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• Police seek possible young victims of alleged pimp (AP)
• Emanuel hits Chicago streets, makes case for mayor (AP)
• Plains mood: Times good, but incumbents in danger (AP)
• Oil industry has yet to adopt lessons of BP spill (AP)
• Casino owners, senators charged in Ala bingo probe (AP)
• Nobel Prize given for test tube baby research (AP)
• No verdict yet in Connecticut home invasion trial (AP)
• 2 arrested in anti-gay beating at famed NY gay bar (AP)
• Contractor: BP interfered with critical efforts (AP)
• Remains found near where Vt. woman disappeared (AP)
• 2 killed, 5 wounded in Gainesville shooting spree (AP)
• Pa. firm to pay $23M for illegal bone cement tests (AP)
• US strike kills 5 German militants in Pakistan (AP)
• Closing arguments held at NYC temple plot trial (AP)
• Vt. man accused of locking up stepson gets prison (AP)
• 5 dead, including baby, in rural Ohio house fire (AP)
• Ga. federal judge arrested on drug, gun charges (AP)
• Wis. prosecutor quits after 'sexting' abuse victim (AP)
• Prosecutor portrays Anna Nicole Smith as addict (AP)
• Chefs name gardens top restaurant trend of 2010 (AP)

Police seek possible young victims of alleged pimp (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - The case of an alleged pimp suspected of abducting two teenage girls and keeping them captive while forcing them into prostitution could include dozens of other victims, authorities said Monday.

Emanuel hits Chicago streets, makes case for mayor (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 04:30 PM PDT AP - Last week, Afghanistan. This week, parents protesting the proposed demolition of a park field house.

Plains mood: Times good, but incumbents in danger (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 04:18 PM PDT AP - The recession that has brought misery to so much of America hasn't touched Walter Grotte. His business moving silos and grain bins is prospering, and, like many in North Dakota, he has no financial worries. Life, he says, is "better than we deserve."

Oil industry has yet to adopt lessons of BP spill (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 02:26 PM PDT AP - Oil industry and government officials could get caught flat-footed again by another deep-water blowout in the coming months because they have yet to incorporate many of the lessons learned during the BP disaster, experts inside and outside the business tell The Associated Press.

Casino owners, senators charged in Ala bingo probe (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT AP - After the governor began raiding the state's electronic bingo halls, casino owners sent lobbyists to the Capitol with orders to make their Vegas-style parlors legal. Part of the plan, federal authorities said Monday, was to offer lawmakers millions of dollars in bribes.

Nobel Prize given for test tube baby research (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - The Nobel Prize in medicine went to a man whose work led to the first test tube baby, an achievement that helped bring 4 million infants into the world and raised challenging new questions about human reproduction.

No verdict yet in Connecticut home invasion trial (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 03:13 PM PDT AP - A jury on Monday completed its first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in the trial of a man charged with killing a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 home invasion.

2 arrested in anti-gay beating at famed NY gay bar (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 04:53 PM PDT AP - A patron at the Stonewall Inn, a powerful symbol of the gay rights movement since protests over a 1969 police raid there, was tackled to the floor and beaten in an anti-gay bias attack over the weekend, authorities said Monday.

Contractor: BP interfered with critical efforts (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT AP - BP interfered with critical efforts to lower an undersea robot to try to close the device that failed to stop the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill because of concerns over heat buildup from the burning rig, a salvage firm executive said Monday. The company countered that it was trying to keep workers safe.

Remains found near where Vt. woman disappeared (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 05:27 PM PDT AP - Hunters discovered a body in the woods about 10 miles from where a 78-year-old woman was kidnapped from her home in a tiny Vermont town three weeks ago, and authorities feared the worst.

2 killed, 5 wounded in Gainesville shooting spree (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 04:16 PM PDT AP - A gunman driving around Gainesville in a red pickup truck went on a shooting spree Monday afternoon, leaving two people dead and five others wounded, police said.

Pa. firm to pay $23M for illegal bone cement tests (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 03:22 PM PDT AP - A medical devices company will admit criminality and pay the maximum $23 million fine for illegally testing bone cement on about 200 spinal patients, three of whom died in surgery, U.S. prosecutors said Monday.

US strike kills 5 German militants in Pakistan (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 04:10 PM PDT AP - An American missile strike killed five German militants Monday in the rugged Pakistan border area where a cell of Germans and Britons at the heart of the U.S. terror alert for Europe — a plot U.S. officials link to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden — were believed in hiding.

Closing arguments held at NYC temple plot trial (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 01:49 PM PDT AP - Four men accused of plotting to blow up synagogues and shoot down military planes believed that the scheme concocted in a government sting would kill innocent New Yorkers, a prosecutor said Monday in closing arguments at the men's trial.

Vt. man accused of locking up stepson gets prison (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 03:03 PM PDT AP - A man accused of confining his adolescent stepson to an alarm-rigged bedroom and molesting him for years was sentenced Monday to 18 years to life in prison after the judge heard the words of the victim read aloud in court.

5 dead, including baby, in rural Ohio house fire (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 04:24 PM PDT AP - Kyle Whitmer jumped from a second-story balcony as flames swallowed his mother's 12-bedroom home, then ran to the door to try to save some of the 11 relatives and friends who were living there.

Ga. federal judge arrested on drug, gun charges (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 02:33 PM PDT AP - A veteran federal judge faces drug and firearms charges after an exotic dancer at an Atlanta strip club told authorities he used cocaine, marijuana and other illegal drugs with her.

Wis. prosecutor quits after 'sexting' abuse victim (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 01:36 PM PDT AP - An embattled Wisconsin prosecutor who tried to spark an affair with a domestic violence victim by sending racy text messages resigned in disgrace Monday.

Prosecutor portrays Anna Nicole Smith as addict (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 02:00 PM PDT AP - A prosecutor portrayed Anna Nicole Smith Monday as an out-of-control drug addict who pressured doctors into prescribing pain killers and sedatives.

Chefs name gardens top restaurant trend of 2010 (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2010 01:58 PM PDT AP - Gardens have been named the hottest trend in restaurants this year as more chefs involved with the eat local food movement decide to grow their own tomatoes, herbs and other produce.

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