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Mass. woman's 1 cent debt paid in full (AP)
November 20, 2008AP - A 74-year-old blind woman's 1 cent debt to a Massachusetts city has been settled. People from across the country called Attleboro City Hall on Tuesday offering to pay the 1 cent balance owed by Eileen Wilbur for an overdue water and sewer bill.
Indian navy sinks suspected pirate "mother" ship (AP)
November 20, 2008
AP - The ship, operating off the coast of Oman in the lawless waters of the Gulf of Aden, was crewed by heavily armed men, some carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Behind it were a pair of speedboats the sort pirates often use when they launch attacks on merchant ships in these violent seas.
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet (AP)
November 20, 2008
AP - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies.
Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas (AP)
November 20, 2008
AP - A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center.
NC undercover officers use Taser on pallbearer (AP)
November 20, 2008AP - Five sheriff's deputies will be disciplined after they used a Taser while serving an arrest warrant on a man at his father's funeral, a North Carolina sheriff said Wednesday.
Finger-pointing begins as Senate nixes auto vote (AP)
November 20, 2008
AP - A Democratic Congress, unwilling or unable to approve a $25 billion bailout for Detroit's Big Three, appears ready to punt the automakers' fate to a lame-duck Republican president.
Calif. Supreme Court to take up gay marriage ban (AP)
November 20, 2008
AP - California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules.
Rapper gets 20 years after writing shooting song (AP)
November 20, 2008AP - He shot a man twice and felt so good about it, police said, a rapper wrote a song describing the shooting and calling out the victim by name. A judge sentenced 25-year-old Rico Todriquez Wright Monday to spend the next 20 years in prison after his victim mentioned the hip hop confession to police.
Dad accused of killing daughter while cleaning gun (AP)
November 20, 2008AP - A father arrested after his 6-year-old daughter was fatally shot in their Washington state home allegedly told authorities he had been drinking double shots of vodka while cleaning his guns.
Taylor Swift Aces Archuleta, Trumps Twilight (E! Online)
November 20, 2008
E! Online - Taylor Swift is doing mighty fine without Joe Jonas, thank you very much.
