AP 2010-10-17（在线收听）

1. After 69 days underground, it's been a smooth ride to the surface for miners trapped in a Chilean mine. They've been lifted to the surface in a slender cage from nearly a half mile underground, one at a time, in a process that's expected to continue through much of the night.

2. Officers and a police dog are searching for a missing ten-year-old North Carolina girl on a wooded lot among piles of mulch shredded by a wood chipper. Zahra Clare Baker's stepmom was also in court Wednesday, charged with writing a fake ransom note.

3. The governor of Texas says the beheading of a Mexican investigator was meant to intimidate. The man was looking into the reported shooting death of an American by a Mexican drug cartel while he was on a lake bordering the two countries.

4. Paraplegic Amanda Boxtel was among those testing a bionic exoskeleton, known as eLegs, eighteen years after she was paralyzed in a skiing accident. Boxtel's experimental legs could one day help others who've lost the ability to stand or walk