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Accident report: Lithium batteries on UPS plane
Police: Duke lacrosse accuser stabbed boyfriend
9/11 kin decry plans to house remains at museum
Tea party, labor spend big in Wis. high court race
'Crash tax' and other fees target out-of-towners
1 killed, 1 hurt falling out of tour bus in Mass.
NY lawmakers say NTSB will probe tour bus industry
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Thousands watch online as eagles hatch in Iowa
Government appeals judge's health care ruling
Maine's blunt-talking governor rankles many voters
NY police set to resume search for beach remains
GOP 2012 budget to make $4 trillion-plus in cuts
Year after W.Va. mine blast, family can't move on
More families are adopting HIV-positive children
Obama rule review leaves some nervous, skeptical
US 'deeply concerned' by violence in Ivory Coast
Feathers fly in mass pillow fights in cities
Boy dies after fall from Chicago roller coaster
More than 300 homes evacuated in Colorado wildfire

Accident report: Lithium batteries on UPS plane

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 12:51 PM PDT

An accident report says the cargo of a United Parcel Service plane that caught fire and crashed last year in Dubai included lithium batteries that weren't declared as hazardous cargo.

Police: Duke lacrosse accuser stabbed boyfriend

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 12:31 PM PDT

Authorities say the woman who falsely claimed she was raped by Duke lacrosse players has been accused of stabbing her boyfriend in the chest at a North Carolina home.

9/11 kin decry plans to house remains at museum

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 12:21 PM PDT

Some relatives of victims who died a decade ago at the World Trade Center decried a plan Sunday to place more than 9,000 unidentified pieces of human remains at a subterranean site at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

Tea party, labor spend big in Wis. high court race

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 11:21 AM PDT

Pro-labor organizations and one of the country's largest tea party groups are pouring money into Tuesday's Wisconsin Supreme Court election in an effort to turn the normally sleepy race into a referendum on the national fight over labor rights.

'Crash tax' and other fees target out-of-towners

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 11:11 AM PDT

Out-of-towners would be wise to drive carefully when passing through Fraser, a suburb about 15 miles northeast of Detroit.

1 killed, 1 hurt falling out of tour bus in Mass.

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 10:51 AM PDT

Massachusetts State Police say one passenger was killed and another was injured after they fell from a bathroom window on a tour bus returning from a New Hampshire brewery.

NY lawmakers say NTSB will probe tour bus industry

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 09:41 AM PDT

Two New York lawmakers say the National Transportation Safety Board will commence a broad investigation of the low-cost tour bus industry in the wake of a crash that killed 15 people.

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Posted: 03 Apr 2011 09:41 AM PDT

Thousands watch online as eagles hatch in Iowa

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 09:21 AM PDT

A live video feed from northeast Iowa with a bird's eye view of eagle eggs hatching has attracted more than 100,000 followers -- so many that the site crashed briefly Saturday after the first eaglet emerged.

Government appeals judge's health care ruling

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 09:11 AM PDT

The federal health care overhaul's core requirement to make virtually all citizens buy health insurance or face tax penalties is constitutional because Congress has the authority to regulate interstate business, the Justice Department said in its appeal of a ruling that struck down the Obama administration's signature legislation.

Maine's blunt-talking governor rankles many voters

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 08:21 AM PDT

With less than three months on the job, Gov. Paul LePage has already managed to rankle more constituencies with his bluntness than any Maine governor in recent memory.

NY police set to resume search for beach remains

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 07:51 AM PDT

Investigators on New York's Long Island are set to resume the search for possible victims of a serial killer on Monday.

GOP 2012 budget to make $4 trillion-plus in cuts

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 07:41 AM PDT

The House Republican chairman who's writing a 2012 budget says the GOP will propose cutting more than $4 trillion over the next decade.

Year after W.Va. mine blast, family can't move on

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 07:41 AM PDT

Gary Quarles kneels on his living room carpet and unrolls the 4-foot-long map that he's studied so many times, trying to understand why his son died in the Upper Big Branch mine.

More families are adopting HIV-positive children

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 07:31 AM PDT

The immediate task might be coaxing a toddler into one more swallow of nasty-tasting medication. Longer term, there are tough choices to be made about telling that child -- and the surrounding community -- why those daily doses may be needed for the rest of his or her life.

Obama rule review leaves some nervous, skeptical

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 05:31 AM PDT

In a city that loves to argue over what next to add to the government's already fat rulebook, there's a big push to rethink what's already there.

US 'deeply concerned' by violence in Ivory Coast

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 04:11 AM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. is "deeply concerned" about the situation in the Ivory Coast and reports of human rights abuses and a massacre of more than 1,000 people.