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Judge to hear plan to pay $657M to WTC responders
NEW YORK (AP) -- A settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center goes before a judge Friday, and he has said he favored a settlement but planned to analyze it carefully to make sure it was fair....
Friend: Suspected US al-Qaida member grew radical
BUENA, N.J. (AP) -- Sharif Mobley had strong Muslim views as early as high school. But his old friend Roman Castro knew he had radicalized when he saw him about four years ago....
NYC police pursue video leads in bar beating
NEW YORK (AP) -- Security video has attracted some tips, but none so far have led police to the stranger who followed a woman into a bar restroom, savagely beating her and perhaps trying to sexually assault her after she rejected his advances....
Experts say US doctors overtesting, overtreating
CHICAGO (AP) -- Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans - maybe even President Barack Obama - are being overtreated....
Lesbian teen sues to force school to hold prom
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled....
John Gardner AP Report
The convicted sex offender charged with murdering Chelsea King, and suspected of killing Amber Dubois could have been sent back to prison years ago. AP Writer Don Thompson, who broke the story, talks with KNX
John Gardner: Missed Opportunity
Laura Ahern head off "Parents for Megan's Law" and "The Crime Victims Center" tells KNX she's angry California Parole Agents missed an opportunity to put sex offender John Gardner back in prison in 2007.
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Bishop: Pope dismayed at clerical abuse scandal
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Germany's top bishop briefed Pope Benedict XVI on the spiraling cases of clerical sex abuse in the pontiff's native Germany on Friday and said the pope encouraged him to pursue the truth and assist the victims....
US retail sales give world stocks another lift
LONDON AP) (AP) -- European and U.S. stock markets rose Friday after better than expected figures on both sides of the Atlantic helped ease concerns about the pace of economic recovery....
Iraqi PM starts laying groundwork for new govt
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Iraqi prime minister's bloc said Friday it has started laying the groundwork to form a coalition government, signaling growing confidence after preliminary election results showed it winning in at least three provinces in the southern Shiite heartland....
Mandela's ex-wife denies interview in UK paper
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Nelson Mandela's ex-wife denied Friday that she had given an interview to a British newspaper in which she was quoted sharply criticizing the anti-apartheid icon....
Suicide bombs kill 43, wound 100 in Pakistani city
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 43 people in this eastern city and wounding about 100, police said. It was the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week, indicating Islamist militants are stepping up violence after a period of relative calm....
Chinese zoo blamed for death of 11 Siberian tigers
BEIJING (AP) -- Eleven rare Siberian tigers, starving and kept in small cages, have died at a cash-strapped zoo in China, heightening concerns about conditions at wildlife facilities in the country, where activists say profiteering off the carcasses of endangered species sometimes drives over-breeding....
Kenya elephant deaths soar as ivory sales debated
TSAVO EAST NATIONAL PARK, Kenya (AP) -- Tracking the wounded elephant to its death bed was easy for the ranger. Hit by a poison arrow, the huge mammal could only drag its hind leg, creating a wide gash across the bush....
Pinera govt projects $30 billion in quake damage
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Calling on Chileans to dry their tears and get to work to rebuild the nation, Sebastian Pinera is already setting an example....
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