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• Massive windstorm howls across nation's midsection (AP)
• US man jailed in Cuba can call home more often (AP)
• State goes overseas for lethal injection drug (AP)
• Rocky and Bullwinkle Creator Alex Anderson Dies (Time.com)
• After the Midterm Elections: How Obama Can Meet Promises (Time.com)
• Soros gives $1M to Calif. pot legalization measure (AP)
• 'Phantom of the Fox' fights to stay in apartment (AP)
• Defendant: I never met man who died by collar bomb (AP)
• Co-defendant testifies in Fla. couple's slaying (AP)
• NC police: Stepmother talking in missing girl case (AP)
• Cops: Human remains found near Ill. college burned (AP)
• Officials say NJ-NYC tunnel project likely doomed (AP)
• RI to vote on dropping 'Plantations' from its name (AP)
• Rand Paul volunteer ordered to court for scuffle (AP)
• Charges dropped against 3 in NYC anti-gay attacks (AP)
• Witness: Jail violence unlikely from Conn. convict (AP)
• NY chief urges caution in judging police shooting (AP)
• Court approves new Hanford toxic cleanup schedule (AP)
• Jury pool quizzed about politics at DeLay trial (AP)

Massive windstorm howls across nation's midsection (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT AP - A massive storm with wind gusts up to 81 mph howled across the nation's midsection Tuesday, snapping trees and power lines, ripping off roofs, delaying flights and soaking commuters hunched under crumpled umbrellas.

US man jailed in Cuba can call home more often (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 02:21 PM PDT AP - The wife of a Maryland man jailed in Cuba as an accused spy said Tuesday that she and her husband have been able to talk on the telephone more regularly after she wrote an August letter to Cuban President Raul Castro, but that her husband's health is "not great."

State goes overseas for lethal injection drug (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 05:04 PM PDT AP - Facing a nationwide shortage of a lethal injection drug, Arizona has taken an unusual step that other death penalty states may soon follow: get their supplies from another country.

Rocky and Bullwinkle Creator Alex Anderson Dies (Time.com) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:00 AM PDT Time.com - Animation has had plenty of unknown geniuses but few were more obscure, or more important, than Alexander Anderson, who died Friday at 90 in Carmel, Calif.

After the Midterm Elections: How Obama Can Meet Promises (Time.com) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:35 AM PDT Time.com - It is time for a new White House plan. Even the best case for Democrats in the midterm elections will leave President Barack Obama with the tarnish of repudiation and far fewer members of his own party with whom to work

Soros gives $1M to Calif. pot legalization measure (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 01:53 PM PDT AP - Billionaire financier George Soros has thrown his weight behind California's marijuana legalization measure with a $1 million donation a week before the vote.

'Phantom of the Fox' fights to stay in apartment (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 08:46 AM PDT AP - Behind the faux Moorish splendor of Atlanta's historic Fox Theatre lives the "Phantom of the Fox" — a beloved local figure who twice helped save the landmark from destruction and now is battling to stay in the place where he has lived for more than 30 years.

Defendant: I never met man who died by collar bomb (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 03:31 PM PDT AP - A woman on trial for a bizarre bank robbery plot in which a pizza delivery driver was killed by a collar bomb he was forced to wear said she first saw the man when video of his death was broadcast on the evening news.

Co-defendant testifies in Fla. couple's slaying (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:08 PM PDT AP - The man accused of killing of a Florida couple during a botched robbery shot the husband in each leg, demanding to know where the money was kept and then turned the gun on his wife when she said she couldn't remember the safe combination, according to co-defendant's testimony Tuesday.

NC police: Stepmother talking in missing girl case (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 03:17 PM PDT AP - The stepmother of a missing 10-year-old girl is cooperating with investigators who are searching in rural North Carolina for the disabled child or evidence in her disappearance, police said Tuesday.

Cops: Human remains found near Ill. college burned (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 02:36 PM PDT AP - Human remains found in a park where authorities were looking for a missing Northern Illinois University student were burned beyond recognition, and the case is now being handled as a homicide investigation, police said Tuesday.

Officials say NJ-NYC tunnel project likely doomed (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT AP - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is standing firm on calling off the biggest public works project under way in the country — a multibillion-dollar rail tunnel under the Hudson River linking his state with New York City, officials said Tuesday.

RI to vote on dropping 'Plantations' from its name (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:08 AM PDT AP - This state's official name — The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations — is more than just a mouthful. To many, it evokes stinging reminders of Rhode Island's prime role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Rand Paul volunteer ordered to court for scuffle (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:11 PM PDT AP - The volunteer with Rand Paul's Republican U.S. Senate campaign who stepped on the head of a liberal activist and pinned her face to the concrete said Tuesday the scuffle was not as bad as it looked on video and blamed police for not intervening.

Charges dropped against 3 in NYC anti-gay attacks (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against three people accused of taking part in anti-gay attacks on two men and two teens, citing a lack of evidence.

Witness: Jail violence unlikely from Conn. convict (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 02:52 PM PDT AP - Even though he threatened to kill a correction officer seven months ago, a Connecticut man convicted in a deadly home invasion is unlikely to commit serious violence if he spends his life in prison, a defense expert testified Tuesday.

NY chief urges caution in judging police shooting (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 02:31 PM PDT AP - The chief of a police department involved in the fatal shooting of a college football player implored the public Tuesday to let investigations play out before jumping to conclusions about the officers who fired — or the student who died.

Court approves new Hanford toxic cleanup schedule (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:46 PM PDT AP - The U.S. District Court in Spokane has approved a new schedule that delays the cleanup of radioactive waste from the nation's most contaminated nuclear site by about 20 years.

Jury pool quizzed about politics at DeLay trial (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 02:29 PM PDT AP - Potential jurors in the corruption trial of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay were quizzed Tuesday about whether their political beliefs could interfere in their ability to make an impartial decision in the case, with most saying it wouldn't affect them.

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