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• Former Sen. John Edwards admits the child is his (AP)
• Emergency declared in 5 California counties (AP)
• Ex-pastor who killed wife gets 65-year prison term (AP)
• Trial begins for NYC cops charged in sex attack (AP)
• Socialite Betty Broderick seeks parole in murders (AP)
• Prop. 8 backer stands by views on pedophilia (AP)
• Global warming opens up Arctic for undersea cable (AP)
• Calif. high court strikes down medical pot limits (AP)
• Uncle: No sign of trouble from Va. killing suspect (AP)
• Man in custody after firing shots at Texas Capitol (AP)
• Witness: Peterson indicated he'd kill his 4th wife (AP)
• Coal baron debates Kennedy over mountaintop mining (AP)
• Racial bullying roils a Philadelphia high school (AP)
• Jury picked for Kansas abortion shooting trial (AP)
• Pilot diverts jet over teen's in-flight prayer (AP)
• NASA: No word from Phoenix Mars lander (AP)
• Haiti quake poses key test for American Red Cross (AP)
• Nobel Prize-winning scientist Nirenberg dies at 82 (AP)
• Black bear about to bear cubs live on Internet (AP)
• Ohio woman alleges daylight rape along city street (AP)

Former Sen. John Edwards admits the child is his (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:52 PM PST AP - Confirming what practically everyone already suspected, John Edwards confessed Thursday he fathered the baby born to his ex-mistress — an admission that came just ahead of a bombshell book by a top aide to the former Democratic presidential candidate.

Emergency declared in 5 California counties (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:17 PM PST AP - A state of emergency has been declared in five California counties due to a series of winter storms.

Ex-pastor who killed wife gets 65-year prison term (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:25 PM PST AP - Jurors on Thursday sentenced a former Texas minister to 65 years in prison for murdering his wife and trying to cover it up as a suicide.

Trial begins for NYC cops charged in sex attack (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:38 PM PST AP - Lawyers defending three police officers charged in a subway station baton sex attack case portrayed the accuser as a scammer who made up the story to get money from the city.

Socialite Betty Broderick seeks parole in murders (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:14 PM PST AP - Betty Broderick, the one-time San Diego socialite who drew national attention for fatally shooting her ex-husband and his new wife, told a parole board Thursday she was driven to violence after a bitter custody battle, saying she "couldn't let them win."

Prop. 8 backer stands by views on pedophilia (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:12 PM PST AP - A proponent of California's same-sex marriage ban testified Thursday that he thinks gays are more likely to be pedophiles and that allowing them to wed would lead to efforts to lower the age at which teenagers can legally have sex with adults.

Global warming opens up Arctic for undersea cable (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 01:19 PM PST AP - Global warming has melted so much Arctic ice that a telecommunication group is moving forward with a project that was unthinkable just a few years ago: laying underwater fiber optic cable between Tokyo and London by way of the Northwest Passage.

Calif. high court strikes down medical pot limits (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:13 PM PST AP - A unanimous California Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that sought to impose limits on the amount of marijuana a medical patient can legally possess.

Uncle: No sign of trouble from Va. killing suspect (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:37 PM PST AP - A security guard accused of killing his sister, her husband and six others had a history of mental problems and imagined his sister wanted to kick him out of the home they shared, relatives and others who knew him said.

Man in custody after firing shots at Texas Capitol (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:25 PM PST AP - A man fired several shots into the air Thursday while standing on the Texas Capitol's south steps before throwing down his handgun as state troopers closed in and tackled him, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.

Witness: Peterson indicated he'd kill his 4th wife (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:52 PM PST AP - The stepbrother of a former Illinois police officer accused of killing his third wife told a hushed courtroom Thursday that he believed he might have helped his relative dispose of the body of his fourth wife, who has not been seen for more than two years.

Coal baron debates Kennedy over mountaintop mining (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:09 PM PST AP - Don Blankenship and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the coal baron and the conservationist, are certain they could win over the world if only the public could see mountaintop removal mining through their eyes. On Thursday, they got their shot.

Racial bullying roils a Philadelphia high school (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:32 PM PST AP - The blocks surrounding South Philadelphia High School are a melting pot of pizzerias fronted by Italian flags, African hair-braiding salons and a growing number of Chinese, Vietnamese and Indonesian restaurants.

Jury picked for Kansas abortion shooting trial (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:30 PM PST AP - A jury of eight men and six women has been chosen for the murder trial of the man charged with killing a Kansas abortion doctor.

Pilot diverts jet over teen's in-flight prayer (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 02:49 PM PST AP - A teenage airplane passenger using a Jewish prayer object caused a misunderstanding that led the captain to divert a Kentucky-bound flight to Philadelphia and prompted a visit from a bomb squad.

NASA: No word from Phoenix Mars lander (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 02:59 PM PST AP - NASA says there's no word from the Phoenix lander that is presumed to be frozen near the Martian north pole.

Haiti quake poses key test for American Red Cross (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 06:55 AM PST AP - For the American Red Cross, a surge of donations to help its relief efforts in Haiti provides a dramatic chance to prove it learned from its flawed responses to Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 terror attacks.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Nirenberg dies at 82 (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 10:14 AM PST AP - Marshall Nirenberg, a scientist whose work untangling fundamental genetic processes earned him a Nobel Prize, has died. He was 82.

Black bear about to bear cubs live on Internet (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:57 PM PST AP - A black bear named Lily is may be about to give birth in the wild live on the Internet.

Ohio woman alleges daylight rape along city street (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 11:23 AM PST AP - A woman who said she was raped along a street in daylight as motorists drove past is upset that no one came to her rescue.

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