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Federal judge indicted on additional sex charges
HOUSTON -- U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent, the first federal jurist indicted on sex crimes, is now facing more serious charges. (Updated 2:06 a.m. PT)
Mass. to mull higher penalties for ethics lapses
BOSTON -- Gov. Deval Patrick is backing sweeping changes to Massachusetts' ethics laws, including dramatically increasing prison time for bribery and giving the attorney general wiretapping authority in corruption probes. (Updated 1:56 a.m. PT)
Increase of sick brown pelicans baffles experts
LOS ANGELES -- Wildlife experts are trying to figure out why sick, disoriented and bruised California brown pelicans are being found in record numbers along more than 1,000 miles of coastline. (Updated 1:35 a.m. PT)
Boy's 1999 disappearance raises questions, regrets
WICHITA, Kan. -- No one claims to know what happened that summer in 1999 when 11-year-old Adam Herrman disappeared from the mobile home park where he lived with his adoptive parents. (Updated 1:30 a.m. PT)
2 men, teen charged in gang rape of Calif. lesbian
MARTINEZ, Calif. -- Two men and a teenager were charged Tuesday in the alleged gang rape of a lesbian in the San Francisco Bay area. (Updated 1:29 a.m. PT)
Conservation groups threaten suit over oil shale
DENVER -- Environmental groups are threatening to sue the federal government to block plans for commercial oil shale development on nearly 2 million acres of public land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. (Updated 1:20 a.m. PT)
What slump? Fort Riley booming with construction
FORT RILEY, Kan. -- While the national economy was slumping last year, business at Fort Riley was booming. (Updated 12:43 a.m. PT)
 | TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2009 |
- Gov. Schwarzenegger rejects latest budget proposal
- Boyfriend in Texas family ambush sentenced to life
- Obituaries in the news
- Hawaii man pleads not guilty in deadly dam break
- Engineer: Tenn. ash spill warning signs ignored
- State unemployment claim systems overwhelmed
- NY adopts clean air rules, stricter than EPA's
- Fla. congressman asks Pelosi for football break
- Busy Gupta performs brain surgery, reports for CNN
- Ex-eBay CEO largely unknown amid Calif. gov.'s bid
- AP Exclusive: Calendar shows key Ill. gov meetings
- Prosecutor: Ex-Calif. sheriff cheated to get job
- Obama plays food critic on Chicago public TV
- LA water cops hunt wasteful faucets, sprinklers
- Lawyer: Train engineer regularly used cell phone
- Ala. policeman feared missing arrested in Vegas
- Ore. woman wakes up wounded by bullet through wall
- Police: Ex-Utah trooper's gun killed Texas driver
- Bush adviser: Iran, Pakistan key Obama challenges
- Former Okla. sheriff on trial in jail sex case
- Gridiron grandeur: SEC makes its case for No. 1
- Death of Travolta's son raises medical questions
- Police arrest parishioners at New Orleans church
- Blagojevich race card lands softly in Senate fight
- Gov't: Official billed $1.2M for no WTC tower work
- 2 men indicted in currency scam that bilked 700
- Man charged in Ohio mom's death, son's kidnapping
- Cross-dressing doctor who killed wife found hanged
- Ex-refugee now 1st Vietnamese-American congressman
- ACLU sues NC school system over recruiting access
- Gridiron grandeur: SEC makes its case for No. 1
- Young Ariz. murder suspect's statement off-limits
- Kids being left on school buses not unique to NYC
- Plans for Trans-Texas Corridor scrapped by state
- Ex-Detroit mayoral aide gets 120-day jail sentence
- 6-year-old takes family car after missing bus
- Baby's corpse thrown out with NJ hospital's trash
- NRC proposes $65K over napping nuke plant guards
- Obama's Kenyan stepgrandmother to attend ball
- Recalls
- Philadelphia judge suspended over bogus order
- Amish sue over upstate NY town's building rules
- Feds plan to charge Seattle man for Iraq death
- Man charged in Halloween killing pleads not guilty
- Ill. workers who staged sit-in take further action
- Correction: Rainbow Room story
- Another hearing sought in missing pants case
- Travolta family returns to US with son's remains
- New York City's New Year's Eve ball to rise again
- Ill. impeachment panel may end without FBI tapes
- Clues sought in deadly Texas shelter blaze
- Judge OKs legal settlement for Mo. gov.'s e-mails
- New archbishop of Detroit prays for 'hope'
- Suspect shot dead after high-speed chase in Ill.
- Iowa lawmakers to focus on recovery from floods
- Kempthorne touts Interior reforms in final speech
- NJ high court hearing case on witness intimidation
| MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2009 |
- Police: Angry Ohio boy, 4, shoots baby sitter
- Alaska trooper says politics slowed drug arrest
- Prop. 8 backers blast Calif. Attorney General
- Kaine says he'll limit time spent as party leader
- Judge reinstates Islamic group's wiretapping suit
- Timber company drops road deal with Forest Service
- Lung Association's Northwest chapter is deflated
- US appeals court: Detainee IDs can be secret
- Phone exec says Pa. senator listed $50M in demands
- Kids alone for days, parents dead in locked room
- Records reveal anguish of anthrax suspect's wife
- Fabulous fib is named Wis. club's top lie of 2008
- US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 559
- Illinois' No. 2 sees need to 'fumigate' politics
- Police in Wash. state find baby's remains in trash
- 7 hospitals in NY accused of $50M Medicaid fraud
- NM gov. backed down over pay-to-play probe
- Ohio man admits to plotting wife's strangling
- Fewer reporters died in 2008; Iraq still deadliest
- Manslaughter charges filed in NYC crane collapse
- Former policeman, teen arrested after Ga. standoff
- Companies aim to dismiss part of Minn. bridge suit
- Mother, 4 young sons among 8 dead in NY house fire
- Ex-SC trooper caught kicking suspect pleads guilty
- Ex-Boeing worker gets 10 months for copter damage
- Foundation won't disclose Bush library donors
- Ill. mother wins suit over son's prison killing
- 11 Eastern states agree to low carbon standard
- Ill. woman charged with voter registration fraud
- Burris says he's ready to take US Senate seat
- AP source: Former eBay CEO considers political run
- Some US cities eliminate criminal-history question
- Group sues to force EPA to clean up Chesapeake Bay
- Kennedy, Clinton eulogize Sen. Claiborne Pell
- Coleman dealt another setback as recount nears end
- 'Junior' Gotti seeks bail in NY racketeering case
- Calif. court sides with US church over property
- NY teen gets 18 years for killing man on Halloween
- Carter Attorney General Griffin B. Bell dies at 90
- Michigan man, killer at 11, sentenced in drug case
- Correction: Cancer Docs story
- Unruly passenger delays Moscow-Atlanta flight
- 8 dead, 1 hurt after chopper crashes in La. marsh
- Texas House speaker said to throw in the towel
- CSI Hunley: Fate of historic sub a cold case file
- More schools getting in tune with mariachi
- Vegas beer pong competition gets (almost) serious
| SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2009 |
- Black ministers support Burris in Chicago
- Frist decides against 2010 Tenn. gubernatorial bid
- La. father accused of killing son owed $4K
- Grandma, guardsman, girl: War's toll felt at home
- Critics say Newark barbed wire ban helps criminals
- Ill gov allies vanish as impeachment vote nears
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