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• Fatal crashes involving teen drivers drop (AP)
• NPR axes, Fox defends Williams over Muslim remarks (AP)
• Calif. AG ramps up probe of small city corruption (AP)
• Minimum Wage: Will Opponents Turn to the Supreme Court? (Time.com)
• Tennessee County Expands Its Divisive Subscription Fire Policy (Time.com)
• Major Northern Calif. mall ablaze after standoff (AP)
• Denver-area pot grower agrees to 5 years in prison (AP)
• GOP gay rights group fights against gay troop ban (AP)
• At least 2 killed in plane crash in LA County (AP)
• Did your ancestor fight at Saratoga? You can check (AP)
• US shuns some big public works projects (AP)
• Tainted celery sickens at least 6 in Texas; 4 die (AP)
• Witness: NY police overreacted in student shooting (AP)
• Calif. man heads home after 2 years in Iran prison (AP)
• Witnesses: Fort Hood suspect honed shooting skills (AP)
• Officials: NJ-NY tunnel estimate is $9.77B (AP)
• Va. OK'd textbook with black Confederates error (AP)
• Vets stand guard over Christian flag in NC town (AP)
• 8 plead not guilty to looting Calif. city's funds (AP)
• Study: Women give more to charity than men (AP)

Fatal crashes involving teen drivers drop (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 03:13 PM PDT AP - Far fewer people are dying in car crashes with teens at the wheel, but it's not because teenagers are driving more cautiously. Experts say laws are tougher, and cars and highways are safer.

NPR axes, Fox defends Williams over Muslim remarks (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:29 PM PDT AP - "I'm not a bigot," longtime news analyst Juan Williams said. Then he talked about getting nervous on a plane when he sees people in Muslim dress. Fair game for one of his employers, Fox News Channel, but a firable offense for the other, NPR.

Calif. AG ramps up probe of small city corruption (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - Corruption investigations in the modest, blue-collar neighborhoods ringing Los Angeles grew Thursday as state Attorney General Jerry Brown subpoenaed Vernon officials to testify about evidence showing several people paid themselves huge salaries to run a town of about 100 people.

Minimum Wage: Will Opponents Turn to the Supreme Court? (Time.com) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:45 PM PDT Time.com - Conservatives often question whether a minimum wage makes economic sense. But Republican candidates for Senate John Raese and Joe Miller are going much further, arguing that Congress lacks the power to adopt a minimum-wage law

Tennessee County Expands Its Divisive Subscription Fire Policy (Time.com) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:45 PM PDT Time.com - Weeks after firefighters let a house burn down in Tennessee's Obion County, it has expanded a controversial policy that says fire departments must require residents to pay a subscription fee for protection

Major Northern Calif. mall ablaze after standoff (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:21 PM PDT AP - A high-end regional mall that is one of the main retail centers in a broad swath of Northern California was set ablaze Thursday after police arrested a man who had barricaded himself inside, dealing an economic blow to a region struggling to emerge from the recession.

Denver-area pot grower agrees to 5 years in prison (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 03:52 PM PDT AP - A suburban Denver pot grower who tried unsuccessfully to set up a federal-state showdown on medical marijuana agreed to a five-year prison term Thursday and was handcuffed in court after pleading guilty on federal drug charges.

GOP gay rights group fights against gay troop ban (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:43 PM PDT AP - When he left the Bush administration in 2009, Clarke R. Cooper decided he had to raise his voice.

At least 2 killed in plane crash in LA County (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:52 PM PDT AP - A small plane crashed and burst into flames Thursday in a horse corral in northern Los Angeles County, killing at least two people and three horses, a fire official said.

Did your ancestor fight at Saratoga? You can check (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 11:40 AM PDT AP - Descendants of Revolutionary War soldiers who fought in one of history's most important battles can now find their American ancestors in a computer database, and some day they might be guided by GPS to the exact spots where their relatives faced musket fire, cannon barrages and bayonet charges.

US shuns some big public works projects (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - New Jersey's governor wants to kill a $9 billion-plus train tunnel to New York City because of runaway costs. Six thousand miles away, Hawaii's outgoing governor is having second thoughts about a proposed $5.5 billion rail line in Honolulu.

Tainted celery sickens at least 6 in Texas; 4 die (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 03:57 PM PDT AP - Texas health officials have shut down a processing plant linked to contaminated celery that sickened at least six people this year, four of whom died, and ordered the recall of all of the produce that passed through the plant since January.

Witness: NY police overreacted in student shooting (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:16 PM PDT AP - A college student who was at the scene when a schoolmate was shot to death by police said Thursday that the killing was "over the top, aggressive and unnecessary," joining a chorus of witnesses who say police mishandled the situation.

Calif. man heads home after 2 years in Iran prison (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - A California businessman who spent more than two years in an Iranian prison after being accused of passing money to a rebel group was returning home Thursday.

Witnesses: Fort Hood suspect honed shooting skills (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 01:18 PM PDT AP - In the weeks before the deadly Fort Hood rampage, an Army psychiatrist repeatedly visited a firing range to hone his skills with his new laser-equipped semiautomatic handgun by shooting at the heads on silhouette targets, witnesses told a military hearing Thursday.

Officials: NJ-NY tunnel estimate is $9.77B (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 04:56 PM PDT AP - The cost of building a rail tunnel between New Jersey and New York City is estimated at $9.77 billion, some $4 billion less than the worst-case estimate the governor of New Jersey cited when he canceled the project two weeks ago, three government officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Va. OK'd textbook with black Confederates error (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 02:37 PM PDT AP - Virginia's Education Department approved a textbook that wrongly claims thousands of black troops fought for the Confederacy.

Vets stand guard over Christian flag in NC town (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 03:05 PM PDT AP - The Christian flag is everywhere in the small city of King: flying in front of barbecue joints and hair salons, stuck to the bumpers of trucks, hanging in windows and emblazoned on T-shirts.

8 plead not guilty to looting Calif. city's funds (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 03:04 PM PDT AP - Eight current and former officials have pleaded not guilty to looting millions of dollars from California's modest blue-collar city of Bell.

Study: Women give more to charity than men (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2010 03:57 AM PDT AP - Women across nearly every income level gave significantly more to charity than men, nearly twice as much in some cases, according to a study by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

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