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- GOP asserts new strength, targets Obama programs
- Ohio inmate gave away pancakes, wins early release
- Lawyer: Dugard told 'tale of terror' to grand jury
- Judge questions suit over CA city's big salaries
- Murkowski acts like victor but questions linger
- Man declared dead in 1994 wanted for kidnapping
- Judge has tough call in Calif transit killing case
- US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,260
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- Ohio woman died in fire after relatives slain
- Sexism remains a problem for women seeking office
- Bachmann bid for GOP leadership gets cool reaction
- Rezko to challenge 'honest services' convictions
- East Texas woman oldest person on record at 114
- Rutgers suicide case poses test for NJ privacy law
- Judge sets deadlines in polar bear listing case
- Ohio man pleads not guilty in 2 factory slayings
- Military wants to fly more sophisticated drones
- Feds: Ohio jail's stun-gun use is unconstitutional
- Gunman barricades himself in Fla. hospital
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:50 PM PDT Victorious at the polls, congressional Republicans asserted their newfound political strength on Thursday, vowing to seek a quick $100 billion in federal spending cuts and force repeated votes on the repeal of President Barack Obama's prized health care overhaul.            |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:31 PM PDT An Ohio judge has granted early release to an inmate who was fired from a jail's kitchen for handing out too many pancakes -- earning himself the nickname Mr. Pancake.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 05:21 PM PDT A lawyer for a California woman charged with her husband with holding Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years said allowing the "tale of terror" told by Dugard to a grand jury to become public before a trial would make it impossible to find an impartial jury.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 04:20 PM PDT A judge questioned Thursday whether outgoing state Attorney General Jerry Brown has the legal authority to sue eight current and former officials of the scandal-plagued city of Bell over their huge salaries, saying the issue might be better resolved in criminal court.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PDT Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is acting as though she already has pulled off an improbable victory after her write-in candidacy, enthusiastically thanking supporters and telling them they've made history.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 03:50 PM PDT A man declared dead 16 years ago but who authorities say is alive is charged with kidnapping a 12-year-old Nevada girl whose remains were found in Louisiana, officials said Thursday.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 03:30 PM PDT Superior Court Judge Robert Perry has a tough decision to make when he sentences a white former transit officer convicted in the videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 03:10 PM PDT As of Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, at least 1,260 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.   |
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Posted: 04 Nov 2010 03:01 PM PDT A coroner in Ohio is confirming that a victim of a fire over the weekend is a relative of three people who were shot and killed a day earlier.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 02:34 PM PDT Even with many high-profile female candidates, the just-ended campaign was rife with sexism ranging from snarky fashion critiques to sexual innuendo. And when all the ballots are counted, women may hold fewer seats in the new Congress than the outgoing one.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 02:31 PM PDT Self-proclaimed tea party leader Michele Bachmann's bid for a top Republican post in the House received a cool reaction Thursday from Speaker-to-be John Boehner, an early test of how GOP leaders will treat the antiestablishment movement's winners in Tuesday's elections.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 01:40 PM PDT A one-time fundraiser for impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich plans to challenge his convictions related to a law that has since been curtailed by the U.S. Supreme Court.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 01:31 PM PDT A 114-year-old East Texas woman could now be the oldest person in the world. The Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group and London-based Guinness Records say Eunice G. Sanborn of Jacksonville has gained that distinction since the Thursday death of 114-year-old nun Eugenie Blanchard. Blanchard died on the French Caribbean island of St. Barts.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 01:25 PM PDT The case of a Rutgers University student who committed suicide after a roommate allegedly used a webcam to spy on his tryst with another man could pose the first legal test of a state privacy law passed in 2003.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 01:21 PM PDT A federal court judge is giving the Interior Department until Dec. 23 to explain why polar bears are listed as a "threatened" species instead of the more-protective "endangered."   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 01:10 PM PDT An Ohio man has pleaded not guilty in the shooting deaths of two Cleveland factory workers last month.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 12:30 PM PDT A senior Air Force leaders says the military aims to develop more-sophisticated, high-tech drones that can collect intelligence in increasingly dangerous combat airspace.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 12:30 PM PDT Jailers in a central Ohio county regularly use stun guns to "soften up" inmates who pose no threat and often use the guns on inmates who are disabled, pregnant or under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the Justice Department said in a federal complaint.   |
Posted: 04 Nov 2010 12:30 PM PDT A gunman has barricaded himself inside a hospital in Florida. Police spokeswoman Yvonne Martinez says the gunman fired shots at Palm Bay Hospital in Brevard County, about an hour east of Orlando, and then barricaded himself in a room Thursday afternoon.   |
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