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• N.O. officer says he burned body after Katrina (AP)
• Chief: 23 students, teacher hostage at Wis. school (AP)
• Hammered: What Punishment Will Tom DeLay Get? (Time.com)
• Online Dating Enjoying a Boom Among Boomers (Time.com)
• Dem state lawmakers defecting to GOP post-election (AP)
• Father of missing Mich. boys had lost job, custody (AP)
• UN agency pushes new rules on air cargo security (AP)
• Tennessee Supreme Court halts next 4 executions (AP)
• Man dies after 20-foot fall at Chicago NFL stadium (AP)
• Swastika case another race issue for NM town (AP)
• Portlanders condemn bomb plot, criticize FBI probe (AP)
• US escapes major hurricanes for 5th straight year (AP)
• American prisoners in Iran call families in US (AP)
• Customer shoves 100-year-old Wis. Walmart greeter (AP)
• Recount redux: Minn. sorts ballots in gov. race (AP)
• Outgoing Fla. Gov. Crist worries about divisions (AP)
• Walker leads Wake Forest by Marist 81-59 (AP)
• 'Airplane!', 'Forbidden Planet' actor Nielsen dies (AP)
• Trial resumes for suspect in abduction of Smart (AP)

N.O. officer says he burned body after Katrina (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:50 PM PST AP - A New Orleans police officer on trial for burning the body of a man who was fatally shot by a different officer testified Monday that he set the fire because he didn't want to let another corpse rot in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.

Chief: 23 students, teacher hostage at Wis. school (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 05:21 PM PST AP - An armed student burst into a high school classroom in eastern Wisconsin on Monday, taking more than 20 students and a teacher hostage, authorities said.

Hammered: What Punishment Will Tom DeLay Get? (Time.com) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 03:10 PM PST Time.com - The former House Majority Leader was stunned at his guilty verdict for money laundering but he is unlikely to get the maximum penalty

Online Dating Enjoying a Boom Among Boomers (Time.com) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 02:35 PM PST Time.com - Older singles were initially reluctant to use online datingsites, but now they're the fastest-growing demographic

Dem state lawmakers defecting to GOP post-election (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:36 PM PST AP - Staggering Election Day losses are not the Democratic Party's final indignity this year. At least 13 state lawmakers in five states have defected to Republican ranks since the Nov. 2 election, adding to already huge GOP gains in state legislatures. And that number could grow as next year's legislative sessions draw near.

Father of missing Mich. boys had lost job, custody (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 05:10 PM PST AP - The father of three missing Michigan boys was out of work, his marriage had fallen apart and he'd lost custody of his children in the months before he told police that he gave the boys to an acquaintance and tried to kill himself.

UN agency pushes new rules on air cargo security (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:33 AM PST AP - The U.N. agency that oversees aviation is pushing new guidelines for cargo security to counter al-Qaida's new mail-bomb strategy, but is stopping short of calling for 100 percent screening of packages, as pilots and some U.S. lawmakers have urged.

Tennessee Supreme Court halts next 4 executions (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 03:55 PM PST AP - The Tennessee Supreme Court on Monday halted the executions of four death row inmates to allow a lower court to examine the constitutionality of the state's new lethal injection procedure.

Man dies after 20-foot fall at Chicago NFL stadium (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2010 09:07 PM PST AP - Authorities say a man has died after falling at least 20 feet from a ledge at Soldier Stadium while attending a Chicago Bears game.

Swastika case another race issue for NM town (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:36 PM PST AP - Three friends had just finished their shifts at a McDonald's when prosecutors say they carried out a gruesome attack on a customer: They allegedly shaped a coat hanger into a swastika, placed it on a heated stove and branded the symbol on the arm of the mentally disabled Navajo man.

Portlanders condemn bomb plot, criticize FBI probe (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:12 PM PST AP - Some residents of this famously liberal city are unnerved, not only by a plot to bomb an annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony last week but also by the police tactics in the case.

US escapes major hurricanes for 5th straight year (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 01:32 PM PST AP - The Atlantic hurricane season ends Tuesday, going down as one of the busiest on record but blissfully sparing the U.S. coastline a major hurricane for a fifth straight year.

American prisoners in Iran call families in US (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 10:35 AM PST AP - Two Americans held in Iran on espionage charges told their families during brief phone calls over the weekend that they haven't had access to their lawyer and do not know what is happening in their cases, their families said Monday.

Customer shoves 100-year-old Wis. Walmart greeter (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 02:40 PM PST AP - A 100-year-old greeter at a Milwaukee Walmart was shoved by a customer after the centenarian tried to stop the woman to determine if she'd paid for items that were in the lower part of her shopping cart, police said Monday.

Recount redux: Minn. sorts ballots in gov. race (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 03:22 PM PST AP - Barely an hour into a statewide recount of Minnesota's close race for governor Monday, a volunteer for Democrat Mark Dayton gestured toward an 8-inch stack of ballots awaiting a second look.

Outgoing Fla. Gov. Crist worries about divisions (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 02:22 PM PST AP - Outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who steps down in January after losing an independent bid for the U.S. Senate, says he is concerned that political divisions are preventing elected officials of both parties from working together on the nation's problems.

Walker leads Wake Forest by Marist 81-59 (AP) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 08:18 PM PST AP - Wake Forest didn't shoot particularly well against Marist on Tuesday night, and its rebounding left a lot to be desired.

'Airplane!', 'Forbidden Planet' actor Nielsen dies (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 01:35 PM PST AP - Despite decades spent playing sober commanders and serious captains, Leslie Nielsen insisted that he was always made for comedy. He proved it in his career's second act.

Trial resumes for suspect in abduction of Smart (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2010 11:30 AM PST AP - Defense attorneys called a string of witnesses Monday to support an insanity defense for the man charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart.

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