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Neb. starts work on fixing child abandonment law (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:06:56 +0800

State lawmakers stand during the chaplain's prayer on the opening day of a special session of the Nebraska Legislature in Lincoln, Neb., Friday, Nov. 14, 2008. The Neb. Unicameral was called into special session to fix it's safe-haven law, originally intended to protect unwanted newborns from being abandoned. But because of the law's imprecise age definition, anyone can leave a child as old as 18 at a state-licensed hospital without fear of prosecution for abandonment. As of Friday, 34 children have been abandoned, five from states other than Nebraska.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Nebraska lawmakers got to work Friday in a rare sp! ecial legislative session designed to repair a unique "safe haven" law that has unintentionally allowed parents to abandon nearly three dozen children as old as 17.


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Mormon church condemns gay activists for 'attacks' (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:02:05 +0800

Protesters of California's recently passed Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage hold candles across the street from the premiere of the film 'Milk' at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)AP - A day after it received hoax mailings containing a white powder, the Mormon church on Friday blamed opponents of California's gay marriage ban for recent "attacks" while an allied group condemned "acts of domestic terrorism against our supporters."


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Judge: Evidence of suicide OK at Web hoax trial (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:35:42 +0800

AP - Evidence from the suicide of a Missouri girl can be used by prosecutors against a woman charged with helping to create a false Internet identity that was used to harass the teenager, a federal judge ruled Friday.

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Trial opens for Empire State Building parachutist (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:41:04 +0800

New York City's Empire State Building has its sides lit in red for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and blue for Democrat Barack Obama, on election night, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. Plans call for featuring the winner's color Wednesday night, Nov. 5, provided the race is resolved. If not, the red-blue divide will remain. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)AP - A former host of a TV stunt show put himself and others in danger because he was reckless and selfish enough to try to parachute from the Empire State Building 2 1/2 years ago, a prosecutor told jurors Friday.


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3 Chicago teens drown during leadership retreat (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:14:36 +0800

Rescue teams search for three students who drowned in the Fox  River in McHenry County,  Ill. Friday, Nov. 14, 2008. Three Chicago teens who apparently sneaked away from a school-sponsored camp retreat to paddle along a nearby river drowned early Friday. (AP Photo/David Banks)AP - Three high school students on a leadership camping retreat sneaked away from their camp beds in the middle of the night and drowned early Friday in paddle boats with floor plugs that had been removed for winter.


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Debris hinders investigation of Colorado explosion (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:48:21 +0800

Firefighters search through the rubble of a restasurant/bar that collapsed after an explosion in downtown Pueblo, Colo. on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. Crews from neighboring cities were called in to help in the search of the structure. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - Unstable rubble hampered efforts Friday to determine what caused a thunderous explosion that killed one person, injured several and leveled a downtown restaurant and a store in the southern Colorado city of Pueblo.


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Many Texans calling tents home 2 months after Ike (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:39:39 +0800

In this Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008  file photo, one house stands amongst the debris of others, after Hurricane Ike swept through Gilchrist, Texas. A reader-submitted question about the strength of homes in hurricane-prone states is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called 'Ask AP'.  (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - Truong Van Cao and two other fishermen share a cramped, muddy tent amid the wreckage of homes, including his own, destroyed when Hurricane Ike stormed across this tiny Southeast Texas town.


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Court: NY killer ex-fugitive can't withdraw pleas (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:20:44 +0800

AP - A former escaped inmate who killed a New York state trooper and wounded two others while on the run in 2006 cannot withdraw his guilty pleas and stand trial, an appeals court ruled Friday.

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GM may run out of gas before Obama arrives (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:00:59 +0800

In this July 15, 2008 file photo, the General Motors world headquarters in Detroit is seen on. With its cash stockpile perilously low and the prospect of government help fading, General Motors Corp. probably is talking with creditors to buy time until Barack Obama arrives in Washington. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)AP - In recent months, General Motors has been burning through about $3.1 million an hour, or $52,000 — the price of a well-equipped Chevy Tahoe SUV — every minute.


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Ex-radical Ayers distances himself from Obama (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:49:09 +0800

In this image released by ABC, William Ayers appears during an interview with Chris Cuomo on ABC's 'Good Morning America' program, Friday, Nov. 14, 2008, in New York, where Ayers said he knows President-elect Barack Obama no better than thousands of other people in Chicago.  In the interview, Ayers distanced himself from Obama, saying the two didn't meet before Ayers hosted an event at his home for Obama. He said the relationship was based on things like improving schools in their Chicago neighborhood, not on Ayers' political views. (AP Photo/ABC, Keysha McGrady)AP - Vietnam-era radical Bill Ayers said Friday that he doesn! 't know President-elect Barack Obama any better than "thousands of other Chicagoans" and that the two never talked about Ayers' anti-war activities. In a television interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," the college professor disputed the contention that in the new afterword of a paperback edition of his 2001 memoir "Fugitive Days" he describes himself and Obama as "family friends."


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Mass. lawmaker accused of harassing women resigns (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:06 +0800

AP - A Massachusetts state senator charged over the summer with sexually harassing four women has resigned.

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Former CEO of Iowa kosher slaughterhouse arrested (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:03:29 +0800

In this Aug. 13, 2008 file photo, is the Agriprocessors kosher meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa.  Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse files for bankruptcy, blaming May immigration raid for problems. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, file)AP - A former executive of a kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of one of the nation's largest immigration raids was arrested Friday on a bank fraud charge and ordered jailed until at least next week.


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500K illegal immigrants defying deportation orders (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:03:20 +0800

A police officer sits in his cruiser Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008 outside the public housing complex in South Boston where Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango reportedly lives. The Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Zeituni Onyango came to the United States seeking asylum from her native Kenya but was turned down and ordered to leave the country in 2004.


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Vt. town grows divisible over Pledge of Allegiance (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:49:56 +0800

Nancy Werner reads a book as she waits for the polls to open at town hall in Woodbury, Vt., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - No one is sure when daily recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance fell by the wayside at Woodbury Elementary School.


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Ga. priest facing excommunication will appeal (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:20:58 +0800

Catholic priest Roy Bourgeois stands outside the main gate to Fort Benning in this  Nov. 15, 2005 file photo., in Columbus, Ga. Bourgeois faces excommunication for supporting the ordination of women priest. His excommunication would likely be automatic, requiring no further action from the Holy See, said the chief Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi. (AP Photo/Elliott Minor, file)AP - A Georgia priest facing excommunication for supporting the ordination of women said Friday he plans to visit the Vatican with a contingent of fellow priests and a bishop to appeal the decision.


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Schwarzenegger wants to trim Calif.'s 14 holidays (AP)

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:02:22 +0800

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in New York, September 24, 2007.  REUTERS/Chip East/FilesAP - California's generous offering of holidays for state workers — the equivalent of nearly three work weeks — is among the items Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking to trim to help counter a mounting budget deficit.


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