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• BP, scientists try to make sense of well puzzle (AP)
• 94 charged in Medicare scams totaling $251M (AP)
• Police focus on couple who raised abducted girl (AP)
• NJ parking garage collapses; at least 1 trapped (AP)
• Even with leak stopped, Gulf's pain may last years (AP)
• Judge: Law penalizing fake heroes unconstitutional (AP)
• Top Texas criminal judge warned but keeps job (AP)
• FDA says breast cancer drug did not extend lives (AP)
• Lawyer: Lohan staying at substance abuse facility (AP)
• Missing Oregon boy's father wants wife out of home (AP)
• Ex-officer testifies in military gay policy trial (AP)
• Teen dubbed 'Barefoot Bandit' soon headed to Wash. (AP)
• Minor earthquake shakes up US capital's movers (AP)
• Texas mayor who killed self had financial troubles (AP)
• Elderly couple dies while trapped in home elevator (AP)
• Group: Dragging of slain SC man is a hate crime (AP)
• Immigrant deaths in Arizona desert soaring in July (AP)
• Schwarzenegger mobilizes National Guard to border (AP)
• Judge rejects Schwarzenegger minimum wage request (AP)
• Looking for medical marijuana in NM? Get in line (AP)

BP, scientists try to make sense of well puzzle (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 05:11 PM PDT AP - In a nail-biting day across the Gulf Coast, engineers struggled to make sense of puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea Friday to determine whether BP's capped oil well was holding tight. Halfway through a critical 48-hour window, the signs were promising but far from conclusive.

94 charged in Medicare scams totaling $251M (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - Elderly Russian immigrants lined up to take kickbacks from the backroom of a Brooklyn clinic. Claims flooded in from Miami for HIV treatments that never occurred. One professional patient was named in nearly 4,000 false Medicare claims.

Police focus on couple who raised abducted girl (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:56 PM PDT AP - The tears in Amber Nicklas' eyes as she realized she would be taken from the only family she ever knew was enough to make Detective Jerry Saba's stomach churn.

NJ parking garage collapses; at least 1 trapped (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:39 PM PDT AP - A glass canopy attached to a high-rise condominium building fell onto a parking garage two stories below on Friday, partially collapsing the underground structure and trapping at least one person, authorities said.

Even with leak stopped, Gulf's pain may last years (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 01:40 PM PDT AP - The slicks on the surface will disappear quickly if the cap on BP's blown oil well holds. But the oil will remain in the water, on beaches and in marshes, and in the lives of Gulf Coast residents like Jason Blanchard for years.

Judge: Law penalizing fake heroes unconstitutional (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 02:27 PM PDT AP - A law that makes it illegal to lie about being a war hero is unconstitutional because it violates free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday as he dismissed a case against a Colorado man who claimed he received two military medals.

Top Texas criminal judge warned but keeps job (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:45 PM PDT AP - The top criminal judge in Texas was spared her job Friday but still punished by a state panel, which reprimanded Sharon Keller for her fumbled handling of a death row inmate's final appeal the night of his 2007 execution.

FDA says breast cancer drug did not extend lives (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 05:37 PM PDT AP - Federal health scientists said Friday that follow-up studies of a Roche breast cancer drug showed that it failed extend patient lives, opening the door for it to be potentially withdrawal for use in treating that disease.

Lawyer: Lohan staying at substance abuse facility (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 05:35 PM PDT AP - Lindsay Lohan has moved to a substance abuse facility and signed legal papers hiring celebrity lawyer Robert Shapiro to represent her as she prepares to head to jail for violating probation in a 2007 drug case.

Missing Oregon boy's father wants wife out of home (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:49 PM PDT AP - The father and stepmother of a missing Portland boy have settled their dispute over when she will move out of their house.

Ex-officer testifies in military gay policy trial (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 05:11 PM PDT AP - A former Air Force officer testified Friday that he did not violate the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy but was discharged for being openly gay after a service member snooped through his e-mails.

Teen dubbed 'Barefoot Bandit' soon headed to Wash. (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 03:00 PM PDT AP - Without saying a word, the teenager accused in a two-year string of sometimes shoeless burglaries and other crimes that helped him gain international notoriety as the "Barefoot Bandit" agreed Friday to return to Washington state to face federal charges.

Minor earthquake shakes up US capital's movers (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 02:45 PM PDT AP - Earthquakes are so rare in the Washington area that even a geology student wasn't quite sure what was going on when a minor one hit early Friday. Was it a truck passing by? A low-flying plane?

Texas mayor who killed self had financial troubles (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 03:44 PM PDT AP - A Dallas area mayor who authorities believe killed herself and her daughter left a note saying the two remained in deep grief about the 2008 death of their husband and father from cancer, police said Friday.

Elderly couple dies while trapped in home elevator (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 03:22 PM PDT AP - When the elevator in their home got stuck between floors, Sherwood and Caroline Wadsworth found themselves trapped with no way to call for help as temperatures rose into the 90s. They finally died from heat exhaustion in the closet-sized lift.

Group: Dragging of slain SC man is a hate crime (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 01:43 PM PDT AP - For the New Black Panther Party, it's simple: A black man being shot to death by a white man and dragged for miles behind a pickup truck is a racial hate crime.

Immigrant deaths in Arizona desert soaring in July (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 02:38 PM PDT AP - The number of deaths among illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona desert from Mexico is soaring so high this month that the medical examiner's office that handles the bodies is using a refrigerated truck to store some of them, the chief examiner said Friday.

Schwarzenegger mobilizes National Guard to border (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 02:37 PM PDT AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday mobilized members of the California National Guard as part of a federal effort to deter drug trafficking and illegal immigration along the border with Mexico.

Judge rejects Schwarzenegger minimum wage request (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 03:02 PM PDT AP - A judge on Friday declined to make the state controller comply with an order by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pay state workers minimum wage while the state remains without a budget.

Looking for medical marijuana in NM? Get in line (AP) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 12:32 PM PDT AP - Len Goodman can't grow enough marijuana to keep up with demand.

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