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• 4 men are convicted in NY synagogue-bombing plot (AP)
• Crystal Cathedral megachurch files for bankruptcy (AP)
• Border Patrol arrests fall 17 percent in 2010 (AP)
• Online Voting Is Becoming More Common, But Is It Safe? (Time.com)
• Fat Talk Free Week: Body-Image Campaign Goes to College (Time.com)
• Judge likely to deny gov't on gay troops order (AP)
• Feds file legal brief in support of Tenn. mosque (AP)
• Texas candidates for gov urge supporters to vote (AP)
• APNewsBreak: No indictment in 2006 Iraqi killing (AP)
• 2 workers killed in Tenn. post office shooting (AP)
• Police kill NY college football player from Mass. (AP)
• Dallas bomb plot sentencing hearing ends for day (AP)
• BP waives $75M cap for some oil spill claims (AP)
• Lawyer: Octuplets' mom implanted with 12 embryos (AP)
• Should Conn. invasion killer die? Jury hears case (AP)
• Trial begins in death of DC intern Chandra Levy (AP)
• AP Enterprise: Scientists lower Gulf health grade (AP)
• Fox, Cablevision dispute stretches into third day (AP)
• Police: Confession, charges in '06 Wis. killing (AP)
• Disabilities no longer a death sentence for pets (AP)

4 men are convicted in NY synagogue-bombing plot (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 12:40 PM PDT AP - Four men snared last year in an FBI sting were convicted Monday of plotting to blow up New York City synagogues and shoot down military planes with the help of a paid informant who convinced them he was a terror operative.

Crystal Cathedral megachurch files for bankruptcy (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:46 PM PDT AP - Crystal Cathedral, the megachurch birthplace of the televangelist show "Hour of Power," filed for bankruptcy Monday in Southern California after struggling to emerge from debt that exceeds $43 million.

Border Patrol arrests fall 17 percent in 2010 (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 04:21 PM PDT AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday that a 17 percent drop in Border Patrol arrests this year shows that heightened enforcement is slowing illegal immigration.

Online Voting Is Becoming More Common, But Is It Safe? (Time.com) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 11:50 AM PDT Time.com - As more voting is being done in advance over the Internet, the threat from hackers is increasing

Fat Talk Free Week: Body-Image Campaign Goes to College (Time.com) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 11:50 AM PDT Time.com - Fat Talk Free Week, a national campaign to eliminate language that is damaging to young adults' body image, spreads across college campuses

Judge likely to deny gov't on gay troops order (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:23 PM PDT AP - A federal judge said on Monday that she is learning toward denying a government request to delay her order halting the military from enforcing its ban on openly gay troops.

Feds file legal brief in support of Tenn. mosque (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:14 PM PDT AP - Federal attorneys on Monday jumped into a court battle over the construction of a Tennessee mosque by offering legal proof that Islam is a recognized religion entitled to constitutional protection.

Texas candidates for gov urge supporters to vote (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:24 PM PDT AP - The candidates for Texas governor fanned out across the state Monday on the first day of early voting, slipping into polling places in Austin and Houston to vote for themselves before urging their supporters to do the same.

APNewsBreak: No indictment in 2006 Iraqi killing (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:38 PM PDT AP - A former security contractor for Blackwater USA will not be indicted in the killing of an Iraqi guard in 2006, federal prosecutors said Monday.

2 workers killed in Tenn. post office shooting (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:09 PM PDT AP - Two gunmen opened fire Monday at a post office in a rural West Tennessee town that was home to "Roots" author Alex Haley, killing two workers during an attempted robbery.

Police kill NY college football player from Mass. (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 04:40 PM PDT AP - A college football player parked in a fire lane outside a bar sped away from police rapping on his car window, hit an officer who clung to the hood as the sedan barreled toward a colleague, and was killed by a burst of police gunfire that pierced his windshield, authorities said.

Dallas bomb plot sentencing hearing ends for day (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 03:49 PM PDT AP - A hearing for a would-be terrorist who plotted to blow up a downtown Dallas skyscraper has ended for the day without a sentence.

BP waives $75M cap for some oil spill claims (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:08 PM PDT AP - BP PLC informed a federal judge Monday that the company is waiving a $75 million cap on its liability for certain economic damage claims spawned by the massive Gulf oil spill.

Lawyer: Octuplets' mom implanted with 12 embryos (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 03:48 PM PDT AP - Nadya Suleman's fertility doctor implanted a dozen embryos in the pregnancy that gave her octuplets, a state attorney said Monday, a number that another doctor said was unheard of and surpasses Suleman's assertion that only six embryos were implanted.

Should Conn. invasion killer die? Jury hears case (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 03:31 PM PDT AP - Attorneys for a man convicted of a deadly home invasion tried Monday to convince a jury to spare him the death penalty by portraying him as a clumsy thief driven by a powerful drug addiction and a more calculating co-defendant whom one witness compared to the devil.

Trial begins in death of DC intern Chandra Levy (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 02:39 PM PDT AP - Jury selection began Monday in the murder trial of a man accused of killing federal intern Chandra Levy nearly a decade ago, a case that derailed a California congressman's career and generated headlines around the world.

AP Enterprise: Scientists lower Gulf health grade (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 02:34 PM PDT AP - Six months after the rig explosion that led to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, damage to the Gulf of Mexico can be measured more in increments than extinctions, say scientists polled by The Associated Press.

Fox, Cablevision dispute stretches into third day (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 02:34 PM PDT AP - The dispute between Fox and Cablevision that left 3 million cable subscribers in the New York area without Fox programming over the weekend has stretched into its third day.

Police: Confession, charges in '06 Wis. killing (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 03:34 PM PDT AP - Prosecutors on Monday charged an Iowa man they say walked into a police station this month and confessed to strangling his girlfriend in Wisconsin almost four years ago and stuffing her body in the trash.

Disabilities no longer a death sentence for pets (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2010 01:49 PM PDT AP - When Beverly Tucker's dog Tobi ruptured a disc in his back, the veterinarian gave her a stark choice: expensive surgery with little chance of success, or euthanasia.

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