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NY hedge fund swindler’s girlfriend pleads guilty

Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:01 p.m.

The girlfriend of a former hedge fund manager convicted of swindling clients out of millions of dollars pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping him flee before he was supposed to start serving a 20-year prison sentence.

Sri Lanka: 16 patients killed in shelling of makeshift hospital

Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10 p.m.

At least 16 patients being treated at a makeshift hospital in the northern Sri Lankan war zone were killed by shelling, the Red Cross said Tuesday, as the military accused rebel fighters of killing 19 other civilians fleeing the area.

GM cuts 10,000 jobs, trims employees' pay

Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 11:30 a.m.

General Motors Corp. is planning to slash another 10,000 salaried jobs this year, saying the cuts are unavoidable.

Man sentenced to life in Tenn. church shooting

Monday, Feb. 9,2009 11:32 p.m.

An out-of-work truck driver smiled Monday as he pleaded guilty to killing two people and wounding six others at a Tennessee church last summer because he hated its liberal politics.

Argentine seminary ousts Holocaust-denying bishop

Monday, Feb. 9,2009 11:31 p.m.

The traditionalist bishop whose rehabilitation by the Vatican sparked outrage because of his denials of the Holocaust has been removed as the head of an Argentine seminary, his superiors said Monday.

Death toll from Australian wildfire reaches 100

Monday, Feb. 9,2009 11:29 p.m.

Police say the death toll from wildfires in Australia has risen to at least 108, making it the country’s worst fire disaster.

Trial begins for Miss. mayor

Monday, Feb. 9,2009 11:28 p.m.

The mayor of Mississippi’s largest city led a “rampage of destruction” when he directed a group of young men to use sticks and sledgehammers to destroy a duplex he considered a crack house, a prosecutor said Monday.

Recession sending more students to community colleges

Sunday, Feb. 8,2009 10:34 p.m.

College freshman Elizabeth Hebert’s choice of a four-year school suddenly got too expensive. George Haseltine already has a business degree, but he concluded after several layoffs that he needed more training to get work.

Hostage killing video appears

Sunday, Feb. 8,2009 10:33 p.m.

A graphic video delivered to The Associated Press on Sunday appeared to show the execution of a Polish engineer by Pakistani militants who had held him captive for more than four months.

At least 108 dead in Australia fire

Sunday, Feb. 8,2009 10:32 p.m.

Police say the death toll from wildfires in Australia has risen to at least 108, making it the country’s worst fire disaster.

Fla. woman in scam gets more prison time

Thursday, Feb. 5,2009 8:30 p.m.

A Florida woman accused of abusing 11 disabled children she adopted – while pocketing more than $1 million in subsidies – has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Sinking Missouri River threatens levees, bridges

Thursday, Feb. 5,2009 8:29 p.m.

The Missouri River is sinking.

Russia says it wants to help US in Afghanistan

Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 10:22 p.m.

President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia and its ex-Soviet allies wanted to cooperate with the United States on stabilizing Afghanistan, but he appeared to link any help to changes in Western policy.

FBI searches home of man linked to drug deaths

Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 10:21 p.m.

Federal agents on Wednesday searched the home of a man linked to the fatal 1982 Tylenol poisonings in the Chicago area that triggered a nationwide scare and prompted dramatic changes in the way food and medical products are packaged.

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., after signing into law the State Children's Health Insurance Program, Wednesday in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

President Obama signs kids' health insurance bill

Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 10:19 p.m.

President Obama signed a bill Wednesday extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children, a much-needed win a day after he lost his nominee to lead his drive for sweeping health care reform.

Police officers released pigeons while holding pictures of fellow officers kidnapped by rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Wednesday during a military ceremony in Sibate, Colombia.

Injured man dies after rejection by 14 hospitals

Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 10:17 p.m.

After getting struck by a motorcycle, an elderly Japanese man with head injuries waited in an ambulance as paramedics phoned 14 hospitals, each refusing to treat him.

NM man arrested in suspicious powder mailings

Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:46 p.m.

A 47-year-old New Mexico man has been arrested on charges alleging he mailed threatening letters containing suspicious powder to banks and federal offices around the country, federal officials announced Tuesday.

Howard faces 1 year probation

Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:45 p.m.

A former supervisor in the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service, which regulates oil and gas operations on leased federal property, was sentenced by a federal judge on Tuesday to one year probation and fines totaling $3,000.

Iraq: Woman arrested after recruiting female bombers

Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:44 p.m.

A woman suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has been arrested, the Iraqi military said Tuesday, dealing a major blow to one of the most effective forms of attacks in Iraq.

Seamen trained against pirates

Monday, Feb. 2,2009 11:01 p.m.

With an alarming number of tankers and cargo ships getting hijacked on the high seas, the nation’s maritime academies are offering more training to merchant seamen in how to fend off attacks from pirates armed not with cutlasses and flintlocks but with automatic weapons and grenade launchers.

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