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• Train kills 3 teen girls crossing Florida bridge (AP)
• World's refugee orphans seeking homes in the US (AP)
• Space shuttle landing in question, poor forecast (AP)
• Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes (AP)
• Train derails, toxic cloud forces evacuations (AP)
• Feds outline plan to nurse Great Lakes to health (AP)
• Vegas hotel unveils Elvis extravaganza (AP)
• Researchers: Most `test tube' kids are healthy (AP)
• Calif.'s Negrohead Mountain renamed for pioneer (AP)

Train kills 3 teen girls crossing Florida bridge (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:08 PM PST AP - After goofing around downtown, four teenagers marched past a "no trespassing" sign and braved a railroad trestle that spans 200 feet over a creek. As they joked around and took pictures at the bridge's halfway point, an oncoming train barreled down the tracks, its whistle howling alarm.

World's refugee orphans seeking homes in the US (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 04:11 PM PST AP - Hiding from merciless militiamen and trekking through unforgiving mountainous terrain, Madhel Majok escaped the mass slayings and genocide of the Sudan that killed his parents. The 9-year-old orphan fled to neighboring Kenya, where he then survived vigilante shellings on his crowded refugee camp.

Space shuttle landing in question, poor forecast (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 03:43 PM PST AP - Growing slightly more optimistic, NASA pressed ahead with a Sunday night landing for space shuttle Endeavour, even though poor weather on both coasts threatened to scuttle any touchdown attempts.

Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 10:38 AM PST AP - Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun.

Train derails, toxic cloud forces evacuations (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 01:29 PM PST AP - Several California homes remained evacuated Sunday after the car of a freight train that derailed near a small town burned and choked the area with thick, black smoke.

Feds outline plan to nurse Great Lakes to health (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:25 AM PST AP - The Obama administration has developed a five-year blueprint for rescuing the Great Lakes, a sprawling ecosystem plagued by toxic contamination, shrinking wildlife habitat and invasive species.

Vegas hotel unveils Elvis extravaganza (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:26 AM PST AP - Three decades after Elvis Presley took his last bow on the Las Vegas Strip, where he once reigned as king, the magicians of Cirque du Soleil have tried to summon back the power of this supreme entertainer in a show titled, "Viva Elvis."

Researchers: Most `test tube' kids are healthy (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 03:47 PM PST AP - More than 30 years after the world greeted its first "test-tube" baby with a mixture of awe, elation and concern, researchers say they are finding only a few medical differences between these children and kids conceived in the traditional way.

Calif.'s Negrohead Mountain renamed for pioneer (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 09:28 PM PST AP - A peak previously known as Negrohead Mountain in Southern California's Santa Monica range was officially renamed Saturday in honor of a black pioneer who settled the area in the 19th Century.

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