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• Feds say well's not dead yet, more drilling needed (AP)
• AP Enterprise: More immigrants getting licenses (AP)
• South Dakota man dies after donating part of liver (AP)
• JetBlue flight diverted over unruly passenger (AP)
• Fugitive's accomplice was informant before escape (AP)
• Murky outcome at Blagojevich trial now more likely (AP)
• Feds, Massey dispute what caused W.Va. mine blast (AP)
• 3 kids buy airplane tickets, fly alone to Tenn. (AP)
• NJ blogger convicted of threatening Ill. judges (AP)
• Wife: Quiet life with 'Granddad Bandit' suspect (AP)
• US judge gives informant time to amend FBI lawsuit (AP)
• 7.2 earthquake strikes 215 miles off Guam coast (AP)
• Aid helps states escape layoffs, but for how long? (AP)
• For-profit colleges rein in recruiting tactics (AP)
• JetBlue memo questions flight attendant's motive (AP)
• Powder-filled letters sent to Texas, Ill., Mass. (AP)
• McCain says he doesn't back 14th Amendment change (AP)

Feds say well's not dead yet, more drilling needed (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 02:20 PM PDT AP - BP's broken oil well is not dead yet.

AP Enterprise: More immigrants getting licenses (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 03:13 PM PDT AP - Carlos Hernandez packed up his family and left Arizona after the state passed its sweeping immigration crackdown. The illegal immigrant's new home outside Seattle offered something Arizona could not: a driver's license.

South Dakota man dies after donating part of liver (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:36 PM PDT AP - A Colorado hospital announced Friday that it has temporarily suspended live donor liver transplants while it investigates the death of a South Dakota man who donated part of his liver to his brother.

JetBlue flight diverted over unruly passenger (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:31 PM PDT AP - A JetBlue Airways flight from Boston to the Dominican Republic had to land in the Washington, D.C., area Friday afternoon because of an unruly passenger, the company and federal officials said.

Fugitive's accomplice was informant before escape (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:43 PM PDT AP - An Arizona fugitive's accomplice was acting as a drug mule for a white supremacy group and agreed to become a police informant weeks before she helped him escape from prison, authorities said Friday.

Murky outcome at Blagojevich trial now more likely (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:46 PM PDT AP - While many who heard Rod Blagojevich's wiretapped phone conversations may have expected a tidy result in the former Illinois governor's corruption trial, the notes sent by jurors this week suggest a far murkier outcome.

Feds, Massey dispute what caused W.Va. mine blast (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:51 PM PDT AP - A 36-foot crack in the Upper Big Branch mine isn't venting methane and didn't contribute to a blast in April that killed 29 men, a federal official said Friday, disputing a company's claim that the crack could have caused the blast.

3 kids buy airplane tickets, fly alone to Tenn. (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 03:53 PM PDT AP - Bored on a hot summer day, three Florida youngsters were just sitting around when one sent a text message to another with an adventurous idea.

NJ blogger convicted of threatening Ill. judges (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 03:58 PM PDT AP - A right-wing New Jersey blogger was convicted at his third trial Friday of making threats against three federal judges in Illinois in retaliation for a ruling supporting gun control.

Wife: Quiet life with 'Granddad Bandit' suspect (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 03:07 PM PDT AP - Patsy Mara doesn't doubt that her husband is the man the FBI calls the "Granddad Bandit," suspected in a string of bank robberies across the country. But the 61-year-old schoolteacher is struggling to reconcile the image of a holdup man who snatched money from two dozen banks with the gentle, loving husband she married just a year ago.

US judge gives informant time to amend FBI lawsuit (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:26 PM PDT AP - A former FBI informant who infiltrated a mosque and helped bring in a suspect with alleged ties to Osama bin Laden has until next month to refile his lawsuit alleging he was mistreated by the agency.

7.2 earthquake strikes 215 miles off Guam coast (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 03:46 PM PDT AP - A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck about 230 miles off the southern coast of Guam on Saturday morning but many residents didn't even notice.

Aid helps states escape layoffs, but for how long? (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 01:03 PM PDT AP - Cash-strapped states from Maine to Hawaii are tearing up the pink slips — for now — relieved that the $26 billion state aid bill passed by Congress this week has saved hundreds of thousands of jobs. But it might be the last time the federal government comes to the rescue.

For-profit colleges rein in recruiting tactics (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 11:39 AM PDT AP - Two for-profit colleges whose recruiting tactics were singled out in a scathing undercover government investigation are pledging to stop using enrollment targets as a factor in paying admissions representatives.

JetBlue memo questions flight attendant's motive (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:51 PM PDT AP - A rogue JetBlue flight attendant's explanation that an uncooperative passenger caused him to lose his mind and slide down a parked plane's emergency chute may not hold water, the airline says in an internal memo.

Powder-filled letters sent to Texas, Ill., Mass. (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 01:22 PM PDT AP - A person who sent threatening letters containing suspicious white powder to several U.S. embassies and governors' offices two years ago recently sent 30 more such letters to churches, mosques and aeronautical and technical businesses in Texas, Illinois and Massachusetts, federal officials said Friday.

McCain says he doesn't back 14th Amendment change (AP) Posted: 13 Aug 2010 10:45 AM PDT AP - Sen. John McCain says he does not support changing the Constitution to end automatic citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants.

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