Death toll in massive Calif. blaze likely to rise (AP)
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:54:09 GMT
AP - Fire crews tried to douse the remnants of an enormous blaze and account for the residents of dozens of homes Friday after a gas line ruptured and an explosion ripped through in a neighborhood near San Francisco, killing at least four people and likely more.

9/11 politicized by mosque, Quran controversies (AP)
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:50:44 GMT
AP - In the past, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked by somber reflection and a call to unity, devoid of politics. No more.

Calif judge to stop 'don't ask, don't tell' policy (AP)
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:34:36 GMT
AP - A federal judge said she will issue an order to halt the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, after she declared the ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional.

Train engineer's arm amputated after derailment (AP)
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:18:20 GMT
AP - A Southern California surgical team on Friday amputated the arm of a freight train engineer to free him from the wreckage of a locomotive that rear-ended a slow moving freighter on tracks 50 miles east of Los Angeles.

Colo. fire evacuees cautiously allowed back home (AP)
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:59:52 GMT
AP - Fire crews held a wildfire outside of Boulder at bay Friday, allowing some 2,000 evacuees to return home with a warning to be prepared to flee again.

Wash. executes man convicted of woman's murder (AP)
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:43:17 GMT
AP - Convicted killer Cal Coburn Brown was executed early Friday by lethal injection for the rape, torture and murder of a Seattle-area woman, after delivering a statement complaining he was treated unfairly by the legal system.

Pa. mosque opens peacefully near synagogue, church (AP)
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:45:48 GMT
AP - A new mosque recently opened in this well-to-do suburb of Philadelphia, but not many people noticed.

Report: US must deal with homegrown terror problem (AP)
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:49:06 GMT
AP - The U.S. was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a new report compiled by the former heads of the Sept. 11 Commission.

Iran's president intervened in American's release (AP)
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:21:04 GMT
AP - Iran's president intervened to secure the release of Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans jailed for more than 13 months, in part because of her gender, a news agency reported Friday.

Calm prevails in LA neighborhood after protests (AP)
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:39:50 GMT
AP - After three nights of violent protests, calm mainly prevailed over a gritty neighborhood where police fatally shot an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who was menacing officers with a knife.