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Ohio couple hit by car, then have their car stolen (AP)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

AP - An Ohio man said it was a “wild” day when he and his wife were struck by a car while crossing a street and then had their own car stolen while they were in the hospital. Gregory Moses got a knee busted up when he and his wife were hit as they walked [...]

AP NewsBreak: Nuke agency says Iran can make bomb (AP)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

AP - Iran experts at the U.N nuclear monitoring agency believe Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and worked on developing a missile system that can carry an atomic warhead, according to a confidential report seen by The Associated Press.

Ill. woman dies after catching fire during surgery (AP)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

AP - A southern Illinois woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing dilemma in operating rooms. Janice McCall, 65, of Energy, Ill., died Sept. 8 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., six days after being burned on the operating table at Heartland Regional [...]

Coldest place in the solar system? Right nearby (AP)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

AP - Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system and it may be a little close for comfort. It’s on our moon, right nearby.

Feds fight for key evidence against Bonds (AP)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

AP - Federal prosecutors urged a federal appellate court to reverse a trial judge and let them present critical evidence they say shows Barry Bonds knowingly used steroids.

Obama junks Bush’s European missile defense plan (AP)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

AP - President Barack Obama abruptly canceled a long-planned missile shield for Eastern Europe on Thursday, replacing a Bush-era project that was bitterly opposed by Russia with a plan he contended would better defend against a growing threat of Iranian missiles.

House votes to deny all federal funds for ACORN (AP)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

AP - The House voted Thursday to deny all federal funds for ACORN in a GOP-led strike against the scandal-tainted community organizing group that comes just three days after the Senate took similar action. “ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that taxpayer dollars would no longer be used [...]

Dems unhappy with proposed tax in health care bill (AP)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

AP - Unhappy Senate Democrats on Thursday found plenty to complain about in the fine print of the latest health overhaul bill, particularly a tax provision they fear would hit hard at middle-class Americans, from coal miners in West Virginia to firefighters in New York.

Lab tech charged with Yale grad student’s murder (AP)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

AP - As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began to emerge Thursday of an unpleasant stickler for the rules who often clashed with researchers and considered the mice cages his personal fiefdom.

Pelosi worried about angry health care rhetoric (AP)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the anti-government rhetoric over President Barack Obama’s health care reform effort is troubling because it reminds her of the violent debate over gay rights that roiled San Francisco in the 1970s.