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• Team: Much more oil gushing from well than thought (AP)
• Louisiana leaders want Gulf drilling to resume (AP)
• Condemned Utah inmate seeks clemency to help youth (AP)
• Rescue launched for Calif. girl on solo world sail (AP)
• Trapped Conn. man tried cutting off his own arm (AP)
• Oil spill: La. oyster shuckers fear for livelihood (AP)
• OJ lawyer to make high court appeal for new trial (AP)
• Ind. teen's police beating brings calls for probe (AP)
• Rescuing oiled birds: Poignant, but is it futile? (AP)
• Aide: Blagojevich said he made deal for Obama seat (AP)
• Ex-gang member says Chicago officer suffocated him (AP)
• NY judge: New 9/11 health pact 'very good deal' (AP)
• Roethlisberger: 'I was dumb, young and immature' (AP)
• Campbell Soup gets new face in its NJ hometown (AP)
• Shawn Johnson testifies she feared alleged stalker (AP)
• Pork industry tiring of 'Other White Meat' (AP)
• Conn. court rules in feud over Rockwell paintings (AP)
• Gold, and lead, bring illness and death in Nigeria (AP)
• Kids labeled 'generation next' before they grow up (AP)

Team: Much more oil gushing from well than thought (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:38 PM PDT AP - Researchers studying the flow of oil from the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico said Thursday that up to twice the amount of oil previously thought may have been spewing into the sea since an oil rig exploded nearly two months ago.

Louisiana leaders want Gulf drilling to resume (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:41 PM PDT AP - At the same time they are venting their fury on BP over the Gulf of Mexico spill and its calamitous environmental effects, Louisiana politicians are rushing to the defense of the oil-and-gas industry and pleading with Washington to bring back offshore drilling — now.

Condemned Utah inmate seeks clemency to help youth (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 05:29 PM PDT AP - A Utah man set to be executed by firing squad said Thursday he is remorseful and wants a state parole board to spare his life so he can help troubled kids avoid the kind of problems that landed him on death row.

Rescue launched for Calif. girl on solo world sail (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:25 PM PDT AP - A 16-year-old Southern California girl attempting a solo sail around the world was feared in trouble Thursday thousands of miles from land in the frigid, heaving southern Indian Ocean after her emergency beacons began signaling and satellite phone communication was lost.

Trapped Conn. man tried cutting off his own arm (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 02:37 PM PDT AP - Jonathan Metz had been trapped for two days in his basement with his left arm stuck in a broken furnace. Smelling rotting flesh, he decided that amputation was his only hope.

Oil spill: La. oyster shuckers fear for livelihood (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 11:44 AM PDT AP - An early morning workday ritual — the shucking of small mountains of oysters for New Orleans restaurants — fell victim to the BP offshore oil spill Thursday at a 134-year-old French Quarter oyster house where neighbors treated the news like a death in the family.

OJ lawyer to make high court appeal for new trial (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 05:43 PM PDT AP - O.J. Simpson's lawyer says time could be the biggest hurdle he'll face when he asks the Nevada Supreme Court on Friday to overturn the imprisoned former football star's conviction in a September 2007 hotel room heist and grant a new trial.

Ind. teen's police beating brings calls for probe (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 05:50 PM PDT AP - The city's police chief called Thursday for the firing of a white officer who he said repeatedly struck a 15-year-old biracial boy in the face during an arrest after the teen had been subdued by other officers.

Rescuing oiled birds: Poignant, but is it futile? (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 02:02 PM PDT AP - Rescuers gently washing the goo from pelicans make for some of the few hopeful images from the disaster on the Gulf of Mexico, yet some scientists contend those efforts are good for little more than warming hearts.

Aide: Blagojevich said he made deal for Obama seat (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 05:15 PM PDT AP - A former Illinois government insider testified Thursday that then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich told him two years ago of an alleged deal under which a lawmaker would stop passage of an ethics bill if Blagojevich would appoint him to Barack Obama's Senate seat.

Ex-gang member says Chicago officer suffocated him (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 05:39 PM PDT AP - A former gang member testified Thursday at a former Chicago police official's perjury trial that he will never forget the detective who repeatedly suffocated him with a plastic bag more than 25 years ago.

NY judge: New 9/11 health pact 'very good deal' (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 02:21 PM PDT AP - A federal judge who held up an effort to settle thousands of lawsuits filed by 9/11 responders exposed to World Trade Center dust dropped his opposition Thursday after the deal was redrafted to give more money to sick workers and less to their lawyers.

Roethlisberger: 'I was dumb, young and immature' (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 04:45 PM PDT AP - A contrite Ben Roethlisberger said he got caught up in being a caricature called Big Ben, not the grounded player and person he once was, leading to his off-field problems and affecting his play as the Steelers quarterback.

Campbell Soup gets new face in its NJ hometown (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 03:06 PM PDT AP - The Campbell Soup Co. made good Thursday on its promise not to abandon its impoverished hometown, opening a showy new building at its headquarters.

Shawn Johnson testifies she feared alleged stalker (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 04:40 PM PDT AP - Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson voice cracked Thursday as a prosecutor showed her a knife found in the car of a man accused of stalking her.

Pork industry tiring of 'Other White Meat' (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 02:25 PM PDT AP - For more than two decades, pork has been known as "The Other White Meat." Now industry insiders think it's time the meat got a new reputation.

Conn. court rules in feud over Rockwell paintings (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 02:35 PM PDT AP - The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of two brothers in their long-running feud with a third brother over an inheritance that included famous Norman Rockwell paintings.

Gold, and lead, bring illness and death in Nigeria (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 01:53 PM PDT AP - Mound after tiny mound of red clay earth dots the cemetery on the outskirts of this impoverished Nigerian village where grieving parents come to pray.

Kids labeled 'generation next' before they grow up (AP) Posted: 10 Jun 2010 04:56 AM PDT AP - They aren't even out of grade school. But already, people are trying to name the youngest up-and-coming generation, and figure out who they might be and how they might be different from their predecessors.

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