
• Man who alleges police torture free after 23 years (AP)
• Cocaine found at Fla. NASA hangar, workers tested (AP)
• Texas board starts shaping social studies lessons (AP)
• Ex-NY newsman gets jail in assault attempt on wife (AP)
• College applicants face intensifying competition (AP)
• Year after Hudson River jet landing, fear remains (AP)
• Ohio pediatrician gets 13 years in sex abuse case (AP)
• SF economist says gay marriage ban costs city (AP)
• White House criticizes evangelist's Haiti remark (AP)
• Ex-UN weapons inspector charged in child-sex sting (AP)
• R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass dies at 59 (AP)

Ill. terrorism suspects indicted in Mumbai attack (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:31 PM PST AP - Two Chicago men were indicted Thursday on charges they planned a violent attack on a Danish newspaper and helped lay the groundwork for the November 2008 terrorist rampage that killed 166 people in the Indian city of Mumbai.

In ravaged Haiti, aid workers among the victims (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:14 PM PST AP - Haiti's limitless poverty and hardship have long drawn aid groups and charities from across the world. Now the same people who tried to do good before the earthquake find themselves trapped in the rubble, out of touch with their loved ones and struggling to carry on their missions.

Flood of aid to Haiti looks like chaos, but normal (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:07 PM PST AP - Relief supplies are coming into quake-struck Haiti without people knowing. Coordination seems missing. A United Nations official is calling it "chaos." All this while victims aren't being helped.

Texas murder suspect searched 'overdose' online (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:24 PM PST AP - In the month before his wife died, a minister in Texas tried to buy a prescription sleeping aid online and conducted an Internet search for "overdose on sleeping pills," computer experts testified Thursday in his murder trial.

Mass. doctor accused of fraud by faking research (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:33 PM PST AP - Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they have filed a health care fraud charge against a doctor accused of faking research for a dozen years in published studies that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers including Vioxx and Celebrex.

Trinkets in trash after cadmium warning (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:55 PM PST AP - Kathy Sanders waited until her 4-year-old daughter, Emma, was distracted with a video game Thursday. Then she made her move.

Life sentence for Seattle Jewish office shooting (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:26 PM PST AP - A man who went on a shooting rampage at a Seattle Jewish center, killing one woman and wounding five others, appealed for forgiveness and blamed his medication as a judge sentenced him Thursday to life in prison without parole.

Man who alleges police torture free after 23 years (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:39 PM PST AP - A man who contends Chicago police tortured him into confessing to a murder he did not commit walked out of a courtroom a free man Thursday after more than 23 years behind bars.

Cocaine found at Fla. NASA hangar, workers tested (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:33 PM PST AP - NASA is investigating how a bag of cocaine got into the hangar that houses space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Texas board starts shaping social studies lessons (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:50 PM PST AP - Kindergartners would learn about a Texas revolutionary and first-graders would discuss the idea of holding public officials accountable under proposals approved Thursday by the State Board of Education, which began reshaping the guidelines for social studies lessons.

Ex-NY newsman gets jail in assault attempt on wife (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:26 PM PST AP - Former cable TV newsman Dominic Carter was sentenced Thursday to 30 days in jail for an attempted assault on his wife and was ordered to stay away from her for up to two years.

College applicants face intensifying competition (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 11:54 AM PST AP - College applicants are facing one of the toughest years ever to gain admission to the nation's public colleges and universities as schools grapple with deep budget cuts and record numbers of applications.

Year after Hudson River jet landing, fear remains (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 08:55 AM PST AP - Months after the crash, Doreen Welsh had a panic attack when she inhaled a little water in the shower. Anastasia Sosa no longer finds swimming fun — it feels too much like survival training. And Jorge Morgado can't bring himself to get back on a plane.

Ohio pediatrician gets 13 years in sex abuse case (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:10 PM PST AP - A pediatrician charged with sex crimes against former patients pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

SF economist says gay marriage ban costs city (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:34 PM PST AP - A state ban on gay marriage is costing the city of San Francisco millions of dollars a year in lost revenue and increased services, an economist testified Thursday in a lawsuit aimed at overturning the prohibition.

White House criticizes evangelist's Haiti remark (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 02:26 PM PST AP - A White House spokesman on Thursday slammed evangelist broadcaster Pat Robertson's remark that Haiti has been cursed.

Ex-UN weapons inspector charged in child-sex sting (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 11:04 AM PST AP - A longtime U.N. weapons inspector who blamed a 2001 sex-sting arrest on his criticism of the Iraq war has again been charged in an online child-sex case, and this time he was caught on camera.

R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass dies at 59 (AP) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 09:13 AM PST AP - R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass, who was one of the most electric and successful figures in music until a car crash 28 years ago left him in a wheelchair, has died of colon cancer. He was 59.

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