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• Illegal immigrant student hopes case helps reform (AP)
• Parking attendants trained to watch for terrorists (AP)
• Key spill size issue: How much and does it matter? (AP)
• Boss: 1 of 3 arrested said he knew NY bomb suspect (AP)
• US Marine general says forces hurting opium trade (AP)
• Killer of 2 California girls gets life in prison (AP)
• Space shuttle Atlantis soars on final voyage (AP)
• Teacher apologizes for recorded beating of student (AP)
• Accused student impostor now faces sex charge (AP)
• Gray whale dies after week off Southern California (AP)
• DA: Mom threw tot in NY river out of spousal spite (AP)
• Vatican's top American has mixed record on abuse (AP)
• Scientist inspired by Dalai Lama studies happiness (AP)
• Security for SC gov rendezvous costs Fla. $1,200 (AP)
• Explosion at NH gun factory kills 2, injures 1 (AP)
• Miss., La. govs contrast in responses to oil spill (AP)
• Woman faces charges in Texas polygamist deaths (AP)
• Official: Broker network tied to NY bomb suspect (AP)
• Iowa court: Exhume body so head can be frozen (AP)
• Asian judge nominee shows community's progress (AP)

Illegal immigrant student hopes case helps reform (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 03:42 PM PDT AP - When Jessica Colotl, an illegal immigrant college student, got arrested for a minor traffic violation at her suburban Atlanta campus, she became an accidental poster child for immigration reform.

Parking attendants trained to watch for terrorists (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 12:24 PM PDT AP - Parking attendants and meter maids could be the nation's latest line of defense against terrorist attacks.

Key spill size issue: How much and does it matter? (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 04:21 PM PDT AP - Just how much oil is spewing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico and how important is it to know that? Experts can't agree on either question.

Boss: 1 of 3 arrested said he knew NY bomb suspect (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 02:33 PM PDT AP - Three Pakistani men arrested in the widening investigation of the Times Square bomb include a Boston-area cab driver, a gas station attendant and a computer programmer in Maine who told his boss that he knew the primary suspect, Faisal Shahzad, but hadn't spoken to him in years. In Pakistan, authorities took into custody two other men on suspicion of helping to finance the failed plot.

US Marine general says forces hurting opium trade (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 02:15 PM PDT AP - U.S. forces are dealing a blow to the Taliban's multimillion-dollar opium business by securing deals with farmers to plant legal crops, The commanding general in charge of U.S. Marines in Afghanistan said Friday.

Killer of 2 California girls gets life in prison (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 04:58 PM PDT AP - A sex offender who admitted murdering two teenage girls was sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday after crying as the victims' families denounced him, the legal system and his mother.

Space shuttle Atlantis soars on final voyage (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 02:41 PM PDT AP - Space shuttle Atlantis thundered away on its final voyage to orbit Friday, hoisting an experienced crew of six and a full shipment of space station gear.

Teacher apologizes for recorded beating of student (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 04:46 PM PDT AP - A teacher who was recorded on cell phone video beating a student apologized Friday, saying she was "without excuse" for the attack on the 13-year-old.

Accused student impostor now faces sex charge (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 04:01 PM PDT AP - Authorities say a 22-year-old man accused of posing as a high school student in Texas is now facing a sexual assault charge.

Gray whale dies after week off Southern California (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 04:54 PM PDT AP - A young gray whale that captured public concern as it swam listlessly around Southern California's Dana Point Harbor after rescuers freed it of nets and rope has died.

DA: Mom threw tot in NY river out of spousal spite (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - An unhappy mother hurled her toddler daughter into the chilly Hudson River and then jumped in herself in an apparent murder-suicide attempt intended to spite her husband, prosecutors said Friday.

Vatican's top American has mixed record on abuse (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 02:02 PM PDT AP - In 1997, the Rev. John Conley walked into a dimly lit church rectory to find a disheveled boy standing there and someone else crawling out a back door. The boy told him he had been wrestling with the parish's head priest.

Scientist inspired by Dalai Lama studies happiness (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 01:31 PM PDT AP - After hearing about his cutting-edge research on the brain and emotions through mutual friends, the Dalai Lama invited Richard Davidson to his home in India in 1992 to pose a question.

Security for SC gov rendezvous costs Fla. $1,200 (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 02:04 PM PDT AP - Florida spent about $1,200 to provide security for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford when he visited to be with his Argentine lover, records show.

Explosion at NH gun factory kills 2, injures 1 (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 04:41 PM PDT AP - The New Hampshire Fire Marshal says two people were killed and another received minor injuries in an explosion at a gun and ammunition plant in the far northern town of Colebrook, near the Canadian border.

Miss., La. govs contrast in responses to oil spill (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 01:17 AM PDT AP - The ambitious Republican governors of Mississippi and Louisiana are a study in contrasts as an oil spill threatens coastal economies still reeling from Hurricane Katrina.

Woman faces charges in Texas polygamist deaths (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 11:08 AM PDT AP - FBI agents in Honduras arrested the fugitive daughter of a polygamist sect leader wanted in a 1988 quadruple slaying and extradited her to Houston to face murder and conspiracy charges, the agency said Friday.

Official: Broker network tied to NY bomb suspect (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 09:58 AM PDT AP - Long before there was MoneyGram and Western Union, people in South Asian countries often used an informal network of brokers, called an "hawala," to transfer money over long distances when it was too inconvenient or dangerous to send cash by courier.

Iowa court: Exhume body so head can be frozen (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 01:22 PM PDT AP - The siblings of a man who died more than a year ago must exhume his body so his head can be cut off and cryogenically frozen, the Iowa Court of Appeals has ruled.

Asian judge nominee shows community's progress (AP) Posted: 14 May 2010 11:57 AM PDT AP - When Wendy Chang told her parents she wanted to become a lawyer, they were not enthused.

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