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- Pipe bomb explosion injures 1 in SF suburb
- Radiation in Mass. rainwater likely from Japan
- Family of missing crewmember meet ship in LA
- Stunt plane crashes at airshow, killing pilot
- Davenport building flood wall, but is it too late?
- Lightning hits plane after takeoff from Atlanta
- Crash kills Ala. man, 4 Ind. teens on spring break
- Wiretaps captivate NY insider trading trial
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- Burt's Bees founder wants to donate national park
- I-95 cameras snap speeders, spark controversy
- Famed Ky. writer presses coal protest, wins honors
- NY marks 100th anniversary of 1911 Capitol fire
- Letters: Courthouse gunman angry at justice system
- How Medicare premiums affect Social Security
- Court to take up huge sex bias claim vs. Wal-Mart
- GOP appears poised to take on entitlements
- US officials: Libyan operation could last months
- The nation's weather
- Medicare rise could mean no Social Security COLA
| Pipe bomb explosion injures 1 in SF suburb Posted: 27 Mar 2011 01:52 PM PDT Authorities say one person was injured when a pipe bomb disguised in a newspaper exploded at a residence in a San Francisco Bay area suburb.           |
| Radiation in Mass. rainwater likely from Japan Posted: 27 Mar 2011 01:32 PM PDT Health officials said Sunday that one sample of Massachusetts rainwater has registered very low concentrations of radiation, most likely from the Japanese nuclear power plant damaged earlier this month by an earthquake and tsunami.  |
| Family of missing crewmember meet ship in LA Posted: 27 Mar 2011 11:32 AM PDT Family members of a 24-year-old British employee reported missing from a Disney cruise ship last week planned to meet with investigators after the vessel returned to its home port in Los Angeles on Sunday.  |
| Stunt plane crashes at airshow, killing pilot Posted: 27 Mar 2011 11:32 AM PDT Authorities say a single-engine stunt plane broke formation during an airshow in Florida and crashed, killing the pilot.  |
| Davenport building flood wall, but is it too late? Posted: 27 Mar 2011 10:51 AM PDT The Mississippi River city long pilloried for refusing to build a flood wall is finally getting one to safeguard its water supply, but delays mean the structure will not be in place for possible flooding this spring.  |
| Lightning hits plane after takeoff from Atlanta Posted: 27 Mar 2011 10:31 AM PDT An airplane bound for Detroit from Atlanta was hit by lightning shortly after takeoff and returned to the airport as storms rumbled through the state.  |
| Crash kills Ala. man, 4 Ind. teens on spring break Posted: 27 Mar 2011 10:01 AM PDT Four northeastern Indiana high school students returning from a spring break trip and another man have been killed in a three-vehicle crash in Alabama.  |
| Wiretaps captivate NY insider trading trial Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:32 AM PDT Jurors at a closely watched federal trial are learning that the high-stakes world of hedge funds sometimes sounded like this:  |
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| Burt's Bees founder wants to donate national park Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:32 AM PDT Maine sportsmen were outraged when Roxanne Quimby, the conservation-minded founder of Burt's Bees cosmetics, bought up tens of thousands of acres of Maine's fabled North Woods -- and had the audacity to forbid hunters, loggers, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles on the expanses.  |
| I-95 cameras snap speeders, spark controversy Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:11 AM PDT As Interstate 95 sweeps past this small town along South Carolina's coastal plain, motorists encounter cameras that catch speeding cars, the only such devices on the open interstate for almost 2,000 miles from Canada to Miami.  |
| Famed Ky. writer presses coal protest, wins honors Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:11 AM PDT Wendell Berry is back in the wooden rocker in the kitchen of his central Kentucky farm house after a busy few weeks, and his mind is slowly returning to writing.  |
| NY marks 100th anniversary of 1911 Capitol fire Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:11 AM PDT The fire started in the Assembly Library and quickly spread down the hall to the nearby New York State Library, finding plenty of fuel among towering shelves jammed with books and cabinets filled with hundreds of thousands of documents, many of them centuries old.  |
| Letters: Courthouse gunman angry at justice system Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:01 AM PDT The Atlanta courthouse gunman said in letters that he escaped from guards and then killed four people in a shooting rampage to fight back against what he believed was a racist justice system, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.  |
| How Medicare premiums affect Social Security Posted: 27 Mar 2011 07:11 AM PDT Rising Medicare premiums threaten to wipe out increases in Social Security payments next year, leaving millions of retired and disabled Americans without a raise for the third straight year. How a typical Social Security recipient would be affected, using projections from the trustees who oversee both programs.  |
| Court to take up huge sex bias claim vs. Wal-Mart Posted: 27 Mar 2011 06:51 AM PDT Christine Kwapnoski hasn't done too badly in nearly 25 years in the Wal-Mart family, making more than $60,000 a year in a job she enjoys most days.  |
| GOP appears poised to take on entitlements Posted: 27 Mar 2011 06:51 AM PDT If there's any place where tea partiers in Congress might hesitate to call for cuts in Social Security and Medicare to shrink the federal debt, Florida's retirement havens should top the list.  |
| US officials: Libyan operation could last months Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:31 AM PDT U.S.-led military action in Libya has bolstered rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi's forces, but the international operation could continue for months, the Obama administration says.  |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:11 AM PDT A Pacific storm that moved over the West Coast on Saturday will continue moving inland Sunday, producing high-elevation snow through the Northern Rockies. By Sunday afternoon, this storm will begin to pull into the Plains, increasing precipitation in Kansas and Nebraska.  |
| Medicare rise could mean no Social Security COLA Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:11 AM PDT Millions of retired and disabled people in the United States had better brace for another year with no increase in Social Security payments.  |
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