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• World Trade Center steel makes way home to Pa. (AP)
• AP IMPACT: Predator priests shuffled around globe (AP)
• Arizona may crack down hard on illegal immigrants (AP)
• Palin rallies tea partiers with anti-tax message (AP)
• Another day of protest at Hawaii gov's office (AP)
• Gov orders inspections for 200 W.Va. coal mines (AP)
• Mom describes Fla. 11-year-old's swamp ordeal (AP)
• AP Enterprise: Calif. sell-off plan has high cost (AP)
• Feds: Blagojevich wanted new job, big paycheck (AP)
• Calif. doc gets 4 years for providing painkillers (AP)
• Palin dispute raises questions about foundations (AP)
• NJ school: We didn't tell your boys to cross-dress (AP)
• Conservatives in Nevada want Sen. Ensign to quit (AP)
• Iowa coach killer sentenced to life in prison (AP)
• Estefans open Miami home to Obama, stirring debate (AP)
• NYC, contractors appeal 9/11 settlement ruling (AP)
• Tampa airport lockdown due to training exercise (AP)
• Pa.: No legal action in 'Jon & Kate' labor probe (AP)
• 3 kids among 4 dead in Chicago shooting; 2 wounded (AP)
• US military testing high-tech dirigibles in Utah (AP)

World Trade Center steel makes way home to Pa. (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT AP - Massive steel remnants of the fallen World Trade Center towers returned Wednesday to the Pennsylvania city where they were made more than four decades ago, in a solemn homecoming that was never meant to be.

AP IMPACT: Predator priests shuffled around globe (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 05:18 PM PDT AP - There he was, five decades later, the priest who had raped Joe Callander in Massachusetts. The photo in the Roman Catholic newsletter showed him with a smile across his wrinkled face, near-naked Amazon Indian children in his arms and at his feet.

Arizona may crack down hard on illegal immigrants (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:54 PM PDT AP - Civil rights activists Wednesday warned that Arizona is inviting rampant racial profiling and police-state tactics if it enacts what would be the toughest law in the nation against illegal immigrants.

Palin rallies tea partiers with anti-tax message (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 05:14 PM PDT AP - Sarah Palin rallied the conservative tea party movement near the scene of its historical inspiration Wednesday, telling Washington politicians that government should be working for the people, not the other way around.

Another day of protest at Hawaii gov's office (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:08 PM PDT AP - Parents angry about Hawaii's shortest-in-the-nation school year entered the seventh day of their sit-in at Gov. Linda Lingle's office Wednesday despite arrests of two protesters the night before and the issuance of several trespassing citations.

Gov orders inspections for 200 W.Va. coal mines (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:11 PM PDT AP - Gov. Joe Manchin on Wednesday ordered the immediate inspection of all underground coal mines in West Virginia after an explosion last week killed 29 miners and injured two.

Mom describes Fla. 11-year-old's swamp ordeal (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 03:33 PM PDT AP - An 11-year-old girl lost for four days deep in a swamp spent the time collecting shells, watching animals and praying until a former member of her church rescued her, her mother said Wednesday.

AP Enterprise: Calif. sell-off plan has high cost (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:17 PM PDT AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to sell two dozen state office buildings would cost California taxpayers billions of dollars in rent in the years ahead, far more than the state stands to make from the sale, according to financial documents analyzed by The Associated Press.

Feds: Blagojevich wanted new job, big paycheck (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 05:14 PM PDT AP - Federal prosecutors' latest portrait of Rod Blagojevich in his final days as Illinois governor reveal a man fed up with his $177,000-a-year job, desperate for cash and seeing his power to appoint someone to President Barack Obama's old Senate seat as his ticket to a "good gig."

Calif. doc gets 4 years for providing painkillers (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:49 PM PDT AP - A California diet center doctor known by patients as "Candy Man" was sentenced Wednesday to four years in federal prison for dispensing what authorities said were massive amounts of powerful painkillers in exchange for cash.

Palin dispute raises questions about foundations (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:26 PM PDT AP - An escalating controversy involving a university foundation that hired Sarah Palin to give a speech has shed light on legal loopholes that allow such auxiliary organizations to operate with little public oversight.

NJ school: We didn't tell your boys to cross-dress (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 02:34 PM PDT AP - A teacher's explanation to parents of a women's history project planned for her third-graders contained these words: "If your child is a young man, he does not have to wear a dress or skirt."

Conservatives in Nevada want Sen. Ensign to quit (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 10:58 AM PDT AP - Some Nevada conservatives want Republican Sen. John Ensign to resign amid a federal investigation stemming from an extramarital affair, with one critic calling him "the political equivalent of a suicide bomber."

Iowa coach killer sentenced to life in prison (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT AP - After nearly 10 months of trying to forgive him, Ed Thomas' sons finally addressed Mark Becker directly on Wednesday, asking him to take responsibility for gunning down their father, a renowned high school football coach.

Estefans open Miami home to Obama, stirring debate (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 04:07 PM PDT AP - In the realm of Cuban musicians and entertainers, Gloria Estefan has been revered as the community's first daughter, the child of exiles whose songs of love and country are a staple in any music collection.

NYC, contractors appeal 9/11 settlement ruling (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 02:51 PM PDT AP - The city and contractors who handled the cleanup of the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 attacks on Wednesday notified a court they are appealing a judge's decision to block a $575 million settlement of claims by thousands of workers who fell ill.

Tampa airport lockdown due to training exercise (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 01:18 PM PDT AP - Airport officials say a lockdown at a Tampa International Airport terminal was caused by a police dog training exercise.

Pa.: No legal action in 'Jon & Kate' labor probe (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 02:25 PM PDT AP - Child-labor permits should have been obtained for children appearing on the TLC television show "Jon & Kate Plus 8," but the state will not take legal action against the producers, Pennsylvania regulators have concluded.

3 kids among 4 dead in Chicago shooting; 2 wounded (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 01:37 PM PDT AP - A gunman opened fire on a house on Chicago's southwest side early Wednesday, killing a woman and three children — including a 7-month-old boy — and wounding two others, police said.

US military testing high-tech dirigibles in Utah (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 03:31 PM PDT AP - The U.S. military has begun testing massive high-tech dirigibles — designed to provide battlefield commanders with a bird's-eye view of cruise missiles or other threats — in the skies over the Utah desert.

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