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• AP News in Brief
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a show of unity, Senate Democrats sealed a 60-vote majority needed to advance health care legislation Saturday ahead of an evening showdown with Republicans eager to doom the bill and inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

• Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients
  5:16 p.m.
• 5 Long Beach students arrested in alleged groping
  5:01 p.m.
• Suspicious note and package found at Fort Benning
  3:46 p.m.
• A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US
  2:06 p.m.
• Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers
  1:36 p.m.
• NC man gets life in prison for woman's fatal scare
  12:41 p.m.
• Report finds wide disparities in gifted education
  12:06 p.m.
• AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony
  10:51 a.m.
• Postal Service to resume North Pole Santa letters
  9:36 a.m.
• Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman
  8:06 a.m.
• The nation's weather
  3:52 a.m.
• Robbery motive in deaths of 5 in rural Arkansas
  11/21/09
• Porn mogul's son to be tried in girlfriend's death
  11/21/09
• Calif. launches probe into scam targeting churches
  11/21/09
• Army relents, will allow media at Palin book event
  11/21/09
• Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken
  11/21/09
• UC students occupy buildings to protest fee hike
  11/21/09
• Car strikes crowd outside Ala. school, 1 killed
  11/21/09
• Car strikes crowd outside Ala. school, 1 killed
  11/20/09
• No appeal of dismissed conviction in MySpace case
  11/20/09
• Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman
  11/20/09
• Prosecutor: Alleged Maui spy is difficult but sane
  11/20/09
• Obituaries in the news
  11/20/09
• 3-year-old leads toddler to safety in Ariz. fire
  11/20/09 | Comments1
• Authorities: Man tied lizards to chest at airport
  11/20/09
• Arizona police arrest parents of rape victim
  11/20/09
• GOP report: Deal with Sacramento mayor was rushed
  11/20/09
• Levi Johnston's mother gets 3 years in drug case
  11/20/09
• Senator: USPS to resume North Pole Santa letters
  11/20/09
• US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 842
  11/20/09
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,364
  11/20/09
• 35 students rescued from burning bus on NYC bridge
  11/20/09
• Wyoming challenges Yellowstone snowmobile rules
  11/20/09
• 2 Pa. judges given partial immunity in civil suit
  11/20/09
• Plea deal reached in store scuffle case
  11/20/09
• CA man allegedly paid teens to spit in his face
  11/20/09 | Comments1
• Police: 3rd arrest made in Vegas officer's death
  11/20/09
• Man who claimed disability spotted on TV show
  11/20/09
• Teen pleads guilty in Border Patrol agent killing
  11/20/09
• Oregon court says teacher can't take gun to class
  11/20/09
• Atty seeks psych care for Mo. teen murder suspect
  11/20/09
• Former Marine charged in 'Cathouse' star's death
  11/20/09
• Indian boy mirrors plight of millions of kids
  11/20/09
• AP News in Brief
  11/20/09
• Fired therapist: Stressed Marines get shoddy care
  11/20/09
• Murder trial's move to LA setback for transit cop
  11/20/09
• Prosecutor: Alleged Maui spy is difficult but sane
  11/20/09
• Fate of black teacher in Mo. case rests with jury
  11/20/09
• UN committee targets Iran's rights violations
  11/20/09
• Sears Tower plot leader gets 13-year prison term
  11/20/09
• Pa. university students upset about fitness class
  11/20/09
• Planes ready to leave Brunswick, Maine Navy base
  11/20/09
• SC lawmakers to take up impeachment of governor
  11/20/09
• Lawyer: Ohio's legal injection a human experiment
  11/20/09
• Panel: Extending nuclear weapons life successful
  11/20/09
• Atty: Hospital hearing set for Fort Hood suspect
  11/20/09
• Giuliani back inspotlight - but what's the show?
  11/20/09
• Teenager pleads guilty to murdering Border Patrol agent shot 4 times in head in July
  11/20/09
• Diocese: Pedophile priests should get benefits
  11/20/09
• Wrongfully convicted NYC man freed after 17 years
  11/20/09
• Militia movement resurfaces across nation
  11/20/09
• NY man convicted in hot-car death of father, 85
  11/20/09
• Indy man convicted of killing 7 gets life sentence
  11/20/09
• FBI investigating use of stun gun on 10-year-old
  11/20/09
• Emergency landing on tundra as smooth as runway
  11/20/09
• Island's bison given birth control to control herd
  11/20/09
• NYC model who married doorman sues upscale co-op
  11/20/09
• Tiny Iowa town has the chargers, awaiting drivers
  11/20/09
• Arizona burglars steal box holding baby's ashes
  11/20/09
• NYC stamp auction raises $3.2 million for museum
  11/20/09
• AP IMPACT: Some lawmakers send few to academies
  11/20/09
• Small SC county reels from corruption scandal
  11/20/09
• Customs agents seize 316,000 bongs in LA
  11/20/09
• Couple charged in Phoenix airport luggage thefts
  11/20/09
• Woman who had nearly 370 animals gets probation
  11/20/09
• US House districts with fewest academy nominations
  11/20/09
• The nation's weather
  11/20/09
• San Francisco's health care a model during debate
  11/20/09
• Biologists save fish after landslide
  11/20/09
• Obituaries in the news
  11/20/09
• Leonardo da Vinci exhibit opens in Times Square
  11/20/09
• UN committee criticizes NKorea rights violations
  11/19/09
• NJ dad to testify before human rights panel
  11/19/09
• Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials
  11/19/09
• Plea deal reached in Pa. steel town arson case
  11/19/09
• Al-Qaida suspect promises NY trial boycott
  11/19/09
• Texas inmate executed after gov. rejects clemency
  11/19/09
• Judge: Freed ex-sailor can be retried in murder
  11/19/09
• NY ex-lawyer surrenders to serve prison term
  11/19/09
• Tenn. slayings suspect asked to hug daughter
  11/19/09
• Another Minn. man indicted in missing Somalis case
  11/19/09
• AP News in Brief
  11/19/09
• Redesigned airspace over Hudson debuts near NYC
  11/19/09
• Katrina ruling could bring new deluge of lawsuits
  11/19/09
• 3 teens plead not guilty in burning of Fla. boy
  11/19/09
• NY pastor gets probation in plastic surgery case
  11/19/09
• No rebuke for 'admonish,' 2009 Word of the Year
  11/19/09
• Request for new judge granted in Ariz. boy's case
  11/18/09
• Prison for garbage truck driver in deadly NY crash
  11/18/09