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• Tough year for wife of man detained as spy in Cuba (AP)
• Man sought in LA publicist's death kills himself (AP)
• Conn. home invasion defendant: Death a 'relief' (AP)
• Astronomy Hysteria: Is NASA's Thursday Announcement About Life on Other Planets? (Time.com)
• The Death Penalty: Former Justice Stevens Joins the Debate (Time.com)
• Roadside shootout led to Montana trooper's death (AP)
• FLDS leader Jeffs faces unbeaten Texas prosecutors (AP)
• Russian accused of mass-spamming charged in Wis. (AP)
• Anchorage barber keeps on clipping after crash (AP)
• Dad's video key evidence in boy's gun show death (AP)
• Stranded drivers endure hours on snowy NY highway (AP)
• Gallery vows ongoing protest against Smithsonian (AP)
• Google admits trespassing in Pa., pays couple $1 (AP)
• NY indictment: 2 charged in gay attack are victims (AP)
• Prosecutors: Woman says judge detailed racial bias (AP)
• Botched execution survivor stays on Ohio death row (AP)
• Disney town rocked by first homicide (AP)
• Mercury busts charts; 2010 in top 3 hottest years (AP)

Tough year for wife of man detained as spy in Cuba (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 03:36 PM PST AP - In the year her American husband has been detained in Cuba, accused of spying for the U.S., Judy Gross has been forced to sell the family home in Maryland and move into a small apartment in Washington. Her younger daughter, distraught and crying as her father's birthday approached, crashed and totaled her car. Her older daughter has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Man sought in LA publicist's death kills himself (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 04:34 PM PST AP - There is no glitz or glamour at the Harvey Apartments. Just questions.

Conn. home invasion defendant: Death a 'relief' (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:52 PM PST AP - A Connecticut man sentenced to death Thursday in the killings of a woman and her two daughters said his execution will be "a welcome relief," while the only survivor of the gruesome home invasion told a judge he had struggled with suicidal thoughts, nightmares and flashbacks.

Astronomy Hysteria: Is NASA's Thursday Announcement About Life on Other Planets? (Time.com) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:50 PM PST Time.com - Science bloggers are going a bit nuts over the vague announcement by NASA that it will discuss an "astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life."

The Death Penalty: Former Justice Stevens Joins the Debate (Time.com) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:50 PM PST Time.com - As retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens frames the question, it isn't whether you believe in a death penalty -- it's whether you believe in the deeply flawed one the U.S. is using

Roadside shootout led to Montana trooper's death (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 04:25 PM PST AP - Moments before he was gunned down in a shootout, a young Montana Highway Patrol officer came upon a running pickup truck that was parked in the middle of a rural road, authorities said Thursday.

FLDS leader Jeffs faces unbeaten Texas prosecutors (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 03:36 PM PST AP - Extradited to Texas two years after being indicted, polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs will be facing Texas prosecutors who haven't lost a criminal case against his followers since the 2008 raid of his Yearning for Zion ranch.

Russian accused of mass-spamming charged in Wis. (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 04:54 PM PST AP - A 23-year-old Russian man accused of running a worldwide spamming network, which Internet-security experts say on some days accounted for one of every three unwanted e-mails, is scheduled to appear in a Wisconsin courtroom to hear charges against him.

Anchorage barber keeps on clipping after crash (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 04:23 PM PST AP - Talk about a close shave. An SUV crashed into an Anchorage barber shop, narrowly missing shop owner Heng Song and his two customers.

Dad's video key evidence in boy's gun show death (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 02:59 PM PST AP - As a former Massachusetts police chief heads to trial on manslaughter charges in the accidental shooting death of an 8-year-old boy at a gun fair, prosecutors and defense attorneys are wrangling over a horrific piece of evidence: a videotape of the shooting taken by the boy's father.

Stranded drivers endure hours on snowy NY highway (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 03:56 PM PST AP - Hundreds of cold and hungry motorists spent hours Thursday stranded on a western New York highway after an accident caused a backup and the idling trucks and cars got stuck in heavy snow.

Gallery vows ongoing protest against Smithsonian (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 05:02 PM PST AP - A Washington art gallery pledged a round-the-clock protest Thursday against what it calls censorship by the Smithsonian Institution for removing a video that shows ants crawling on a crucifix after the Catholic League and members of Congress complained it was sacrilegious.

Google admits trespassing in Pa., pays couple $1 (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:04 PM PST AP - Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of a Pittsburgh-area house for its Street View service, but will pay only $1 in damages to a couple who sued.

NY indictment: 2 charged in gay attack are victims (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:49 AM PST AP - Members of a street gang who attacked a gay man and a recruit because they believed the two had a sexual encounter also turned on two of their own during the rampage, according to newly released court documents that say a pair of teens initially charged in the case were actually victims.

Prosecutors: Woman says judge detailed racial bias (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 03:26 PM PST AP - Federal prosecutors says a federal judge already convicted of drug possession may have shown racial bias when sentencing defendants earlier this year.

Botched execution survivor stays on Ohio death row (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:55 PM PST AP - The only inmate in modern history to survive an execution attempt must stay on death row, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a decision that leaves the man's fate up to the federal courts.

Disney town rocked by first homicide (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 08:54 AM PST AP - Celebration, Disney's master-planned, picture-perfect central Florida community, has never reported a homicide in its 14-year existence â€" until this week.

Mercury busts charts; 2010 in top 3 hottest years (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 02:28 PM PST AP - A scorching summer that killed thousands in Russia and exceptionally mild winters in the Arctic were among extreme weather events that have put 2010 on track to be one of the three hottest years on record, U.N. experts said Thursday.

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