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• BP has another setback as oil slick threatens Fla. (AP)
• Brooklyn Bridge getting a $500 million makeover (AP)
• Ex-JonBenet suspect sought after alleged threats (AP)
• Female SC gov hopeful denies claim of 2nd affair (AP)
• Student immigrants use civil rights-era strategies (AP)
• Former top speller is voice of national bee (AP)
• Calif. moves to ban plastic bags at grocery stores (AP)
• Police: US lawyer held in Rwanda attempts suicide (AP)
• BP exec sorry for saying: 'I'd like my life back' (AP)
• Porn actor sought in fatal attack at LA studio (AP)
• Ted Haggard to start new church in Colo. Springs (AP)
• Ex-Fla. GOP chairman charged with felony theft (AP)
• Loyalty takes butler from poor Nepal village to NY (AP)
• Details emerge of bloodshed aboard Gaza-bound ship (AP)
• Anti-incumbency takes down another congressman (AP)
• Advocates: Upper Delaware most endangered US river (AP)
• Federal Gulf cleanup costs nation's most expensive (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Feds approve new Gulf oil well off La (AP)
• States to establish uniform standards for teaching (AP)
• After 40-year union, Al and Tipper Gore separate (AP)

BP has another setback as oil slick threatens Fla. (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:43 PM PDT AP - The BP oil slick drifted perilously close to the Florida Panhandle's famous sugar-white beaches Wednesday as a risky gambit to contain the leak by shearing off the well pipe ran into trouble a mile under the sea when the diamond-tipped saw became stuck.

Brooklyn Bridge getting a $500 million makeover (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:13 PM PDT AP - The Brooklyn Bridge has been through a lot in its 127 years, and now the New York icon needs a facelift.

Ex-JonBenet suspect sought after alleged threats (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:43 PM PDT AP - Police are seeking the whereabouts of the man who once falsely claimed to have murdered JonBenet Ramsey after a former acquaintance told authorities that he threatened to kill her if she revealed his attempts to form cult of little girls to have sex with him.

Female SC gov hopeful denies claim of 2nd affair (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:52 PM PDT AP - A South Carolina lobbyist resigned from a rival political campaign on Wednesday and then became the second man to claim he had a tryst with a Republican lawmaker trying to become the state's first female governor.

Student immigrants use civil rights-era strategies (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:56 PM PDT AP - They gather on statehouse steps with signs and bullhorns, risking arrest. They attend workshops on civil disobedience and personal storytelling, and they hold sit-ins and walk out of class in protest. They're being warned that they could even lose their lives.

Former top speller is voice of national bee (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:30 PM PDT AP - The only hard copy of the official Scripps National Spelling Bee word list is under lock and key somewhere inside the Grand Hyatt Washington, and even Jacques Bailly, the bee's official pronouncer, is unsure of its exact location.

Calif. moves to ban plastic bags at grocery stores (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:42 PM PDT AP - It could soon cost California shoppers at the checkout aisle if they forget to bring their own bags to the store under what would be the nation's first statewide plastic bag ban.

Police: US lawyer held in Rwanda attempts suicide (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:51 PM PDT AP - A U.S. law professor jailed in Rwanda and charged with denying the country's genocide tried to commit suicide by swallowing dozens of pills in his prison cell, Rwandan officials said Wednesday, but his daughter said his family doesn't believe the claim.

BP exec sorry for saying: 'I'd like my life back' (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:30 PM PDT AP - BP chief executive Tony Hayward is apologizing for saying "I'd like my life back" to reporters over the weekend.

Porn actor sought in fatal attack at LA studio (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:51 PM PDT AP - Police searched Wednesday for a porn actor suspected of killing one colleague and injuring two others with a sword that was used as a movie prop at a production studio where the suspect had been living.

Ted Haggard to start new church in Colo. Springs (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard said Wednesday that he will launch a new church from his Colorado Springs home, 3 1/2 years after he resigned from his ministry amid an embarrassing and devastating sex scandal.

Ex-Fla. GOP chairman charged with felony theft (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 03:15 PM PDT AP - The political unknown once tapped by Gov. Charlie Crist to lead the state GOP was arrested Wednesday on charges he ran a scam to bilk the party, officials said.

Loyalty takes butler from poor Nepal village to NY (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 12:46 PM PDT AP - Indra Tamang was a teenage farmer in a Nepalese village without running water or electricity. He barely learned how to write and lived in a straw, mud and stone house with his parents before landing a hotel job in the capital of Katmandu.

Details emerge of bloodshed aboard Gaza-bound ship (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:48 PM PDT AP - At 4:30 a.m. from her perch on the bridge of a passenger ship in the Mediterranean Sea, Hanin Zoabi saw the first lights of fast-approaching Israeli gunships and helicopters. Norman Paech awoke to the sound of explosions.

Anti-incumbency takes down another congressman (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 09:31 AM PDT AP - The political shooting-star otherwise known as anti-incumbency fell on Alabama, taking down a first-term congressman who switched from Democrat to Republican just last December.

Advocates: Upper Delaware most endangered US river (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:09 PM PDT AP - An advocacy group seeking tighter governmental control of natural gas drilling put the Upper Delaware River at the top of its annual list of the nation's 10 most endangered rivers, citing gas exploration in the surrounding region.

Federal Gulf cleanup costs nation's most expensive (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:09 PM PDT AP - Federal officials say cleanup costs for the catastrophic Gulf oil spill have topped $123 million.

APNewsBreak: Feds approve new Gulf oil well off La (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:34 PM PDT AP - Federal regulators approved Wednesday the first new Gulf of Mexico oil well since President Barack Obama lifted a brief ban on drilling in shallow water, even while deepwater projects remain frozen after the massive BP spill.

States to establish uniform standards for teaching (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 10:14 AM PDT AP - Eighth-graders should understand the Pythagorean theorem. And by high school graduation, all U.S. students should be ready for college or a career.

After 40-year union, Al and Tipper Gore separate (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:22 AM PDT AP - Al and Tipper Gore's marriage lasted four decades, through a deployment to Vietnam, the near-death of a child and the heartache of losing the disputed 2000 presidential election. But over time, the former high school sweethearts began to grow apart and carve out separate lives, friends said.

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