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• American Airlines jet goes off runway in Wyoming (AP)
• NJ gov, NYC mayor feel the heat after the blizzard (AP)
• Sister's kidney donation condition of Miss. parole (AP)
• New Orleans' Restaurants Move to Reinvent Local Cuisine (Time.com)
• Q&A: Author Dominic Tierney on U.S. Military Goals (Time.com)
• Feud over former Venezuelan president's body ends (AP)
• Nevada's Wild West spirit snubs legal marijuana (AP)
• AP Enterprise: Few sites redeveloped after mining (AP)
• California woman arrested in insider trade scheme (AP)
• Tragedy and a dream reunite ex-basketball buddies (AP)
• ME: Designer was strangled, held underwater in tub (AP)
• Feds probe Christine O'Donnell's campaign spending (AP)
• Bellagio nixing $25,000 chip after casino heist (AP)
• Oops! Mich. repeals penalties for some drug crimes (AP)
• Judge strikes down NYC's gruesome tobacco ads (AP)
• Texting trolley driver admits guilt in Mass. crash (AP)
• Americans turn to technology to control impulses (AP)
• Braun jabs at Emanuel for needing Clinton's help (AP)
• 2 trapped in rubble of exploded Detroit-area store (AP)

American Airlines jet goes off runway in Wyoming (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:18 PM PST AP - An American Airlines jet went past the end of a snowy runway while landing at Wyoming's Jackson Hole Airport on Wednesday, but no one was injured and the plane was not damaged, officials said.

NJ gov, NYC mayor feel the heat after the blizzard (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:15 PM PST AP - With many streets still unplowed, New Yorkers are griping that their billionaire mayor is out of touch and has failed at the basic task of keeping the city running, while New Jersey's governor is taking heat for vacationing at Disney World during the crisis.

Sister's kidney donation condition of Miss. parole (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:47 PM PST AP - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has suspended the life sentences of two sisters convicted in a 1993 armed robbery, and made one woman's release contingent on her giving a kidney to her inmate sibling.

New Orleans' Restaurants Move to Reinvent Local Cuisine (Time.com) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 11:05 AM PST Time.com - A number of new restaurants are cooking up a smarter, cleaner, more exciting kind of New Orleanian food -- still rich in butter and Creole flavors, still deeply traditional, but with a new-school bent

Q&A: Author Dominic Tierney on U.S. Military Goals (Time.com) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:50 AM PST Time.com - Dominic Tierney, author of How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War, sees the two parallel modes in the American experience of war that have lingered since the Civil War

Feud over former Venezuelan president's body ends (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 03:26 PM PST AP - Capping a series of events straight out of a telenovela, the mistress of charismatic and controversial former Venezuelan president Carlos Andres Perez agreed Wednesday to honor his estranged wife's wishes and allow his body to be buried in his homeland.

Nevada's Wild West spirit snubs legal marijuana (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 03:25 PM PST AP - Nevada is known for letting just about anything slide, whether it's booze, bets or brothels. But even here there are limits.

AP Enterprise: Few sites redeveloped after mining (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 11:39 AM PST AP - A short drive up a side road through dense Appalachian forest ends at a vast, flat clearing where a mountaintop used to be.

California woman arrested in insider trade scheme (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:37 PM PST AP - A California woman who tipped off two portfolio managers about the unannounced earnings of technology companies is the latest person arrested in a federal crackdown on consultants and others who specialize in feeding inside information to hedge funds, federal authorities announced Wednesday.

Tragedy and a dream reunite ex-basketball buddies (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:54 PM PST AP - A Chicago doctor is teaming up with a paralyzed ex-pro basketball player who dreams of ditching his wheelchair and walking again. With cutting-edge bionic legs entering the high-tech medical device market, his goal may be within reach.

ME: Designer was strangled, held underwater in tub (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:33 PM PST AP - A swimsuit designer found dead in an overflowing bathtub in a chic Manhattan hotel was strangled and drowned, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday.

Feds probe Christine O'Donnell's campaign spending (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:15 PM PST AP - Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of Delaware Republican Christine O'Donnell to determine if the former Senate candidate broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation.

Bellagio nixing $25,000 chip after casino heist (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:33 PM PST AP - Las Vegas casino bosses are serving notice to the bandit who made off with $1.5 million in chips from the Bellagio: Try to redeem those worth $25,000 soon or they'll become worthless.

Oops! Mich. repeals penalties for some drug crimes (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 03:31 PM PST AP - Possessing drugs such as synthetic marijuana and an Ecstasy-like substance called BZP won't result in jail time or fines in Michigan because lawmakers accidentally repealed the penalties for those crimes.

Judge strikes down NYC's gruesome tobacco ads (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 03:39 PM PST AP - The city's campaign to scare smokers with grotesque images of decaying teeth or a diseased lung wherever tobacco products are sold was struck down Wednesday by a federal judge who concluded that only the federal government can dictate warnings that must accompany the promotion of cigarettes.

Texting trolley driver admits guilt in Mass. crash (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 12:03 PM PST AP - A subway driver who authorities say was texting his girlfriend just before his trolley slammed into the back of another one near an underground station, injuring more than 60 people, pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to probation.

Americans turn to technology to control impulses (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:09 PM PST AP - Dan Nainan can't trust himself to work at his computer without clicking on distractions, so he uses an Internet-blocking program to shut down his Web access twice a day.

Braun jabs at Emanuel for needing Clinton's help (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 01:43 PM PST AP - Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun said Wednesday that Bill Clinton's decision to campaign for former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel in the Chicago mayoral race simply amounts to an outsider helping an outsider.

2 trapped in rubble of exploded Detroit-area store (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 03:06 PM PST AP - From beneath the mountain of debris, flames and spewing water where a furniture store had just stood, Jennifer Gietzen heard yelling and saw some movement.

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