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• 1 step up, 1 step back: Spill may linger into fall (AP)
• Ohio tornado kills 7, wrecks cop cars, graduation (AP)
• AP IMPACT: Many Gulf fed'l judges have oil links (AP)
• NJ men accused of trying to join Somali terrorists (AP)
• States closing youth prisons as arrests plunge (AP)
• Study: Radiation boosts prostate cancer survival (AP)
• Top US officer: Vets need not suffer alone (AP)
• Apologetic BP ads get criticism, not sympathy (AP)
• Mass. writer who kicked gun from RFK's killer dies (AP)
• Couple hurt in crash married at Ind. hospital (AP)
• Israel rejects international probe into ship raid (AP)
• Drug boosts survival in major skin cancer study (AP)
• Defiant Israel says activists prepared to fight (AP)
• NJ state trooper dies after being struck by car (AP)
• For many, recovery means lower expectations (AP)

1 step up, 1 step back: Spill may linger into fall (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 06:22 PM PDT AP - A containment cap was capturing more and more of the crude pouring from a damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, but that bit of hope was tempered Sunday by a sharp dose of pragmatism as the federal government's point man warned the crisis could stretch into the fall.

Ohio tornado kills 7, wrecks cop cars, graduation (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 06:26 PM PDT AP - A tornado unleashed a "war zone" of destruction in northwest Ohio, destroying dozens of homes and an emergency services building as a line of storms killed at least seven people and briefly threatened the Northeast on Sunday.

AP IMPACT: Many Gulf fed'l judges have oil links (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 06:06 PM PDT AP - More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases, an Associated Press analysis of judicial financial disclosure reports shows.

NJ men accused of trying to join Somali terrorists (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 05:58 PM PDT AP - They were recorded talking jihad against their fellow Americans. But they hadn't talked the jihadists into accepting them.

States closing youth prisons as arrests plunge (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 06:25 PM PDT AP - After struggling for years to treat young criminals in razor wire-ringed institutions, states across the country are quietly shuttering dozens of reformatories amid plunging juvenile arrests, softer treatment policies and bleak budgets.

Study: Radiation boosts prostate cancer survival (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:09 PM PDT AP - Doctors are reporting a key advance in treating men with cancer that has started to spread beyond the prostate: survival is significantly better if radiation is added to standard hormone treatments.

Top US officer: Vets need not suffer alone (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:50 AM PDT AP - In a stirring tribute to the D-Day sacrifices of American soldiers and their allies, the U.S. military's top officer said Sunday that World War II's defining moment should remind all that returning warriors need not "suffer in quiet desperation."

Apologetic BP ads get criticism, not sympathy (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 06:07 AM PDT AP - An apologetic advertising campaign by BP PLC for the oil spill polluting the Gulf of Mexico is going over about as well as the tar balls and rust-colored froth washing ashore in the Florida Panhandle.

Mass. writer who kicked gun from RFK's killer dies (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 02:18 PM PDT AP - A longtime reporter and editor for the Boston Globe who is credited with kicking the gun from the hand of Sen. Robert Kennedy's assassin has died. Robert L. Healy was 84.

Couple hurt in crash married at Ind. hospital (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 08:25 PM PDT AP - A bride and groom who were among 14 people injured in a shuttle bus crash that killed a member of their wedding party were married Saturday at an Indianapolis hospital just hours after the accident.

Israel rejects international probe into ship raid (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:04 AM PDT AP - Israel rejects the idea of a having an international commission look into the country's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday.

Drug boosts survival in major skin cancer study (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:49 AM PDT AP - Researchers have scored the first big win against melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. An experimental drug significantly improved survival in a major study of people with very advanced disease.

Defiant Israel says activists prepared to fight (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 05:49 PM PDT AP - Israel's prime minister claimed that the Turkish activists who battled Israeli naval commandos in a deadly clash last week prepared for the fight ahead of time, before boarding the ship in a different city from the rest of the passengers.

NJ state trooper dies after being struck by car (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 05:48 PM PDT AP - New Jersey State Police say a trooper has died of injuries he suffered when he was struck by a car while looking for two suspects who had abandoned a car on Interstate 195.

For many, recovery means lower expectations (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2010 05:20 PM PDT AP - Advised by a Walgreens superior that a promotion was "very highly likely" if he transferred to the drugstore chain's Dallas division, Chris Cummings uprooted his family and bought a spacious house in this hopefully named suburb.

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