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- Idaho town to lottery winner: Please show yourself
- State Dept steps back on gender-neutral parentage
- Charged with beheading wife, NY man to claim abuse
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- NH farmer is folk hero for gun rights advocates
- For minorities, new 'digital divide' seen
- Guns in kids' bedrooms? Ohio hunting town approves
- San Fran mayor post would be coup for Asian pols
- AWOL soldier ordered to finish tour in Afghanistan
- 50 years ago: JFK Mass. 'city upon a hill' speech
- SC mayor: Odor sickens basketball players, fans
- Funeral held Saturday for Nebraska school gunman
- Clinton seeks stronger ties with Arab allies
- Portuguese man found slain, castrated at NY hotel
- Reid: Tea party will falter once economy improves
- New, big challenges confront Obama the candidate
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- Gunman fires on police during Colo. standoff
- Obama says economy moving in right direction
- Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
| Idaho town to lottery winner: Please show yourself Posted: 08 Jan 2011 12:00 PM PST Tammy Deaton has a message for Idaho's unknown $190 million lottery winner: Have mercy. "The curiosity is killing us all," Deaton said Friday. "Just let us know."            |
| State Dept steps back on gender-neutral parentage Posted: 08 Jan 2011 11:50 AM PST In a bid to forestall a backlash from congressional conservatives, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered the State Department to amend a bureaucratic change that would have replaced the terms "mother" and "father" with the gender-neutral term "parent" in reports of overseas births.  |
| Charged with beheading wife, NY man to claim abuse Posted: 08 Jan 2011 11:50 AM PST It has been nearly two years since Muzzammil Hassan directed police officers in this serene Buffalo suburb to the decapitated remains of his estranged wife inside the Muslim-oriented television station the couple ran.  |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2011 11:50 AM PST  |
| NH farmer is folk hero for gun rights advocates Posted: 08 Jan 2011 11:40 AM PST Property and gun rights advocates have made a folk hero of Ward Bird, convicted and imprisoned for brandishing a handgun at a woman who trespassed on his remote hilltop land.  |
| For minorities, new 'digital divide' seen Posted: 08 Jan 2011 11:40 AM PST When the personal computer revolution began decades ago, Latinos and blacks were much less likely to use one of the marvelous new machines. Then, when the Internet began to change life as we know it, these groups had less access to the Web and slower online connections placing them on the wrong side of the "digital divide."  |
| Guns in kids' bedrooms? Ohio hunting town approves Posted: 08 Jan 2011 10:50 AM PST The guns were kept in the boy's bedroom, resting on a rack mounted to the wall. The one investigators say was used to kill his mother-- a .22-caliber rifle -- was found lying on his bed.  |
| San Fran mayor post would be coup for Asian pols Posted: 08 Jan 2011 10:40 AM PST With a Chinese-American city administrator as the front-runner for interim mayor, San Francisco could become the largest U.S. city led by an Asian-American.  |
| AWOL soldier ordered to finish tour in Afghanistan Posted: 08 Jan 2011 09:50 AM PST A Kentucky soldier who went AWOL after he said the military wasn't treating his mental health issues has been ordered to deploy to finish his tour in Afghanistan.  |
| 50 years ago: JFK Mass. 'city upon a hill' speech Posted: 08 Jan 2011 09:30 AM PST "We shall be as a city upon a hill." Those words were spoken by John F. Kennedy to the Massachusetts Legislature in a farewell address to his home state 50 years ago Sunday as he prepared to assume the presidency. In the Jan. 9, 1961, speech Kennedy was quoting Puritan settler John Winthrop, who became governor of the Massachusetts Bay ...  |
| SC mayor: Odor sickens basketball players, fans Posted: 08 Jan 2011 09:21 AM PST Dozens of fans were being screened Friday night by emergency responders after odor from a ventilation unit sickened several players and spectators at a high school basketball game.  |
| Funeral held Saturday for Nebraska school gunman Posted: 08 Jan 2011 09:21 AM PST Friends of the 17-year-old who shot and killed an assistant principal and wounded the principal at a Nebraska high school before killing himself say that they are beginning to identify signs of unrest as they look back.  |
| Clinton seeks stronger ties with Arab allies Posted: 08 Jan 2011 09:11 AM PST Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's trip to the Persian Gulf is intended to strengthen ties with Arab allies, rally support for penalties against Iran, and promote democracy and security across the Middle East.  |
| Portuguese man found slain, castrated at NY hotel Posted: 08 Jan 2011 08:10 AM PST A 65-year-old Portuguese television journalist was found castrated and bludgeoned to death in a New York City hotel, and his companion, a male model who had recently been a contestant on a Portuguese reality TV show, was in police custody Saturday.  |
| Reid: Tea party will falter once economy improves Posted: 08 Jan 2011 08:10 AM PST Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid is dismissing the tea party as short-lived, saying it will "disappear" once the economy gets better.  |
| New, big challenges confront Obama the candidate Posted: 08 Jan 2011 06:10 AM PST He promised change, and he looked the part. No longer. The Barack Obama of 2011 is a chief executive who confronts enormous challenges, chief among them the economy, as he starts building a re-election campaign far different from the juggernaut of optimism and trajectory that vaulted him to the White House.  |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2011 06:10 AM PST  |
| Gunman fires on police during Colo. standoff Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:11 AM PST A gunman fired on police as he holed up in a Lakewood home with a woman and three young children for more than five hours before being arrested Saturday, authorities said.  |
| Obama says economy moving in right direction Posted: 08 Jan 2011 03:10 AM PST President Barack Obama sees a clear and encouraging trend on the economy, citing fresh reports showing private-sector job growth and lower unemployment.  |
| Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows Posted: 08 Jan 2011 02:10 AM PST Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows: ------  |
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