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• Burning oil rig sinks, setting stage for big spill (AP)
• Take-your-kid-to-work day appears to lose steam (AP)
• NYC mayor: I can't control offshore charity funds (AP)
• Ariz. lawmakers: Candidates must prove citizenship (AP)
• GOP Senate hopeful in Fla. is the Teflon candidate (AP)
• Man arrested in death of Miss. white supremacist (AP)
• Suit: Vatican No. 2 got letter from abuse victim (AP)
• Roman Polanski's appeal to end sex case denied (AP)
• Whitney Harris, Nuremberg prosecutor, dies at 97 (AP)
• Budget crisis puts LA court system at risk (AP)
• Study: Better teachers help children read faster (AP)
• Frat inspired by Robert E. Lee bans Rebel uniforms (AP)
• Emissions often underestimated, EPA standards old (AP)
• Earth Day: No more burning rivers, but new threats (AP)
• Blagojevich wants Obama to testify at his trial (AP)
• Man who killed abortion protester gets life term (AP)
• Vietnamese sister city a hard sell in NC Army town (AP)
• Police: Conn. man in feud placed fake orgy ad (AP)
• Bristol Palin: Hacked e-mail meant harassing calls (AP)
• New study says oceans' chemistry changing rapidly (AP)

Burning oil rig sinks, setting stage for big spill (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:06 PM PDT AP - A deepwater oil platform that burned for more than a day after a massive explosion sank into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, creating the potential for a major spill as it underscored the slim chances that the 11 workers still missing survived.

Take-your-kid-to-work day appears to lose steam (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:51 PM PDT AP - More than a decade after it began, take-your-kid-to-work day appears to be losing steam. Now it's keep-your-kid-in-school.

NYC mayor: I can't control offshore charity funds (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:06 PM PDT AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday said there's nothing wrong with his money managers investing hundreds of millions of dollars in offshore tax havens, defending it as a practical way to make more money for his philanthropic foundation.

Ariz. lawmakers: Candidates must prove citizenship (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT AP - Arizona lawmakers expressing doubt over whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States are pushing a bill through the Legislature that would require the president to show his birth certificate to get on the state's 2012 ballot.

GOP Senate hopeful in Fla. is the Teflon candidate (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:14 PM PDT AP - Senate hopeful Marco Rubio, the new darling of the tea-party movement, finds himself caught up in a federal investigation into alleged credit-card abuses by top Florida Republicans.

Man arrested in death of Miss. white supremacist (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:01 PM PDT AP - A white supremacist lawyer with a knack for publicity was found stabbed to death in a burning house Thursday, and Mississippi authorities later arrested a suspect in the death.

Suit: Vatican No. 2 got letter from abuse victim (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:06 PM PDT AP - A neatly typed letter dated March 5, 1995, is addressed to the No. 2 man at the Vatican and recounts the story of a priest who preyed on deaf boys trapped in dormitories with no chance of escape.

Roman Polanski's appeal to end sex case denied (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:17 PM PDT AP - An appeals court on Thursday denied Roman Polanski's latest attempt to end his decades-old sex case, a move that could set the stage for the fugitive director's return to the United States.

Whitney Harris, Nuremberg prosecutor, dies at 97 (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:08 PM PDT AP - Whitney Harris, who was a member of the U.S. legal team that prosecuted Nazis at Nuremberg after World War II, has died. He was 97.

Budget crisis puts LA court system at risk (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - The nation's largest court system is in the midst of a painful budget crisis that has shut down courtrooms and disrupted everything from divorce and custody proceedings to traffic ticket disputes.

Study: Better teachers help children read faster (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:17 AM PDT AP - Genetics play the biggest role in determining how fast a child learns to read, but a good teacher can make a measurable difference as well, according to a study released Thursday.

Frat inspired by Robert E. Lee bans Rebel uniforms (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:09 PM PDT AP - A college fraternity inspired by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has banned members around the country from wearing Confederate uniforms to "Old South" parties and parades after years of complaints that the tradition was racially insensitive.

Emissions often underestimated, EPA standards old (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 12:50 PM PDT AP - The nation's oil and chemical plants are spewing a lot more pollution than they report to the Environmental Protection Agency — and the EPA knows it.

Earth Day: No more burning rivers, but new threats (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:08 AM PDT AP - Pollution before the first Earth Day was not only visible, it was in your face: Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire. An oil spill fouled 30 miles of Southern California beaches. And thick smog choked many cities' skies.

Blagojevich wants Obama to testify at his trial (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:04 PM PDT AP - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked a federal judge on Thursday to issue a subpoena for President Barack Obama to testify as a witness at his corruption trial.

Man who killed abortion protester gets life term (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:12 AM PDT AP - A trucker who stunned a small Michigan community by killing an abortion protester and a businessman was sentenced Thursday to life in prison during a court hearing that began with an apology and ended with a verbal attack on the judge.

Vietnamese sister city a hard sell in NC Army town (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:48 AM PDT AP - The mayor of one of America's most renowned Army cities wants to establish cultural ties to a rural Vietnamese town, a plan that has angered some veterans who served in Southeast Asia generations ago.

Police: Conn. man in feud placed fake orgy ad (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 10:33 AM PDT AP - A Connecticut man who was feuding with his neighbor targeted her in an explicit online posting that invited strangers to a rowdy orgy with a bored soccer mom, police said.

Bristol Palin: Hacked e-mail meant harassing calls (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:59 AM PDT AP - Bristol Palin said she received countless phone calls and hundreds of text messages when her cell number was posted online after her mother's e-mail account was hacked. Only one really scared her.

New study says oceans' chemistry changing rapidly (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 10:33 AM PDT AP - The chemistry of the oceans is changing faster than it has in hundreds of thousands of years because of the carbon dioxide being absorbed from the atmosphere, the National Research Council reported Thursday.

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