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• Smart says she is thrilled after guilty verdict (AP)
• Report details ties between US and ex-Nazis (AP)
• Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on race (AP)
• Mark Zuckerberg To Donate Half His Wealth to Charity (Time.com)
• No High-Speed Rail Funds for Two States That Don't Want It (Time.com)
• East Texas church fire suspects to plead guilty (AP)
• Papers shed light on Eisenhower's farewell address (AP)
• Boyfriend arrested in death of NYC designer (AP)
• Pa. couple who only prayed for dying tot convicted (AP)
• DA: Teen found near Boston likely fell from plane (AP)
• Jury convicts man in SD reservation slaying (AP)
• Mich. Burger King customer's death ruled homicide (AP)
• Police: Fla. man cyber stalked sorority pledges (AP)
• US senator calls for hearings on plane registry (AP)
• Bug man accused of stealing from clients since '83 (AP)
• California high school mourns 8 war deaths (AP)
• Custer's 'Last Flag' sold for $2.2 million (AP)
• Colorado database leak puts informants in jeopardy (AP)

Smart says she is thrilled after guilty verdict (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 04:37 PM PST AP - Elizabeth Smart waited more than eight years for the word she heard Friday. "Guilty," the court clerk said, after a federal jury deliberated five hours to convict street preacher Brian David Mitchell of snatching Smart from her bed, at knifepoint in the dead of night, and forcing sex on her while he held her captive for nine months.

Report details ties between US and ex-Nazis (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 04:37 PM PST AP - Declassified CIA files reveal that U.S. intelligence officials went to great lengths to protect a Ukrainian fascist leader and suspected Nazi collaborator from prosecution after World War II and set him up in a New York office to wage covert war against the Soviet Union, according to a new report to Congress.

Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on race (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 11:26 AM PST AP - At South Carolina's Secession Gala, men in frock coats and militia uniforms and women in hoopskirts will sip mint juleps as a band called Unreconstructed plays "Dixie." In Georgia, they will re-enact the state's 1861 secession convention. And Alabama will hold a mock swearing-in of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Mark Zuckerberg To Donate Half His Wealth to Charity (Time.com) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 09:15 AM PST Time.com - See? He really isn't the meanie portrayed in The Social Network

No High-Speed Rail Funds for Two States That Don't Want It (Time.com) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 09:15 AM PST Time.com - Republican governors in Wisconsin and Ohio say they don't want federal dollars for high-speed rail projects. Now they won't get it

East Texas church fire suspects to plead guilty (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 02:28 PM PST AP - Two men indicted in a string of arson fires set at churches in East Texas have said they will plead guilty next week.

Papers shed light on Eisenhower's farewell address (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 05:10 PM PST AP - For nearly two years, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his aides searched for the right words to describe at the end of his presidency his fear that the nation's burgeoning military power was driving its foreign policy, newly released papers show.

Boyfriend arrested in death of NYC designer (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 04:59 PM PST AP - Police say the son of an Oscar-winning composer has been arrested on charges of choking his girlfriend, who was found dead in a tub at an upscale Manhattan hotel.

Pa. couple who only prayed for dying tot convicted (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 03:48 PM PST AP - A fundamentalist Christian couple who relied on prayer, not medicine, to cure their dying toddler son was convicted Friday of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.

DA: Teen found near Boston likely fell from plane (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 05:10 PM PST AP - A Massachusetts prosecutor said Friday it's likely that a North Carolina teen whose mutilated body was found in a Boston suburb fell from the sky after stowing away in an airplane's wheel well.

Jury convicts man in SD reservation slaying (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 04:55 PM PST AP - A South Dakota jury convicted a man of murder Friday in the decades-old killing of an American Indian Movement activist whose death came to symbolize AIM and its often violent struggles with federal agents during the 1970s.

Mich. Burger King customer's death ruled homicide (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 03:45 PM PST AP - A 67-year-old man police believe was homeless died after being punched and knocked to the ground during a scuffle with a 20-year-old Burger King employee in Detroit, and authorities ruled the death a homicide Friday.

Police: Fla. man cyber stalked sorority pledges (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 02:17 PM PST AP - A Florida man accused of using Facebook to harass Louisiana State University sorority pledges and pressure them into sending him nude pictures over the Internet also is a suspect in other states, authorities said Friday.

US senator calls for hearings on plane registry (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 05:07 PM PST AP - The chairman of the Senate subcommittee overseeing aviation said Friday he would recommend holding congressional hearings on aircraft registration after The Associated Press reported the Federal Aviation Administration was missing data on one-third of U.S. planes.

Bug man accused of stealing from clients since '83 (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 03:31 PM PST AP - A southwestern Colorado exterminator is suspected of earning the trust of his customers — and their dogs — to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of items and cash over the course of nearly 30 years.

California high school mourns 8 war deaths (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 11:13 AM PST AP - It has become a never-ending heartache within the hallways of Buchanan High School: news that another former student has died in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Custer's 'Last Flag' sold for $2.2 million (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 03:40 PM PST AP - After spending much of the last century in storage, the only U.S. flag not captured or lost during Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn sold at auction Friday for $2.2 million.

Colorado database leak puts informants in jeopardy (AP) Posted: 10 Dec 2010 01:25 PM PST AP - A Colorado sheriff's online database mistakenly revealed the identities of confidential drug informants and listed phone numbers, addresses and Social Security numbers of suspects, victims and others interviewed during criminal investigations, authorities said.

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