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• BP's top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil leak (AP)
• Surrogate father: Man with Ohio ID is Bulgarian (AP)
• AP ENTERPRISE: Spill grew, BP's credibility faded (AP)
• Thousands of immigration law opponents march in AZ (AP)
• 1,000th GI killed in Afghan war was on 2nd tour (AP)
• Military couples balance raising children, warfare (AP)
• States passing budget cuts onto local governments (AP)
• Cruising returns to LA's historic Van Nuys Blvd. (AP)
• Confusion, mistrust remains in Indian land redress (AP)
• No more eating shark fin in Hawaii after new law (AP)
• High hopes for business folk planning NJ pot sales (AP)
• DOJ, Arizona officials meet over immigration law (AP)
• Dennis Hopper, creator of hit 'Easy Rider,' dies (AP)
• `Diff'rent Strokes' star Gary Coleman dies (AP)
• Police search S. Calif. park for victim's remains (AP)
• Video gone from phone activist used in La. caper (AP)

BP's top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil leak (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 04:43 PM PDT AP - BP admitted defeat Saturday in its attempt to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil leak by pumping mud into a busted well, but said it's readying yet another approach to fight the spill after a series of failures.

Surrogate father: Man with Ohio ID is Bulgarian (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 05:13 PM PDT AP - His war hero grandfather and namesake fought the Nazis, his parents are respected scientific scholars in Bulgaria, and a former Reagan administration lawyer and his physician wife helped raise him as a teenager, all predicting a bright future.

AP ENTERPRISE: Spill grew, BP's credibility faded (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - At nearly every step since the Deepwater Horizon exploded more than a month ago, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. history, rig operator BP PLC has downplayed the severity of the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.

Thousands of immigration law opponents march in AZ (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT AP - Thousands of people from around the country marched to the Arizona state Capitol on Saturday to protest the state's tough new crackdown on illegal immigration.

1,000th GI killed in Afghan war was on 2nd tour (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 04:35 PM PDT AP - The 1,000th American serviceman killed in Afghanistan had already fallen once to a hidden explosive, driving his Humvee over a bomb in Iraq in 2007. The blast punched the dashboard radio into his face and broke his leg in two places.

Military couples balance raising children, warfare (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 12:23 PM PDT AP - Four-year-old Ava abandons her playmates at school, flying into the arms of Air Force Sgt. Stacia Zachary. The mother and daughter head to the playground.

States passing budget cuts onto local governments (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 11:07 AM PDT AP - Confronted with severe revenue shortfalls, some states have found a convenient way of softening painful cutbacks and avoiding statewide tax increases: They've passed the buck to their counterparts in cities and counties.

Cruising returns to LA's historic Van Nuys Blvd. (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 01:40 PM PDT AP - As tricked-out old cars rumbled past on Van Nuys Boulevard, Reid Stolz still had trouble believing what he'd done.

Confusion, mistrust remains in Indian land redress (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 12:05 PM PDT AP - Shirley Butterfly DeVolve inherited 52 acres on Montana's vast Blackfeet Indian Reservation when her father died in 1980.

No more eating shark fin in Hawaii after new law (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 01:34 PM PDT AP - The $48-a-plate shark fin has been a favorite dish to celebrate 80th birthdays and fete out of town VIPs since Vienna Hou's Chinese restaurant opened 25 years ago.

High hopes for business folk planning NJ pot sales (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 12:14 PM PDT AP - After careers in human resources and business consulting, Marianne Bays is tired of the corporate world. The 57-year-old's choice for a change: trying to become one of New Jersey's first legal pot dealers.

DOJ, Arizona officials meet over immigration law (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 11:08 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. They responded that a lawsuit against the state isn't the answer.

Dennis Hopper, creator of hit 'Easy Rider,' dies (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 03:52 PM PDT AP - Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in "Rebel Without a Cause," an improbable smash with "Easy Rider" and a classic character role in "Blue Velvet," has died. He was 74.

`Diff'rent Strokes' star Gary Coleman dies (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 03:18 AM PDT AP - Gary Coleman once said he wanted people to think of him as something more than the chubby-cheeked child star from television show "Diff'rent Strokes," that he wanted to escape the legacy of character Arnold Jackson, whose "Whatchu talkin' 'bout?" became a catch phrase of the 1970s and '80s.

Police search S. Calif. park for victim's remains (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 07:03 AM PDT AP - Authorities are searching a Long Beach park for the remains of a man killed and dismembered in a bizarre double murder-for-profit plot.

Video gone from phone activist used in La. caper (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 09:55 AM PDT AP - Conservative activist-videographer James O'Keefe said video he shot of conversations with staffers of U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu was deleted when his cell phone was returned after he and three others pleaded guilty to charges in a caper he orchestrated at the Democrat's New Orleans office.

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