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Moderate quake strikes San Bernardino

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- An earthquake has struck Southern California, with shaking felt from San Bernardino to Los Angeles 55 miles to the west and south to Orange County. [Full Story]

Catholics targeted by NY man in $17M Ponzi scheme

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- An 82-year-old businessman was charged Thursday with running a Ponzi scheme that took in at least $17 million from a clientele gleaned largely through ads in Catholic newspapers.
Missing Kan. boy was once briefly in state custody

WICHITA, Kan. -- A boy whose disappearance went unreported for 10 years was once taken away from his adoptive parents, then returned days later, Kansas' social services agency said Thursday.
OJ co-defendant who got probation jailed in Vegas

LAS VEGAS -- A former O.J. Simpson co-defendant who was given probation after testifying against the fallen football star has been jailed and could be sent to state prison for failing a drug test, his lawyer said Thursday.
Mumbai attacks seen as model for future terrorism

WASHINGTON -- The deadly attacks in India may have provided a low-frills but bloody blueprint for other violent groups to follow, U.S. anti-terrorism officials told Congress on Thursday.
Sheriff says remains likely missing SC nurse

UNION, S.C. -- A sheriff said Thursday afternoon he is "99.9 percent sure" human remains found in a wooded area in northern South Carolina are a missing nurse.
Cops: NY man sprinkled nails on driveways of foes

STONY POINT, N.Y. -- Police in upstate New York say a man has been sprinkling roofing nails on the driveways of people he didn't like to cause flat tires for two years.
Search abandoned for NJ baby's body, lost in trash

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Police who searched dumps in three states for the remains of a baby thrown out in a Jersey City hospital's trash gave up Thursday, saying they had little chance of success.
NASA: Keeping shuttle costs $3 billion yearly

WASHINGTON -- The cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year's planned retirement is $3 billion a year plus extending the risk of a deadly accident, NASA's chief said Thursday.
Northwest flooding closes roads, stalls commerce

CENTRALIA, Wash. -- Floods, mudslides and avalanches in the Pacific Northwest kept tens of thousands of people from their homes Thursday, brought freight trains to a standstill and stranded hundreds of trucks along the major highways that link Seattle's busy ports with markets around the country.