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2010-09-02 23:23

Co-worker: Suspect's girlfriend alive during chase (AP)

In this undated photo provided by the Hercules Police Department,  Efren Valdemoro is shown. Valdemoro, 38, was shot and killed by California Highway Patrol officers Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, after refusing to drop a large knife when the chase ended in a strip mall, police said. He was wanted in the death of a 73-year-old man last weekend. In the passenger seat of the car, officers found the body of his girlfriend, whose identity has not been released. She had suffered 'pretty serious head and neck injuries,' said CHP spokesman Sgt. Trent Cross.  (AP photo/Hercules Police Department via the San Francisco Chronicle)AP - The co-worker of a woman found dead in her boyfriend's car after a fatal California police chase said Thursday that she spoke with the victim during the pursuit.


2010-09-02 23:23

McCourt: Wife didn't risk of being a Dodgers owner (AP)

Jamie McCourt leaves court during a lunch break Thursday Sept. 2, 2010 in Los Angeles. Frank McCourt testified at his divorce trial, his estranged wife, Jamie McCourt, wanted no part in the risk associated with buying the Los Angeles Dodgers six years ago. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Former Dodger CEO Jamie McCourt didn't want to take the risk associated with buying the Los Angeles Dodgers six years ago and if she had, it would have adversely affected the team, her estranged husband testified Thursday at their divorce trial.


2010-09-02 23:23

Senate upset erases Alaska seniority (AP)

** FILE ** In this March 5, 2009 file photo, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is interviewed in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington.  The defeat of Murkowski by an upstart fiscal conservative in Alaska's GOP primary could mark a significant shift for a state.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - The defeat of Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski by an upstart fiscal conservative in Alaska's GOP primary could mark a significant shift for a state that has so long relied on federal pork to survive. The outcome was also an unexpected blow to the seniority Alaska has enjoyed in the Senate.


2010-09-02 20:48

Judge punishes Michigan juror for Facebook post (AP)

In this May 19, 2010 photo, Desiree Francisco, left, with other members of her family, stand by a box containing the remains of her father, Siegfried Francisco, at the International Airport in Port-au-Prince. Francisco, 57, who was attending a conference at the Hotel Montana, died during the Jan 12 earthquake but it took until April to identify his remains. The desperate quest to find loved ones started just minutes after the quake, as cell phones rang unanswered from beneath the rubble of Haiti's best hotel. A few hours later, the search went online with a Facebook page dedicated to the Hotel Montana. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - A Detroit-area woman who was removed from a jury for commenting about the ongoing case on Facebook has a longer writing task ahead: a five-page essay about the constitutional right to a fair trial.


2010-09-02 20:48

Dead suspect may be linked to 4 slayings in Calif. (AP)

In this undated photo provided by the Hercules Police Department,  Efren Valdemoro is shown. Valdemoro, 38, was shot and killed by California Highway Patrol officers Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, after refusing to drop a large knife when the chase ended in a strip mall, police said. He was wanted in the death of a 73-year-old man last weekend. In the passenger seat of the car, officers found the body of his girlfriend, whose identity has not been released. She had suffered 'pretty serious head and neck injuries,' said CHP spokesman Sgt. Trent Cross.  (AP photo/Hercules Police Department via the San Francisco Chronicle)AP - A murder suspect who led officers on a high-speed chase with his dead girlfriend in the passenger seat is a central figure in the investigation of at least four killings, authorities said Wednesday.


2010-09-02 20:48

Search still on for missing son of boxing promoter (AP)

Boxing promoter Bob Arum, pictured in 2009. A search and rescue team is combing the mountainous terrain around Seattle on foot and in helicopters to look for the missing son of Bob Arum.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)AP - Searchers in the rugged North Cascades have found a backpack belonging to the son of Hall of Fame boxing promoter Bob Arum, but they are still looking for the missing climber.


2010-09-02 18:23

Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict (AP)

Gladys Rubio answers phone calls, at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 as powerful Hurricane Earl wheeled toward the East Coast, driving the first tourists Wednesday from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging winds and waves up the Atlantic seaboard over Labor Day weekend.(AP Photo/J Pat Carter)AP - Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.


2010-09-02 18:23

Arrest made after manhunt shuts down Wash. freeway (AP)

AP - A sheriff's spokeswoman in Washington state says tips from the public helped authorities make an arrest following a search for an armed suspect Wednesday that shut down a busy freeway and disrupted commuter traffic.

