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• Conn. jury convicts man in deadly home invasion (AP)
• Times Sq. bomber sentenced, warns of more attacks (AP)
• Driver cuts off truck, abducted Calif. girl flees (AP)
• Anti-gay church's lawyer study in contradictions (AP)
• American pilots missed by fellow balloonists (AP)
• Lawyers: Student charged in Rutgers case innocent (AP)
• Leader on BP claims blames fraud for slow payouts (AP)
• Nobel Prize honors super-strong, super-thin carbon (AP)
• LA hiker followed shade during 6 days in desert (AP)
• Women testify about sex with HIV-positive airman (AP)
• Hands-only CPR saves more lives in cardiac arrests (AP)
• Hungary sludge flood called 'ecological disaster' (AP)
• DA: Judge should recuse self in Texas arson case (AP)
• Most 9/11 responders OK settlement resolving suit (AP)
• Big-name companies to help colleges train workers (AP)
• Memphis teen shot in behind over sagging pants (AP)
• Feds approve 2 Calif solar plants on public land (AP)
• Canada joins US in Asian carp research project (AP)

Conn. jury convicts man in deadly home invasion (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 05:14 PM PDT AP - A paroled burglar was convicted Tuesday of murdering a woman and her two daughters in their suburban home during a night of terror that drew comparisons to "In Cold Blood" and bolstered efforts to retain the death penalty in Connecticut.

Times Sq. bomber sentenced, warns of more attacks (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 05:25 PM PDT AP - The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk Tuesday and warned that Americans can expect more bloodshed at the hands of Muslims.

Driver cuts off truck, abducted Calif. girl flees (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 05:28 PM PDT AP - An 8-year-old girl who was abducted by a stranger while playing outside a Fresno home escaped from her captor Tuesday morning after a driver recognized the suspect's vehicle and cut it off, police said.

Anti-gay church's lawyer study in contradictions (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 04:29 PM PDT AP - In one photo, Margie Phelps has a furrowed brow and is stomping on the American flag at one of the numerous protests her fundamentalist church has held nationwide against the military, gays and the Catholic church.

American pilots missed by fellow balloonists (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:57 PM PDT AP - They were two of the biggest names in balloon-racing — hall of famers, world record holders and winners of some of the sport's most prestigious awards.

Lawyers: Student charged in Rutgers case innocent (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:02 PM PDT AP - Lawyers for one of the two Rutgers University students accused of secretly webcasting the sex life of a fellow freshman who later committed suicide said Tuesday that their client is innocent.

Leader on BP claims blames fraud for slow payouts (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:32 PM PDT AP - BP's $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Gulf oil spill has been inundated with inflated or unsupported claims and in some cases, outright fraud — all slowing down the process of getting money to people who need and deserve it, the administrator of the program says.

Nobel Prize honors super-strong, super-thin carbon (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 05:48 PM PDT AP - It is the thinnest and strongest material known to mankind — no thicker than a single atom and 100 times tougher than steel. Could graphene be the next plastic? Maybe so, says one of two scientists who won a Nobel Prize on Tuesday for isolating and studying it.

LA hiker followed shade during 6 days in desert (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 05:11 PM PDT AP - A 64-year-old man who was stranded for six days in the Southern California desert said Tuesday he survived by staying still in a small canyon and moving only to follow the shade.

Women testify about sex with HIV-positive airman (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - Two women testified at a military hearing Tuesday that they would not have had sex with an airman had they known he was HIV positive, and one said she believed him when he said he wasn't because he was in the Air Force.

Hands-only CPR saves more lives in cardiac arrests (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 02:10 PM PDT AP - Hands-only CPR doesn't just eliminate the "yuck factor." A new study shows it can save more lives.

Hungary sludge flood called 'ecological disaster' (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:10 PM PDT AP - A lethal torrent of toxic red sludge from a metal refinery engulfed towns in Hungary, burning villagers through their clothes and threatening an ecological disaster Tuesday as it swept toward the Danube River.

DA: Judge should recuse self in Texas arson case (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - The district attorney whose office prosecuted a Texas man who was executed for setting fire to his home and killing his three daughters asked a judge to recuse himself from a hearing that could declare the executed man innocent.

Most 9/11 responders OK settlement resolving suit (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:45 PM PDT AP - A lawyer representing 10,000 ground zero workers suing New York City over their exposure to World Trade Center dust said Tuesday that 75 percent have signed a settlement resolving their claims and most of the rest have indicated they will do so.

Big-name companies to help colleges train workers (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:31 AM PDT AP - As the White House stages a first-of-its-kind community college summit Tuesday, the Obama administration is proposing that stronger partnerships between two-year public colleges and big-name U.S. employers such as McDonald's and The Gap will help better match workers with jobs during the economic recovery and beyond.

Memphis teen shot in behind over sagging pants (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 04:04 PM PDT AP - Police say a 45-year-old Memphis man angry over two teens' sagging pants shot one in the buttocks during an argument. He faces aggravated assault charges. The boys were walking through a southeast Memphis neighborhood when Kenneth E. Bonds yelled at them to pull up their pants, according to an arrest document.

Feds approve 2 Calif solar plants on public land (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:34 PM PDT AP - For the first time, federal land managers gave final approval Tuesday for the construction of two large solar installations on public lands that could power hundreds of thousands of homes with renewable energy.

Canada joins US in Asian carp research project (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:10 PM PDT AP - Canadian and U.S. scientists announced Tuesday the launch of a joint study that will look at the likelihood that Asian carp will spread across the Great Lakes and decimate the fish populations if allowed to gain a foothold.

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