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• AP Interview: Clinton says give Dems more time (AP)
• Patrol: Tour driver smoked pot days before crash (AP)
• Ga. megachurch pastor accused in sex scandal (AP)
• 2 Ohio real estate agents killed; another robbed (AP)
• AP Sources: Sheriff will run for Chicago mayor (AP)
• Little known republic in La. celebrates 200 years (AP)
• Court affirms overturning Fla. gay adoption ban (AP)
• Friend: Chicago bomb suspect wanted quick fame (AP)
• Wis. governor starts removal process against DA (AP)
• Audit: City mismanaged over $50 million in funds (AP)
• Conn. home invasion break-in 'got out of control' (AP)
• Study finds mammograms offer modest benefit (AP)
• Would-be school volunteers thwarted by their past (AP)
• J&J lawyers: FDA knew of secret 2009 Motrin recall (AP)
• Quality of care up at US hospitals, report says (AP)
• Genetically altered salmon? It doesn't stop there (AP)
• Man with Hitler tattoo guilty in Md. beating (AP)
• North Dakota lake swallows land and buildings (AP)
• Calif group airs anti-tea party ad in Times Square (AP)
• DA: NYC cabbie attacker called himself a patriot (AP)

AP Interview: Clinton says give Dems more time (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 02:36 PM PDT AP - Bill Clinton asked the American people Wednesday to give the Democrats two more years to dig the country out of the economic hole he blamed on the Republicans — and then, if the Democrats fail, "throw us all out."

Patrol: Tour driver smoked pot days before crash (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 04:48 PM PDT AP - A tour bus driver smoked marijuana heavily for several days before falling asleep at the wheel and crashing in Utah, killing three Japanese tourists and injuring 11 other passengers, according to an arrest report released Wednesday.

Ga. megachurch pastor accused in sex scandal (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - As a Christian author, gospel singer and leader of one of the nation's best-known black megachurches, Bishop Eddie Long finds a wide audience for messages such as marriage is "between one man and one woman." Those words hung heavy Wednesday over accusations that the TV preacher, a married father of four, used jewelry, cars and cash to lure three young men into sexual relationships.

2 Ohio real estate agents killed; another robbed (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 03:55 PM PDT AP - Two real estate agents were killed in vacant homes for sale and another was robbed all within a week, prompting frightened agents in northeast Ohio to cancel open houses and avoid meeting prospective buyers alone.

AP Sources: Sheriff will run for Chicago mayor (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - Tom Dart, the Cook County sheriff who made national headlines when he sued Craigslist, halted court-ordered evictions and headed a probe into the alleged resale of a historic cemetery's burial plots, will run for mayor of Chicago, two people close to Dart said Wednesday.

Little known republic in La. celebrates 200 years (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 02:54 PM PDT AP - While Texans are fiercely proud their state was once its own republic, and California celebrates the same former status on its flag, relatively few Louisianans know that a group of their forebears overthrew Spanish rule to carve out a tiny, independent nation 200 years ago. With the bicentennial coming up Thursday, historians and descendants of the rebels are hoping to change that.

Court affirms overturning Fla. gay adoption ban (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 03:48 PM PDT AP - Florida will immediately stop enforcing its ban on adoptions by gay people following a decision by a state appeals court that the three-decade-old law is unconstitutional, Gov. Charlie Crist said Wednesday.

Friend: Chicago bomb suspect wanted quick fame (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 05:14 PM PDT AP - A 22-year-old Lebanese immigrant accused of placing a backpack he thought contained a bomb near Chicago's Wrigley Field is no terrorist, just someone seeking quick fortune and fame in America, his attorney and a friend said Wednesday.

Wis. governor starts removal process against DA (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 05:11 PM PDT AP - Wisconsin's governor took initial steps Wednesday to remove a prosecutor who sent sexually explicit text messages to a domestic abuse victim and is accused of similar misconduct with two other women.

Audit: City mismanaged over $50 million in funds (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - Eight current and former officials of the city of Bell appeared in shackles before judges Wednesday in a case of alleged municipal corruption that prosecutors say ran so deep it involved personnel who would otherwise have exposed it.

Conn. home invasion break-in 'got out of control' (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT AP - A man charged in the 2007 home invasion killings of a woman and her two daughters was devoid of emotion as he told authorities how he sexually assaulted the mother after his co-defendant told him he had to — to "square things up" — because the other man already had sexually assaulted one of the girls, a detective testified Wednesday.

Study finds mammograms offer modest benefit (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 02:04 PM PDT AP - Mammograms don't help women over 50 as much as has been believed, new research suggests.

Would-be school volunteers thwarted by their past (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 11:39 AM PDT AP - Wendy Cross wants to chaperone field trips and join other parents in supervising activities at her children's school in Grand Rapids, Mich. But because of some bad checks she wrote a decade ago, that's out of the question.

J&J lawyers: FDA knew of secret 2009 Motrin recall (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 01:55 PM PDT AP - Lawyers for Johnson & Johnson insist government regulators knew the company was secretly pulling packets of ineffective Motrin from store shelves last year, rather than announcing a public recall.

Quality of care up at US hospitals, report says (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 02:55 PM PDT AP - A report says treatment has improved substantially at U.S. hospitals for several ailments including heart attacks, pneumonia and children's asthma.

Genetically altered salmon? It doesn't stop there (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 01:27 PM PDT AP - We've always played with our food — even before we knew about genes or how to change them.

Man with Hitler tattoo guilty in Md. beating (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 02:47 PM PDT AP - A white supremacist who goes by the nickname "Hitler" pleaded guilty Wednesday in the unprovoked beating of a black fisherman in a Baltimore park.

North Dakota lake swallows land and buildings (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 12:49 PM PDT AP - It's been called a slow-growing monster: a huge lake that has steadily expanded over the last 20 years, swallowing up thousands of acres, hundreds of buildings and at least two towns in its rising waters.

Calif group airs anti-tea party ad in Times Square (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 01:11 PM PDT AP - A California consumer-advocacy group is hoping to rally the left before the November election with an ad on a Times Square video screen that labels the tea party movement as "insane."

DA: NYC cabbie attacker called himself a patriot (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2010 01:05 PM PDT AP - A college student declared himself "a patriot" after slashing a New York cabbie's neck because the driver is Muslim, prosecutors said in a court document released Wednesday.

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