2010-09-02 18:23

Son of boxing promoter Arum missing in Cascades (AP)

Boxing promoter Bob Arum, pictured in 2009. A search and rescue team is combing the mountainous terrain around Seattle on foot and in helicopters to look for the missing son of Bob Arum.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)AP - Nearly two dozen mountaineers and park rangers are searching for the son of Hall of Fame boxing promoter Bob Arum, who's been missing since a weekend camping trip in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state.


2010-09-02 15:50

6 Ore. men settle Boy Scout sex abuse cases (AP)

Attorney Paul Mones makes remarks during a news conference Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, in Portland, Ore. Six men who alleged they were sexually abused by an Oregon Boy Scouts leader in the 1980s have settled their lawsuits against the group's national organization for undisclosed amounts, the plaintiffs' attorney said Wednesday. The settlements include the case of one man, Kerry Lewis, who was awarded nearly $20 million in damages from Boys Scouts of America in a trial that ended in April. It was believed to be the largest such award against the national organization. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - Six men who were sexually abused three decades ago by a leader of their Boy Scouts troop have settled lawsuits against the national organization dedicated to building character among youngsters.


2010-09-02 15:50

NY Muslim groups decry hostile atmosphere (AP)

Demonstrators hold up signs during a news conference on the step of New York's City Hall,  Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. More than 50 leaders of Muslim organizations in New York City are defending plans by developers to build an Islamic community center near ground zero. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - It is "unethical, insensitive and inhumane" to oppose the planned mosque near ground zero, more than 50 leading Muslim organizations said Wednesday as they cast the intense debate as a symptom of religious intolerance in America.


2010-09-02 15:50

Island evacuations start as Earl nears East Coast (AP)

Cars leaving Ocracoke on a ferry Island arrive in Hatteras, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. An evacuation of Ocracoke is underway as Hurricane Earl approaches the North Carolina Outer Banks. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Hurricane Earl steamed toward the Eastern Seaboard early Thursday as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the forecast, worried that even a slight shift in the storm's predicted offshore track could put millions of people in the most densely populated part of the country in harm's way.


2010-09-02 13:17

Police: SD teen wanted to be 'infamous sociopath' (AP)

This Aug. 31, 2010, photo provided by KSFY television shows Joseph Thomas Hansen being transported at the Roberts County Sheriff's office in Sisseton, SD. Authorities said in court documents filed Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, the 18-year-old high school student stockpiled bomb-making materials in his bedroom and wrote about wanting to blow up his school, target individuals he hated, rape women and become the world's most infamous sociopath. Authorities said Hansen was arrested Aug. 23 after someone tipped off a police school resource officer that Hansen had talked about an attack. He has pleaded not guilty to selling, transporting or possessing an explosive device and possessing substances with the intent to make a destructive device and remains jailed in lieu of $500,000 bond. (AP Photo/courtesy KSFY-TV) NO SALESAP - An 18-year-old high school student stockpiled bomb-making materials in his bedroom and wrote about wanting to blow up his school, target individuals he hated, rape women and "become the world's most infamous sociopath," authorities said.


2010-09-02 13:17

Co-owner of painting missing in NY ID'd as a thief (AP)

AP - First it was a curious tale of a $1.3 million painting a middleman said he drunkenly lost while trying to help a friend sell it.

2010-09-02 13:17

New Mexico National Guard deployed to border (AP)

AP - The New Mexico National Guard has deployed 82 troops along the border with Mexico to increase surveillance.

2010-09-02 10:50

French railway faces criticism in US for WWII role (AP)

AP - The French national railway's hope to bid on the first high-speed tracks in the United States is running into resistance from Holocaust survivors because of the company's role in transporting Jews to Nazi death camps.

2010-09-02 10:50

Blasts rock Pa. welding firm; 5 civilians injured (AP)

People watch smoke rise from a fire near Collingdale, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. The explosions at Scully Welding Supply in Collingdale happened around 1 p.m. in an industrial area about 7 miles southwest of Philadelphia, said Delaware County Emergency Services Director Ed Truitt. No injuries were immediately reported. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A series of explosions at a welding supply company on Wednesday injured 5 people, forced evacuations and sent thick black smoke billowing over the area.


