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• Brown pushes ahead of Coakley in Mass. Senate race (AP)
• Mystery visitor to Poe's grave is a no-show (AP)
• San Diego mayor: Gay marriage stand hurt campaign (AP)
• Marc Webb to direct next 'Spider-Man' (AP)
• New Republican governor takes office in NJ (AP)
• Polanski lawyers say D.A. is playing politics (AP)
• Ex-mistress says TX minister admitted killing wife (AP)
• Army: Family photos not basis for porn charge (AP)
• More states took in expired meds in 2009 (AP)
• Haitians can start applying Thurs. to stay in US (AP)
• Source: O'Brien's staff is sticking point in talks (AP)
• Reputed al-Qaida supporter taken from NY courtroom (AP)
• Witness: Former Ill. cop threatened to kill wife (AP)
• French braid ends Texas boy's follicle fight (AP)
• Obama to seek $1.35 billion more for education (AP)
• Court won't close locks; Carp DNA in Lake Michigan (AP)
• Disgraced SC gov preps for state-of-state speech (AP)
• High court tosses ruling favorable to Abu-Jamal (AP)
• New England loses a big tree, and a little history (AP)
• NYC judge refuses to toss Letterman extortion case (AP)

Brown pushes ahead of Coakley in Mass. Senate race (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 05:58 PM PST AP - Striving for an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown pushed ahead of Democrat Martha Coakley on Tuesday in a U.S. Senate election that became a referendum on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and his first year.

Mystery visitor to Poe's grave is a no-show (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 03:22 PM PST AP - It is what Edgar Allan Poe might have called "a mystery all insoluble": Every year for the past six decades, a shadowy visitor would leave roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Poe's grave on the anniversary of the writer's birth. This year, no one showed.

San Diego mayor: Gay marriage stand hurt campaign (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 05:27 PM PST AP - San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders opposed gay marriage — until he learned his daughter was a lesbian in a committed relationship.

Marc Webb to direct next 'Spider-Man' (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:58 PM PST AP - Marc Webb has caught the job of "Spider-Man" director.

New Republican governor takes office in NJ (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 05:49 PM PST AP - Republican Chris Christie was sworn in Tuesday as New Jersey's 55th governor, vowing to deliver the far-reaching change he said voters elected him to bring about.

Polanski lawyers say D.A. is playing politics (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 05:49 PM PST AP - Lawyers for Roman Polanski said Tuesday he should be sentenced in absentia to time served and accused the district attorney of playing politics with the case.

Ex-mistress says TX minister admitted killing wife (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 05:05 PM PST AP - The state rested its case Tuesday in the murder trial of a Texas minister whose ex-mistress testified that he drugged his wife, handcuffed her to the bed under the guise of spicing up their marriage, then smothered her with a pillow until she died.

Army: Family photos not basis for porn charge (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 03:56 PM PST AP - A child pornography charge and a related count filed against an Illinois Army National Guard soldier in Afghanistan do not stem from family photos of a young relative, a U.S. Army spokesman told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

More states took in expired meds in 2009 (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 01:43 PM PST AP - A steel mailbox-sized bin in the lobby of a police department in northern Utah was full again, crammed with half-full prescription bottles, over-the-counter cold meds and even an odd topical cream from 1983.

Haitians can start applying Thurs. to stay in US (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:26 PM PST AP - Haitians are so eager for information about a federal designation that will let illegal immigrants work temporarily in the U.S., they bombarded a Catholic church here even though the program doesn't start until Thursday.

Source: O'Brien's staff is sticking point in talks (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 05:03 PM PST AP - The sticking point in Conan O'Brien's complex exit negotiations with NBC involves his TV staff, not Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, a person familiar with the talks said Tuesday.

Reputed al-Qaida supporter taken from NY courtroom (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:00 PM PST AP - A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist and reputed al-Qaida supporter punctuated the first day of her attempted murder trial Tuesday by shouting that the prosecution's first witness was lying, prompting her to be pulled from the courtroom.

Witness: Former Ill. cop threatened to kill wife (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 05:05 PM PST AP - Former police officer Drew Peterson threw his ex-wife to the floor one night, grabbed her throat and told her he "could kill her there and then," a one-time co-worker of the woman testified Tuesday at a hearing to determine what evidence can be admitted in Peterson's murder trial.

French braid ends Texas boy's follicle fight (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 03:26 PM PST AP - A 4-year-old Texas boy disciplined for having long hair has returned to his class with a brand new 'do.

Obama to seek $1.35 billion more for education (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 09:09 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he'll ask Congress for $1.35 billion to extend an education grant program for states, saying that getting schools right "will shape our future as a nation."

Court won't close locks; Carp DNA in Lake Michigan (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST AP - The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to order the immediate closure of shipping structures near Chicago to contain the ravenous Asian carp, before authorities said DNA from the invaders had been found in Lake Michigan for the first time.

Disgraced SC gov preps for state-of-state speech (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 01:24 PM PST AP - Gov. Mark Sanford delivers his last state-of-the-state address this week, the beginning of the end for a Republican once considered presidential material who has lost nearly everything except his job over an affair with an Argentine woman.

High court tosses ruling favorable to Abu-Jamal (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 02:50 PM PST AP - The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a ruling that had set aside the death sentence of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in a racially tinged case that has made the former Black Panther an international cause celebre.

New England loses a big tree, and a little history (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 02:22 PM PST AP - Herbie, a massive tree that stretched 110 feet into the sky, captured the imagination of a town's residents and earned the title of New England's champion elm, was cut down Tuesday after a long battle with Dutch elm disease. It was more than 200 years old.

NYC judge refuses to toss Letterman extortion case (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 01:01 PM PST AP - A jury should get to decide whether a TV producer's dealings with David Letterman were attempted blackmail or just hard-nosed business, a judge ruled Tuesday.

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