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- NY's Easter parade tradition both elegant and zany
- Suspect in attempted Colorado mall bombing named
- Man collapses and dies while playing softball
- Searchers looking for skiers hear beacon signals
- 2 top officers of US Navy ship relieved of duties
- Powerful explosion levels vacant NY house
- Texas firefighter grants missed fire-prone areas
- Jurors in 1st Blagojevich trial offer retrial tips
- Divided views on whether sit-lie ban is working
- 2 killed, 4 hurt when driving stunt goes wrong
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- Bloomberg noncommittal on Trump presidential talk
- Scientists fret over BP funds for Gulf research
- Urban buildings unplug from water grid
- NY doctor held in Cambodia on child sex charge
- Senators concede feeling pressure on deficit issue
- Past House GOP tactic proves useless to Democrats
- Rescuers find just rubble in collapsed Ida. tunnel
- The nation's weather
- Spring brings fundraising frenzy for GOP hopefuls
| NY's Easter parade tradition both elegant and zany Posted: 24 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT Thousands of people from around the world turned out for Easter Parade on New York City's Fifth Avenue.            |
| Suspect in attempted Colorado mall bombing named Posted: 24 Apr 2011 01:50 PM PDT The FBI has released the name of the man suspected of leaving a pipe bomb and propane tanks at a Colorado mall the day of the anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings.  |
| Man collapses and dies while playing softball Posted: 24 Apr 2011 01:00 PM PDT Authorities say 39-year-old man collapsed during a weekend softball game in north Mississippi and later died.  |
| Searchers looking for skiers hear beacon signals Posted: 24 Apr 2011 01:00 PM PDT A Grand Teton National Park official says searchers looking for two missing skiers believed to be buried in an avalanche in Wyoming are hearing signals thought to be from avalanche transceivers.  |
| 2 top officers of US Navy ship relieved of duties Posted: 24 Apr 2011 12:00 PM PDT The U.S. Navy says two top officers of a Virginia-based ship have been relieved of their duties after an investigation into hazing and other incidents aboard the vessel.  |
| Powerful explosion levels vacant NY house Posted: 24 Apr 2011 11:30 AM PDT A powerful explosion has destroyed a vacant house on New York's Long Island. No one was seriously injured in the Easter morning blast, but 21 people from nearby homes have been taken to hospitals for evaluation.  |
| Texas firefighter grants missed fire-prone areas Posted: 24 Apr 2011 10:40 AM PDT Some of the Texas counties that endured the worst damage from this month's out-of-control wildfires received only a small portion of the more than $128 million the state awarded to volunteer fire departments over about a decade for training and equipment, a state report found.  |
| Jurors in 1st Blagojevich trial offer retrial tips Posted: 24 Apr 2011 10:20 AM PDT Days into deliberations at former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's first corruption trial last August, a juror looked around the tense room, pointed to a spot in the corner and suggested they put a Christmas tree there. At the rate they were going, he joked, they could find themselves still deliberating in December.  |
| Divided views on whether sit-lie ban is working Posted: 24 Apr 2011 09:20 AM PDT On a street corner in the iconic Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, traveling troubadours "Stinkin" Pete Irving and his wife Charlie -- freshly arrived from Seattle -- squatted on the sidewalk and began strumming a guitar and bending a steel saw for eerie accompaniment. And for spare change.  |
| 2 killed, 4 hurt when driving stunt goes wrong Posted: 24 Apr 2011 09:10 AM PDT Authorities in Florida say the driver of a truck was trying to do donut stunts in an empty lot when the vehicle flipped, killing the driver and one of five other people inside.  |
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| Bloomberg noncommittal on Trump presidential talk Posted: 24 Apr 2011 08:04 AM PDT New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls real estate tycoon Donald Trump a friend and says "anybody can run for president if you're 35 and an American citizen."  |
| Scientists fret over BP funds for Gulf research Posted: 24 Apr 2011 07:40 AM PDT Scientists say it is taking far too long to dole out millions of dollars in BP funds for badly needed Gulf oil spill research, and it could be too late to assess the crude's impact on pelicans, shrimp and other species by the time studies begin.  |
| Urban buildings unplug from water grid Posted: 24 Apr 2011 07:09 AM PDT In one of Seattle's most urban neighborhoods, a small elementary school is trying to wean itself off the city's water grid.  |
| NY doctor held in Cambodia on child sex charge Posted: 24 Apr 2011 07:00 AM PDT A New York doctor who traveled to Cambodia to volunteer at a children's hospital is being held in a Phnom Penh (puh-NAHM' pehn) prison on a charge he had sex with a 14-year-old boy.  |
| Senators concede feeling pressure on deficit issue Posted: 24 Apr 2011 07:00 AM PDT The Democratic chairman of the Senate Budget Committee says if members of President Barack Obama's deficit panel fail to come to grips soon with the deficit problem, "we won't be relevant to this discussion."  |
| Past House GOP tactic proves useless to Democrats Posted: 24 Apr 2011 05:29 AM PDT A year ago, when Republicans were in the minority on Capitol Hill, they drove Democrats crazy by using an obscure parliamentary maneuver to change, delay and even kill Democratic priorities.  |
| Rescuers find just rubble in collapsed Ida. tunnel Posted: 24 Apr 2011 02:50 AM PDT Crews using bore holes and probes failed to find evidence of a miner who was trapped deep underground when part of an Idaho silver mine collapsed more than a week ago.  |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2011 02:30 AM PDT A stubborn front will be the main weather producer Sunday as it stretches from east Texas through the Ohio Valley. This front will produce widespread thunderstorms and heavy rain in an area that received abundant precipitation in recent days.  |
| Spring brings fundraising frenzy for GOP hopefuls Posted: 24 Apr 2011 02:04 AM PDT Mitt Romney is organizing a phone bank fundraiser in Las Vegas next month. Tim Pawlenty is holding regular "friendraising" meetings in big-money California and elsewhere. Haley Barbour hunkers down soon with finance operatives in cash-rich New York and other lucrative places.  |
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