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• Spill chief says the capped well is holding up (AP)
• Blagojevich lawyers: Ex-governor may not testify (AP)
• Emotional toll for some survivors of oil rig blast (AP)
• BP's altered photo distorts spill center activity (AP)
• W.Va. gov, a popular Dem, to go for US Senate seat (AP)
• Judge in Ariz. case well-versed in immigration (AP)
• Heroic mailman saves 3 lives while on the job (AP)
• Lesbian gets $35K settlement over canceled prom (AP)
• Police: Alleged freeway shooter was targeting ACLU (AP)
• 'Socially inept' Pa. judge gets 2-month suspension (AP)
• EPA takes new look at gas drilling, water issues (AP)
• Utah gov: Only 2 responsible for immigrant list (AP)
• Confetti punctuates circus around Lohan surrender (AP)
• Racial tensions roil NC school board; 19 arrests (AP)
• AP-Univision Poll: US Hispanics mix hopes, strains (AP)
• In Fla., resentment washes ashore along with oil (AP)
• Experts veto Avastin as a breast cancer treatment (AP)
• Officials: Replica shows NY bomb could have killed (AP)
• Ind. accused of cutting aid to food stamp users (AP)
• Jurors in Smith case must reveal medical histories (AP)

Spill chief says the capped well is holding up (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:53 PM PDT AP - The government's oil spill chief tried to tamp down fears Tuesday that BP's capped well is buckling under the pressure, saying that seepage detected along the sea floor less than two miles away is coming from an older well no longer in production.

Blagojevich lawyers: Ex-governor may not testify (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:38 PM PDT AP - Attorneys for Rod Blagojevich said Tuesday they disagree about whether the ousted Illinois governor should testify in his own defense — as he has long promised — and whether they should call any defense witnesses at all.

Emotional toll for some survivors of oil rig blast (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 01:59 PM PDT AP - A boom from the speakers at church was all it took to send Paula Walker back to that moment of horror on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

BP's altered photo distorts spill center activity (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 03:25 PM PDT AP - BP acknowledges it posted on its website an altered photo that exaggerates the activity at its Gulf oil spill command center in Houston.

W.Va. gov, a popular Dem, to go for US Senate seat (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - Gov. Joe Manchin, a centrist and popular Democrat known for his calm, compassionate handling of a coal mine disaster that killed 29 in April, declared Tuesday that he will run for the late Robert C. Byrd's U.S. Senate seat.

Judge in Ariz. case well-versed in immigration (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 03:07 PM PDT AP - The federal judge who will decide whether to block Arizona's sweeping new immigration law has dealt with the realities of the state's porous border for nearly 10 years.

Heroic mailman saves 3 lives while on the job (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 09:54 AM PDT AP - The mailman finished his afternoon deliveries in an unassuming way, betraying no sign that anything out of the ordinary had occurred save for the blood on his uniform and the cut on his lip. Back at the post office, his actions were greeted with cries of disbelief: "Did you hear? Keith saved another life today."

Lesbian gets $35K settlement over canceled prom (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 03:01 PM PDT AP - A rural school district that canceled its prom rather than allow a lesbian student to attend with her girlfriend has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit the ACLU filed on her behalf.

Police: Alleged freeway shooter was targeting ACLU (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - A California man arrested after a freeway shootout with authorities was planning to attack people at the American Civil Liberties Union and another nonprofit group, authorities said Tuesday.

'Socially inept' Pa. judge gets 2-month suspension (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:26 PM PDT AP - A district judge described by his attorney as "socially inept and challenged with women" was suspended without pay Tuesday for two months for behavior that included calling female lawyers repeatedly and making uninvited visits to their homes or offices.

EPA takes new look at gas drilling, water issues (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:49 PM PDT AP - So vast is the wealth of natural gas locked into dense rock deep beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio that some geologists estimate it's enough to supply the entire East Coast for 50 years.

Utah gov: Only 2 responsible for immigrant list (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:57 PM PDT AP - Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Tuesday that only two state workers were responsible for compiling and publicly distributing a list of personal information of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants, and one of them has confessed to his or her involvement.

Confetti punctuates circus around Lohan surrender (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:13 PM PDT AP - Hitting bottom under Hollywood's glare, Lindsay Lohan began serving jail time Tuesday for a probation violation that underlined the starlet's inability to put a 2006 drug case behind her.

Racial tensions roil NC school board; 19 arrests (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - Protesters and police scuffled Tuesday at a school board meeting in North Carolina over claims that a new busing system would resegregate schools, roiling racial tensions reminiscent of the 1960s.

AP-Univision Poll: US Hispanics mix hopes, strains (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:58 PM PDT AP - Hispanics are eager to blend into American society while still maintaining their cultural identity, a paradox that reflects the complex beliefs of the nation's fastest-growing minority. Yet there are limits to assimilation — most don't expect the United States to elect a Latino president in the next 20 years.

In Fla., resentment washes ashore along with oil (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:07 AM PDT AP - For decades, billions poured into Gulf Coast states that allowed oil drilling off their shores. Economies grew, jobs were created and millionaires were born all along the waterfront. Everywhere, that is, except Florida.

Experts veto Avastin as a breast cancer treatment (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 03:15 PM PDT AP - A panel of cancer experts said Tuesday that the government should remove its endorsement of Roche's drug Avastin for breast cancer, after follow-up studies failed to show benefits for patients.

Officials: Replica shows NY bomb could have killed (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 01:00 PM PDT AP - Investigators secretly detonated a working replica of the car bomb used in the failed Times Square terror attack, creating a large explosion that destroyed other vehicles and scattered flaming debris, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

Ind. accused of cutting aid to food stamp users (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 12:02 PM PDT AP - For at least a decade, potentially thousands of Indiana's neediest adults have seen some of their state aid payments slashed simply because they receive food stamps — a practice that advocates and legal experts say is a clear violation of federal law.

Jurors in Smith case must reveal medical histories (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 12:51 PM PDT AP - A judge preparing for jury selection in the trial of Anna Nicole Smith's doctors and boyfriend said Tuesday he will dismiss any prospective jurors who refuse to reveal their medical histories, including prescription drug use.

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