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• Woman pleads not guilty in Wash. in acid hoax case (AP)
• Police: Man who shot 2 officers at hospital dies (AP)
• Record number of children die in hot cars in 2010 (AP)
• Palin gets protective order over alleged threats (AP)
• Viral infection likely led to Carter stomach upset (AP)
• NJ student secretly taped having sex kills himself (AP)
• 1 dead, dozen hurt in bus crash outside DC (AP)
• Could 'Goldilocks' planet be just right for life? (AP)
• Pastor accuser: Sex encounters on church grounds (AP)
• Calif calls off execution after court setbacks (AP)
• Government: Times Square bomber plotted 2nd attack (AP)
• Judge dismisses some charges in Anna Nicole case (AP)
• SD GOP Sen. Thune looking at 2012 presidential run (AP)
• Marijuana tracking on the way in Colo. (AP)
• Terror plot in Europe prompted drone strikes (AP)
• New mammogram study stirs debate for women in 40s (AP)
• Charges dropped against widow in attorney's death (AP)
• Gunfire at UT highlights colleges' response (AP)
• Real estate agent slaying suspect arrested in NC (AP)

Woman pleads not guilty in Wash. in acid hoax case (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:18 PM PDT AP - Her face red and blotchy, the woman who splashed acid in her face in what was a bizarre hoax made a brief court appearance Wednesday and was ordered by a judge to live in a mental health facility while she awaits trial.

Police: Man who shot 2 officers at hospital dies (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:39 PM PDT AP - A 39-year-old man who led police on a high-speed car chase early Wednesday opened fire hours later at an Omaha hospital, grazing two police officers before they gunned him down, authorities said.

Record number of children die in hot cars in 2010 (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:03 PM PDT AP - This year of record temperatures has also led a record number of children dying in hot vehicles, according to a group that tracks such deaths.

Palin gets protective order over alleged threats (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:53 PM PDT AP - Sarah Palin has been granted a restraining order against a Pennsylvania man accused of stalking and threatening her.

Viral infection likely led to Carter stomach upset (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:18 PM PDT AP - A viral infection is the likely cause of the stomach distress that sent former President Jimmy Carter to a Cleveland hospital after a flight from Atlanta, medical staff said Wednesday.

NJ student secretly taped having sex kills himself (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:44 PM PDT AP - A college student jumped to his death off a bridge a day after authorities say two classmates surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it over the Internet.

1 dead, dozen hurt in bus crash outside DC (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:55 PM PDT AP - A commuter bus plunged off a highway Wednesday outside the nation's capital, killing one person and injuring at least a dozen, including children, authorities said.

Could 'Goldilocks' planet be just right for life? (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:19 PM PDT AP - Astronomers say they have for the first time spotted a planet beyond our own in what is sometimes called the Goldilocks zone for life: Not too hot, not too cold. Juuuust right.

Pastor accuser: Sex encounters on church grounds (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:50 PM PDT AP - One of four men accusing megachurch Bishop Eddie Long of coercing them into inappropriate sexual relationships says that he and the pastor would have encounters before and after services on church grounds.

Calif calls off execution after court setbacks (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:31 PM PDT AP - California officials on Wednesday called off the scheduled execution of a convicted murderer after setbacks in federal and state courts.

Government: Times Square bomber plotted 2nd attack (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:36 PM PDT AP - The man who planted a car bomb in Times Square boasted that he thought it would kill at least 40 people and that he planned to detonate a second bomb two weeks after the first, prosecutors said Wednesday, quoting the former financial analyst in a video where he said he'd hoped "to join my brothers in jihad" ever since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Judge dismisses some charges in Anna Nicole case (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:39 PM PDT AP - LOS ANGELES AP) — The judge in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy case acquitted her boyfriend-lawyer Howard Stern on Wednesday of two charges of obtaining drugs for her by fraud and deceit including use of false names.

SD GOP Sen. Thune looking at 2012 presidential run (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:48 PM PDT AP - Republican Sen. John Thune, who has spent the summer traversing the country, talking policy and raising millions of dollars for a re-election bid that has no opponent, acknowledged Wednesday that he's considered running for president in 2012.

Marijuana tracking on the way in Colo. (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 01:00 PM PDT AP - Colorado wants to set up a first-in-the-nation tracking system of medical marijuana purchases to deter people from buying vast amounts of pot and selling it on the black market.

Terror plot in Europe prompted drone strikes (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:40 PM PDT AP - Police increased their guard around Buckingham Palace and other landmarks Wednesday as security officials monitored what they described as a fledgling terror plot to wage Mumbai-style shooting sprees or other attacks on Britain, France or Germany.

New mammogram study stirs debate for women in 40s (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:29 PM PDT AP - A new study from Sweden is stirring fresh debate over whether women in their 40s should get mammograms. It suggests that the breast cancer screening test can lower the risk of dying of the disease by 26 percent or more in this age group.

Charges dropped against widow in attorney's death (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 01:09 PM PDT AP - Prosecutors who received an unexpected autopsy result dropped a murder charge Wednesday against a woman who had been accused of killing her ailing husband as a result of a botched at-home medical procedure.

Gunfire at UT highlights colleges' response (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 01:19 PM PDT AP - Yet another campus shooting, this one at the University of Texas in Austin, provided a terrifying test of how colleges respond at a time when universities nationwide have bolstered efforts to prevent bloodshed and respond decisively.

Real estate agent slaying suspect arrested in NC (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 01:43 PM PDT AP - A suspect in the fatal shooting of an Ohio real estate agent whose body was found in a vacant home he was trying to sell was arrested in North Carolina after a weeklong manhunt.

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