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• Second Colo fire erupts, destroys at least 1 home (AP)
• Fellow Americans' suspicions frustrate US Muslims (AP)
• Residents return home after Calif pipeline blowout (AP)
• Iranian prosecutor ready to release American woman (AP)
• AP: Doomed W.Va. miners' notes warned of coal dust (AP)
• 'Body Snatchers' actor McCarthy dies in Mass. (AP)
• Man convicted in 1990s NYC race riots is stabbed (AP)
• LA environmental school site in toxic soil cleanup (AP)
• Mich. child care workers sue to break from union (AP)
• Lesbian seeks reinstatement to Air Force in trial (AP)
• Palin, Beck recall 9/11 attacks at Alaska event (AP)
• Schwarzenegger checks out China's high-speed rail (AP)
• Officials: Passenger accused of making threat (AP)
• Scientists find drugs that may fight bat disease (AP)
• Hurricane Igor rapidly hits Category 4 in Atlantic (AP)

Second Colo fire erupts, destroys at least 1 home (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 06:09 PM PDT AP - A fast-moving wildfire has erupted in northern Colorado, destroying at least one home and threatening other as residents in the Boulder foothills about 35 miles away return to their homes after one of the most destructive fires in state history.

Fellow Americans' suspicions frustrate US Muslims (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 03:07 PM PDT AP - Nine years of denouncing terrorism, of praying side-by-side with Jews and Christians, of insisting "I'm American, too." None of it could stop a season of hate against Muslims that made for an especially fraught Sept. 11. Now, Muslims are asking why their efforts to be accepted in the United States have been so easily thwarted.

Residents return home after Calif pipeline blowout (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 06:03 PM PDT AP - Residents returned Sunday to the ruined hillsides of their suburban San Francisco neighborhood, three days after a natural gas pipeline exploded into a deadly fireball.

Iranian prosecutor ready to release American woman (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 12:37 PM PDT AP - After a power struggle within Iran's conservative leadership put her freedom in doubt, an American woman arrested more than a year ago along the Iraq border is on the verge of heading home. Her two companions, however, could be on their way to spy trials.

AP: Doomed W.Va. miners' notes warned of coal dust (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 10:08 AM PDT AP - About the time Michael Elswick was wrapping up work deep inside the Upper Big Branch mine, he phoned a colleague on the surface with an ominous if relatively routine report.

'Body Snatchers' actor McCarthy dies in Mass. (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 06:23 PM PDT AP - Actor Kevin McCarthy, who played the frantic doctor trying to save his friends and neighbors in the science-fiction movie classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," has died at age 96.

Man convicted in 1990s NYC race riots is stabbed (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 04:28 PM PDT AP - A black man convicted in the death of a white Jewish scholar during race riots in the 1990s has been stabbed in the head with an ice pick in a possible road rage attack, police say.

LA environmental school site in toxic soil cleanup (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 12:51 PM PDT AP - Students at a new green themed school named for noted conservationists Rachel Carson and Al Gore don't have to go far for a lesson in environmental contamination: Their $75 million campus was laden with toxic soil.

Mich. child care workers sue to break from union (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 10:43 AM PDT AP - Peggy Mashke tends to 12 children for 12 hours a day at her home, so she was surprised to get a letter welcoming her to the United Auto Workers union.

Lesbian seeks reinstatement to Air Force in trial (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 12:17 PM PDT AP - Opponents of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy against gays serving in the military are hoping for another major legal victory as a federal trial begins Monday over whether to reinstate a lesbian flight nurse discharged from the Air Force Reserve.

Palin, Beck recall 9/11 attacks at Alaska event (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 03:56 AM PDT AP - Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck teamed up in the former Alaska governor's home state Saturday night, delivering their messages to a crowd of thousands and recalling their thoughts and feelings the day of the 9/11 attacks.

Schwarzenegger checks out China's high-speed rail (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2010 11:15 PM PDT AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is engaging in a little window-shopping of China's new high-speed train lines while peddling Californian exports and tourism in the world's second-largest economy.

Officials: Passenger accused of making threat (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 03:45 PM PDT AP - A passenger on a Las Vegas to Phoenix flight allegedly made a threat after it was forced to return to the airport because of a mechanical problem, officials said.

Scientists find drugs that may fight bat disease (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 04:42 PM PDT AP - Scientists may have found some ways to help the nation's bats, which are being wiped out by a novel fungal disease.

Hurricane Igor rapidly hits Category 4 in Atlantic (AP) Posted: 12 Sep 2010 01:42 PM PDT AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Igor has rapidly strengthened to a Category 4 storm in the open Atlantic. It doesn't immediately threaten land, but is expected to get stronger as it moves west.

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