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• BP stock tumbles as feds announce oil-spill probes (AP)
• Al and Tipper Gore separate after 40-year marriage (AP)
• Glitch shows how much US military relies on GPS (AP)
• Ft. Hood shooting suspect solemn, quiet in hearing (AP)
• Ex-CSI chief gets prison for evidence tampering (AP)
• Dieting for dollars? More US employees trying it (AP)
• Kagan's early influences demanding, activist (AP)
• Who you callin' NY?! Super Bowl 2014 is in Jersey (AP)
• California man to be charged in torture slaying (AP)
• Ted Koppel's son, 40, found dead in NYC apartment (AP)
• Senators await Kagan papers from Clinton library (AP)
• Wiretap tapes key as Blagojevich goes on trial (AP)
• Almost one-third of Gulf fishing grounds closed (AP)
• Marine aircraft mishap injures 10 at NYC park (AP)
• Palin biographer: I didn't move next door to spy (AP)

BP stock tumbles as feds announce oil-spill probes (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 04:24 PM PDT AP - BP's stock plummeted and took much of the market down with it Tuesday as the federal government announced criminal and civil investigations into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP engineers, meanwhile, tried to recover from a failed attempt to stop the gusher with an effort that will initially make the leak worse.

Al and Tipper Gore separate after 40-year marriage (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:43 PM PDT AP - Al Gore once claimed his romance with wife Tipper inspired the novel "Love Story" and the couple shared an uncomfortably long kiss before millions on the stage of the Democratic National Convention.

Glitch shows how much US military relies on GPS (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 11:13 AM PDT AP - A problem that rendered as many as 10,000 U.S. military GPS receivers useless for days is a warning to safeguard a system that enemies would love to disrupt, a defense expert says.

Ft. Hood shooting suspect solemn, quiet in hearing (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:36 PM PDT AP - Wearing his Army uniform and sitting solemnly in a wheelchair, the psychiatrist accused of gunning down 13 people at Fort Hood made his first courtroom appearance Tuesday and won a delay in his case.

Ex-CSI chief gets prison for evidence tampering (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:31 PM PDT AP - The former chief crime scene investigator of Nebraska's most populous county was sentenced to up to four years in prison Tuesday for planting blood evidence in a 2006 murder investigation.

Dieting for dollars? More US employees trying it (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 10:03 AM PDT AP - How much money would it take to get you to lose some serious weight? $100? $500?

Kagan's early influences demanding, activist (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:32 PM PDT AP - Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's basic bio looks like this: raised in a middle-class Jewish family in Manhattan. Two brothers. Mother taught school. Dad was a lawyer. Look closer, and you'll find a family tree richly populated with individuals of great determination, intelligence and activism. There's even a bona fide tree-hugger and a leftist dissident in the lot.

Who you callin' NY?! Super Bowl 2014 is in Jersey (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:58 AM PDT AP - It's a geographical fact: The 2014 Super Bowl will be played in New Jersey — not in New York.

California man to be charged in torture slaying (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 06:04 PM PDT AP - A Northern California man will be charged with murder for allegedly cutting his friend's heart from his chest and tearing off his face in a gruesome killing that the man's attorney blamed on a psychotic episode brought on by hallucinogenic mushrooms he was taking.

Ted Koppel's son, 40, found dead in NYC apartment (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:51 PM PDT AP - A son of former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel was found dead in an apartment after a day of bar hopping with a man he'd just met, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.

Senators await Kagan papers from Clinton library (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:49 AM PDT AP - Researchers at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library are working overtime to produce more than 160,000 pages of documents — some of them possibly holding clues to the record of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

Wiretap tapes key as Blagojevich goes on trial (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 02:07 PM PDT AP - Rod Blagojevich has traveled the talk show circuit for months, telling anyone who would listen that he's innocent of federal charges that he conspired to profit from his power as governor of Illinois to fill President Barack Obama's former Senate seat.

Almost one-third of Gulf fishing grounds closed (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 11:53 AM PDT AP - Almost one-third of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico is closing to commercial and recreational fishing because of the oil spill.

Marine aircraft mishap injures 10 at NYC park (AP) Posted: 31 May 2010 11:20 PM PDT AP - A U.S. Marine Corps aircraft's powerful propellers whipped up a wind that sent branches hurling off a tree and into a crowd of about 150 people watching a Memorial Day demonstration in a park, leaving 10 people with cuts and other minor injuries, officials and a witness said.

Palin biographer: I didn't move next door to spy (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:46 AM PDT AP - A writer working on a book about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says he moved to her hometown to talk to her longtime acquaintances, not to spy on the family.

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