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• After bin Laden death, Obama visits Ground Zero (Reuters)
• Al Qaeda plotted 9/11 anniversary rail attack: government (Reuters)
• Names at September 11 memorial grouped as family, work buddies (Reuters)
• Could the bin Laden Raid Have Revealed a Secret New Helicopter? (Time.com)
• Domino's Earns Big With Pizza and Chicken Ads (Time.com)
• Deal struck in deadly Massachusetts bullying case (Reuters)
• Bush skips 9/11 event, keeps low public profile (AP)
• Wife: Calif. man who died on Everest led full life (AP)
• 2 Ohio students drown, 1 missing in Costa Rica (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Uncle helped Mich. stabbing suspect (AP)
• Obama in NY: We never forget, we mean what we say (AP)
• For families of tornadoes' missing, a long torment (AP)
• Activists want N-word gone from Calif. gravestones (AP)
• 1st American in space honored on 50th anniversary (AP)
• Senate GOP won't vote for consumer protection head (AP)
• 1st responders see Obama visits as sign of hope (AP)
• US wants to give frozen Libyan assets to rebels (AP)
• Families mourn US troops amid swirl of emotions (AP)
• Elvis exits as Jacob, Isabella top baby-name list (AP)

After bin Laden death, Obama visits Ground Zero (Reuters) Posted: 05 May 2011 02:25 PM PDT Reuters - Days after the killing of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama met New York firefighters and police on Thursday and visited Ground Zero to offer comfort to a city still scarred by the September 11 attacks.

Al Qaeda plotted 9/11 anniversary rail attack: government (Reuters) Posted: 05 May 2011 04:37 PM PDT Reuters - Al Qaeda considered attacking the U.S. rail sector on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, U.S. government officials said on Thursday in describing intelligence from Osama bin Laden's hide-out in Pakistan.

Names at September 11 memorial grouped as family, work buddies (Reuters) Posted: 05 May 2011 12:28 PM PDT Reuters - Names of all 2,982 people who died in the September 11 attacks will be grouped as friends, work buddies and families on bronze panels at a national memorial opening in New York, organizers announced.

Could the bin Laden Raid Have Revealed a Secret New Helicopter? (Time.com) Posted: 05 May 2011 10:30 AM PDT Time.com - A picture of the tail rotor of the chopper that the Navy Seals' Team Six detonated revealed unfamiliar features. Reports say it could be a new, secret helicopter

Domino's Earns Big With Pizza and Chicken Ads (Time.com) Posted: 05 May 2011 09:10 AM PDT Time.com - The pizza-delivery giant, long mocked for its inferior food, improved its recipe and admitted it could have done better. How truth in advertising helped spark a corporate turnaround.

Deal struck in deadly Massachusetts bullying case (Reuters) Posted: 05 May 2011 04:21 PM PDT Reuters - Prosecutors and defense lawyers struck a deal on Thursday that resolves charges against all six Massachusetts teens accused in the case of Phoebe Prince, who hanged herself at age 15 after she was bullied relentlessly for months at her high school.

Bush skips 9/11 event, keeps low public profile (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 03:54 PM PDT AP - In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush famously grabbed a bullhorn while speaking to those gathered at ground zero, telling them: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."

Wife: Calif. man who died on Everest led full life (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 04:40 PM PDT AP - As a longtime coach of youth soccer and softball in his Northern California community, Rick Hitch would often instruct his players to "LIOTF" — leave it all on the field.

2 Ohio students drown, 1 missing in Costa Rica (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 04:39 PM PDT AP - A strong undertow in the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica swept a group of Ohio high school students out to sea while they took a beach break during a religious mission trip, killing two of them and leaving a third missing.

APNewsBreak: Uncle helped Mich. stabbing suspect (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 02:11 PM PDT AP - The uncle of a man charged in a series of stabbings that terrified a Michigan city last summer helped his nephew try to flee the country after hearing he had been involved in an assault, according to newly unsealed court records that provide details on the hunt for a suspected serial killer.

Obama in NY: We never forget, we mean what we say (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT AP - Solemnly honoring victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, President Barack Obama hugged survivors, thanked the heroes of one of the nation's darkest days and declared Thursday that the killing of Osama bin Laden after all these years was an American message to the world: "When we say we will never forget, we mean what we say."

For families of tornadoes' missing, a long torment (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 04:52 PM PDT AP - Where is Johnnie Brown's sister? Or the friend Billie Sue Hall talked to every day? A week after tornadoes ripped neighborhoods to shreds across the South, there still are no answers.

Activists want N-word gone from Calif. gravestones (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT AP - Time has weathered the 36 concrete gravestones in a dusty, half-century-old cemetery tucked away in a corner of California's former gold fields. Time has not erased, however, the bigotry of a bygone era carved into the markers.

1st American in space honored on 50th anniversary (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 03:40 PM PDT AP - Fifty years to the moment Alan Shepard rocketed away, more than 100 Project Mercury workers joined former astronauts and NASA leaders at the original Redstone launch pad Thursday to celebrate the event that opened space travel to Americans.

Senate GOP won't vote for consumer protection head (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 04:10 PM PDT AP - Almost every Senate Republican said Thursday they will vote against any Obama administration choice to head a new agency designed to protect consumers from harmful financial activities unless changes are made in the agency that Republicans say has been given too much power.

1st responders see Obama visits as sign of hope (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 04:39 PM PDT AP - As President Barack Obama visited with firefighters and police officers in New York City on Thursday, some saw a glimmer of hope that Osama bin Laden's death may help bring an end to the decade of war and grief that began on Sept. 11, 2001.

US wants to give frozen Libyan assets to rebels (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 01:38 PM PDT AP - New money pipelines are opening up to help Libyan rebels determined to topple Moammar Gadhafi, with the United States saying it will move to free up part of the $30 billion it has frozen in Libyan assets and a score of nations pledging Thursday to start a new fund to supply civilians with food, medicine and even paychecks.

Families mourn US troops amid swirl of emotions (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 02:12 PM PDT AP - As mourners filed out of the church, two by two, the organist struck up an unusual tune for a funeral: "America the Beautiful." Outside, military pallbearers in ceremonial dress carried the flag-draped casket of 1st Lt. Omar Vazquez to the waiting hearse, while a dozen retired servicemen saluted, flags in hand.

Elvis exits as Jacob, Isabella top baby-name list (AP) Posted: 05 May 2011 06:45 AM PDT AP - Elvis has left the list.

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