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Activist group posting 573,000 9/11 pager messages
An activist group has begun posting 573,000 pager messages purportedly sent on Sept. 11, 2001, from "Second World Trade Center tower collapses" to "I'm ok & love you..xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox."
Nov 25, 2009 | 10:40 pm
Paralyzed Ind. man confined to bed as men rob home
Police say a paralyzed Indiana man was unable to leave his bed as his house was being robbed after burglars put a T-shirt over his face.
Nov 25, 2009 | 10:35 pm
Ga. nurse anesthetist accused of abusing patients
A metro Atlanta nurse anesthetist has been charged with molesting and sodomizing anesthetized patients in dental and medical offices, and police say the videotaped abuses could involve 100 or more victims.
Nov 25, 2009 | 10:30 pm
Wind-driven California blaze mostly contained
Santa Ana winds fanned a fire across 80 acres of Southern California hills before firefighters reduced it Wednesday to a smoldering _ but still dangerous _ black scar.
Nov 25, 2009 | 10:10 pm
Neb. man gets 3 years for stealing SD fire truck
A Nebraska man who told a judge he fled with his wife and children into the South Dakota wilderness to avoid Nebraska authorities has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing a fire truck.
Nov 25, 2009 | 8:40 pm
Neb. drops theft charges against auto executives
Nebraska prosecutors have dismissed all charges against two car dealership executives accused of stealing more than 80 vehicles off their own lot.
Nov 25, 2009 | 8:30 pm
More remains found at home of missing Calif. teen
Investigators found more charred human remains at the home of one of two missing Southern California boys as a third teen turned up safe Wednesday.
Nov 25, 2009 | 8:20 pm
Fla. police searching for missing lottery winner
Authorities are asking for the public's help in finding a man, who won the Florida lottery in 2006, and has now gone missing. The Polk County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday said Abraham Shakespeare, 43, of Lakeland, was reported missing on Nov. 9.
Nov 25, 2009 | 7:55 pm
4 bodies found in suburban Chicago home
Police say they have found four bodies in a home near Chicago.
Nov 25, 2009 | 7:55 pm
NY couple charged with forcing woman into sex work
A young woman from Mexico was smuggled over the border and forced to work as a prostitute for years in Brooklyn, and the remains of an infant were found in concrete at the home where she was held prisoner, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Nov 25, 2009 | 6:20 pm
Search crew working to free man stuck in cave
Rescuers chipped away with air-powered tools in a narrow tunnel Wednesday to free a man trapped upside down about 150 feet below ground in a popular Utah cave.
Nov 25, 2009 | 6:05 pm
8 hurt after fight involving 100 at Ariz. prison
A fight broke out Wednesday among more than 100 inmates at an Arizona prison, injuring 7 inmates and a corrections officer, a corrections official said.
Nov 25, 2009 | 6:05 pm
JC Penney salesman accused of raping boy in store
Massachusetts prosecutors say a J.C. Penney children's department salesman sexually assaulted a boy in a dressing room when the boy's mother stepped away to make a phone call.
Nov 25, 2009 | 5:50 pm
New Jackie Kennedy dress on display at JFK Library
A deep pink silk dress worn by Jacqueline Kennedy for her second holiday season in the White House has gone on display at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
Nov 25, 2009 | 5:25 pm
AP News in Brief
AP IMPACT: Lobbyists, health care heavyweights visited White House early and often for revamp
Nov 25, 2009 | 5:10 pm
Okla. doctor charged in fatal stabbing of son
Prosecutors charged a physician Wednesday with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of his 9-year-old son in their upscale suburban Oklahoma City home.
Nov 25, 2009 | 5:10 pm
Execution can proceed under new Ohio standards
An inmate whose execution was put on hold as he argued that Ohio's method of lethal injection was unconstitutional can die as scheduled next month, now that the state has instituted a different method, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Nov 25, 2009 | 5:10 pm
Blast yields arsenal at ex-doctor's Ohio apartment
About 35 pipe bombs, an assortment of firearms, hundreds of rounds of ammunition were found in a former doctor's apartment following two loud explosions, police said Wednesday.
Nov 25, 2009 | 4:50 pm
Ore. train operator fired; ignored calls for help
Portland's mass transit agency has fired a light-rail train operator who ignored a father's calls for help after his 3-year-old son was left behind at a station last week.
Nov 25, 2009 | 4:35 pm
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