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• Aging gas pipe at risk of explosion nationwide (AP)
• New drug-resistant superbugs found in 3 states (AP)
• BP claim czar considers making key concession (AP)
• EPA told gas drilling does, does not taint water (AP)
• Trial opens for lesbian seeking return to military (AP)
• Pa. pastor denies involvement in wife's 2008 death (AP)
• Imam says NYC mosque site is not 'hallowed ground' (AP)
• Suspect in Detroit plane attack plot hints at plea (AP)
• Ind. teen pleads guilty to brother's strangling (AP)
• Obama children's book 'Of Thee I Sing' out Nov. 16 (AP)
• Attack on SC prison guard renews phone-jam debate (AP)
• Melting sea ice forces walruses ashore in Alaska (AP)
• Defense: Conn. man killed woman in home invasion (AP)
• Lawyer says alleged NYC cabbie stabber has PTSD (AP)
• Powerful Igor churning far out in the Atlantic (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Crews resume drilling relief well (AP)
• Where's the oil? On the Gulf floor, scientists say (AP)
• Family of jailed American in Iran fights bail (AP)

Aging gas pipe at risk of explosion nationwide (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 04:21 PM PDT AP - An ominous theme has emerged from the wreckage of a deadly pipeline explosion in California: There are thousands of pipes just like it nationwide.

New drug-resistant superbugs found in 3 states (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 04:10 PM PDT AP - An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over the world, health officials reported Monday.

BP claim czar considers making key concession (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 12:13 PM PDT AP - The administrator of the $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the Gulf oil spill said Monday he might waive the current requirement that wages earned from helping out in the cleanup be subtracted from people's spill claims.

EPA told gas drilling does, does not taint water (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 03:25 PM PDT AP - Rep. Maurice Hinchey told a federal hearing Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas extraction process that he said has contaminated water near drilling sites around the country.

Trial opens for lesbian seeking return to military (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 04:25 PM PDT AP - A lesbian flight nurse discharged under the government's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays in the military was an excellent officer whose sexuality never caused a problem in her unit, former colleagues told a federal judge Monday.

Pa. pastor denies involvement in wife's 2008 death (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 04:07 PM PDT AP - A retired Pennsylvania pastor whose first wife died under suspicious circumstances more than 11 years ago was charged Monday with killing his second wife and staging a car accident to cover it up. The accusations have prompted police to re-examine the first wife's death.

Imam says NYC mosque site is not 'hallowed ground' (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 04:04 PM PDT AP - It is two blocks from ground zero, but the site of a proposed mosque and Islamic center shouldn't be seen as "hallowed ground" in a neighborhood that also contains a strip club and a betting parlor, the cleric leading the effort said Monday.

Suspect in Detroit plane attack plot hints at plea (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - A Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up an international flight with nearly 300 people on Christmas fired his lawyers Monday, repeatedly declaring he wanted to represent himself and suggesting he's ready to plead guilty to some charges.

Ind. teen pleads guilty to brother's strangling (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - An Indiana teenager who police say strangled his 10-year-old brother to satisfy an urge to kill that he likened to hunger pleaded guilty to murder Monday, and his defense attorney described him as remorseful.

Obama children's book 'Of Thee I Sing' out Nov. 16 (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 04:34 PM PDT AP - Coming two weeks after Election Day, a book from President Barack Obama for some of the nation's nonvoters: inspirational stories for children about American pioneers.

Attack on SC prison guard renews phone-jam debate (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 01:11 PM PDT AP - South Carolina authorities who have helped push for permission to block cell phone signals inside prisons say an officer in charge of keeping out contraband was nearly killed at his home — in an attack planned with a smuggled phone.

Melting sea ice forces walruses ashore in Alaska (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 03:12 PM PDT AP - Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in northwest Alaska because the sea ice they normally rest on has melted.

Defense: Conn. man killed woman in home invasion (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 02:17 PM PDT AP - A defense lawyer, saying his client would "concede much, but not all" of the case against him, told a jury Monday that the defendant killed a Connecticut mother in a home invasion three years ago that also resulted in the deaths of her two children.

Lawyer says alleged NYC cabbie stabber has PTSD (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 12:20 PM PDT AP - A student accused of slashing a Muslim taxi driver's neck was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by the horrors of the war he witnessed while filming a documentary in Afghanistan, his attorney said Monday.

Powerful Igor churning far out in the Atlantic (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 01:59 PM PDT AP - Powerful Hurricane Igor is roaring far out in the Atlantic and forecasters expect it to remain over open water through at least the end of the week.

APNewsBreak: Crews resume drilling relief well (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 11:59 AM PDT AP - A chief drilling official says BP crews have resumed drilling a relief well meant to allow them to permanently seal the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Where's the oil? On the Gulf floor, scientists say (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 02:00 PM PDT AP - Far beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, deeper than divers can go, scientists say they are finding oil from the busted BP well on the sea's muddy and mysterious bottom.

Family of jailed American in Iran fights bail (AP) Posted: 13 Sep 2010 09:56 AM PDT AP - The family of an American woman detained in Iran for more than a year is appealing to authorities to drop a $500,000 bail for her release because they cannot afford it, her lawyer said Monday.

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