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Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:25:01 GMT
AP - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist.
Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:30:05 GMT
AP - Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school football stadium Saturday to honor a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave, allegedly killed by a registered sex offender.
Obama promise: Focus on getting kids to college
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:37:39 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.
Sen. Reid's wife leaves hospital's intensive care
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:50:39 GMT
AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate highway near Washington.
Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:42:24 GMT
AP - Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager.
Native Hawaiian government may become reality
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:31:41 GMT
AP - Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii.
Judge faces election after unpopular decision
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:25:54 GMT
AP - The judge didn't believe the father was a threat and denied the mother's plea to keep him away from their 9-month-old son. It was a seemingly routine ruling in a busy family law court called on too often to referee passionate fights between broken young families over the care of babies.
US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:27:02 GMT
AP - A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.
Jewish retiree creates stir defending Pope Pius
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:04:30 GMT
AP - In the long and painful debate over whether he should have done more to halt the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II, Pope Pius XII has an unusual defender.
Daylight-saving time: It's back
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:18:20 GMT
AP - America is springing forward.
Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:07:53 GMT
AP - Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks.
Analysis: NY politics goes from drama to tragedy
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:40:04 GMT
AP - New York politics, which has consumed more than a dozen elected officials or top staffers in the past two years, has become a kind of bizarre "Survivor" show. And although careers have been ruined and some face prison sentences, none of them lost their jobs by actually being voted off this island.
Many WTC responders show early signs of heart woes
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:20:02 GMT
AP - Law enforcement officers who worked near ground zero after the World Trade Center attacks seem to show early signs of heart problems at a higher rate than would be expected for their age, a new study suggests.
Runaway Prius case presents nagging questions
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:43:11 GMT
AP - Investigators are confronted with a series of nagging questions as they try to unravel the case of a California real estate agent who said his Toyota Prius turned into a runaway death trap after the gas pedal became stuck.
NYC: Taxi drivers overcharged riders by $8.3M-plus
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:42:53 GMT
AP - Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday.
Authorities: Haim's name on illegal prescription
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:23:31 GMT
AP - The name of the late actor Corey Haim was found on a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said Friday was obtained through a major drug ring.
New Florida case thwarts Calif. molester's release
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:47:47 GMT
AP - The feared release of a convicted child molester from a California prison was thwarted Friday by 11th-hour federal charges involving child porn and a woman's allegations that he bought her as a child in Asia and subjected her to years of sexual abuse while molesting her young friends.
Ohio man found guilty in teens' slayings
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:29:41 GMT
AP - An Ohio registered sex offender, whose attorneys had told jurors he admitted to killing two teenage girls, has been found guilty of the slayings.
Pa. man charged with badly beating woman at NY bar
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:01:50 GMT
AP - A construction worker from Pennsylvania was charged Friday with brutally beating and attempting to rape a woman in a restroom at a New York City bar after she rejected his advances.
Al-Qaida suspect from NJ worked at 6 nuke plants
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:09:40 GMT
AP - An American seized in Yemen in a sweep of suspected al-Qaida members had been a laborer at six U.S. nuclear power plants, and authorities are investigating whether he had access to sensitive information or materials that would be useful to terrorists.
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