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Most popular news on 21 September 2009 |
'Mad Men,' '30 Rock' take top series Emmys
AP - "Mad Men" and "30 Rock" led a pack of Emmy winners who successfully defended their titles at Sunday's show, but the snappy ceremony and a star turn by host Neil Patrick Harris made the evening far from a rerun.
Palin emerges as Facebook phenom
Politico - Since resigning her post as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has essentially gone dark, making almost no public appearances and successfully avoiding the media outlets that are clamoring to talk to her.
Sheriff: WA escapee duped friend into helping him
AP - Authorities say an insane killer who was recaptured Sunday in south-central Washington after slipping away from the staff of a mental institution on a field trip tricked a friend into helping him elude capture.
Obama: Health insurance mandate no tax increase
AP - President Barack Obama says requiring people to get health insurance and fining them if they don't would not amount to a backhanded tax increase.
Black Hawk crash kills U.S. service member in Iraq
AP - A Black Hawk helicopter crashed at a major American air base in Iraq, killing one U.S. service member and injuring 12 others, the military said Sunday.
Pregnant Heidi Klum turns heads at Emmy red carpet
AP - The firefighters working the red carpet at the 61st annual Emmy Awards were worried that at least one reality TV star might be going home Sunday with more than just a trophy.
Woman uses $20 bill printed in 1934 in UPS Store
AP - What a Dickinson business manager thought was a worthless counterfeit $20 bill turned out to be worth more than even face value. A woman who came into the UPS Store paid with a $20 bill that had been printed in 1934. Store manager Nancy Kostelecky said the bill is in pristine condition.
Cutler, Gould lead Bears over Steelers, 17-14
AP - Jay Cutler withstood the pressure early on and finally lived up to his lofty billing in the end.
Eerie Cloud Created by NASA Rocket Experiment
SPACE.com - An eerie
cloud that glowed briefly in the night sky Saturday was no UFO. It was created
by humans - more specifically a NASA rocket built to make clouds that shine at
night.
FBI: Notes on bomb-making in Zazi's handwriting
AP - Investigators said they found notes describing how to make bombs in the handwriting of an airport shuttle driver arrested as part of a terrorism investigation, and they also discovered his fingerprints on materials — batteries and a scale — that could be used to make explosives.
St. Louis coffee spill costs campus $200,000
AP - St. Louis is perking up with jokes about the $200,000 cup of coffee. But officials at a college and its insurance company aren't laughing.
Captured Pakistan Taliban commander dies in jail
AP - A feared Taliban commander known for beheading opponents died in custody Sunday from wounds sustained during a fierce firefight with Pakistani security forces last week, the military said.
Obama favors investigation into ACORN scandal
AP - President Barack Obama says there should be an investigation into the hidden-camera video involving employees at the activist group ACORN and a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp.
The view from inside the Emmy Awards
AP - Here's what one writer was seeing from his vantage point inside and outside the Nokia Theatre at the Emmy Awards.
Housekeeping chief arrested in NYC hotel killing
AP - A housekeeping manager at a luxury hotel next to Central Park has been arrested in the death of a woman who was found in a room strangled with a knife sticking from her neck, police said on Sunday.
Obama wants G20 to rethink global economy
Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would push world leaders this week for a reshaping of the global economy in response to the deepest financial crisis in decades.
Actors Kanye-cracking at the 61st Emmys
AP - Heard at the 61th annual Primetime Emmy Awards:
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