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• Landrieu: Phone allegations 'unsettling' for staff (AP)
• Okla. man accused of killing wife, kidnapping girl (AP)
• Engineers watch Texas homes for more moving soil (AP)
• Judge: 'HOPE' artist under criminal investigation (AP)
• Lawyers seek to silence al-Qaida-linked scientist (AP)
• Va. man arrested with arsenal, map of NY Army base (AP)
• Vermont assumes a heavy burden in Iraq war (AP)
• Witness says marriage threatened if gays can wed (AP)
• Gun used in abortion doc's slaying never found (AP)
• LA moves to push pot clinics from neighborhoods (AP)
• Video inspires call for NY cow tail-docking ban (AP)
• 231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world's fastest (AP)
• 2 workers killed in latest DC-area track accident (AP)
• Ore. votes on higher taxes for rich, businesses (AP)
• Police believe student's remains found on Va. farm (AP)
• FBI looking into Pittsburgh arts student beating (AP)
• College 'gender gap' favoring women stops growing (AP)
• NH teacher, 100, gets degree a day before dying (AP)

Landrieu: Phone allegations 'unsettling' for staff (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:37 PM PST AP - Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu says allegations that a conservative activist and three other men tried to tamper with phones at her New Orleans office are "unsettling."

Okla. man accused of killing wife, kidnapping girl (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 02:19 PM PST AP - A woman found beaten to death in a motor home recently sought a protective order against her estranged husband, an ex-convict who was charged Tuesday with killing her and kidnapping her 7-year-old daughter.

Engineers watch Texas homes for more moving soil (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 03:59 PM PST AP - Residents of 25 homes evacuated after a landslide split a retaining wall and threatened to topple hilltop homes will not be allowed to return for at least 10 days as engineers watch for further soil movement, the developer said Tuesday.

Judge: 'HOPE' artist under criminal investigation (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:15 PM PST AP - A judge permitted the disclosure for the first time Tuesday that the artist known for his Barack Obama "HOPE" image is under criminal investigation, though details of the probe were not divulged.

Lawyers seek to silence al-Qaida-linked scientist (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:12 PM PST AP - Lawyers for a Pakistani scientist accused of shooting at U.S. Army personnel in Afghanistan asked a judge Tuesday to stop her from testifying, saying her "diminished capacity" would result in a "painful spectacle indeed."

Va. man arrested with arsenal, map of NY Army base (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST AP - A call from a convenience store clerk about a suspicious person led to an arrest and a frightening discovery: The man was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a loaded assault rifle and four magazines of ammunition.

Vermont assumes a heavy burden in Iraq war (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 01:29 PM PST AP - Vermont, a bastion of ex-hippies and Ben & Jerry liberals, has another distinction seemingly at odds with its peace-loving, tie-dyed politics: It has suffered more deaths per capita in the Iraq war than any other state.

Witness says marriage threatened if gays can wed (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:15 PM PST AP - The head of a family values group testified Tuesday that marriage is in such a weakened state in the U.S. that extending the institution to same-sex couples could be its death blow.

Gun used in abortion doc's slaying never found (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:20 PM PST AP - Prosecutors have presented more than 100 pieces of evidence in the trial of the man accused of killing Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. But the weapon used to kill Tiller has not been among them because it never has been found.

LA moves to push pot clinics from neighborhoods (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST AP - The day feared by medical marijuana advocates arrived Tuesday when the City Council finally approved an ordinance intended to close hundreds of pot shops and banish those that remain to industrial areas.

Video inspires call for NY cow tail-docking ban (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:31 PM PST AP - An animal-rights group released a video Tuesday showing an upstate New York farm worker lopping off a calf's tail and burning off its budding horns as the animal moans and struggles frantically to escape, prompting a state lawmaker to propose that New York follow California's lead in banning tail-docking for dairy cows.

231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world's fastest (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 03:22 PM PST AP - First the Old Man, now the Big Wind. New Hampshire's Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory said Tuesday.

2 workers killed in latest DC-area track accident (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST AP - Two veteran workers on the Washington area's transit system were crushed by a maintenance truck Tuesday, the latest in a string of fatalities that has made Metro the most deadly for U.S. transit rail workers in the past five years.

Ore. votes on higher taxes for rich, businesses (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 02:18 PM PST AP - A surge of last-minute ballots was expected Tuesday as Oregon voters decided whether to impose higher taxes on businesses and the wealthy.

Police believe student's remains found on Va. farm (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 03:30 PM PST AP - The remains of a Virginia Tech student who disappeared in October after attending a Metallica concert were discovered Tuesday in a remote farm field about 10 miles from the venue, authorities said.

FBI looking into Pittsburgh arts student beating (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 02:51 PM PST AP - The FBI is looking into whether Pittsburgh police officers violated the civil rights of an 18-year-old violist who accused them of brutally beating him as he walked to his grandmother's house after dark.

College 'gender gap' favoring women stops growing (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 09:46 AM PST AP - On college campuses, female undergraduates have outnumbered men and outperformed them academically for years, but a new report out Tuesday finds those gaps have stopped growing in key areas including enrollment and bachelor's degrees.

NH teacher, 100, gets degree a day before dying (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2010 02:30 PM PST AP - It was Harriet Richardson Ames' dream to earn her bachelor's degree in education. She finally reached that milestone, nearly three weeks after achieving another: her 100th birthday.

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