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• Obama a Muslim? Rumors gain steam, defying facts (AP)
• Divers work to lift WWII plane from Calif. lake (AP)
• Jetliner grounded in San Francisco after threat (AP)
• Antiwar activists rally around suspected leaker (AP)
• Arizona official: State didn't detect prison flaws (AP)
• Illnesses linked to eggs will likely grow (AP)
• Mazda recall to cover vehicles in Asia, Europe (AP)
• Giuliani supports move of mosque near WTC site (AP)
• Study: Smoking scenes on the decline in top movies (AP)
• BP accused of withholding 'critical' spill data (AP)
• Iraq war vet kills pregnant wife, daughter, self (AP)
• FDA: rodents at Ga. warehouse that held jail food (AP)
• Major study charts long-lasting oil plume in Gulf (AP)
• Dallas police chase ends alongside airport runway (AP)
• Law enforcement: Airline threat 'non-credible' (AP)
• Unguarded border bridges could be route into US (AP)
• Promoter's permits suspended following fatal race (AP)
• Billionaire Donald Bren testifies in lawsuit (AP)
• Gun victim's funeral begins 3 grim days in Buffalo (AP)
• Tenn. dries out after deluge washes through state (AP)

Obama a Muslim? Rumors gain steam, defying facts (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT AP - "President Obama is a Muslim." "He's not an American citizen." "He wasn't even born here."

Divers work to lift WWII plane from Calif. lake (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 03:52 PM PDT AP - Salvage divers gently cleared away silt and mud covering a WWII dive bomber buried in the bottom of the San Diego reservoir, carefully working Thursday to lift the rare plane from the water 65 years after it was ditched during a training run.

Jetliner grounded in San Francisco after threat (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 05:41 PM PDT AP - A hijack threat halted an American Airlines flight just before takeoff Thursday, leaving the New York-bound jet sitting on the tarmac for several hours while it was searched and passengers were removed for extra scrutiny.

Antiwar activists rally around suspected leaker (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 02:35 PM PDT AP - The Army private suspected in one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in U.S. history has become a hero to many anti-war activists who have joined an international effort to free him.

Arizona official: State didn't detect prison flaws (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 05:41 PM PDT AP - A report released Thursday by Arizona officials outlined a series of embarrassing security breakdowns that allowed three violent criminals to escape from a prison last month, including a badly defective alarm system and an unstaffed perimeter post.

Illnesses linked to eggs will likely grow (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:04 PM PDT AP - A salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds and led to the recall of hundreds of millions of eggs from one Iowa firm will likely grow, federal health officials said Thursday.

Mazda recall to cover vehicles in Asia, Europe (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 01:23 PM PDT AP - Mazda Motor Corp. says its recall of certain Mazda3 and Mazda5 vehicles to fix problems with the power-steering system will include those sold in Europe and parts of Asia.

Giuliani supports move of mosque near WTC site (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:53 PM PDT AP - Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Thursday joined a growing number of politicians supporting a move of a proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero to state-owned land farther from the Sept. 11 attack site.

Study: Smoking scenes on the decline in top movies (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 02:28 PM PDT AP - There's a lot less smoking in the movies these days, a new report shows.

BP accused of withholding 'critical' spill data (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:56 PM PDT AP - The company that owned the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico is accusing BP of withholding critical evidence needed to investigate the cause of the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, according to a confidential document obtained by The Associated Press. BP called the claims a publicity stunt.

Iraq war vet kills pregnant wife, daughter, self (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 02:46 PM PDT AP - April Oles-Magdzas was due to give birth to her second daughter Wednesday, a little more than a year after she and her Iraq war veteran husband became new parents.

FDA: rodents at Ga. warehouse that held jail food (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:45 PM PDT AP - Authorities seized nearly $1 million worth of cookies, crackers and other packaged food that was bound for jails and prisons throughout the Southeast after rodents were found at an unlicensed Georgia warehouse, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said Thursday.

Major study charts long-lasting oil plume in Gulf (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 03:42 PM PDT AP - A 22-mile-long invisible mist of oil is meandering far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, where it will probably loiter for months or more, scientists reported Thursday in the first conclusive evidence of an underwater plume from the BP spill.

Dallas police chase ends alongside airport runway (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:58 PM PDT AP - A suspected carjacker led police on an hour-long chase Thursday before crashing through a locked chain-link fence and driving across runways at Dallas Love Field, temporarily halting flights, authorities said.

Law enforcement: Airline threat 'non-credible' (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 03:45 PM PDT AP - A federal law enforcement official says a phoned-in threat that kept a New York-bound jetliner from taking off from San Francisco has been deemed non-credible.

Unguarded border bridges could be route into US (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:51 AM PDT AP - On each side of a towering West Texas stretch of the $2.4 billion border fence designed to block people from illegally entering the country, there are two metal footbridges, clear paths into the United States from Mexico.

Promoter's permits suspended following fatal race (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 02:31 PM PDT AP - A federal agency suspended future event permits Thursday for the promoter of last weekend's off-road race in the California desert where eight spectators were killed by a racing truck.

Billionaire Donald Bren testifies in lawsuit (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 02:14 PM PDT AP - Billionaire real estate mogul Donald Bren testified Thursday in the child support case brought by his two adult children, saying he was shocked when his then-lover told him decades ago that she was pregnant with their first child.

Gun victim's funeral begins 3 grim days in Buffalo (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 02:20 PM PDT AP - Tanisha Mackin was supposed to see her baby daughter christened this week at Durham Memorial AME Zion Church in Buffalo. Instead, she sat grimly in a pink suit in the front pew beside a casket containing the body of her husband of one year.

Tenn. dries out after deluge washes through state (AP) Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:58 PM PDT AP - Tennessee started drying out Thursday after days of drenching rain that caused flooding, stranded homeowners and drivers, washed out roads and forced a freight train off its tracks.

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