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• First lady's jet got wrong info on other plane (Reuters)
• Florida pastor jailed after mosque protest barred (Reuters)
• Cooler, wet weather gives Texas firefighters a break (Reuters)
• Expert: FAA Short on Cash, Skimping on Training and Long Aware of Sleeping Workers (Time.com)
• Deficit Deal? The Gang of Six Ain't Talking (Time.com)
• Rescuers say more than midway to missing Idaho miner (Reuters)
• Calif teen found guilty of molesting, drowning boy (AP)
• Small plane crash in Kan. kills 4 on Easter trip (AP)
• Agreement near in sex lawsuit involving Ga. pastor (AP)
• Homemade cloth rope aids St. Louis jail escape (AP)
• Drill off Alaska coast? Gulf mess renews debate (AP)
• Report: Transocean contributed to Gulf disaster (AP)
• Pope talks of suffering during Good Friday TV show (AP)
• Easter spirit endures in tornado-wrecked churches (AP)
• Timing of Sen. Ensign resignation raises questions (AP)
• Wash. considers annual flat fee for electric cars (AP)
• Fla. dad tells 911 toddler fatally shot mom (AP)
• British tourist honored for catching falling child (AP)
• Father: Daughter's body found, now work begins (AP)

First lady's jet got wrong info on other plane (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 04:42 PM PDT Reuters - Air traffic controllers mistakenly told the pilot of a plane carrying U.S. first lady Michelle Obama this week he was further away from a nearby military cargo jet than he actually was, according to a report issued on Friday.

Florida pastor jailed after mosque protest barred (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 04:55 PM PDT Reuters - A controversial Florida pastor was jailed on Friday after a Michigan court determined that his planned demonstration outside a mosque was likely to provoke violence and he refused to pay a $1 bond.

Cooler, wet weather gives Texas firefighters a break (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 03:37 PM PDT Reuters - Improved weather conditions allowed Texas firefighters to mount an offensive overnight against wildfires that have charred more than 1.8 million acres across the state and killed two responders this year, officials said on Friday.

Expert: FAA Short on Cash, Skimping on Training and Long Aware of Sleeping Workers (Time.com) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 03:00 AM PDT Time.com - The recent troubles at the FAA has put a serious problem in sharp focus. TIME talks to Mary Schiavo, former Inspector General of the Department of Transportation, about what went wrong

Deficit Deal? The Gang of Six Ain't Talking (Time.com) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 01:00 AM PDT Time.com - Which suggests that the Senators trying to cut a deficit deal are getting serious

Rescuers say more than midway to missing Idaho miner (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 04:16 PM PDT Reuters - Crews working to free a miner trapped a mile underground for a week by a cave-in at an Idaho silver mine edged closer on Friday to breaking through to the accident site.

Calif teen found guilty of molesting, drowning boy (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 03:16 PM PDT AP - A California teenager accused of molesting and drowning a 4-year-old neighbor boy and hiding his body in a clothes dryer was convicted of first-degree murder Friday.

Small plane crash in Kan. kills 4 on Easter trip (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 04:00 PM PDT AP - A small airplane carrying a young couple and their daughters on their way to visit friends for Easter crashed in a muddy Kansas corn field Friday, killing all four, officials said.

Agreement near in sex lawsuit involving Ga. pastor (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 04:13 PM PDT AP - A judge says a lawsuit involving four young men and the Georgia megachurch pastor they accused of sexual misconduct is near a resolution.

Homemade cloth rope aids St. Louis jail escape (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 04:19 PM PDT AP - A "knuckle-headed corrections officer" is to blame for the escape of two men who apparently climbed down a homemade rope Friday morning to escape from a St. Louis detention center, the mayor's chief of staff said.

Drill off Alaska coast? Gulf mess renews debate (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 05:33 PM PDT AP - A year after the disastrous Gulf oil spill, the prospect of a major accident in oil's next frontier — the icy waters off Alaska's north coast — has experts even more concerned.

Report: Transocean contributed to Gulf disaster (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 01:35 PM PDT AP - Flaws in Transocean Ltd.'s emergency training and equipment and a poor safety culture contributed to the deadly Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion that led to the Gulf oil spill, according to a Coast Guard report released Friday.

Pope talks of suffering during Good Friday TV show (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 02:54 PM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI consoled a 7-year-old Japanese girl, reassured a mother about her ailing son's soul and advised a Muslim woman that dialogue was the way to peace in Ivory Coast.

Easter spirit endures in tornado-wrecked churches (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 04:05 PM PDT AP - The huge holes in the walls of Zoar Baptist Church make it look like it was punched by a gigantic fist. The roof and steeple are gone, lost to one of the myriad tornadoes that wreaked deadly havoc from Oklahoma to Virginia last week.

Timing of Sen. Ensign resignation raises questions (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 05:03 PM PDT AP - U.S. Sen. John Ensign's decision this week to resign marked a mysterious change of heart for the Nevada Republican, raising questions about what an ongoing Senate ethics probe has uncovered while also muddling the field of candidates for congressional seats now held by the GOP headed into a key election year.

Wash. considers annual flat fee for electric cars (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 05:12 PM PDT AP - Drivers of electric cars may have left the gas pump behind, but there's one expense they may not be able to shake: paying to maintain the roads.

Fla. dad tells 911 toddler fatally shot mom (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 02:17 PM PDT AP - Police are questioning the father of a 2-year-old boy who claims his son somehow got a hold of a pistol and shot the toddler's mother to death.

British tourist honored for catching falling child (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 02:18 PM PDT AP - Helen Beard was poolside with her son and partner at a Florida hotel when she heard a scream and turned to find a 1-year-old girl dangling from a fourth-story balcony. She leapt up and positioned herself beneath the toddler just in time to catch her, saving the girl from certain injury.

Father: Daughter's body found, now work begins (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 02:25 PM PDT AP - Now that the body of a North Carolina teenager has been found after she went missing almost four months ago, her father said Friday that the process of learning what happened to her can really begin.

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