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• Flash floods kill at least 16 at Ark. campground (AP)
• Witnesses, video reconstruct Calif. train shooting (AP)
• BP's failures on the Gulf made worse by PR woes (AP)
• Sea of criticism for adrift young sailor's parents (AP)
• 5 officers charged in post-Katrina fatal shooting (AP)
• Atty: Minn. cop turned robber wanted to be killed (AP)
• World War II bomber 'Swamp Ghost' returns to US (AP)
• Harvard student says he faces deportation from US (AP)
• Ban peanuts on planes? It's not nutty to allergics (AP)
• 1,000 NYC students walk out to save free rides (AP)
• Aging con man pleads guilty to 2 Ohio murders (AP)
• Boycott Big Oil? Prepare to give up your lifestyle (AP)
• Case worker for starved Pa. teenager gets 11 years (AP)
• Allen: Reliable spill numbers hard to nail down (AP)
• Neither side budging after walkout by Minn. nurses (AP)
• 2 arrests after body parts found by Calif. river (AP)
• Police: Off-duty Md. trooper shot, killed (AP)

Flash floods kill at least 16 at Ark. campground (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 04:50 PM PDT AP - Floodwaters that rose as swiftly as 8 feet an hour tore through a campground packed with vacationing families early Friday, carrying away tents and overturning RVs as campers slept. At least 16 people were killed, and dozens more missing and feared dead.

Witnesses, video reconstruct Calif. train shooting (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 04:49 PM PDT AP - An unarmed black man shot and killed by a transit officer in Oakland didn't resist or fight with police, witnesses who took video of the chaotic scene testified Friday.

BP's failures on the Gulf made worse by PR woes (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 05:30 PM PDT AP - BP is already fighting an oil gusher it can't contain and watching its mighty market value wither away. Its own bumbling public-relations efforts are making a big mess worse.

Sea of criticism for adrift young sailor's parents (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 04:13 PM PDT AP - What were her parents thinking? Many people were asking that question as a 16-year-old girl sat adrift and alone in the frigid southern Indian Ocean, her ship's mast dashed along with her around-the-world sailing effort.

5 officers charged in post-Katrina fatal shooting (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - Five current or former New Orleans police officers were charged Friday in the shooting death and burning of a New Orleans man during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Atty: Minn. cop turned robber wanted to be killed (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 04:25 PM PDT AP - As a Minneapolis police SWAT officer, Timothy Carson was trained to protect citizens in the most dangerous situations. As a former Marine, he was credited with saving lives in Iraq.

World War II bomber 'Swamp Ghost' returns to US (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 05:13 PM PDT AP - A B-17 bomber that lay in a New Guinea swamp for decades after being forced down during a World War II combat mission has been returned to the United States after years of salvage efforts.

Harvard student says he faces deportation from US (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 04:42 PM PDT AP - An undocumented Harvard University student is facing deportation to Mexico after being detained by immigration authorities at a Texas airport, the student said Friday.

Ban peanuts on planes? It's not nutty to allergics (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 01:06 PM PDT AP - Federal regulators are considering a snack attack on the nation's airlines that would restrict or even completely ban serving peanuts on commercial flights.

1,000 NYC students walk out to save free rides (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 03:20 PM PDT AP - About 1,000 New York City high school students chanted "This is what democracy looks like!" and waved homemade signs and banners Friday as they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest a plan to eliminate their free transit passes.

Aging con man pleads guilty to 2 Ohio murders (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 09:58 AM PDT AP - For the second time this week, an aging con man criminal pleaded guilty to a three-decade-old double murder.

Boycott Big Oil? Prepare to give up your lifestyle (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 01:01 PM PDT AP - Has the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico got you so mad you're ready to quit Big Oil?

Case worker for starved Pa. teenager gets 11 years (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 11:56 AM PDT AP - The morals of social workers who routinely skipped home visits to Philadelphia's most troubled families, leading to a disabled girl's starvation death, reminded a federal judge Friday of the "banality of evil" seen in Europe during the Holocaust.

Allen: Reliable spill numbers hard to nail down (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 02:10 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration's point man for the Gulf Coast oil spill said Friday that it will be at least July before BP has the tankers in place to capture the latest estimates for crude flowing from the blown well.

Neither side budging after walkout by Minn. nurses (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 04:03 PM PDT AP - Thousands of nurses in Minnesota were back on the job Friday after a tense return to their 14 hospitals, but neither side appeared any more ready to budge on the staffing issues that fueled the one-day walkout.

2 arrests after body parts found by Calif. river (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 11:43 AM PDT AP - A California woman faces charges Friday along with her Oregon son after body parts from her husband washed up on the banks of the Sacramento River over several months.

Police: Off-duty Md. trooper shot, killed (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 03:28 PM PDT AP - Police are searching for the person who shot and killed an off-duty Maryland state trooper Friday soon after the officer escorted an unruly customer from a restaurant over a disputed bill.

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