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    • AP Top News at 5:39 a.m. EST 8 min ago

      WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama has moved with unusual speed to select officials for his administration, and senior Democratic officials say he intends to name Timothy Geithner as his treasury secretary as soon as Monday. It was not clear when Obama intended to formally unveil any of...

    • Abduction brought tougher sex offender laws 47 min ago

      The five years since the abduction and murder of a University of North Dakota student have brought tougher laws against sex offenders. Top state and federal prosecutors say it's not enough.

    • Year later, baby ordered back to adoptive parents 49 min ago

      The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday ordered a year-old boy back into the home of an adoptive couple who had to give him up months ago after not telling the biological family the woman was pregnant.

    • Astronauts face hardest spacewalk to finish repair 1 hr ago

      Astronauts up on the international space station faced the longest and hardest spacewalk of their mission Saturday, a seven-hour-plus excursion to wrap up repair work on a gummed-up joint.

    • Fla. teen commits suicide with live Web audience 1 hr ago

      A college student committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam as some computer users egged him on, others tried to talk him out of it, and another messaged OMG in horror when it became clear it was no joke. Some watchers contacted the Web site to notify police, but by the...

    • Musical at Iowa college acts out scary Bible tales 1 hr ago

      Don't expect to hear these Bible stories at church.
      Cannibalism, rape, a bear that mauls children - this is the Bible?
      They're among six stories from the Old Testament acted out in "Terror Texts," a musical at Northwestern College in Orange City.

    • Albuquerque student helps bring books to Ethiopia 2 hrs ago

      When Yohannes Gebregeorgis talks about books, it becomes clear that what he values is their power to convey new ideas to readers, who he hopes one day will bring about social change in his native country of Ethiopia.

    • Army wife accused in arson that killed her 2 kids 2 hrs ago

      An Army wife accused of setting her apartment on fire botched an attempt to collect on her husband's $400,000 insurance policy when he survived and her two children died instead, a federal prosecutor said.

    • NY, Fla. art dealer accused of selling forgeries 4 hrs ago

      A prominent New York and Miami art dealer was arrested Friday on charges of selling forged paintings bearing the names of famous artists including Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Tom Wesselmann.

    • Suspect arrested for greasy imprints in Neb. town 4 hrs ago

      Police have arrested a man suspected of leaving greasy, graphic imprints on the windows of stores, churches and schools in a small Nebraska town. A 35-year-old man was caught in the act by police early Wednesday morning, Cherry County Attorney Eric Scott said Friday. The man hasn't been charged...

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