Testimony: Girl’s alleged abductor had rape desire (AP)

AP - The man accused of abducting and sexually abusing Jaycee Lee Dugard testified during a previous kidnapping and rape case that he prowled through residential neighborhoods as a Peeping Tom and had strong rape desires.

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Deadly wildfire surges closer to Los Angeles (AP)

AP - A deadly wildfire destroyed more than four dozen homes as it blackened a wide swath of tinder-dry Southern California forest, forced thousands of residents to flee and burned dangerously close Monday to a vital mountaintop broadcasting complex.

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Frantic Ga. 911 caller: ‘My whole family is dead!’ (AP)

AP - Guy Heinze Jr. arrived home from a night out to find a gruesome scene — seven people dead, a cousin with Down syndrome clinging to life and another critically injured.

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Sen. Grassley: No public option in health reform (AP)

AP - Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley said Monday he remains hopeful a limited health care reform measure can be negotiated, but that a small bipartisan group of senators working on the issue agrees a government-run public option won’t be part of the package.

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Police find bone fragment near CA suspect’s home (AP)

AP - Police said Monday they found one small bone fragment on the property next door to the home of a Northern California man charged with kidnapping a little girl and hiding her in his backyard for 18 years.

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Wildfire makes menacing advance near Los Angeles (AP)

AP - A deadly wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of tinder-dry forest around Los Angeles made another menacing advance Monday, surging toward thousands of suburban homes and a vital mountaintop broadcasting complex while trapping five people inside a smoky canyon.

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Gates: Report details highs, lows of Afghan fight (AP)

AP - The United States and NATO need a new strategy to defeat the Taliban, the top commander in Afghanistan said Monday as he delivered a classified assessment that is widely seen as the groundwork for a fresh request to add more American forces next year.

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Another Senator Kennedy in Massachusetts? (AP)

AP - Another Kennedy just might occupy the Kennedy seat in the Senate.

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AP IMPACT: Tainted cocaine kills 3, sickens dozens (AP)

AP - Nearly a third of all cocaine seized in the United States is laced with a dangerous veterinary medicine — a livestock de-worming drug that might enhance cocaine’s effects but has been blamed in at least three deaths and scores of serious illnesses.

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Turkey, Armenia agree to establish diplomatic ties (AP)

AP - Turkey and Armenia agreed Monday to establish diplomat relations, overcoming a seemingly intractable rift that dates to the early 20th century and was marked by massacres of Armenians under Ottoman rule.

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