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• Obama pays tribute to unit in bin Laden raid (Reuters)
• Flooding Mississippi River poses dire threats (Reuters)
• Mexican charged in murder of U.S. border patrol agent (Reuters)
• Commando Dogs: Going After bin Laden, IEDs (Time.com)
• Antitrust Allegations: Can the Feds Crush the BCS? (Time.com)
• South Carolina executes man who strangled prison inmate (Reuters)
• Locals fear loss of interest in Southern tornadoes (AP)
• Next-to-last space shuttle launch faces more delay (AP)
• Colo. wildlife commission not OK with Christo plan (AP)
• Analysis: Reimagining Obama after gutsy raid (AP)
• Costa Rica finds body of US student missing at sea (AP)
• Feds: All kids, legal or not, entitled to K-12 ed (AP)
• FBI: DC suspicious letters part of broader probe (AP)
• Proposed shark fin ban makes waves in San Fran. (AP)
• Father of captured soldier seeks Pakistan's help (AP)
• Coast Guard closes stretch of Mississippi (AP)
• NYC mayor's budget would cut 1 out of 12 teachers (AP)
• Lake flooding damages or destroys 500 homes in Vt. (AP)
• Ex-Rutgers student in cyberbullying case may avoid jail (AP)
• 'SlutWalks' put provocative message in the streets (AP)

Obama pays tribute to unit in bin Laden raid (Reuters) Posted: 06 May 2011 02:29 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama, basking in U.S. public approval for the killing of Osama bin Laden, flew to a military base in Kentucky on Friday to thank special forces who carried out the deadly raid and led a rally filled with cheering troops.

Flooding Mississippi River poses dire threats (Reuters) Posted: 06 May 2011 02:22 PM PDT Reuters - The swollen Mississippi River swallowed up farmland and threatened river towns on Friday, as record amounts of water tested a network of levees and reservoirs built since deadly floods in the last century.

Mexican charged in murder of U.S. border patrol agent (Reuters) Posted: 06 May 2011 03:20 PM PDT Reuters - A Mexican man who crossed into the United States illegally has been indicted for second-degree murder in the shooting death of a U.S. border patrol agent last December, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.

Commando Dogs: Going After bin Laden, IEDs (Time.com) Posted: 06 May 2011 09:00 AM PDT Time.com - The mystery mutt who accompanied the SEALs on their mission to Osama bin Laden's lair is coming in for a fair amount of attention

Antitrust Allegations: Can the Feds Crush the BCS? (Time.com) Posted: 05 May 2011 11:25 PM PDT Time.com - The Bowl Championship Series (BCS), that college football oligarchy that stands in the way of a long-desired college football playoff, is facing its biggest threat: the Department of Justice

South Carolina executes man who strangled prison inmate (Reuters) Posted: 06 May 2011 04:42 PM PDT Reuters - South Carolina executed by lethal injection on Friday a man convicted of murdering his cellmate in 2005 while serving two life sentences for earlier murders of two relatives.

Locals fear loss of interest in Southern tornadoes (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 02:17 PM PDT AP - The Rev. Michael Katschke is worried, but not about running out of the food, diapers and other supplies he hands out to tornado victims at the Crosswinds United Methodist Church in northern Alabama.

Next-to-last space shuttle launch faces more delay (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 02:59 PM PDT AP - The next-to-last space shuttle flight has been delayed again, this time to at least the middle of May for extra electrical tests.

Colo. wildlife commission not OK with Christo plan (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 04:39 PM PDT AP - Colorado wildlife commissioners have voted to send a letter opposing the artist Christo's proposal to suspend nearly six miles worth of fabric over parts of a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River.

Analysis: Reimagining Obama after gutsy raid (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 03:15 PM PDT AP - It was just a firehouse chat with the guys of Engine 54 in lower Manhattan. But President Barack Obama delivered a message he hopes will also hit home with every American in this week of national catharsis: "You're always going to have a president and an administration who's got your back."

Costa Rica finds body of US student missing at sea (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 04:35 PM PDT AP - Costa Rican rescuers on Friday found the body of a third U.S. high school student who was swept out to sea while taking a beach break during a religious mission.

Feds: All kids, legal or not, entitled to K-12 ed (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 04:38 PM PDT AP - The U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to districts around the country Friday, reminding them that all students — legal or not — are entitled to a public education.

FBI: DC suspicious letters part of broader probe (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 03:47 PM PDT AP - More than three dozen suspicious but apparently harmless letters addressed to District of Columbia schools appear to have been mailed from the Dallas area and closely resemble letters under investigation by authorities there, the FBI said Friday.

Proposed shark fin ban makes waves in San Fran. (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 05:10 PM PDT AP - A California proposal to outlaw the title ingredient in shark fin soup, a traditional Chinese delicacy, has turned into a recipe for controversy in San Francisco, a city that is nearly one-third Asian and home to the nation's oldest Chinatown.

Father of captured soldier seeks Pakistan's help (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 03:39 PM PDT AP - The father of the only U.S. soldier held captive in the Afghan war appealed to the Pakistani military for help in freeing his son in a video posted on YouTube on Friday.

Coast Guard closes stretch of Mississippi (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 05:19 PM PDT AP - Children played in front yards and neighbors chatted under a cloudless sky Friday in a south Memphis neighborhood, yards away from the rising water of the Nonconnah Creek.

NYC mayor's budget would cut 1 out of 12 teachers (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 01:51 PM PDT AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday unveiled a shrinking budget that would cut corners throughout New York City — from classrooms, where public school children stand to lose one out of 12 teachers, to jails, where officials are saving pennies by cutting items like bread, pepper and ketchup from the menu.

Lake flooding damages or destroys 500 homes in Vt. (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 01:38 PM PDT AP - Already at its highest level ever, Lake Champlain surpassed flood stage by 3 feet Friday, leaving hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged in a slowly unfolding catastrophe on island communities and the New York and Vermont sides of the 120-mile-long lake.

Ex-Rutgers student in cyberbullying case may avoid jail (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 11:06 AM PDT AP - A former Rutgers University student charged in a webcam-spying case linked to a classmate's suicide agreed Friday to cooperate with authorities as they prosecute another defendant — and could avoid jail time for her help.

'SlutWalks' put provocative message in the streets (AP) Posted: 06 May 2011 02:08 PM PDT AP - This social movement really gets around.

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