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• As spill grows, oil soaks delicate marshes, birds (AP)
• La. won't wait for federal OK to erect sand berms (AP)
• New Hawaii congressman hopes for quick swearing-in (AP)
• Producer wanted for questioning returns to US (AP)
• Hundreds march in Utah to honor slain 4-year-old (AP)
• Jury selection begins in Ill. police torture trial (AP)
• Shuttle Atlantis undocks from space station (AP)
• NY's Cuomo announces he's running for governor (AP)
• Border Patrol arrests 7 in 100-mile Calif. chase (AP)
• GOP wins House seat in Obama's home district (AP)
• Mother of Calif. babies found beaten arrested (AP)
• BP wants to continue using contentious dispersant (AP)
• Veterans increasingly find service helps in court (AP)
• Martin Gardner, 95, math and science writer, dies (AP)
• EPA chief to return to Gulf Coast to monitor spill (AP)

As spill grows, oil soaks delicate marshes, birds (AP) Posted: 23 May 2010 04:43 PM PDT AP - As officials approached to survey the damage the Gulf oil spill caused in coastal marshes, some brown pelicans couldn't fly away Sunday. All they could do was hobble.

La. won't wait for federal OK to erect sand berms (AP) Posted: 23 May 2010 02:06 PM PDT AP - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says the state is not waiting for federal approval to begin building sand barriers to protect the coastline from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

New Hawaii congressman hopes for quick swearing-in (AP) Posted: 23 May 2010 03:39 PM PDT AP - Hawaii's newest member of Congress hopes to be quickly sworn in this week after his special election victory.

Producer wanted for questioning returns to US (AP) Posted: 23 May 2010 04:11 PM PDT AP - A former "Survivor" producer wanted for questioning in Mexico about his wife's death has returned to the United States, his lawyer said Sunday.

Hundreds march in Utah to honor slain 4-year-old (AP) Posted: 23 May 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of Utahns gathered for a 10-mile walk to honor a 4-year-old Virginia boy whose badly beaten body was dug up from a Utah mountainside grave nearly two weeks ago.

Jury selection begins in Ill. police torture trial (AP) Posted: 23 May 2010 11:27 AM PDT AP - For decades, black men across Chicago described torture at the hands of former police Lt. Jon Burge and his officers, and for decades no one listened. Suspects landed in jail and even on death row for crimes they say they didn't commit after Burge and his men coerced confessions using terrifying methods including suffocation, a form of waterboarding and electric shocks.

Shuttle Atlantis undocks from space station (AP) Posted: 23 May 2010 10:11 AM PDT AP - After a week of flying together, shuttle Atlantis undocked from a larger and virtually completed International Space Station on Sunday and headed for home on its final voyage.

NY's Cuomo announces he's running for governor (AP) Posted: 23 May 2010 12:33 AM PDT AP - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo declared his candidacy for governor Saturday, delivering an impassioned call for political reform and pledging to make the notoriously dysfunctional state government more accountable to its citizens.

Border Patrol arrests 7 in 100-mile Calif. chase (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 09:56 PM PDT AP - Authorities say a man led Border Patrol agents on a 100-mile chase from the U.S.-Mexico border into Southern California before the driver and six suspected undocumented immigrants stopped and surrendered in Irvine.

GOP wins House seat in Obama's home district (AP) Posted: 23 May 2010 03:08 PM PDT AP - Republicans cited Rep.-elect Charles Djou's victory for a seat long out of their reach as evidence of steadily increasing election-year strength, but Democrats said Sunday the winner's 40-percent vote share portends a short stay in Congress for him and predicts nothing about the fall.

Mother of Calif. babies found beaten arrested (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 09:55 PM PDT AP - Authorities say the mother of a baby and a toddler who were found beaten, bound and gagged in a Southern California bedroom has been arrested.

BP wants to continue using contentious dispersant (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 07:06 PM PDT AP - BP PLC said Saturday it wants to keep using a contentious chemical dispersant to fight the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, despite orders from federal regulators to use something less toxic.

Veterans increasingly find service helps in court (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 05:59 PM PDT AP - The plea was passionate, dramatic and effective: haunted to addiction by memories of a Bosnian mass grave and the shooting of a teen in Honduras, former U.S. Army Capt. Sargent Binkley robbed two Silicon Valley pharmacies for painkillers.

Martin Gardner, 95, math and science writer, dies (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 10:17 PM PDT AP - Prolific mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner, known for popularizing recreational mathematics and debunking paranormal claims, died Saturday. He was 95.

EPA chief to return to Gulf Coast to monitor spill (AP) Posted: 23 May 2010 02:30 AM PDT AP - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief is returning to the Gulf Coast to monitor the response to the massive oil spill and its effect on the region.

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