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Neb. lawmakers OK age limit for safe-haven law (AP)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:22 +0800

Nebraska lawmakers Brad Ashford, front, of Omaha, and Arnie Stuthman, of Platte Center, Neb., vote in favor of LB 1 Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 at the state capitol in Lincoln, Neb., The bill puts a 30-day age limit on children who can be dropped off at Nebraska hospitals under the state's safe haven law. The bill easily passed 43-5. (AP Photo/Bill Wolf)AP - Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law Friday a bill adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35 children — including teenagers as old as 17 — to be abandoned at state hospitals. The law, approved hours earlier by the Legislature in a 45-3 vote, goes into effect Saturday, and makes Nebraska the 14th state with a 30-day age cap. It had been the only state with a safe-haven law without an age limit.


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Hawaii dam break leads to 7 manslaughter counts (AP)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:42:50 +0800

AP - A Kauai grand jury on Friday indicted an 82-year-old landowner on seven counts of manslaughter in connection with the deadly failure of dam on Kauai two years ago.

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Daughter defends mother in Internet hoax trial (AP)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:09:27 +0800

Lori Drew walks to federal court Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, in Los Angeles. Drew has pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing computers without authorization. She is accused of helping create a false-identity account on the the MySpace social networking site then posing as a teenage boy and befriending a 13-year old girl who later committed suicide.  (AP Photo/Ric Francis)AP - The daughter of a woman accused of orchestrating a cruel Internet hoax against a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide took the witness stand Friday to defend her mother.


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Connecticut takes on slippery olive oil standards (AP)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:05:50 +0800

Luciano Sclafani shows some of the extra virgin olive oil that he sells, at his company's warehouse in Norwalk, Conn., Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Connecticut, historically known as the Nutmeg State, is now the first in the nation to set quality standards for olive oil. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)AP - When food importer Luciano Sclafani spied a three-liter tin of extra virgin olive oil a couple of years ago selling for $9.99, he could tell without tasting a drop that it wasn't legitimate.


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Prosecutor who had Cheney indicted yells at judge (AP)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:35:47 +0800

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, left, and Vice President Dick Cheney are shown in this 2006 file photo at the White House. Cheney and Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)AP - A county prosecutor who brought indictments this week against Vice President Dick Cheney and others pounded his fist and shouted at the judge Friday during a routine hearing. Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra asked Presiding Judge M! anuel Banales to recuse himself from the case, which alleges abuse at federally run prisons.


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2nd Mass. politician charged with taking bribe (AP)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:27:44 +0800

In this Aug. 2007 still photo, taken from video  and released by the U.S. Attorney's office, Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner is shown allegedly taking money from someone in Boston. Turner was arrested at Boston City Hall Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, for allegedly taking a $1,000 bribe from a person he believed was a businessman, then lying to FBI officials. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney's office)AP - FBI agents arrested a Boston city council member Friday after he was videotaped allegedly taking a $1,000 bribe from an undercover agent in an expanding investigation into corruption at City Hall and the Massachusetts Statehouse.


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Renovated American history museum reopens (AP)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:46:33 +0800

Smithsonian Institution Secretary Wayne Clough, left, speaks with former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, at the opening of the Smithsonian Museum of American History after its renovation in Washington, on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - George and Martha Washington, Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz" and other costumed characters greeted thousands of visitors Friday as the National Museum of American History reopened after a two-year, $85 million renovation.


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FBI says Ohio man threatened to bomb airports (AP)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:36:05 +0800

AP - FBI officials said Friday they arrested a man who threatened to blow up Cincinnati's football stadium, two airports, Ohio River bridges, and other landmarks.

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New mad-cow rule poses health dangers of its own (AP)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:05:47 +0800

A bone from a dairy cow juts out of a compost pile on Tim Forry's Oregon Dairy Farm in Lititz, Pa., Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. When a cow dies on Forry's farm in Pennsylvania Dutch country, he dumps the carcass onto a 200-foot-long compost pile behind his barn, where dozens of dead cattle are slowly decaying in an above-ground tomb of manure, wood shavings, hay and leaves. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - A federal regulation aimed at preventing mad cow disease from getting into the food supply could create health risks of its own: many thousands of cattle carcasses rotting on farms, spreading germs, attracting vermin and p! olluting the water.


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Bug-sized spies: US develops tiny flying robots (AP)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:57:16 +0800

In this photo taken from computer animation video Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, and released by the U.S. Air Force, shows the next generation of drones, called Micro Aerial Vehicles, or MAVs. The MAVs could be as tiny as bumblebees and capable of flying undetected into buildings, where they could photograph, record, and even attack insurgents and terrorists. U.S. military engineers are trying to design flying robots disguised as insects that could one day spy on enemies and conduct dangerous missions without risking lives. (AP  Photo/U.S. Air Force, HO)AP - If only we could be a fly on the wall when our enemies are plotting to! attack us. Better yet, what if that fly could record voices, transmit video and even fire tiny weapons?


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No sign of arson in Ky. fire that killed 27 horses (AP)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:07:51 +0800

AP - Fire investigators say they have found no sign of arson in a blaze that killed 27 horses at a thoroughbred training facility in western Kentucky.

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