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  • : Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains crash - AP Top U.S. News At 1:45 p.m. EDT
    FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren't even more injuries....
  • : OJ's ex-lawyer contradicts his testimony on guns - AP Top U.S. News At 1:45 p.m. EDT
    LAS VEGAS (AP) -- O.J. Simpson's former lawyer defended himself point-by-point Friday against allegations he botched the former football star's armed-robbery trial, after giving damaging testimony that Simpson actually knew his buddies had guns when they went to a hotel room together to reclaim some sports memorabilia....
  • : Pa. coffee run leads to hatchet hitchhiker arrest - AP Top U.S. News At 1:45 p.m. EDT
    ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) -- Two cups of coffee ended life on the run for an Internet sensation known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker....
  • : Will Boy Scouts accept gay youth? Vote is imminent - AP Top U.S. News At 1:45 p.m. EDT
    With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units....
  • : Majority of number combos picked for Powerball pot - AP Top U.S. News At 1:45 p.m. EDT
    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- It's all about the odds....
  • : FBI executes search warrant in ricin letter case - AP Top U.S. News At 1:45 p.m. EDT
    SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are executing a search warrant Saturday in the case of two letters containing the deadly poison ricin that were intercepted this week at a post office in Washington state....
  • : Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply - AP Top U.S. News At 1:45 p.m. EDT
    CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals....
  • : Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs - AP Top U.S. News At 1:45 p.m. EDT
    O'BRIEN, Ore. (AP) -- Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out....