PHILADELPHIA — A union deadline for a transit strike that could disrupt bus and subway services during the World Series games in Philadelphia was moved to Saturday evening, just hours before the start of Game 3. (source: Seattle Post Intelligencer) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com

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Philly transit talks to continue Saturday (source: Seattle Post Intelligencer)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Unable to move beyond his ultra-liberal image and far behind his rival in fundraising, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom dropped his bid to become governor, leaving former governor Jerry Brown as the only Democrat in the race to succee..

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NEW YORK — Regulators have shut California National Bank of Los Angeles and eight smaller related banks as the weak economy continues to produce a stream of loan defaults. (source: Seattle Post Intelligencer) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

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DALLAS — A Muslim doctor interviewing for a job at a suburban Dallas medical clinic says officials there told her she couldn’t wear her headscarf in the workplace. (source: Seattle Post Intelligencer) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

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WASHINGTON — Many states set achievement standards so low that they can say their students are reading and doing math at their grade level when they haven’t truly mastered the subjects, the Education Department asserted Thursday. (source: Seattle Post Intelligencer) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

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Report: States set low bar for student achievement (source: Seattle Post Intelligencer)

DETROIT — Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested several members of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S., killing one of its leaders at a shootout in a Michigan warehouse, the U.S. attorney’s office said. (source: Seattle Post Intelligencer) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

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HACKENSACK, N.J. — A man accused of running up and down a flight of stairs to kill a former son-in-law is offering a novel defense: At 5 feet 8 and 285 pounds, he was just too fat to have pulled it off. (source: Seattle Post Intelligencer) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

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Too fat to kill? Fla. man uses weight as a defense (source: Seattle Post Intelligencer)

WASHINGTON — The two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles are grounded indefinitely unless the National Transportation Safety Board grants them a reprieve. (source: Seattle Post Intelligencer) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

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Defense attorneys for an al-Qaida sleeper agent plan to argue at his sentencing this week that his five years spent locked up without charge was enough punishment and he should be immediately released. (source: Seattle Post Intelligencer) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

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LOS ANGELES — Testimony is scheduled to resume Wednesday in the hearing to determine whether Anna Nicole Smith’s doctors and boyfriend should stand trial on charges they illegally funneled drugs to the Playboy model.

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