2010-09-02 10:50

Some states haven't changed coke-crack disparity (AP)

James V. Taylor poses for a photo in his home Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, in Park Hills, Mo. Police found such a small amount of crack cocaine in Taylor's car that investigators described it as unweighable but it was enough for a 15-year prison sentence in Missouri, where the courts make an enormous distinction between crack and powder cocaine. Taylor is now out on parole after serving four years of the sentence. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - Police found such a small amount of crack cocaine in James V. Taylor's car that investigators described it as unweighable. It was enough for a 15-year prison sentence in Missouri, where the courts make an enormous distinction between crack and powder cocaine.


2010-09-02 05:50

Poll: Ariz. voters favor immigration enforcement (AP)

In this Thursday Aug. 5, 2010 photo showing volunteers with the humanitarian group No More Deaths heading out to fill water stations for illegal immigrants  near Arivaca, Ariz., about 13 miles north of Mexico. At 59 deaths, July was the second-deadliest months for border-crossers in Arizona. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)AP - A poll released Wednesday found that an overwhelming majority of Arizona voters support the types of provisions that are at the heart of a national debate involving the state's immigration law.


2010-09-02 05:50

John Walker Lindh seeks Ind. prison prayer ruling (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2002, file photo John Walker Lindh is seen in a photo released by the Alexandria County Sheriff's Department in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2002. The American Civil Liberties Union last Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis on behalf of Lindh, an American-born Taliban fighter to order a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., where they are being held, to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell block to pray as a group, in accordance with their beliefs. (AP Photo/Alexandria County Sheriff's Department)AP - American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another Muslim inmate have asked a judge to order a federal prison to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell block to pray as a group, in accordance with their beliefs.


2010-09-02 05:50

US forces still in fight at end of combat mission (AP)

A policeman stands guard at a checkpoint in Baghdad September 1, 2010, a day after the U.S. military formally ended combat operations in Iraq.   REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ)AP - Even as President Barack Obama was announcing the end of combat in Iraq, American soldiers were sealing off a northern village early Wednesday as their Iraqi partners raided houses and arrested dozens of suspected insurgents.


2010-09-02 03:16

Troops, families glad to hear end to Iraq combat (AP)

Steve Baskis, 24, who lost his sight as an U.S. Army specialist serving in Iraq, rubs his eyes as he listens to President Barack Obama's address to the nation on the end of combat operations in Iraq, at his Glen Ellyn, Ill., home, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - As President Obama spoke, Violeta Sifuentes snuggled with her 6-year-old twins on the suede sofa — Samuel beside her, Selena sprawled across her legs. When the 29-year-old Army captain explained what the president meant by combat operations in Iraq being over, "Nina" let out a loud, "Woo-hoo!" then asked, "Can we go play now?"


2010-09-02 03:16

NYC man plunges 39 stories, lands on car, survives (AP)

AP - A New York City man who plunged 39 stories from the roof of an apartment building has survived after crashing onto a parked car.

2010-09-02 03:16

Botox maker to pay $600M to resolve investigation (AP)

AP - Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug.

2010-09-02 00:49

AP IMPACT: Feds fail to use land for solar power (AP)

An electric tower and power lines cross the proposed site of a BrightSource Energy solar plant near Primm, Nev. on July 14, 2010. The presence of existing towers make the area a prime site for solar development. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)AP - Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground.


2010-09-02 00:49

Calif. rejects ban on plastic shopping bags (AP)

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, Linda Leu carries a single-use plastic carryout bag in downtown Sacramento, Calif. The state Senate is expected to vote on a measure, Tuesday,  that if approved by lawmakers and signed by the Governor, would make California the first state to ban single-use plastic carryout bags, .(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - California lawmakers have rejected a bill seeking to ban plastic shopping bags after a contentious debate over whether the state was going too far in trying to regulate personal choice.


2010-09-02 00:49

Sen. Murkowski's defeat marks major tea party win (AP)

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, gives her concession speech on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, at Murkowski's campaign headquarters in Anchorage, Alaska. Murkowski trailed Miller by 1,668 votes after the Aug. 24 primary. Election officials began counting absentee and outstanding ballots Tuesday, and Murkowski made slight gains. But after more than 15,000 ballots were counted, she remained 1,630 votes behind. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)AP - Backed by the Tea Party Express and Sarah Palin, a little-known conservative lawyer from Alaska became the latest newcomer to the national political stage to take down an incumbent in 2010.


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