Judge overturns Calif. gay marriage ban (AP)

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• Judge overturns Calif. gay marriage ban (AP)
• Looking for the oil? NOAA says it's mostly gone (AP)
• Crush of mud finally plugs BP's well in the Gulf (AP)
• Girlfriend: Conn. gunman 'dazed' before rampage (AP)
• Attorneys make opening statements in Smith trial (AP)
• Closing arguments made in Ark. bombing trial (AP)
• NM gov meets with lawman Pat Garrett's descendants (AP)
• Chicago man accused of plotting to aid al-Qaida (AP)
• 2 die in barn collapses at Ohio's biggest egg farm (AP)
• Group sues to stop mosque near NYC's ground zero (AP)
• Jury weighs decision in Pitino extortion case (AP)
• Young office says he's cleared in DOJ probe (AP)
• From row crops to roadways, heat wave takes toll (AP)
• Giuliani daughter arrested at NYC cosmetics store (AP)
• US official: Poor nations must learn to grow food (AP)
• In DC, no such thing as too poor for medical pot (AP)
• On Time cover, Afghan woman symbolizes war stakes (AP)
• Historic markers sought for Katrina levee breaches (AP)
• 1 dead in small plane crash by N. Phoenix airport (AP)

Judge overturns Calif. gay marriage ban (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 06:05 PM PDT AP - A federal judge overturned California's gay-marriage ban Wednesday in a landmark case that could eventually force the U.S. Supreme Court to confront the question of whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to wed.

Looking for the oil? NOAA says it's mostly gone (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 05:09 PM PDT AP - With a startling report that some researchers call more spin than science, the government said Wednesday that the mess made by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is mostly gone already.

Crush of mud finally plugs BP's well in the Gulf (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 06:10 PM PDT AP - In the end, it was a crush of mud that finally plugged the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, three months after the offshore drilling rig explosion that unleashed a gusher of oil and a summer of misery along the Gulf Coast.

Girlfriend: Conn. gunman 'dazed' before rampage (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 06:04 PM PDT AP - As Omar Thornton prepared to head off to work at a beer distributorship Tuesday morning, his girlfriend sensed something was wrong.

Attorneys make opening statements in Smith trial (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 06:05 PM PDT AP - Two doctors violated their responsibility to protect Anna Nicole Smith by prescribing massive amounts of drugs with the connivance of her lawyer-boyfriend, even though they knew she was addicted to painkillers, a prosecutor argued Wednesday.

Closing arguments made in Ark. bombing trial (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 06:25 PM PDT AP - A doctor sanctioned by the state medical board for over-prescribing painkillers who also collected military-grade weaponry exacted revenge on the board chairman by orchestrating a bombing that nearly killed him, prosecutors said Wednesday during their closing arguments in the doctor's trial.

NM gov meets with lawman Pat Garrett's descendants (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 04:49 PM PDT AP - Descendants of Old West lawman Pat Garrett didn't get everything they wanted from Gov. Bill Richardson after personally pleading with him Wednesday not to grant a posthumous pardon to the outlaw Billy the Kid, who was killed by Garrett nearly 130 years ago in New Mexico.

Chicago man accused of plotting to aid al-Qaida (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 04:55 PM PDT AP - A 26-year-old Chicago man who claimed to be inspired by a radical Muslim cleric was charged after the FBI uncovered his plot to go to Somalia to become a suicide bomber for al-Qaida and another terror group, federal prosecutors alleged in court documents unsealed Wednesday.

2 die in barn collapses at Ohio's biggest egg farm (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 06:43 PM PDT AP - Winds reaching 70 mph knocked over three barns being renovated Wednesday at the state's largest egg farm, killing two workers, authorities said.

Group sues to stop mosque near NYC's ground zero (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 06:32 PM PDT AP - The debate over a planned Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero became a court fight Wednesday, as a conservative advocacy group sued to try to stop a project that has become a fulcrum for balancing religious freedom and the legacy of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Jury weighs decision in Pitino extortion case (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:44 PM PDT AP - A jury deliberated for nearly two hours Wednesday but went home without reaching a decision in the case of a Kentucky woman accused of demanding millions from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino to keep quiet about their sexual tryst.

Young office says he's cleared in DOJ probe (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 06:42 PM PDT AP - Federal prosecutors have decided not to pursue an investigation of U.S. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, over connections to an Alaska businessman convicted of bribing state lawmakers.

From row crops to roadways, heat wave takes toll (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - Temperatures topped 100 degrees in much of the nation again Wednesday, elevating the risk of health problems and wildfires — and in Arkansas, prompting a warning that it's too hot to skin hogs.

Giuliani daughter arrested at NYC cosmetics store (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 04:48 PM PDT AP - Rudy Giuliani's daughter was arrested Wednesday on a misdemeanor shoplifting charge at a beauty supplies store after she was seen on security video pocketing makeup, police said.

US official: Poor nations must learn to grow food (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 03:26 PM PDT AP - Governments and aid organizations must help the world's hungry develop sustainable agriculture systems so that they can feed themselves, a top U.S. agriculture official told those attending an international food conference Wednesday.

In DC, no such thing as too poor for medical pot (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:16 PM PDT AP - No one should be too poor to buy pot if they live in Washington, at least if the marijuana is for a medical condition. That's the conclusion of a new medical marijuana law enacted in the nation's capital.

On Time cover, Afghan woman symbolizes war stakes (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 12:19 AM PDT AP - The face on the cover of Time magazine is graceful, composed and unthinkably maimed. The heart-shaped hole where 18-year-old Aisha's nose should be is a mark of Taliban justice — a visceral illustration, the headline suggests, of "what happens if we leave Afghanistan."

Historic markers sought for Katrina levee breaches (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 02:24 PM PDT AP - A New Orleans group is seeking federal recognition for two of the spots where levee breaches during Hurricane Katrina unleashed catastrophic flooding that tossed houses from their foundations and killed hundreds of people.

1 dead in small plane crash by N. Phoenix airport (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2010 09:24 AM PDT AP - A small plane sputtered and crashed into a building near a north Phoenix airport Wednesday, killing the pilot and sending huge clouds of smoke into the early morning sky.

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