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| Trial starts in alleged Obama-inspired church fire Posted: 20 Mar 2011 08:31 AM PDT Federal prosecutors portray Michael Jacques as a racist who was so upset when Barack Obama was elected president that he and two other white men burned down a predominantly black church in western Massachusetts.           |
| Detroit schools struggle to solve huge budget woes Posted: 20 Mar 2011 08:11 AM PDT Robert Bobb has spent the past two years closing dozens of schools and firing principals in an effort to fix the failing Detroit Public Schools. Yet, he still hasn't solved the problem for which he was hired -- erasing a legacy budget deficit that now stands at $327 million.  |
| Arkansas prepares for significant tax cuts Posted: 20 Mar 2011 08:11 AM PDT Arkansas is poised to become one of the first states in the nation to enact a significant tax cut this year, showing the sentiment for scaling back government even in places where state spending is limited and no fiscal crisis exists.  |
| Ohio, Fla., police: charges for runaway's helpers Posted: 20 Mar 2011 08:01 AM PDT Police in Ohio and Florida recommended charges be filed against six individuals who helped a teenage Muslim-to-Christian convert from Ohio run away to Florida after she said she feared for her life. Prosecutors have closed the cases without filing charges. The six people and the recommended charges:  |
| Finally gone, ground zero tower in focus at trial Posted: 20 Mar 2011 07:40 AM PDT From the instant the World Trade Center's south tower crumbled into it, the somber bank building next door began to extract a toll no one imagined.  |
| AP: Police say Ohio runaway's helpers broke laws Posted: 20 Mar 2011 07:01 AM PDT Prosecutors have decided against charging six people who police say broke the law in 2009 by helping a teenage Christian convert run away to Florida from her Muslim parents in Ohio.  |
| 2 Bush officials in running to be next head of FBI Posted: 20 Mar 2011 06:41 AM PDT People familiar with the search for a new FBI director say two officials who worked for President George W. Bush have a realistic chance of being asked to head the bureau.  |
| Coast Guard investigating substance in Gulf Posted: 20 Mar 2011 06:22 AM PDT The U.S. Coast Guard says there is some sort of substance on the water in the Gulf of Mexico, and officials are collecting samples to determine what it is.  |
| Schumer seeks audit of all NY tour bus licenses Posted: 20 Mar 2011 04:21 AM PDT U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is seeking an audit of all tour bus operators in New York following a fatal tour bus crash a week ago in New York City.  |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2011 03:31 AM PDT A powerful Pacific storm will pound California and Nevada with heavy rain and high elevation snow. Winter storm warnings are in effect for the Sierra Nevadas of California with up to 2 feet of new snow possible above 7,000 feet. Some lower elevations in California could experience more than an inch of rain, prompting flooding concerns.  |
| 2 sons arrested for neglect in mother's death Posted: 20 Mar 2011 03:21 AM PDT Police have arrested two sons of an elderly woman who was found dead in her Albuquerque home with open wounds.  |
| At ground zero, future takes shape Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:00 PM PDT The noise at ground zero is a steady roar. Engines hum. Cement mixers churn. Air horns blast. Cranes, including one that looks like a giant crab leg, soar and crawl over every corner of the 16-acre site.  |
| Protesters arrested at antiwar rally Posted: 19 Mar 2011 09:51 PM PDT WASHINGTON, D.C. More than 100 antiwar protesters, including Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, were arrested outside the White House yesterday. The arrests were part of demonstrations in Washington and throughout the country to mark the eighth anniversary of the Iraq war. The protesters carried signs demanding that troops be withdrawn from the wars in Iraq and ...  |
| Sting takes 14 tour buses in N.Y. off road Posted: 19 Mar 2011 08:29 PM PDT A state official familiar with an investigation of a fatal tour bus crash in New York City said a single checkpoint in a sting operation has resulted in 14 out of 14 buses ordered off the road.  |
| Posted: 19 Mar 2011 07:57 PM PDT State of the Union. Topics: Japan and Middle East. Guests: Admiral William Fallon, former US Centcom Commander; General Richard Myers, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman; Energy Secretary Steven Chu; John Boice, Vanderbilt University radiation epidemiologist; Sharon Squassoni, director, Center for Strategic and International Studies. 9 a.m. and noon. (CNN)  |
| Posted: 19 Mar 2011 07:57 PM PDT  |
| With new governor, Wis. does U-turn on health care Posted: 19 Mar 2011 07:53 PM PDT Two weeks after President Obama signed the nation's health care overhaul into law, then-Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, a Democrat, issued an executive order creating an Office of Health Care Reform.  |
| Health overhaul opens new abortion fights Posted: 19 Mar 2011 07:52 PM PDT A year after its passage, the federal health care overhaul is opening fresh battlefields in an old and bitter debate. Almost immediately after the law took effect, five states passed bills that will prohibit private insurance plans sold on new state-based marketplaces from covering abortion, except in dire circumstances such as to save the mother's life.  |
| Mullen: Chance Gadhafi could cling to power Posted: 20 Mar 2011 12:41 AM PDT The top U.S. military officer says the international coalition can achieve its goals in Libya, but the chance that Moammar Gadhafi clings to power is "certainly potentially one outcome."  |
| Anti-war protesters arrested near White House Posted: 19 Mar 2011 11:31 PM PDT More than 100 anti-war protesters, including the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, were arrested outside the White House in demonstrations marking the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.  |
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