| BP says it's sorry — and guarantees $20B for Gulf (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 04:46 PM PDT  AP - President Barack Obama wrested a $20 billion compensation guarantee and an apology to the nation from British oil giant BP Wednesday, announcing the company would set up a major claims fund for shrimpers, restaurateurs and others whose lives and livelihoods are being wrecked by the oil flooding into the Gulf of Mexico.
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| BP 'small people' comment causes anger along Gulf (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 03:09 PM PDT  AP - The "small people" of the Gulf Coast have a humongous message for oil giant BP: They're tired of the company's big-time executives making insensitive comments.
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| Ala. prof charged in brother's 1986 shooting death (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 03:29 PM PDT  AP - A biology professor charged with killing three of her colleagues at an Alabama university has been indicted in the 1986 shooting death of her brother in Massachusetts, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
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| Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 03:43 PM PDT  AP - Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.
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| Feds: Woman took 506 pounds of pot to Ohio on jet (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 12:39 PM PDT  AP - A California woman traveling with a bodyguard on a private jet was arrested at an Ohio airport with 506 pounds of marijuana stashed in 13 suitcases, federal authorities said.
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| Proposed cat leash law in Vt. sparks hissing match (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 03:03 PM PDT  AP - A clause in a city law that requires cats to be on leashes has sparked a hissing match among fans of free-roaming felines.
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| Man seized at Army post had land mine, laser scope (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 02:54 PM PDT  AP - A former national guardsman who wore camouflage fatigues so often that a neighbor thought he was in the military was charged Wednesday with pretending to be a U.S. Army soldier after authorities say he convinced an officer at a military base to give him a sophisticated laser sight.
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| Experts argue firing squad is a humane execution (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 12:37 PM PDT  AP - A condemned Utah inmate's decision to die in a barrage of bullets fired by five unnamed marksmen has been vilified by many as an archaic form of Old West-style justice.
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| Defying sanctions, Iran plans more atomic reactors (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 02:51 PM PDT  AP - Defying week-old U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program, Iran promised to expand its atomic research Wednesday as its president vowed to punish the West and force it to "sit at the negotiating table like a polite child" before agreeing to further talks.
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| Spill coverage barriers remain despite promises (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 02:49 PM PDT  AP - Journalists covering the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have been yelled at, kicked off public beaches and islands and threatened with arrest in the nearly three weeks since the government promised improved media access.
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| Lawyer: Children benefit from gay marriage ban (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 03:36 PM PDT  AP - A lawyer for supporters of California's gay marriage ban argued Wednesday in a landmark federal trial that Proposition 8 was constitutional because limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples ensures children have the benefits of being raised by biological parents.
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| Pakistan: US bin Laden hunter on mission from God (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 07:05 AM PDT  AP - An American construction worker detained in Pakistan while on a solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden claimed Wednesday that he was obeying an order from God to avenge the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said Pakistani security officials.
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| Candidates for Mich. governor make few promises (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 11:43 AM PDT  AP - Over the past decade, Michigan voters have heard a lot of hopeful plans from politicians about how better times are just around the corner.
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| Gulf Coast welcomes Obama's pledge to restore land (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 02:45 AM PDT  AP - After 50 years of watching wetlands created by the fertile Mississippi River turn into open water, Louisiana residents finally got what they'd long awaited: A U.S. president saying he'll fight to save what little is left along their eroding coast.
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| American on US no-fly list stranded in Egypt (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 02:23 PM PDT  AP - A Virginia man said Wednesday he has been stuck in limbo in Egypt for the last six weeks, living in a cheap hotel and surviving on fast food after his name was placed on a U.S. no-fly list because of a trip to Yemen.
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| Gates, Buffett lobby the rich for donation pledges (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 04:46 PM PDT  AP - Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett are launching a campaign to get other American billionaires to give at least half their wealth to charity.
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| US mulls less jail-like immigrant facilities (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 12:40 PM PDT  AP - In an agreement U.S. immigration officials hope will begin to reshape the entire 30,000-bed detention system, some asylum-seekers and immigrants awaiting deportation proceedings could soon be held in facilities where they can wear their own clothes, participate in movie and bingo nights, eat continental breakfasts and celebrate holidays with visiting family members.
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| Police: NY jail guard kills ex-girlfriend, uncle (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 02:06 PM PDT  AP - An off-duty jail guard shot and killed her former girlfriend outside a hospital, then went to a relative's nearby home, where she killed her uncle, wounded her 88-year-old grandfather and took a niece hostage, police said Wednesday.
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| Wisconsin's Democrats have got the blues (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 06:09 AM PDT  AP - Until recently, Wisconsin seemed to be a Democratic strategist's dream — a blue state getting bluer. Its two U.S. senators were well-established liberal Democrats. The governor's office and both houses of the Legislature were in Democratic control after years of divided government. And President Barack Obama won the state in 2008 by 14 percentage points, one of his largest victory margins anywhere.
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| Mass. researcher says he has ID'd 7 MIAs from WWII (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2010 03:29 AM PDT  AP - A private researcher who has labored for years to identify the remains of U.S. service members declared missing in action during World War II says he has matched seven MIAs with the remains of unknowns and he expects to match as many as 19 more within a week.
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