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Ex-wife's friend: Gunman distant after marriage (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:34:12 +0800

Roxanne Jauregui, a close friend of Sylvia Pardo, comments on Bruce Padro's character, during an interview at her home in Pomona, Calif. on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Sylvia Pardo and eight of her immediate family members died late Christmas Eve when Pardo's ex-husband, Bruce, donned a Santa Claus suit, burst into a holiday party on a shooting rampage and then torched his former in-laws' home. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - When Roxanne Jauregui heard on Christmas Day that there had been a horrible shooting on her best friend's street in Covina, she picked up her cell phone and called her soul mate of 30 years to get some firsthand details.


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More snow in forecast as Spokane, Wash., digs out (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:56:02 +0800

Snow falls outside the New York Stock Exchange in mid December. US stocks revved higher ahead of their final 2008 session Wednesday after a government rescue announced for finance firm GMAC and its former parent General Motors boosted hopes for a recovery in the troubled US auto sector.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ramin Talaie)AP - Spokane residents were trying to dig out Tuesday after a record-breaking month of snow collapsed roofs and clogged streets. Bismarck, N.D., also set a snowfall record.


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Blagojevich's choice puts Burris back in spotlight (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:50:19 +0800

Former Ill. Attorney General Roland Burris, right, takes questions after Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced Burris as his choice to fill President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008 in Chicago.(AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP - Roland Burris was once a popular figure in every part of Illinois. But that was years ago.


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Franken lead at 49; Minn. absentees left to count (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:15:01 +0800

Election judges Willy Lee (L) and Joanne Caspersen recount marked ballots cast for the 2008 Minnesota senate race between former Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken (DFL-MN) and incumbent Norm Coleman (R-MN) at an elections warehouse in Minneapolis November 19, 2008. (Eric Miller/Reuters)AP - Democratic candidate Al Franken now holds a 49-vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in Minnesota's Senate race, but wrangling over inclusion of absentee ballots continued Tuesday and any final determination of a winner was still days or weeks away.


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Ex-Army engineer pleads guilty in NY to spy charge (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:58:34 +0800

AP - An 85-year-old former Army mechanical engineer pleaded guilty to conspiracy Tuesday and admitted he passed classified documents to the Israelis in the 1970s and '80s.

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Lawyer in Alamo case: Bible no defense for abuse (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:17:31 +0800

AP - Jailed evangelist Tony Alamo's right to religious freedom doesn't allow him to beat children, a lawyer suing the preacher over alleged abuse says.

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Lawyer: Jena Six teen shot himself out of despair (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:15:57 +0800

In this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007 picture, Mychal Bell, one of the Jena Six, appears at a news conference after leaving LaSalle Parish Courthouse in Jena, La. Bell, 18, was arrested Christmas Eve and booked on a shoplifting charge, police said Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. He was freed on $1,300 bond following his arrest at a mall in Monroe, La. He also was booked on charges of resisting arrest and simple assault. (AP Photo/Kita Wright)AP - One of the central figures in the 2007 Jena Six civil rights case never gave up pursuing his football career, even after his well-publicized run-ins with the law.


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Influx of black renters raising tensions in S.F. suburb (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:07:35 +0800

Karen Coleman and her husband, Thomas Coleman, section 8 housing voucher recipients, look out the window of their home in Antioch, Calif., Friday,  Dec. 12, 2008.  'A lot of people are moving out here looking for a better place to live,' said Karen Coleman, a mother of three who moved here five years ago from a blighted neighborhood in nearby Pittsburg. 'We are trying to raise our kids like everyone else. But they don't want us here.' (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - As more and more black renters began moving into this mostly white San Francisco Bay Area suburb a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.


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Homicides down 15 percent in Philadelphia in 2008 (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:54:41 +0800

AP - Mayor Michael Nutter on Tuesday lauded a 15 percent drop in homicides in Philadelphia in his first year in office, a decline that came despite looming budget cuts and the on-duty deaths of four police officers.

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Kennedy's 'you knows' become political fodder (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:52:07 +0800

Caroline Kennedy responds during an interview, Friday, Dec. 26, 2008 in New York.  Ms. Kennedy is one of the candidates in the running to replace Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) after Clinton is confirmed as Secretary of State in President-Elect Obama's administration. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - If Caroline Kennedy had, you know, only known. Tracking the would-be New York senator's verbal tics has become a political parlor game in the days since she gave her first round of in-depth interviews, even spawning a hip-hop-style mash-up online blending her "you knows" with President-elect Barack Obama's "uhs."


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Judge halts closure of 11 Philadelphia libraries (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:47:39 +0800

AP - A judge ruled Tuesday that Philadelphia's mayor cannot close 11 public library branches to save money because an ordinance requires City Council approve such actions.

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New NASA report details final minutes of Columbia (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:30:05 +0800

In this Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003 file photo, debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the sky over Tyler, Texas. A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work well, leading to 'lethal trauma' as the out-of-control ship broke apart, killing all seven astronauts. In a graphic 400-page report, NASA further studied the Feb. 1, 2003, shuttle tragedy to help them design their new shuttle replacement capsule more likely to survive an accident. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott Lieberman, File)AP - When the first of many loud alarms sounded on the space shuttle Columbia, the seven astronauts had about a minute to live, though they didn't know it.


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Landowners sue TVA for $165M over coal ash spill (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:53:29 +0800

AP - A group of land owners sued the Tennessee Valley Authority for $165 million on Tuesday over a dike burst that spilled more than a billion gallons of coal ash sludge.

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Man charged in Hudson killings appears in court (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:29:20 +0800

In this Dec. 3, 2008 booking photo released by the Cook County Sheriff's Department, William Balfour is shown. A murder indictment has been issued Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008, against 27-year-old William Balfour, the man accused of killing the mother, brother and nephew of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson. No new details are offered in Tuesday's indictment. Balfour is facing first-degree murder and home invasion charges. (AP Photo/Cook County Sheriff's Department, file)AP - A murder indictment was issued Tuesday against the man charged with killing the mother, brother and nephew of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson.


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Banned words list offers no 'bailout' to offenders (AP)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:14:55 +0800

AP - A movie about a "maverick," his journey "from Wall Street to Main Street," his "desperate search" for a "monkey" and a "game-changing" revelation about his "carbon footprint" probably would make the nation's word-watchers physically ill.

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