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• Long meetings, dashed hopes -- but finally a deal
• Last-minute budget deal brings relief, disgust
• AD:
• Liberal immigration activists eye Utah as model
• Candidates line up for tough job -- Denver mayor
• Wildfire burns more than 61,000 acres in Texas
• Obama at Lincoln Memorial, open after budget deal
• Analysis: GOP won first round of budget battle
• Wis. Rep.'s Medicare plan worries local voters
• Obama signs short-term bill staving off shutdown
• Lumet, '12 Angry Men' and 'Network' director, dies
• Jury: Philly docs failed to report dangerous peer
• UConn student prodigy named Truman Scholar
• Conn. man going on trial in 1988 teenager killing
• W.Va. police search for evidence in 2003 slayings
• AD:
• Search for possible serial killer presses on in NY
• Civil War 150th a lifetime event for re-enactors
• Vt. ready to fight effort to keep nuke plant open
• 9 shot at teen party in suburban Philly; 1 dead

Long meetings, dashed hopes -- but finally a deal Posted: 09 Apr 2011 01:31 PM PDT There was barely an hour left before the midnight padlocking of government doors. In a Capitol basement meeting room, House Speaker John Boehner was telling exhausted fellow Republicans that a deal to avert a shutdown was nearly finished when an aide alerted him that staff had completed the final details and the agreement was complete.

Last-minute budget deal brings relief, disgust Posted: 09 Apr 2011 01:21 PM PDT A collective sense of relief resonated across the nation Saturday, now that a federal government shutdown is merely a thought of what could have been.

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Liberal immigration activists eye Utah as model Posted: 09 Apr 2011 01:01 PM PDT Liberal immigration activists are looking to Utah as a compassionate and logical model for shaping the nation's future policies toward illegal immigrants.

Candidates line up for tough job -- Denver mayor Posted: 09 Apr 2011 12:41 PM PDT A $100 million budget deficit, a police department under scrutiny, an over-budget mass transportation project and the chance to work in the long shadow of one of the city's most popular politicians.

Wildfire burns more than 61,000 acres in Texas Posted: 09 Apr 2011 12:21 PM PDT A massive wildfire that has burned more than 61,000 acres in West Texas remains out of control.

Obama at Lincoln Memorial, open after budget deal Posted: 09 Apr 2011 12:11 PM PDT President Barack Obama made the short trip from the White House to the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to make clear that national parks and monuments are open for business.

Analysis: GOP won first round of budget battle Posted: 09 Apr 2011 11:51 AM PDT Republican conservatives were the chief winners in the budget deal that forced Democrats to accept historic spending cuts they strongly opposed.

Wis. Rep.'s Medicare plan worries local voters Posted: 09 Apr 2011 11:41 AM PDT Brian Krutsch has been long one of many automatic votes here for Rep. Paul Ryan. The unemployed warehouse manager, along with a solid majority of other Janesville voters, has helped elect Ryan seven times and watched with pride as he became one of Congress' leading authorities on the federal budget. But this week, admiration has been tinged with apprehension as ...

Obama signs short-term bill staving off shutdown Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:31 AM PDT President Barack Obama has signed a short-term spending bill to pay for federal operations through Friday.

Lumet, '12 Angry Men' and 'Network' director, dies Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:11 AM PDT Sidney Lumet, the award-winning director of such acclaimed films as "Network," "Serpico," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "12 Angry Men," has died. He was 86.

Jury: Philly docs failed to report dangerous peer Posted: 09 Apr 2011 08:51 AM PDT Women went to Dr. Kermit Gosnell to end their pregnancies. Many came away with life-threatening infections and punctured organs; some still had fetal parts inside them when they arrived at nearby hospitals in dire need of emergency care.

UConn student prodigy named Truman Scholar Posted: 09 Apr 2011 08:41 AM PDT A teen prodigy and University of Connecticut honors student has won a highly competitive national scholarship that pays $30,000 toward graduate studies.

Conn. man going on trial in 1988 teenager killing Posted: 09 Apr 2011 08:41 AM PDT Two decades after a pregnant Connecticut teenager was raped, beaten and strangled, a New Britain man is going on trial for her death based on new DNA tests that linked him to the crime and cleared an innocent man who served 20 years in prison.

W.Va. police search for evidence in 2003 slayings Posted: 09 Apr 2011 08:41 AM PDT Police continue to search for evidence related to the 2003 sniper-style slayings outside three convenience stores that terrorized residents in Kanawha County.

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Search for possible serial killer presses on in NY Posted: 09 Apr 2011 08:41 AM PDT The discovery of eight bodies on a New York highway leading to Jones Beach has detectives searching beyond the thicket of sea grass and evergreens where the bodies were found.

Civil War 150th a lifetime event for re-enactors Posted: 09 Apr 2011 08:01 AM PDT For thousands of Civil War re-enactors, the next four years are a chance to capitalize on the public's curiosity about a century-old hobby that demands such attention to detail that the fights seem almost real.

Vt. ready to fight effort to keep nuke plant open Posted: 09 Apr 2011 07:21 AM PDT Vermont's attorney general says the state is preparing for a legal battle if the owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant tries to keep it running after its license expires.

9 shot at teen party in suburban Philly; 1 dead Posted: 09 Apr 2011 06:21 AM PDT Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say shots rang out at a social hall where a teenage party was being held, killing one person and sending eight others to the hospital, two of them in critical condition.

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