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Posted: 12 Nov 2010 06:41 PM PST Vote counts released Friday show a measure that would legalize medical marijuana in Arizona pulling ahead for the first time since Election Day.     |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2010 06:10 PM PST The U.S. attorney's office in Seattle says a Canadian man who ran online dating services -- but set up clients with fake "dates" -- has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for mail fraud.   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 06:00 PM PST A 37-year-old parolee was carrying a small, silver scale -- not a weapon -- when Oakland officers fatally shot him during a foot chase this week, police said Friday.   |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2010 06:00 PM PST The Obama administration is offering to add billions of dollars in funding for the U.S. nuclear stockpile in a deal that it hopes will win enough Republican support for approval of a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia.   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 05:31 PM PST Police say a 25-year-old Connecticut man who was shot twice after buying a sandwich at a New Haven deli went home and ate his lunch before going to the hospital. Miguel Soto said he was leaving the deli Tuesday when he heard three gunshots. One bullet hit him in the left leg, another in the groin. Police said he went ...   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 05:31 PM PST Police said it didn't take them long to locate an Idaho man suspected in the robbery of a Cedars Inn -- he was next door at The Alibi bar. Lewiston police said 40-year-old Donald Mosley Jr. was arrested less than 15 minutes after he walked into the hotel and demanded cash from the desk clerk late Wednesday.   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 04:21 PM PST The pilot who landed a jetliner safely on the Hudson River last year said Friday that proposed rules aimed at reducing pilot fatigue could end up leaving them more tired than before and endanger passengers' safety.   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:40 PM PST A retired auto parts businessman who graduated from New York's Cornell University is donating $11 million to help build a galaxy-gazing telescope center in Chile.   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:30 PM PST The key Senate Democrat who delayed health care reform last year while trying to get Republican buy-in is now facing the uncomfortable reality of his own prediction, leading him to weigh some bipartisan changes to his party's signature legislation.   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:10 PM PST Women grappling with the overwhelming pressure for perfection that can wreak havoc in their lives need to realize that the notion of "having it all" is largely a myth, women's movement icon Gloria Steinem told eating disorder clinicians at an annual meeting Friday.   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 02:51 PM PST New York City could see a double-digit increase in the murder rate by the end of the year.   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 02:50 PM PST Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered an investigation into the leak of details from a draft study about gays in the military.   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 02:05 PM PST When Mayor Richard Daley announced in September he wouldn't seek a seventh term, enough aldermen, congressmen and other public officials talked about running to field a couple of football teams.   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 02:01 PM PST A man who acknowledged stealing thousands of free copies of a Colorado resort town's two daily newspapers because his friend was named in police blotters has made a public apology. The Aspen Daily News and The Aspen Times both printed an apology letter Friday from 23-year-old Mitchell Reed of Carbondale, who agreed to write the apology to avoid criminal theft ...   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 02:01 PM PST A member of Congress has lifted her hold on $100 million in U.S. military aid to Lebanon's army, clearing a major hurdle to resuming the assistance.   |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2010 02:01 PM PST Roll-up window blinds have been a persistent target of recalls for years because of the risk that a child's neck can get entangled in the cords. This week, a recall was expanded to cover more than 500,000 additional sets of roman shades and blinds. The expanded recall came after a 22-month-old boy in Iowa was found hanging by his neck ...   |
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 12:21 PM PST Eleven-year-old Brenden Hale was playing with a boomerang along the Skagit River in Mount Vernon last June when it landed in the water and floated away. He thought it was gone forever, until he went duck hunting with his grandfather last month on family property at Skagit Bay. Brenden was taking a break on the beach when he saw a ...   |
