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• Documents: BP cut corners in days before blowout (AP)
• Judge: Coleman to be cremated no sooner than Wed. (AP)
• Ark. forecasters issued 4 flash flood warnings (AP)
• Supply shortages slowing Gulf oil spill cleanup (AP)
• NC congressman apologizes for behavior on video (AP)
• Killer of Calif. girl found in suitcase gets life (AP)
• Dozens rescued as flash floods inundate Okla. City (AP)
• Americans get most radiation from medical scans (AP)
• Clemency denied for UT killer facing firing squad (AP)
• Boy Scout battle over gays, rent goes to Pa. court (AP)
• Oil spill spreads in La.'s big, rich Barataria Bay (AP)
• Doc charged in Jackson death to keep Calif license (AP)
• NY temple-plot trial delayed over classified info (AP)
• Doctors' group wants more accuracy from insurers (AP)
• Chevron: Oil in Utah leaked from quarter-size hole (AP)
• Obama sees light ahead for oil-damaged Gulf Coast (AP)
• The odyssey: Camera survives ocean trip to Fla. (AP)
• Pictures of Blagojevich: A crook or a fool? (AP)
• Search scaled down for missing Portland boy (AP)
• Calif. bill would target spouses who hire hit men (AP)

Documents: BP cut corners in days before blowout (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 05:39 PM PDT AP - BP made a series of money-saving shortcuts and blunders that dramatically increased the danger of a destructive oil spill in a well that an engineer ominously described as a "nightmare" just six days before the blowout, according to documents released Monday that provide new insight into the causes of the disaster.

Judge: Coleman to be cremated no sooner than Wed. (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 05:41 PM PDT AP - A Utah judge on Monday ordered that Gary Coleman's remains be cremated no sooner than Wednesday afternoon, so Coleman's ex-girlfriend has enough time to travel from Oregon to Utah to see his body.

Ark. forecasters issued 4 flash flood warnings (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 05:14 PM PDT AP - Before a wall of water swept through a narrow gorge in the Ouachita Mountains, worried forecasters sent warnings four times in a single hour to advise of the potential for flash flooding.

Supply shortages slowing Gulf oil spill cleanup (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 05:04 PM PDT AP - As countless tar balls washed ashore on a beach along Alabama's Gulf Coast, cleanup workers sat and watched because they didn't have the proper plastic covers to protect their shoes. Elsewhere, a crew using shovels and garden rakes worked for hours on a long stretch of sand that a machine could have cleaned in minutes.

NC congressman apologizes for behavior on video (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 05:31 PM PDT AP - A Democratic congressman apologized Monday after video posted online showed him swatting at the camera, demanding that two men taping him identify themselves and grabbing one of them by the wrist and neck.

Killer of Calif. girl found in suitcase gets life (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 05:32 PM PDT AP - A Sunday school teacher who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering a neighbor girl in Northern California made a tearful apology to the victim's family Monday as she was sentenced to prison for the rest of her life.

Dozens rescued as flash floods inundate Okla. City (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 05:39 PM PDT AP - Firefighters helping a 17-year-old girl escape swift floodwaters were forced to cling to treetops and await rescue themselves after 10 inches of rain deluged parts of the Oklahoma City area Monday.

Americans get most radiation from medical scans (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 07:59 AM PDT AP - We fret about airport scanners, power lines, cell phones and even microwaves. It's true that we get too much radiation. But it's not from those sources — it's from too many medical tests.

Clemency denied for UT killer facing firing squad (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 05:11 PM PDT AP - A condemed Utah inmate has lost his bid for clemency from a state parole board, making his execution by firing squad on Friday more likely than ever.

Boy Scout battle over gays, rent goes to Pa. court (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 01:50 PM PDT AP - A Boy Scouts chapter will ask a jury to decide this week whether the city can rescind a sweet lease to the youth group because of a national policy banning gays.

Oil spill spreads in La.'s big, rich Barataria Bay (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 11:05 AM PDT AP - The sand dunes and islands of Barataria Bay, a huge expanse of water and marsh on Louisiana's coast, have become the latest casualty of the environmental disaster spewing from BP's offshore well. And fishermen are bitter.

Doc charged in Jackson death to keep Calif license (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 03:27 PM PDT AP - Michael Jackson's family sat solemnly across the courtroom from the doctor charged in the death of the pop legend, listening as a judge said Monday he could not suspend Dr. Conrad Murray's medical license in California and that it could take months for the case to go to trial.

NY temple-plot trial delayed over classified info (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 02:07 PM PDT AP - The federal trial of four men accused of plotting to blow up New York synagogues and shoot a missile at military planes was delayed Monday — probably for months — at the request of prosecutors after they were dealt a setback on evidence.

Doctors' group wants more accuracy from insurers (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 02:39 PM PDT AP - One in five medical claims is processed inaccurately by commercial health insurers, often leaving physicians shortchanged, according to the nation's largest doctor's group.

Chevron: Oil in Utah leaked from quarter-size hole (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 04:07 PM PDT AP - Chevron Corp. said Monday it believes an electrical arc from a power line torched a quarter-size hole in a pipeline that spilled thousands of gallons of crude oil into a Salt Lake City creek over the weekend.

Obama sees light ahead for oil-damaged Gulf Coast (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 03:01 PM PDT AP - In a newly optimistic tone, President Barack Obama promised Monday that "things are going to return to normal" along the stricken Gulf Coast and the region's fouled waters will be in even better shape than before the catastrophic BP oil spill.

The odyssey: Camera survives ocean trip to Fla. (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 01:13 AM PDT AP - Paul Shultz was walking along the pier of a Key West marina when he saw what looked like a rotting tomato pounding against the rocks.

Pictures of Blagojevich: A crook or a fool? (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 01:13 AM PDT AP - Was Rod Blagojevich a crook? Or was he merely a bumbler, a goof — naive, trusting and played for a fool by cynical campaign fundraisers and political fixers?

Search scaled down for missing Portland boy (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 02:53 PM PDT AP - Authorities overseeing one of the largest search-and-rescue operations in state history said Monday that a missing 7-year-old Portland boy likely didn't simply walk away from school when he disappeared 11 days ago.

Calif. bill would target spouses who hire hit men (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 10:20 AM PDT AP - The story behind the legislation reads like a movie pitch.

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