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• Bodies of 2 toddlers found in car in SC river (AP)
• Shrimping season in La. reopens after spill (AP)
• LA judge frees thief who got 25 yrs on 3rd strike (AP)
• Grizzly in maulings was stressed, had parasites (AP)
• After NY shooting, wife begged new husband to live (AP)
• AP IMPACT: Border Patrol sees spike in suicides (AP)
• Court halts Calif. gay marriages pending appeal (AP)
• Religious relic stolen in Boston recovered in Vt. (AP)
• Woman hits Senate Armed Services chairman with pie (AP)
• Columnist, wordsmith James Kilpatrick dies at 89 (AP)
• Questions and answers on mosque near ground zero (AP)
• Judge: No venue change in Smart trial — for now (AP)
• Jail probe sought after Craigslist suspect's death (AP)
• Report: Cancer is the world's costliest disease (AP)
• Spacewalking astronauts plug in new cooling pump (AP)
• FTC sues Ariz. company over acai pill free trials (AP)
• Target: No donations planned for gay groups (AP)
• Judge says Blagojevich jurors will get transcript (AP)
• Judge's reprimand in death penalty case stands (AP)

Bodies of 2 toddlers found in car in SC river (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 06:29 PM PDT AP - After the bodies of two toddlers were pulled Monday from a car submerged in a South Carolina river, their mother was arrested and authorities were investigating how it happened — and whether it was an accident.

Shrimping season in La. reopens after spill (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 05:40 PM PDT AP - Fishermen who spent much of the summer mopping up oil from BP's disastrous spill got back to work as the fall shrimping season in Louisiana's coastal waters opened Monday amid anxiety over whether the catch will be tainted by crude and whether anyone will buy it even if it is clean.

LA judge frees thief who got 25 yrs on 3rd strike (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 06:22 PM PDT AP - A judge on Monday ordered the release of a man who spent 13 years behind bars for trying to steal food from a church, his third offense under California's three-strikes law.

Grizzly in maulings was stressed, had parasites (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 05:44 PM PDT AP - Hunger and internal parasites afflicted a grizzly bear that mauled three campers near Yellowstone National Park, but investigators said Monday those factors failed to explain such aggressive predatory behavior.

After NY shooting, wife begged new husband to live (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 03:16 PM PDT AP - Crouched on a sidewalk over her fallen husband, a woman whose first-anniversary party was shattered by gunfire pumped his chest in vain and begged him: "Don't die! This is our anniversary; please don't die!"

AP IMPACT: Border Patrol sees spike in suicides (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 06:28 PM PDT AP - After a bad day on the job as a Border Patrol agent, Eddie DeLaCruz went home and began discussing with his wife how to celebrate her upcoming birthday. Then he casually pressed his government-issued handgun under his chin and pulled the trigger.

Court halts Calif. gay marriages pending appeal (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 06:28 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court put same-sex weddings in California on hold indefinitely Monday while it considers the constitutionality of the state's gay marriage ban.

Religious relic stolen in Boston recovered in Vt. (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 01:32 PM PDT AP - A relic that Roman Catholics believe contains a piece of the original crucifix and was stolen from a Boston cathedral has been returned in Vermont by a transient — who then disappeared while church officials tried to verify its authenticity.

Woman hits Senate Armed Services chairman with pie (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 06:29 PM PDT AP - A woman identified as an anti-war protester hit U.S. Sen. Carl Levin in the face with an apple pie during the Armed Services Committee chairman's meeting with constituents in northern Michigan, authorities said Monday.

Columnist, wordsmith James Kilpatrick dies at 89 (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 04:21 PM PDT AP - James J. Kilpatrick's in-your-face, conservative bickering with liberal commentator Shana Alexander three decades ago was famously parodied — and then copied for years to come on broadcast and cable channels.

Questions and answers on mosque near ground zero (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 01:14 PM PDT AP - An Islamic Center including a mosque is proposed for a site in lower Manhattan that's two blocks from where Muslim extremists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and killed nearly 2,800 people. The project has ignited passions and turned into a major political issue. Some questions and answers:

Judge: No venue change in Smart trial — for now (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 04:48 PM PDT AP - A federal judge said Monday he won't move the upcoming trial of a man charged with kidnapping Elizabeth Smart — at least for now.

Jail probe sought after Craigslist suspect's death (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 02:37 PM PDT AP - A Boston city councilor called Monday for an independent investigation of jailhouse procedures after the apparent suicide of a former medical student awaiting trial in the death of a masseuse he met through Craigslist.

Report: Cancer is the world's costliest disease (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 04:22 PM PDT AP - Cancer is the world's top "economic killer" as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report it will present at a global cancer conference in China this week.

Spacewalking astronauts plug in new cooling pump (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 01:29 PM PDT AP - Spacewalking astronauts installed a new coolant pump for the International Space Station on Monday, accomplishing urgent cooling-system repairs after more than two weeks of impaired operations in orbit.

FTC sues Ariz. company over acai pill free trials (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 03:06 PM PDT AP - Dreams of rapid weight loss and fake celebrity endorsements from Oprah Winfrey and Rachael Ray lured customers into providing their credit or debit card numbers as they signed up online for a "free trial" of acai berry pills.

Target: No donations planned for gay groups (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 03:57 PM PDT AP - Target Corp. said Monday it won't give money to gay-friendly causes to quiet the uproar over a $150,000 donation that helped support a Minnesota governor candidate who opposes gay marriage.

Judge says Blagojevich jurors will get transcript (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 04:25 PM PDT AP - An alleged extortion scheme against Rahm Emanuel surfaced anew in Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial Monday when jurors requested a transcript of testimony about the former Illinois governor allegedly squeezing fundraising help from the brother of the then-congressman.

Judge's reprimand in death penalty case stands (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2010 11:41 AM PDT AP - The Texas Supreme Court refused Monday to overturn a judicial conduct panel's reprimand of the state's highest criminal court judge for her handling of an execution-day appeal.

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