Tough year for wife of man detained as spy in Cuba (AP)

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• Tough year for wife of man detained as spy in Cuba (AP)
• Mom asks Calif jury to free her from medical watch (AP)
• Conn. home invasion defendant: Death a 'relief' (AP)
• Astronomy Hysteria: Is NASA's Thursday Announcement About Life on Other Planets? (Time.com)
• The Death Penalty: Former Justice Stevens Joins the Debate (Time.com)
• Gallery vows ongoing protest against Smithsonian (AP)
• Roadside shootout led to Montana trooper's death (AP)
• FLDS leader Jeffs faces unbeaten Texas prosecutors (AP)
• Russian accused of mass-spamming charged in Wis. (AP)
• Judge: Chicago locks can stay open over Asian carp (AP)
• Man sought in LA publicist's death kills himself (AP)
• Stranded drivers endure hours on snowy NY highway (AP)
• Anchorage barber keeps on clipping after crash (AP)
• Dad's video key evidence in boy's gun show death (AP)
• Google admits trespassing in Pa., pays couple $1 (AP)
• NY indictment: 2 charged in gay attack are victims (AP)
• Prosecutors: Woman says judge detailed racial bias (AP)
• Botched execution survivor stays on Ohio death row (AP)
• Disney town rocked by first homicide (AP)

Tough year for wife of man detained as spy in Cuba (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 03:36 PM PST AP - In the year her American husband has been detained in Cuba, accused of spying for the U.S., Judy Gross has been forced to sell the family home in Maryland and move into a small apartment in Washington. Her younger daughter, distraught and crying as her father's birthday approached, crashed and totaled her car. Her older daughter has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Mom asks Calif jury to free her from medical watch (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:00 PM PST AP - A former hairdresser who claims postpartum psychosis caused her to run over her baby son in 1987 described on Thursday her descent into insanity to a jury that has the power to release her from court-ordered mental supervision.

Conn. home invasion defendant: Death a 'relief' (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:52 PM PST AP - A Connecticut man sentenced to death Thursday in the killings of a woman and her two daughters said his execution will be "a welcome relief," while the only survivor of the gruesome home invasion told a judge he had struggled with suicidal thoughts, nightmares and flashbacks.

Astronomy Hysteria: Is NASA's Thursday Announcement About Life on Other Planets? (Time.com) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:50 PM PST Time.com - Science bloggers are going a bit nuts over the vague announcement by NASA that it will discuss an "astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life."

The Death Penalty: Former Justice Stevens Joins the Debate (Time.com) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:50 PM PST Time.com - As retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens frames the question, it isn't whether you believe in a death penalty -- it's whether you believe in the deeply flawed one the U.S. is using

Gallery vows ongoing protest against Smithsonian (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:29 PM PST AP - A Washington art gallery pledged a round-the-clock protest Thursday against what it calls censorship by the Smithsonian Institution for removing a video that shows ants crawling on a crucifix after the Catholic League and members of Congress complained it was sacrilegious.

Roadside shootout led to Montana trooper's death (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 05:40 PM PST AP - Moments before he was gunned down in a shootout, a young Montana Highway Patrol officer came upon a running pickup truck that was parked in the middle of a rural road, authorities said Thursday.

FLDS leader Jeffs faces unbeaten Texas prosecutors (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 03:36 PM PST AP - Extradited to Texas two years after being indicted, polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs will be facing Texas prosecutors who haven't lost a criminal case against his followers since the 2008 raid of his Yearning for Zion ranch.

Russian accused of mass-spamming charged in Wis. (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 04:54 PM PST AP - A 23-year-old Russian man accused of running a worldwide spamming network, which Internet-security experts say on some days accounted for one of every three unwanted e-mails, is scheduled to appear in a Wisconsin courtroom to hear charges against him.

Judge: Chicago locks can stay open over Asian carp (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 05:12 PM PST AP - A federal judge Thursday turned down a plea from five states to order the immediate closure of shipping locks on Chicago-area waterways to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes, where scientists fear they could disrupt the food chain and starve out other fish.

Man sought in LA publicist's death kills himself (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 07:05 PM PST AP - There is no glitz or glamour at the Harvey Apartments. Just questions.

Stranded drivers endure hours on snowy NY highway (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 03:56 PM PST AP - Hundreds of cold and hungry motorists spent hours Thursday stranded on a western New York highway after an accident caused a backup and the idling trucks and cars got stuck in heavy snow.

Anchorage barber keeps on clipping after crash (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 04:23 PM PST AP - Talk about a close shave. An SUV crashed into an Anchorage barber shop, narrowly missing shop owner Heng Song and his two customers.

Dad's video key evidence in boy's gun show death (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 02:59 PM PST AP - As a former Massachusetts police chief heads to trial on manslaughter charges in the accidental shooting death of an 8-year-old boy at a gun fair, prosecutors and defense attorneys are wrangling over a horrific piece of evidence: a videotape of the shooting taken by the boy's father.

Google admits trespassing in Pa., pays couple $1 (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:04 PM PST AP - Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of a Pittsburgh-area house for its Street View service, but will pay only $1 in damages to a couple who sued.

NY indictment: 2 charged in gay attack are victims (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:49 AM PST AP - Members of a street gang who attacked a gay man and a recruit because they believed the two had a sexual encounter also turned on two of their own during the rampage, according to newly released court documents that say a pair of teens initially charged in the case were actually victims.

Prosecutors: Woman says judge detailed racial bias (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 03:26 PM PST AP - Federal prosecutors says a federal judge already convicted of drug possession may have shown racial bias when sentencing defendants earlier this year.

Botched execution survivor stays on Ohio death row (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 12:55 PM PST AP - The only inmate in modern history to survive an execution attempt must stay on death row, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a decision that leaves the man's fate up to the federal courts.

Disney town rocked by first homicide (AP) Posted: 02 Dec 2010 08:54 AM PST AP - Celebration, Disney's master-planned, picture-perfect central Florida community, has never reported a homicide in its 14-year existence â€" until this week.

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