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• Feds are investigating drinking glasses with lead (AP)
• TSA chief warns against boycott of airport scans (AP)
• Man in past jogger attacks guilty of Levy slaying (AP)
• Obsessed with the Deficit -- and Ignoring the Economic Mess (Time.com)
• NYC Schools Chancellor Appointment Raises Credentials Question (Time.com)
• NJ lawmakers approve tough law to fight bullying (AP)
• Slain Fla. woman was seeking owed child support (AP)
• Auto industry bailout pulls Kokomo back from brink (AP)
• Hate crime victim's estate sues NY authorities (AP)
• FAA: Birds innocent in JFK plane engine failure (AP)
• Order blocking Okla. Islamic law measure extended (AP)
• TSA pat-down leaves Mich. man covered in urine (AP)
• Feds raid 3 hedge funds linked to trading probe (AP)
• Rape charge against vindicated Houston man dropped (AP)
• DeLay jurors weigh mostly circumstantial evidence (AP)
• Defendant pleads not guilty in NM swastika case (AP)
• Security protest could disrupt Thanksgiving travel (AP)
• Pilot transplant project aims to spur kidney swaps (AP)
• Calif: No common cause for birth defects near dump (AP)
• Family of Americans in Iran: Case taking too long (AP)

Feds are investigating drinking glasses with lead (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 05:40 PM PST AP - Federal regulators launched an investigation Monday into lead levels in themed drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters, declaring them children's products subject to stricter standards than those intended for adult collectors.

TSA chief warns against boycott of airport scans (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 05:27 PM PST AP - The nation's airport security chief pleaded with Thanksgiving travelers for understanding and urged them not to boycott full-body scans on Wednesday, lest their protest snarl what is already one of the busiest, most stressful flying days of the year.

Man in past jogger attacks guilty of Levy slaying (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 02:22 PM PST AP - A man imprisoned for attacking two female joggers was found guilty Monday of murdering Washington intern Chandra Levy, wrapping up a murder mystery that took down a congressman and captured the nation's attention a decade ago.

Obsessed with the Deficit -- and Ignoring the Economic Mess (Time.com) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 06:25 AM PST Time.com - Why don't we first deal with the more pressing problems of growth and job creation?

NYC Schools Chancellor Appointment Raises Credentials Question (Time.com) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 06:25 AM PST Time.com - Lost in all the speculation about New York City's schools-chief nominee Cathie Black is how outmoded -- and counterproductive -- education's approach to credentials is in the first place

NJ lawmakers approve tough law to fight bullying (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 05:10 PM PST AP - A law against bullying in schools, which advocates call the nation's toughest because it requires schools to develop anti-harassment programs, was approved Monday in New Jersey.

Slain Fla. woman was seeking owed child support (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:41 PM PST AP - A woman found dead in her home along with her three young children had been in court four days earlier seeking child support from her slain 6-year-old twins' father, who has a lengthy criminal record, court records show.

Auto industry bailout pulls Kokomo back from brink (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 01:57 PM PST AP - Jerry Price remembers the eerie silence less than two years ago when he walked through one of the transmission plants that long provided the economic lifeblood of this town steeped in auto industry history.

Hate crime victim's estate sues NY authorities (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 03:51 PM PST AP - The estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant filed a $40 million civil rights lawsuit Monday that blames police inaction over prior violence for the man's stabbing death during a confrontation with a mob of teens who had made a sport of targeting Hispanics.

FAA: Birds innocent in JFK plane engine failure (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:45 PM PST AP - There is no evidence that a bird strike caused an engine failure aboard a jetliner carrying actor Leonardo DiCaprio and more than 200 other people as it took off from New York on Sunday, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday.

Order blocking Okla. Islamic law measure extended (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 02:05 PM PST AP - A federal judge on Monday said she would rule by the end of the month on a lawsuit challenging an Oklahoma constitutional amendment that would prohibit state courts from considering international or Islamic law when deciding cases.

TSA pat-down leaves Mich. man covered in urine (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 10:04 AM PST AP - A bladder cancer survivor from Michigan who wears a bag that collects his urine said a security agent at a Detroit airport patted him down so roughly, it caused the bag to spill its contents on his clothing.

Feds raid 3 hedge funds linked to trading probe (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 05:41 PM PST AP - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has raided three hedge funds in what one of the targets is calling a wide-ranging probe of insider trading in the financial industry.

Rape charge against vindicated Houston man dropped (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 03:52 PM PST AP - The aggravated assault charge that kept an innocent Houston man imprisoned for 27 years was formally dropped Monday, according to the Harris County District Attorney's Office.

DeLay jurors weigh mostly circumstantial evidence (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:47 PM PST AP - Prosecutors in ex-U.S. House majority leader Tom DeLay's money laundering trial made a final pitch to jurors Monday to connect the dots among the mounds of circumstantial evidence and find him guilty.

Defendant pleads not guilty in NM swastika case (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 12:39 PM PST AP - A New Mexico man pleaded not guilty Monday to federal hate-crime charges in the case of a mentally disabled Navajo man who had a swastika branded on his arm with a hot metal clothes hanger.

Security protest could disrupt Thanksgiving travel (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:03 AM PST AP - As if air travel over the Thanksgiving holiday isn't tough enough, it could be even worse this year: Airports could see even more disruptions because of a loosely organized Internet boycott of full-body scans.

Pilot transplant project aims to spur kidney swaps (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 01:54 PM PST AP - Too often, would-be kidney donors are wasted because the friend or loved one they want to help isn't a match. Now a new national database promises to help find matches for those frustrated pairs so they can be part of so-called kidney exchanges and cut the wait for a transplant.

Calif: No common cause for birth defects near dump (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 03:24 PM PST AP - California health officials said Monday they found no common cause for birth defects plaguing infants in an impoverished San Joaquin Valley farm town where residents are battling plans to expand the largest toxic waste dump in the West.

Family of Americans in Iran: Case taking too long (AP) Posted: 22 Nov 2010 02:38 PM PST AP - Family members of the two Americans still held in Iran on espionage charges called the postponement of their trial until Feb. 6 an unwanted delay and stressed they were not looking forward to spending a second holiday season without their loved ones.

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