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• Woman opens fire at Alabama campus, killing 3 (AP)
• Official: 4 sea lions, 1 seal shot near Seattle (AP)
• 49 states dusted with snow; Hawaii's the holdout (AP)
• Shouldn't it be sunny here? South gets snowed in (AP)
• Will Bill Clinton slow down after heart procedure? (AP)
• Suspect in ax slaying tells police he blacked out (AP)
• Witnesses detail IA coach slaying as trial begins (AP)
• Pa. family: 'Friends' torture, kill disabled woman (AP)
• Lawyers for 9/11 responders defend firm's conduct (AP)
• NASA: Space shuttle flaws too small to pose danger (AP)
• Kan. jury convicts man in porn model's death (AP)
• Former US Treasurer Francine Neff dies at 84 (AP)
• Politics was not a smooth fit for Patrick Kennedy (AP)
• American Samoa braces for Tropical Cyclone Rene (AP)
• Buffalo plane crash anniversary observed with walk (AP)
• Out of luck: $2.5M Hoosier jackpot goes unclaimed (AP)
• Authorities: Chimp attacks volunteer near Tampa (AP)
• Leaders: Return of Haitians to homeland 'inhumane' (AP)
• Metro train derails, minor injuries reported (AP)

Woman opens fire at Alabama campus, killing 3 (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:12 PM PST AP - A woman opened fire in a biology faculty meeting at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus Friday, killing three people and injuring three others, two of them critically, officials said. The shooter was caught outside the Shelby Center, a science building, without incident, according to university spokesman Ray Garner. He said he could not identify her or the victims. Local media reported the shooter was a faculty member.

Official: 4 sea lions, 1 seal shot near Seattle (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:41 PM PST AP - A harbor seal and at least four sea lions, including one listed as endangered, were shot to death near Seattle, authorities said Friday.

49 states dusted with snow; Hawaii's the holdout (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:02 PM PST AP - Forget red and blue — color America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout. It was the United States of Snow, thanks to an unusual combination of weather patterns that dusted the U.S., including the skyscrapers of Dallas, the peach trees of Atlanta and the Florida Panhandle, where hurricanes are more common than snowflakes.

Shouldn't it be sunny here? South gets snowed in (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:09 PM PST AP - Snowstruck Southerners tossed snowballs not far from the Gulf of Mexico as winter took its biggest whack at the region in decades Friday, coating areas from Texas to the Carolinas and grounding many flights at the world's busiest airport.

Will Bill Clinton slow down after heart procedure? (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:10 PM PST AP - Right until he was wheeled into an operating room for a heart procedure, Bill Clinton was on the phone, talking about Haiti earthquake relief. An aide finally took the phone away from him.

Suspect in ax slaying tells police he blacked out (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:03 PM PST AP - A man wielding a medieval-style battle ax wounded his sister-in-law before going on a deadly, random rampage with the weapon outside his Las Vegas home, killing a 4-month-old baby and critically injuring the child's mother, police said Friday.

Witnesses detail IA coach slaying as trial begins (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:24 PM PST AP - Brandon Simkins stood in the weight room of the Aplington-Parkersburg high school, a loaded .22-caliber revolver pointed at his head, and closed his eyes.

Pa. family: 'Friends' torture, kill disabled woman (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 02:24 PM PST AP - Jennifer Daugherty's mom and stepdad didn't press for details when she mentioned she had made some new friends. The 30-year-old had the mental abilities of an adolescent but wasn't the kind to get in trouble, and she was even thinking about getting her own place soon.

Lawyers for 9/11 responders defend firm's conduct (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 11:28 AM PST AP - The lead lawyer for thousands of Sept. 11 rescue and recovery workers has acknowledged that in preparing some claims, his firm made mistakes — including assertions that people had cancer when they didn't.

NASA: Space shuttle flaws too small to pose danger (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:00 PM PST AP - A cracked tile and protruding ring on shuttle Endeavour are too small to pose any danger during next week's trip home from the International Space Station, NASA managers said Friday.

Kan. jury convicts man in porn model's death (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 02:59 PM PST AP - A jury convicted a man of capital murder and rape Friday in the killing of a Kansas college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn model.

Former US Treasurer Francine Neff dies at 84 (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 03:54 PM PST AP - Francine Neff, who served as U.S. treasurer in the 1970s and was deeply involved in Republican politics for decades, has died at age 84.

Politics was not a smooth fit for Patrick Kennedy (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 02:52 PM PST AP - It was never a perfect fit — politics and Patrick Kennedy, the latest and perhaps the last in the long line of Kennedys at the heart of American political life.

American Samoa braces for Tropical Cyclone Rene (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 12:18 PM PST AP - A powerful tropical storm churned toward American Samoa and surrounding islands Friday as residents still recovering from last year's deadly tsunami braced for another onslaught.

Buffalo plane crash anniversary observed with walk (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 02:21 PM PST AP - Patrick Pettys stepped onto the undisturbed snow covering the site where Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashed last Feb. 12, dropped flat onto his back and moved his arms and legs to form a snow angel, looking satisfied as he got up and, with help from his brother Joe, brushed the snow from his coat and neck.

Out of luck: $2.5M Hoosier jackpot goes unclaimed (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 02:53 PM PST AP - Hoosier lottery players have been digging through their trash, scouring their cars and bringing fistfuls of old tickets, some in shoeboxes, to an Indianapolis store, hoping they would find the winning — but unclaimed — $2.5 million jackpot ticket.

Authorities: Chimp attacks volunteer near Tampa (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 02:16 PM PST AP - Deputies say a chimpanzee has mauled and seriously injured a volunteer at a Florida primate sanctuary.

Leaders: Return of Haitians to homeland 'inhumane' (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 01:47 PM PST AP - Haitian leaders in Miami say it was "inhumane" to return nearly 80 Haitians to their earthquake-ravaged homeland.

Metro train derails, minor injuries reported (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2010 02:03 PM PST AP - As commuters and the Metro system struggled to get back to their normal schedules after two major winter storms, a derailment late Friday morning snarled the transit system and caused a few minor injuries.

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