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• Court lets Vatican-sex abuse lawsuit move forward (AP)
• 524 Guard soldiers headed to Arizona-Mexico border (AP)
• Tropical storm could disrupt oil spill cleanup (AP)
• NY, NJ crack down on alleged mob gambling rings (AP)
• NYPD officer acquitted of assaulting unarmed man (AP)
• Pork or progress? Either way, Byrd changed WVa (AP)
• Pa. rampage suspect had been sent to anger therapy (AP)
• Ex-Chicago cop convicted of lying about torture (AP)
• States struggle to pass budgets without stimulus (AP)
• Gulf lament: Everything's different now (AP)
• W.Va. official: No fall election for Byrd's seat (AP)
• Fired NY banker's suit, and suits, raise eyebrows (AP)
• Sen. Byrd's personal touch remembered in W.Va. (AP)
• Budget cuts more painful at inner-city LA schools (AP)
• 9 in 10 docs blame lawsuit fears for overtesting (AP)
• Witness: Blago was serious about Winfrey in Senate (AP)
• Flotilla of barges used as La. oil barricade (AP)
• Bin Laden hunter: I wanted to haul him to US alive (AP)
• NJ's Lautenberg, now oldest senator: Cancer gone (AP)

Court lets Vatican-sex abuse lawsuit move forward (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:24 PM PDT AP - A lawsuit against the Vatican that had been dismissed as a publicity stunt moved forward when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from the Holy See. Monday's development represents a significant advance for what many believed to be a long-shot claim that the Vatican bears legal responsibility for molester priests.

524 Guard soldiers headed to Arizona-Mexico border (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT AP - Federal officials told Arizona's attorney general and a congresswoman Monday that 524 of the 1,200 National Guard troops headed to the U.S.-Mexico border will be deployed in the state by August or September.

Tropical storm could disrupt oil spill cleanup (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:28 PM PDT AP - Tropical Storm Alex steamed across the Gulf of Mexico on Monday on a path that could keep it away from BP's busted well but could still stir up heavy winds, rain and choppy seas that drive the oil deeper inland and bring much of the cleanup to a standstill.

NY, NJ crack down on alleged mob gambling rings (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:00 PM PDT AP - Three of New York's five organized crime families came under the microscope for alleged illegal gambling activities Monday, the result of investigations that have produced more than 50 arrests reaching to the top rungs of one organization.

NYPD officer acquitted of assaulting unarmed man (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:43 PM PDT AP - A police officer seen on videotape repeatedly hitting an unarmed, handcuffed Iraq war veteran with a baton — and accused of lying to cover it up — was acquitted Monday of all charges.

Pork or progress? Either way, Byrd changed WVa (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:20 AM PDT AP - There are two ways to look at what Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator in history, has meant to the people and the place that sent him to Washington for 57 years in a row.

Pa. rampage suspect had been sent to anger therapy (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 05:39 PM PDT AP - A convicted murderer charged in the weekend stabbing deaths of four people was released from prison in 2006 but was put back behind bars two years ago for failing to complete anger management therapy.

Ex-Chicago cop convicted of lying about torture (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:27 PM PDT AP - A decorated former Chicago police lieutenant accused of suffocating, shocking and beating confessions out of scores of suspects was convicted Monday of federal perjury and obstruction of justice charges for lying about the torture.

States struggle to pass budgets without stimulus (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:03 PM PDT AP - For at least 30 cash-strapped states counting on federal stimulus money, the news was a stunning blow: A deficit-weary Congress had rejected billions in additional aid, forcing lawmakers into a mad scramble to balance their budgets.

Gulf lament: Everything's different now (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:01 AM PDT AP - In a pretty brick house on a cul-de-sac with a basketball hoop and flowering crape myrtles, a little boy with big blue eyes and hair the color of sand is trying to understand why Daddy is gone so much these days.

W.Va. official: No fall election for Byrd's seat (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:38 PM PDT AP - The person who gets picked to fill the seat vacated by the death of Democratic U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd won't have to face an election until 2012, a key decision for Democrats nationally trying to hold onto a slim majority in Congress after this November's elections.

Fired NY banker's suit, and suits, raise eyebrows (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:48 PM PDT AP - It went viral as the ultimate example of being punished for circumstances beyond one's control: a woman who said she was fired from her banking job because she complained that her male colleagues called her bodacious figure a workplace distraction.

Sen. Byrd's personal touch remembered in W.Va. (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - Robert C. Byrd Drive runs through the rolling hills of southern West Virginia, a 17-mile stretch named after the country's longest-serving senator.

Budget cuts more painful at inner-city LA schools (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 02:58 AM PDT AP - When state budget cuts imperiled city schools, a group of parents fought back by enlisting Hollywood stars to spread a message targeting one of their own, Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar.

9 in 10 docs blame lawsuit fears for overtesting (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 01:10 PM PDT AP - Ninety percent of physicians surveyed said doctors overtest and overtreat to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits.

Witness: Blago was serious about Winfrey in Senate (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:42 PM PDT AP - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seriously considered Oprah Winfrey as a candidate to fill President Barack Obama's former Senate seat, calling the talk show host a kingmaker who could influence voters, according to an FBI tape played Monday at his corruption trial.

Flotilla of barges used as La. oil barricade (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 09:42 AM PDT AP - Mired in a daily battle against the oil soiling Louisiana's shorelines, marshes and wetlands, locals in this barrier island town are pushing ahead with a novel plan to block the crude's path with a flotilla of barges.

Bin Laden hunter: I wanted to haul him to US alive (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 05:15 AM PDT AP - A Colorado man on a mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden says he wanted to capture him alive and bring him to justice.

NJ's Lautenberg, now oldest senator: Cancer gone (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 01:32 PM PDT AP - Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who at age 86 became the Senate's oldest member Monday when Robert Byrd of West Virginia died, says he is now free of cancer after undergoing six rounds of chemotherapy.

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