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US smoking rate still stuck at 1 in 5 adults (AP)
September 8, 2010AP - U.S. smoking rates continue to hold steady, at about one in five adults lighting up regularly, frustrated health officials reported Tuesday.
Pharmacy heists are up amid popularity of Rx drugs (AP)
September 8, 2010
AP - Less than a couple months after Nick Curtin opened a pharmacy in suburban Tulsa in 2008, the store was burglarized twice in one week. And just last year a masked man robbed him at gunpoint, making off with 1,800 pills.
Court: Judges can demand warrant for cell locales (AP)
September 8, 2010AP - Judges have the right to require warrants before police get cell phone records that could suggest a customer's likely location, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a novel electronic privacy case.
2 asteroids to whiz harmlessly past Earth (AP)
September 8, 2010AP - NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope.
Feds: Army base gunman threatened to kill Obama (AP)
September 8, 2010AP - A former soldier accused of demanding mental treatment as he took hostages at gunpoint at a Georgia Army hospital later told investigators he planned to kill President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed Tuesday.
Hermine gives south Texas another tropical lashing (AP)
September 8, 2010
AP - Tropical Storm Hermine gave a wet and windy punch to Texas on Tuesday before weakening into a tropical depression, leaving only minor scrapes in the storm-weary Rio Grande Valley, which is proving resilient this hurricane season after taking a third tropical system on the chin.
Kansas man charged with murdering burned teen (AP)
September 8, 2010
AP - A 36-year-old factory worker who spent much of his adult life in prison was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting and murdering a 14-year-old girl whose badly burned body was found behind gravel piles at the asphalt plant where he worked.
Non-word `refudiate' gets most online searches (AP)
September 8, 2010
AP - Merriam-Webster's "Word of the Summer" is not even a word. That's something no one can "refudiate."
Flight attendant in passenger tiff to be evaluated (AP)
September 8, 2010
AP - The flight attendant accused of onboard antics that captured the nation's attention when he told off a passenger and slid down the plane's emergency chute with a beer will undergo a mental health evaluation with the aim of avoiding jail time in a possible plea deal.
Microbes are eating BP oil without using up oxygen (AP)
September 8, 2010
AP - Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive.
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