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• Judge: Stop 'don't ask, don't tell' immediately (AP)
• Mexican investigator probing lake shooting slain (AP)
• Police treating missing NC girl case as homicide (AP)
• Obama Is in the Jaws of Political Death: Can He Survive? (Time.com)
• Former FBI Negotiator Gary Noesner on Waco and Standoffs (Time.com)
• Number of ed civil rights complaints on the rise (AP)
• Charge dropped against Ill. officer in shootings (AP)
• Mo. man pleads guilty to murdering Ohio drifter (AP)
• For gay youths, middle school can be toughest time (AP)
• Feds appeal Mass. rulings against US marriage law (AP)
• Guantanamo detainee goes on trial in NY court (AP)
• Death sentence for Memphis man who killed 6 (AP)
• Study: Legalizing pot won't hinder Mexican cartels (AP)
• Pa. collar-bomb trial jury selection begins (AP)
• Mormon church says cruelty toward gays is wrong (AP)
• School cafeterias to try psychology in lunch line (AP)
• Navy birthplace in dispute; 5 towns lay claim (AP)
• Paula becomes Cat. 2 hurricane, threatens Cancun (AP)

Judge: Stop 'don't ask, don't tell' immediately (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 05:25 PM PDT AP - A federal judge ordered the military Tuesday to immediately stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops, bringing the 17-year "don't ask, don't tell" policy closer than it has ever been to being abolished.

Mexican investigator probing lake shooting slain (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 05:21 PM PDT AP - A Mexican police commander investigating the disappearance of an American tourist on a border lake plagued by pirates was killed, U.S. and Mexican officials said Tuesday.

Police treating missing NC girl case as homicide (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 05:12 PM PDT AP - Investigators indicated Tuesday they believe someone killed a 10-year-old girl with disabilities who was reported missing over the weekend, and accused her stepmother of trying to throw off investigators with a fake ransom note.

Obama Is in the Jaws of Political Death: Can He Survive? (Time.com) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 01:35 PM PDT Time.com - Obama is being politically crushed: From above, by elite opinion about his competence. From below, by mass anger over unemployment. And it's too late for him to do anything about it until after the midterms

Former FBI Negotiator Gary Noesner on Waco and Standoffs (Time.com) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 01:35 PM PDT Time.com - For most of his 30-year FBI career, Gary Noesner served as a hostage negotiator. In a chat with TIME, he explains how negotiators and rescue teams butt heads, how more could have been saved in Waco and how negotiation skills can help politicians

Number of ed civil rights complaints on the rise (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:54 PM PDT AP - African American boys who are suspended at double and triple the rates of their white male peers. English language learners who, for years, remain in separate classes, falling behind their peers and scoring poorly on standardized tests. Disabled students and those with illnesses who are shortchanged at school because of their impairments.

Charge dropped against Ill. officer in shootings (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 05:51 PM PDT AP - Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped a murder charge against a small-town police officer they initially suspected in a shooting spree along the Illinois-Indiana border that left one dead and two wounded.

Mo. man pleads guilty to murdering Ohio drifter (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 04:23 PM PDT AP - One of five members of a Missouri family accused of killing an Ohio drifter in their basement pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Tuesday.

For gay youths, middle school can be toughest time (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 02:56 PM PDT AP - Sometimes Mann, who had known she was gay for about a year but dared not tell anyone, would cut herself on the arms with a razor blade. Her long sleeves hid the evidence of her misery from classmates and family.

Feds appeal Mass. rulings against US marriage law (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:15 PM PDT AP - The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday defended the federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman by appealing two rulings in Massachusetts by a judge who called the law unconstitutional for denying federal benefits to gay married couples.

Guantanamo detainee goes on trial in NY court (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 05:35 PM PDT AP - A man accused of helping to build a truck bomb used in a 1998 terror attack on a U.S. embassy was a member of an al-Qaida cell that was determined to kill Americans, a federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday, but a defense lawyer said the Tanzanian man was duped.

Death sentence for Memphis man who killed 6 (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 05:27 PM PDT AP - A man who killed six people in a bloody rampage in a Memphis home two years ago, including his brother and two young nephews, was sentenced to die by injection Tuesday by the same jury that convicted him of one of the city's worst mass murders.

Study: Legalizing pot won't hinder Mexican cartels (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - Mexico's drug traffickers are likely to lose customers in America's largest pot consuming state if California legalizes marijuana, but they won't lose much money overall because California's residents already prefer to grow their own, according to a study released Tuesday.

Pa. collar-bomb trial jury selection begins (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - A defense lawyer hopes evidence of his client's volatile personality will convince a jury she didn't mastermind a 2003 bank robbery that turned a pizza delivery man into a walking time bomb.

Mormon church says cruelty toward gays is wrong (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 04:14 PM PDT AP - The Mormon Church chided its members Tuesday to consider whether their attitudes toward all people — including gays — followed Christian principles, responding to activists' demand that a church leader withdraw anti-gay statements.

School cafeterias to try psychology in lunch line (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - Hide the chocolate milk behind the plain milk. Get those apples and oranges out of stainless steel bins and into pretty baskets. Cash only for desserts.

Navy birthplace in dispute; 5 towns lay claim (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:43 PM PDT AP - The old sign near its border that proclaims the upstate New York town of Whitehall to be the birthplace of the U.S. Navy is a bit worn out, town clerk Elaine Jones admits. Residents of several other Northeast towns might describe it another way: Not true.

Paula becomes Cat. 2 hurricane, threatens Cancun (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - A strengthening Hurricane Paula roared toward Mexico's resort-dotted Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday. The hurricane smashed homes and forced schools to cancel classes in Honduras early Tuesday, then grew into a Category 2 storm with top sustained winds of 100 miles per hour (160 kph) on its way to the Yucatan, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

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