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• Rescuers search for 11 missing after oil rig blast (AP)
• Ariz. court discovers original OK Corral papers (AP)
• Bristol Palin says e-mail hack led to scary calls (AP)
• Feds conduct surprise inspections of 57 coal mines (AP)
• Court in NY gives government victory against ACORN (AP)
• NY Sen. Schumer wants northern border drug plan (AP)
• Prosecutor: Camry in deadly crash not recalled (AP)
• Judge: Blagojevich brothers to be tried together (AP)
• After surgeries in Mich., Iraqi teen to head home (AP)
• NYC tenants in defaulted properties demand fixes (AP)
• NM boy fractures skull in fight on school bus (AP)
• 10 years after Elian, US players mum or moving on (AP)
• Gas in the tank: GM repays $8.1B in gov't loans (AP)
• AP-GfK Poll: Americans shifting to US cars (AP)
• Conn. mayor donates kidney to Facebook friend (AP)
• Woman gets probation for starving son with cult (AP)
• Feds: Blackwater president had 'scofflaw attitude' (AP)
• Police seek couple who left Fla. boy at NYC church (AP)
• Army considers rescinding invitation to evangelist (AP)
• Civil rights leader Hooks laid to rest in Memphis (AP)

Rescuers search for 11 missing after oil rig blast (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 06:31 PM PDT AP - Rescuers in helicopters and boats searched the Gulf of Mexico for 11 missing workers Wednesday after a thunderous explosion rocked a huge oil drilling platform and lit up the night sky with a pillar of flame. Seventeen people were injured, four critically.

Ariz. court discovers original OK Corral papers (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 06:32 PM PDT AP - A missing handwritten transcript from a coroner's inquest done after the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral has resurfaced in a dusty box more than 125 years after the most famous shootout in Wild West history.

Bristol Palin says e-mail hack led to scary calls (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT AP - Sarah Palin's daughter testified Wednesday against a former college student charged with breaking into her mother's e-mail account, saying she got anonymous phone calls and hundred of text messages after her cell phone number was posted online.

Feds conduct surprise inspections of 57 coal mines (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:22 PM PDT AP - Nearly 60 problem U.S. coal mines have been hit with surprise inspections aimed at preventing another explosion like the one that killed 29 miners in West Virginia, the nation's chief mine safety regulator said Wednesday.

Court in NY gives government victory against ACORN (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 04:31 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court on Wednesday handed the government a victory by temporarily blocking a judge's finding that Congress was wrong to halt federal funding to the activist group ACORN.

NY Sen. Schumer wants northern border drug plan (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 02:47 PM PDT AP - Sen. Charles Schumer on Wednesday said Congress should force the White House to create an anti-drug-smuggling strategy for the northern border, similar to one in place for the southern border.

Prosecutor: Camry in deadly crash not recalled (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:47 PM PDT AP - The inspection of a Toyota Camry involved in a deadly crash that sent a St. Paul man to prison supports his claim he did all he could to try to stop before the 2006 collision that killed three people, attorneys and a participating expert said Wednesday.

Judge: Blagojevich brothers to be tried together (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 01:41 PM PDT AP - A judge told Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday that he won't waste the jury's time at former governor's corruption trial by playing secretly made FBI tapes if he determines that those tapes are irrelevant.

After surgeries in Mich., Iraqi teen to head home (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 12:15 PM PDT AP - A 13-year-old Iraqi boy brought to Michigan a year ago by a National Guardsman so he could get plastic surgery to repair scars from a house fire no longer is shy about pulling off his beloved Detroit Tigers baseball cap.

NYC tenants in defaulted properties demand fixes (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:57 PM PDT AP - Step into Charlene Barton's apartment, and the first thing you smell is mold.

NM boy fractures skull in fight on school bus (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 02:36 PM PDT AP - A 7-year-old boy underwent surgery for a skull fracture after an apparent fight with another child on a school bus in the southern New Mexico city of Las Cruces, a school official and an attorney for the child's family said Wednesday.

10 years after Elian, US players mum or moving on (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 02:46 PM PDT AP - When federal agents stormed a home in the Little Havana community, snatched Elian Gonzalez from his father's relatives and put him on a path back to his father in Cuba, thousands of Cuban-Americans took to Miami's streets. Their anger helped give George W. Bush the White House months later and simmered long after that.

Gas in the tank: GM repays $8.1B in gov't loans (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 04:37 PM PDT AP - Fallen giant General Motors Co. accelerated toward recovery Wednesday, announcing the repayment of $8.1 billion in U.S. and Canadian government loans five years ahead of schedule.

AP-GfK Poll: Americans shifting to US cars (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:22 PM PDT AP - Buy American? That's suddenly a good idea again to more car buyers. Toyota's safety problems and a buffed-up lineup of offerings from Detroit's Big 3 are rubbing the tarnish off car buyers' perceptions of U.S. models. An Associated Press-GfK Poll shows that 38 percent favor U.S. vehicles while 33 percent prefer Asian brands, a significant improvement for U.S. automakers compared to four years ago.

Conn. mayor donates kidney to Facebook friend (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 04:32 PM PDT AP - Politicians long ago discovered the uses of Facebook. East Haven Mayor April Capone Almon found something else there: a constituent who needed her kidney.

Woman gets probation for starving son with cult (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT AP - A woman who starved her 1-year-old son to death at the behest of a religious cult leader was given a sentence Wednesday that won't require her to serve any more jail time.

Feds: Blackwater president had 'scofflaw attitude' (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 12:05 PM PDT AP - Federal prosecutors launched a scathing assessment of Blackwater Worldwide's former president Wednesday, declaring in an initial court appearance that he operated the security firm with "sheer arrogance" and a "scofflaw attitude."

Police seek couple who left Fla. boy at NYC church (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:16 PM PDT AP - Authorities say a family caravanning with a woman and her toddler in Florida took the 3-year-old to New York after the boy's mother was arrested on fraud charges, abandoning him at St. Patrick's Cathedral with a note stuffed into his hand bearing the name of a detective working the case and the words "call immediately."

Army considers rescinding invitation to evangelist (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:16 PM PDT AP - The Army is considering whether to rescind an invitation to evangelist Franklin Graham to appear at the Pentagon amid complaints about his description of Islam as evil, a military spokesman said Wednesday.

Civil rights leader Hooks laid to rest in Memphis (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 12:53 PM PDT AP - After years of fighting for social justice, civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks was laid to rest Wednesday.

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