Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:16:10 GMT
Judge orders renegotiation of 9/11 settlement
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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:57:53 GMT
AP - A federal judge on Friday rejected a legal settlement that would have given at least $575 million to people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal shortchanged 10,000 ground zero workers whom he called heroes.
Member of Texas polygamist sect sentenced 75 years
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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:56:34 GMTAP - The latest member of a polygamist group whose sprawling West Texas ranch was raided in 2008 has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for sexual assault of a child.
Medical examiner: Boy found on Wash. beach drowned
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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:55:51 GMTAP - A day after a boy's body was found on an island beach in Puget Sound, authorities searched unsuccessfully for his missing mother.
Landscapers see green as weary East greets spring
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:44:46 GMT
AP - Gardeners and landscapers along the Eastern seaboard are making haste — and money — as spring begins and they pick up the pieces from the region's particularly harsh winter, which toppled more than snowfall records.
Ore. lawsuit claims Boy Scouts sex abuse coverup
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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:16:10 GMT
AP - The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years.
Cops seek more victims through killer's old photos
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:09:10 GMT
AP - Police have been overwhelmed since they released more than 100 photos found in a serial killer's storage locker, more than 30-year-old pictures of unidentified girls and women in bell bottoms, bikinis and Farrah Fawcett hair.
American released from Myanmar returns to US soil
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:48:54 GMT
AP - A pro-democracy activist jailed for months in Myanmar after trying to visit his sick mother in prison arrived home in the United States on Friday, capping weeks of discussions between the ruling military junta and the U.S. State Department.
URS settles with Minn. for $5M in bridge collapse
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:00:54 GMTAP - Contractor URS Corp. and the state of Minnesota reached a $5 million settlement Friday in the state's lawsuit over the 2007 downtown Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145 others.
Evidence found rotting in closed police department
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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:03:53 GMTAP - A suburban police department left behind a roomful of evidence when it closed two years ago — including a moldy sexual assault kit that authorities said linked a man to the 2006 rape of a 13-year-old girl, nearly 200 guns and hundreds of bags of narcotics, officials said Friday.
Court: Anna Nicole Smith gets none of oil fortune
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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:54:14 GMT
AP - The elderly Texas billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith in the last year of his life never intended to leave the former stripper any portion of his vast fortune, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Chief: SD Police followed rules in AF sgt's outing
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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:51:24 GMT
AP - The Rapid City, S.D., police chief said in a report released Friday that he regrets his department's outing of a lesbian Air Force sergeant led to her military discharge, but that his officers followed department protocol.
7th anniversary of Iraq War passes, little noticed
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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:53:11 GMT
AP - It was a day like any other day — except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And, for the most part, that was forgotten.
Texas gov. gives copy of pardon to man's family
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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:30:11 GMT
AP - The family of a Texas man who died while imprisoned for a rape he didn't commit cried and hugged at his graveside Friday with a framed copy of the state's first posthumous pardon — a document that finally proves his innocence.
APNewsBreak: Calif boosts sex offender tracking
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:02:00 GMTAP - California parole officials said Friday they have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after recent high-profile lapses, most notably in the case of a young woman who was held captive for 18 years by a convicted rapist.
Calif. police dodge bullet in booby trap attacks
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:28:39 GMT
AP - Police officers in this retirement town in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill them.
NYC cops sorry for pounding couple's door 50 times
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:38:51 GMT
AP - Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized Friday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered elderly Brooklyn couple in the past eight years.
Health care overhaul fight exposes Catholic rift
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:33:48 GMTAP - An unusual public split between U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, nuns and hospitals over abortion in the health care overhaul could undermine the church hierarchy's influence on the debate and give anti-abortion Democrats the political cover they need to vote for the bill.
Fla. mom to get funds to pay for murder defense
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:34:10 GMTAP - A judge ruled Friday that Casey Anthony is indigent and can use public money to help pay for her defense against charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter.
Many tools but no guarantees in forecasting floods
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:35:42 GMT
AP - A year ago, weather forecasters changed their estimate late in the game of just how high the Red River would rise, stoking an 11th-hour sandbagging flurry in Fargo that proved unnecessary in the end because the new prediction was wrong.
