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    Killings put counselors on alert about money woes (AP)

    This photo released Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008, by the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows Karthik Rajaram. The 45-year-old unemployed financial manager, despondent over extreme money problems, was found dead Monday with a gun in his hand said authorities. He had shot and killed his wife, three children, mother-in-law and then himself at home in a gated community in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Porter Ranch in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/California Department of Motor Vehicles)AP - Mental health counselors were on the alert Tuesday for calls from people depressed or possibly suicidal about money woes, after an unemployed financial manager killed five family members and himself.


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    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:07:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    2nd rock slide reported in Yosemite National Park (AP)
    AP - A second rock slide in two days struck cabins and knocked down trees Wednesday in Yosemite National Park, witnesses said. Officials did not immediately confirm any injuries but a man reported helping a boy with a bloody forehead. -- read full article
    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:10:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Sheriff in Ill. county won't evict in foreclosures (AP)
    AP - Residents of foreclosed properties in Chicago and other parts of Cook County don't have to worry about deputies forcing them out. Sheriff Tom Dart says that starting Thursday his office won't take part in evictions. -- read full article
    Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:19:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Police: Pa. teen plotted to bomb sleeping family (AP)
    AP - A suburban Pittsburgh teenager is accused of trying to kill his sleeping family by placing homemade chlorine bombs in their beds. -- read full article
    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:50:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Prosecutors move to delay Rezko sentencing (AP)

    In this Wednesday, June 4, 2008 file photo, Antoin 'Tony' Rezko returns to the Federal Courthouse where a jury found him guilty on 16 counts of a 24-count indictment in his corruption trail  in Chicago. Federal prosecutors moved Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 to delay indefinitely the sentencing of convicted fundraiser Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, sending their strongest hint yet that he is ready to spill his political secrets. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Federal prosecutors moved Monday to delay indefinitely the sentencing of convicted fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, sending their strongest hint yet that he is ready to spill his political secrets.


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    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:14:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Slain girl's mom testifies at husband's trial (AP)
    AP - The mother of a 3-year-old girl whose headless body was unidentified for nearly four years testified Tuesday that she watched her then-boyfriend kick her daughter in the head and helped him dump her body. -- read full article
    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:59:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NYC takes calorie-counting campaign to the rails (AP)

    This image provided by the New York City Health Department shows one of the ads being posted in the city's subways to advise that most adults should limit themselves to 2,000 calories day. The posters that appeared Monday, Oct. 6, 2008,  part of the city's healthy-eating campaign, provide calorie counts for several menu items, including this one that lists 1,170 calories for a chicken burrito with toppings. (AP Photo/New York City Health Department)AP - Craving a burrito with sour cream and guacamole? What if you knew it had more than half the calories you should eat in a day?


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    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:14:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Mind training helps troops with combat, then PTSD (AP)

    U.S. Marine Corps Corporal Pete Jarzabek, left, and Sargeant Ryan Barnett meditate during Warrior Mind Training class at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. The course is catching on in military circles as a way not only to treat both post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries, but also to improve focus and better prepare soldiers and Marines for the rigors of combat. (AP Photo/Logan Wallace)AP - The explosion of practice mortars sent Army Spc. Kade Williams into panic attacks, and nightmares plagued his sleep. The ravages of post-traumatic stress had left the veteran of the war in Afghanistan vulnerable, and he was desperate for help.


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    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:58:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Bus driver in fatal California crash investigated (AP)

    A close view fo the front end of the charter bus that overturned, Sunday, is seen in a wrecking yard near Williams, Calif., Monday, Oct. 6, 2008.  Eight people were killed and dozens were injured when the charter bus overturned on a rural road late on it's way to an American Indian casino.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Quintin Watts had a lengthy criminal record, a history of substance abuse and a string of motor vehicle offenses. Even his mother says he wasn't a good driver.


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    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:41:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    6 die in family murder-suicide in Los Angeles (AP)

    Los Angeles Police officers stand in front of the home where six  bodies were found at a gated community in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles on Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. An unemployed accounting industry worker who was despondent over financial problems shot and killed his wife, three children, mother-in-law and then himself in an upscale home in a gated community, police said Monday. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - The only hints of trouble in the big beige house on Como Lane were the newspapers in the driveway and the lack of any activity behind the front door.


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    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:06:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Lehman sought millions for execs while seeking aid (AP)

    Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Richard S. Fuld Jr., wearing tie, is heckled by protesters as he leaves Capitol Hill in Washington after testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The now-bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers arranged millions in bonuses for fired executives as it pleaded for a federal lifeline, lawmakers learned Monday, as Congress began investigating what went so wrong on Wall Street to prompt a $700 billion government bailout.


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    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:13:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Ex-hostage held by accused court gunman testifies (AP)

    Detention officer Dexter Jenkins looks over the evidence of Brian Nichols' shoes  at the Atlanta Municipal Court Building, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008.  Nichols, 36, is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity.  Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Nichols, who is accused of killing a judge, court reporter and sheriff's deputy at the Fulton County Courthouse, and a federal agent later that day.(AP Photo/John Spink ,Pool)AP - The woman credited with helping bring about the surrender of accused courthouse gunman Brian Nichols recounted at his murder trial Monday how she appealed to his religious beliefs during hours in captivity before persuading him to set her free.


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    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:07:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Nobels awarded for AIDS, cancer virus research (AP)

    German cancer researcher Harald zur Hausen stands in his laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering the AIDS virus and the role of viruses in cervical cancer. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)AP - Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention in showing a viral cause for cervical cancer shared the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for breakthroughs that have led to lifesaving drugs and a vaccine.


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    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:07:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Hundreds gather to watch ND bridge demolition (AP)
    AP - Pigeons scattered and several hundred people watched Monday when a 450-foot section of a historic Missouri River bridge was blown up to make way for a new span. -- read full article
    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:35:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Frank says GOP housing attacks racially motivated (AP)
    AP - Rep. Barney Frank said Monday that Republican criticism of Democrats over the nation's housing crisis is a veiled attack on the poor that's racially motivated. -- read full article
    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:49:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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