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• Obama urges crowd to show him the energy of '08 (AP)
• Police say large firecracker caused LA blast (AP)
• Toxic coal sludge pollutes Ky. town 10 years later (AP)
• Ivory Coast army officer held in gun-smuggling (AP)
• Death row inmate seeks high court OK for DNA tests (AP)
• Gov't won't appeal decision to ban witness in NY (AP)
• Police in NC seek missing girl, question stepmom (AP)
• Mass. law school seeks to foster its own recruits (AP)
• 8 gang suspects arraigned in NYC anti-gay attack (AP)
• NYC therapist slay spotlights risks as trial nears (AP)
• 2 Nat. Park officers dead in So. Utah plane crash (AP)
• 10-10-10: Vegas chapels busy on symmetrical date (AP)
• Report: Candidate in Ohio wore German SS uniform (AP)
• Commuter bus crashes in Chicago, injuring dozens (AP)

Obama urges crowd to show him the energy of '08 (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 03:17 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama tried to recapture some of the big-stage excitement of his 2008 campaign Sunday, imploring voters not to reward what he called Republican cynicism and incompetence by sitting out the Nov. 2 elections.

Police say large firecracker caused LA blast (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 02:20 PM PDT AP - A large firecracker caused a blast near a Los Angles-area harbor that sent police scrambling to evacuate the neighborhood and order bomb squads into a hotel parking garage early Sunday, authorities said.

Toxic coal sludge pollutes Ky. town 10 years later (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 12:27 PM PDT AP - In parts of eastern Kentucky, the pictures coming out of Hungary of the red sludge that roared from a factory's reservoir, downstream into the Danube River, are all too reminiscent of what happened a decade ago this week.

Ivory Coast army officer held in gun-smuggling (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 01:32 PM PDT AP - The Ivory Coast army colonel arrived in New York on Aug. 29, and authorities say he planned to return home days later with $4 million in guns and ammunition his country purchased from a suburban Washington D.C. broker.

Death row inmate seeks high court OK for DNA tests (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 12:53 PM PDT AP - An ex-con sent to Texas' death row for three murders and spared from execution earlier this year by the U.S. Supreme Court is set to take his case before the high court, which may decide whether his attorneys can test items for DNA he claims could prove his innocence.

Gov't won't appeal decision to ban witness in NY (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 02:40 PM PDT AP - The U.S. government has decided not to appeal a judge's decision to ban a key prosecution witness from testifying at the first civilian trial for a Guantanamo Bay detainee, saying it would cause a delay.

Police in NC seek missing girl, question stepmom (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 03:54 PM PDT AP - Police in North Carolina are searching for a missing, hearing-impaired 10-year-old girl with an artificial leg, and they have arrested her stepmother on unrelated charges.

Mass. law school seeks to foster its own recruits (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 10:44 AM PDT AP - Students at the American College of History and Legal Studies are getting used to two things: questions instead of lectures from their professors, and questions from dubious friends and relatives who worry they're guinea pigs in an educational experiment.

8 gang suspects arraigned in NYC anti-gay attack (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - Eight gang suspects arrested in the torture of two teenage boys and a man in an anti-gay attack were arraigned Sunday on hate crime charges, standing in a courtroom with their heads down and their hands cuffed behind them as their relatives wept.

NYC therapist slay spotlights risks as trial nears (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 10:27 AM PDT AP - Psychologist Kathryn Faughey had never treated the schizophrenic man accused of murdering her with a meat cleaver in her office. He would later tell police he was targeting her office mate in a bizarre robbery plot he imagined would help him get his mother out of a nursing home.

2 Nat. Park officers dead in So. Utah plane crash (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2010 11:45 PM PDT AP - Two National Park Service law enforcement officers have died in the crash of a small plane in southern Utah.

10-10-10: Vegas chapels busy on symmetrical date (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 02:20 PM PDT AP - Churches, banquet halls and other wedding venues across the country were extra busy Sunday as couples seeking a perfect 10 rushed to tie the knot on a once-in-a-century milestone: Oct. 10, 2010.

Report: Candidate in Ohio wore German SS uniform (AP) Posted: 09 Oct 2010 08:00 PM PDT AP - A report says a Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Ohio dressed up in a German SS uniform to participate in Nazi reenactments.

Commuter bus crashes in Chicago, injuring dozens (AP) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 12:57 AM PDT AP - Authorities say dozens of people have been injured in Chicago after a crowded commuter bus traveled off a major thoroughfare and crashed into trees.

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