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Maine labor mural comes down on governor's orders
GOP shifts strategy on housing market overhaul
Coast Guard drops some charges in Calif boat crash
Wis. schools told to hold off on new contracts
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Nuclear industry touts safety of new reactors
Pa. Lutheran college hot among Jewish students
Military gay support group launches magazine
Taylor's unpublished love letters up for auction
Garage sale at Scrushy's former estate nets $160K
Feds cite Massey mines for dozens of violations
GOP lawmaker backs Obama's decisions on Libya
Sentencing set for submarine protesters in Wash.
Ex-student pleads guilty in Va. college shooting
Obama says standardized tests often punitive
Frenchman begins climbing world's tallest tower
Correction: Headliner Awards story
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Greece nabs potato thieves from Bulgaria
Ferraro funeral Mass scheduled for Thursday in NYC

Maine labor mural comes down on governor's orders

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 12:31 PM PDT

A mural depicting Maine's labor history was removed from the lobby of the state Department of Labor headquarters and put into storage over the weekend after a directive from the new Republican governor that it come down.

GOP shifts strategy on housing market overhaul

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 12:31 PM PDT

House Republicans plan to introduce eight bills on Tuesday that would each take a small step toward pushing taxpayer-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of business, according to congressional aides and lobbyists.

Coast Guard drops some charges in Calif boat crash

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 12:31 PM PDT

The Coast Guard has dropped the most serious charges against the highest-ranking member of the crew on a boat involved in a collision with a pleasure boat in San Diego Bay, killing an 8-year-old boy.

Wis. schools told to hold off on new contracts

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 12:01 PM PDT

The Wisconsin school board association on Monday urged districts that have not reached new deals with teachers' unions to hold off given the uncertainty over whether a new law removing nearly all collective bargaining rights is in effect.

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Posted: 28 Mar 2011 12:01 PM PDT

Nuclear industry touts safety of new reactors

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 11:42 AM PDT

Halfway around the globe from Japan's atomic emergency, engineers building a cutting-edge nuclear reactor along Finland's icy shores insist the same crisis could never happen here.

Pa. Lutheran college hot among Jewish students

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 11:32 AM PDT

Muhlenberg College was founded as a Lutheran seminary and is named for a patriarch of the American Lutheran church. It also happens to be one of the hottest campuses in the country for Jewish students.

Military gay support group launches magazine

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 11:32 AM PDT

A support group for gay military service members has launched a magazine focused on the pending repeal of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Taylor's unpublished love letters up for auction

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 11:32 AM PDT

A gushing missive in which 17-year-old Elizabeth Taylor tells her first fiance that she'll "never love anyone else -- period" is among more than 60 of her unpublished love letters being put up for auction in New Hampshire.

Garage sale at Scrushy's former estate nets $160K

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 11:32 AM PDT

Buyers walked away with more than $160,000 worth of items at a two-day garage sale at the Alabama estate once owned by HealthSouth Corp. founder Richard Scrushy.

Feds cite Massey mines for dozens of violations

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 11:02 AM PDT

Massey Energy Co. has been hit with more than 80 citations for safety violations uncovered in the latest round of special inspections by federal regulators.

GOP lawmaker backs Obama's decisions on Libya

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:51 AM PDT

President Obama's decision-making on Libya picked up a strong endorsement from a member of the Republican Party: California Rep. Duncan Hunter.

Sentencing set for submarine protesters in Wash.

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:31 AM PDT

About 250 demonstrators are gathered outside the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Wash., for the sentencing of five anti-war activists who cut through fences at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor to protest submarine nuclear weapons.

Ex-student pleads guilty in Va. college shooting

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:21 AM PDT

A former college student has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for shooting at his math professor in a northern Virginia classroom.

Obama says standardized tests often punitive

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:11 AM PDT

President Barack Obama says standardized tests are often used to punish teachers and students and shouldn't be the only way of measuring student achievement.

Frenchman begins climbing world's tallest tower

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:02 AM PDT

Just before sunset Monday, a French skyscraper climber who calls himself "Spiderman" started to pull his way up the side of the world's tallest tower in Dubai.

Correction: Headliner Awards story

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:52 AM PDT

In a March 25 story about the National Headliner Awards, The Associated Press reported the incorrect call letters for "Best in Show" winner CBS5 in San Francisco. The TV station is KPIX, not KCBS.