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• Cement starts flowing to plug BP well for good (AP)
• Couple charged in nuclear weapons secrets case (AP)
• Few in Wash. city are angry at acid hoax woman (AP)
• Texas man, abducted as a boy, turns his father in (AP)
• Muslim summit planned over NYC Islamic center (AP)
• 'Sexting' Wis. prosecutor says he'll get therapy (AP)
• Jackie joins Twitter 50 years after JFK campaign (AP)
• Newspaper's revelation rocks photographer's family (AP)
• Families of 2 Americans still in Iran wait, wonder (AP)
• Friends, neighbors share memories of blast victims (AP)
• Jupiter making closest approach in nearly 50 years (AP)
• Mother says Ind. teen joked after killing brother (AP)
• Jackson Jr. speaks out about Blagojevich trial (AP)
• Colbert to rally against faux nemesis Stewart (AP)
• Helicopter filming Audi test crashes on Pikes Peak (AP)
• Texas man who duped Army gets 6 months in prison (AP)
• Police: Officers shoot gunman on Capitol Hill (AP)
• US face transplant patient promotes organ donation (AP)

Cement starts flowing to plug BP well for good (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 12:54 PM PDT AP - Crews started pumping cement Friday deep under the seafloor to permanently plug BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Couple charged in nuclear weapons secrets case (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 05:39 PM PDT AP - A scientist and his wife who both once worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory were arrested Friday after an FBI sting operation and charged with offering to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela.

Few in Wash. city are angry at acid hoax woman (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 04:11 PM PDT AP - The scars on her face were real, but her story about being splashed with acid was a horrific hoax.

Texas man, abducted as a boy, turns his father in (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 04:03 PM PDT AP - Twenty-year-old Stephen Michael Palacios came across a newspaper story recently about a boy allegedly abducted by his father in 1993. Palacios, it turns out, was that boy.

Muslim summit planned over NYC Islamic center (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 04:52 PM PDT AP - Some Muslims who were initially indifferent about a proposed Islamic center near the World Trade Center site are now rallying around the plan, partly in response to a sense that their faith is under assault.

'Sexting' Wis. prosecutor says he'll get therapy (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 03:55 PM PDT AP - A Wisconsin district attorney said Friday he'll get therapy and take time off but rejected growing calls for his resignation over sexual text messages he sent to a domestic abuse victim.

Jackie joins Twitter 50 years after JFK campaign (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 01:52 PM PDT AP - Had Twitter been an option in 1960, a pregnant Jacqueline Kennedy might well have used it to communicate with voters while largely confined to her Massachusetts home and notably absent from her husband's presidential campaign.

Newspaper's revelation rocks photographer's family (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 12:39 PM PDT AP - Civil rights movement veterans are struggling to explain the motives of a revered photographer recently unmasked as an FBI informant who spied on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others even as he captured their most intimate moments. His children don't believe it's true.

Families of 2 Americans still in Iran wait, wonder (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 02:05 PM PDT AP - As Sarah Shourd prepares to spend her first weekend in more than a year outside a Tehran prison, the families of the two Americans left behind wonder what more they can do to win their release.

Friends, neighbors share memories of blast victims (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 04:43 PM PDT AP - The five women grew up together and shared high school and college graduations, weddings, the births of their children and family vacations.

Jupiter making closest approach in nearly 50 years (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - Better catch Jupiter next week in the night sky. It won't be that big or bright again until 2022. Jupiter will pass 368 million miles from Earth late Monday, its closest approach since 1963. You can see it low in the east around dusk. Around midnight, it will be directly overhead. That's because Earth will be passing between Jupiter and the sun, into the wee hours of Tuesday.

Mother says Ind. teen joked after killing brother (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 12:33 PM PDT AP - A teenager who strangled his 10-year-old brother joked around the following morning and seemed calm, even eating popcorn, the boys' mother testified in a video deposition played in court Friday.

Jackson Jr. speaks out about Blagojevich trial (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT AP - Mulling over a possible run for mayor of Chicago, a defiant Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., spoke out publicly for the first time on Friday about potentially damning details that emerged in former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's recent corruption trial.

Colbert to rally against faux nemesis Stewart (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 01:43 PM PDT AP - "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart is hosting a "million moderate march" in Washington — for people who think shouting is annoying — but faux political nemesis Stephen Colbert will be nearby to keep fear alive against those "dark, optimistic forces."

Helicopter filming Audi test crashes on Pikes Peak (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 04:21 PM PDT AP - A helicopter filming a driverless Audi on a test run crashed Friday about a mile below the summit of Pikes Peak, injuring the four people onboard, the sheriff's office said.

Texas man who duped Army gets 6 months in prison (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 02:51 PM PDT AP - The Texas man who earlier this year tricked the Army into allowing him to join the reserves as a noncommissioned officer has been sentenced to six months in prison and a bad conduct discharge, an Army spokeswoman said.

Police: Officers shoot gunman on Capitol Hill (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 08:23 AM PDT AP - Officers in Washington shot and wounded a man who pointed a handgun at them early Friday blocks away from the U.S. Capitol.

US face transplant patient promotes organ donation (AP) Posted: 17 Sep 2010 04:24 AM PDT AP - There is an initial shock upon first glance at Connie Culp, the woman who received the nation's first face transplant nearly two years ago. She taps her way through the hospital waiting room, feeling along the floor with a cane and smiling hesitantly at a visitor, even though she can only make out shadows and shapes.

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