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• Pirates threaten boats on US-Mexico border lake (AP)
• Authorities: Child porn ring, weak as weakest link (AP)
• DOJ, Arizona officials meet over immigration law (AP)
• `Diff'rent Strokes' star Gary Coleman dies (AP)
• For vacationers, it's another scaled-back summer (AP)
• Illinois cross draws tourists, ire from atheist (AP)
• NYC hospital wins kidney transplant-cancer lawsuit (AP)
• CDC has contraception advice for some ill women (AP)
• Missteps put Ohio inmate work program in jeopardy (AP)
• Police: 3 locked demented woman in room for months (AP)
• Oakland to license, tax indoor marijuana growers (AP)
• Jetliner, cargo plane in near miss at Anchorage (AP)
• 22-mile oil plume under Gulf nears rich waters (AP)
• Decision to halt offshore drilling stirs debate (AP)
• 'Diff'rent Strokes' star Gary Coleman dies (AP)
• 3 million feet of boom in Gulf, but does it help? (AP)
• Autistic kids abused in Pa. classroom to get $5M (AP)

Pirates threaten boats on US-Mexico border lake (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 01:52 PM PDT AP - The waters of Falcon Lake normally beckon boaters with waterskiing and world-record bass fishing. But this holiday weekend, fishermen on the waters that straddle the U.S.-Mexico border are on the lookout for something more sinister: pirates.

Authorities: Child porn ring, weak as weakest link (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - Authorities say the administrators of a major international online child pornography ring went to great lengths to keep investigators from sniffing out their website, on which millions of explicit images were traded.

DOJ, Arizona officials meet over immigration law (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 02:50 PM PDT AP - Justice Department officials told Arizona's attorney general and aides to the governor Friday that the federal government has serious reservations about the state's new immigration law.

`Diff'rent Strokes' star Gary Coleman dies (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 04:54 PM PDT AP - Gary Coleman, the adorable, pint-sized child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" who spent the rest of his life struggling on Hollywood's D-list, died Friday after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 42.

For vacationers, it's another scaled-back summer (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 11:28 AM PDT AP - Last Memorial Day, Ronald Dolly spent the long weekend in Miami Beach with two friends. This year, the destination is the same, but the quarters are closer: 11 people, two cars, one hotel room.

Illinois cross draws tourists, ire from atheist (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 12:31 AM PDT AP - Farmers sold pigs to help raise money to build the towering cross on southern Illinois' highest point as a year-round testament to faith. The 11-story monument draws thousands of visitors each year, and supporters say it has promoted self-growth and reflection for nearly half a century.

NYC hospital wins kidney transplant-cancer lawsuit (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 04:59 PM PDT AP - A prominent organ-transplant hospital wasn't to blame for the death of a man who became riddled with cancer after getting a kidney from a donor who unknowingly had uterine cancer, jurors found Friday.

CDC has contraception advice for some ill women (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 01:53 PM PDT AP - U.S. health officials have for the first time released contraception safety guidelines for more than 1 million women who have had weight-loss surgery or have certain medical conditions.

Missteps put Ohio inmate work program in jeopardy (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 02:18 PM PDT AP - A decades-old Ohio program that allows low-risk inmates to work at the governor's official residence is in jeopardy after yet another disclosure of abuses, this time drinking by two inmates who are suspected of sampling the mansion's private stock.

Police: 3 locked demented woman in room for months (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 02:48 PM PDT AP - Three people kept a 65-year-old woman with dementia locked in a tiny room with a urine-soaked mattress to sleep on and a dog bowl to drink from so that they could live off her monthly Social Security checks, authorities said.

Oakland to license, tax indoor marijuana growers (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 12:20 AM PDT AP - Local governments in California and other Western states have tried to clamp down on medical marijuana, but Oakland has taken a different approach.

Jetliner, cargo plane in near miss at Anchorage (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 11:54 AM PDT AP - The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday it is investigating how a US Airways passenger jet flew within a third of a mile of a cargo plane at Anchorage's airport after the airliner's crew refused to make a turn they said would "put their flight in direct conflict" with the departing cargo jet.

22-mile oil plume under Gulf nears rich waters (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 07:40 AM PDT AP - A thick, 22-mile plume of oil discovered by researchers off the BP spill site was nearing an underwater canyon, where it could poison the foodchain for sealife in the waters off Florida.

Decision to halt offshore drilling stirs debate (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 06:52 AM PDT AP - Sitting at the end of a pinewood bar at the back of his seafood shop, Dimitri Hionis stares out over the calm waters of Lynnhaven Inlet as he struggles with whether the Gulf oil spill should halt oil and gas exploration off Virginia's coast.

'Diff'rent Strokes' star Gary Coleman dies (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 11:57 AM PDT AP - Gary Coleman, the child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" whose later career was marred by medical and legal problems, has died after suffering an intercranial hemorrhage. He was 42.

3 million feet of boom in Gulf, but does it help? (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 05:22 AM PDT AP - Globs of sticky brownish ooze soil miles of sensitive shoreline and marsh from Alabama to Louisiana. Pelican rookeries are awash in oil. Oyster beds and shrimp nurseries face certain death. All the while, long, slender barriers intended to protect the shoreline float twisted, tangled or sometimes just broken apart, unable to stop the creeping crude.

Autistic kids abused in Pa. classroom to get $5M (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 09:14 AM PDT AP - The families of seven autistic students who were abused by their teacher in a northeastern Pennsylvania classroom have agreed to a $5 million settlement of their federal lawsuit.

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