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Mom's body found after baby brought to hospital

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:56 PM PDT

A Kentucky woman has been arrested in the case, but authorities aren't saying how the baby was born.

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NYT: In financial crisis, no major prosecutions

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 03:38 PM PDT

In late 2010, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued the accounting firm Ernst & Young, accusing it of helping Lehman Brothers 'engage in massive accounting fraud.' To date, however, no arm of government has sued Lehman or any of its executives on the same accounting tactic. New York Times: In aftermath of financial crisis, no senior executives of major financial institutions have been charged, and a collective government effort has not emerged.




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Spring fighting season to test gains in Afghan war

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 01:36 PM PDT

A British soldier from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) passes by dead bodies, covered, at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan's fighting season will begin in full force by the end of this month as the trees bud and the last of the snows melt off the mountain tops — and with it, a chance to measure the success of NATO efforts to turn back the Taliban.




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Britain to ban exports of execution drugs to US

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:29 PM PDT

This November 2005 file photo shows the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. Oklahoma, Ohio and Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, have switched to pentobarbital for lethal-injection.Britain said Thursday it will block the export of three lethal injection drugs to the United States and is also urging a Europe-wide ban on American sales of the drugs.




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Ventre: Lakers are an enigma heading into playoffs

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 11:25 PM PDT

Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol look to lead the Lakers to a third straight NBA title in what reportedly will be coach Phil Jackson's last postseason run with the team.Ventre: The two-time defending NBA champion Lakers are the only team that can make a Jekyll-and-Hyde act work so successfully in the postseason.




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Where do unclaimed bags end up? Alabama

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 10:19 AM PDT

Welcome to the final resting place for lost luggage.

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Pay your taxes, but get some deals and freebies

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:41 AM PDT

Tax day is coming, which means free fries and ice cream, discounted food and drinks and other deals. Oh, and paying your taxes.

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Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:41 AM PDT

'Opportunities' for new oil spills still there

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:20 PM PDT

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, center right, asks questions about the interim capping system designed by the Marine Well Containment Company. He visited the company's site in Houston on Feb. 25.With everything Big Oil and the government have learned in the year since the Gulf of Mexico disaster, could it happen again? One risk expert thinks it's inevitable given what  hasn't changed.




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Judge won't suspend Demjanjuk plea over FBI file

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 11:03 AM PDT

John Demjanjuk, 90, arrives at the court building in Munich, southern Germany.A German court on Thursday rejected a defense request to suspend John Demjanjuk's trial over a declassified FBI report that cast doubt on the authenticity of a key piece of evidence.




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House passes bill that slashes billions

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:09 PM PDT

The House has passed a compromise budget bill to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, with 59 Republicans breaking with House Speaker John Boehner to vote against the measure.

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Deficit/debt dilemma is way uglier than in the 90s

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 09:20 AM PDT

During Bill Clinton's presidency, budget deficits turned to a surplus. President Obama faces a much bigger deficit reduction task. How did that Clinton-era deficit reduction happen? And why does today's deficit dilemma seem so much tougher to solve?




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Gulf residents at BP meeting: Treated like ‘criminals’

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 10:36 AM PDT




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Real history of Twitter isn't short and sweet

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:40 AM PDT

Twitter's official history gives credit to Biz Stone, right, and Evan Williams, whose original startup, Odeo, morphed into the popular messaging service, which is now worth more than $5 billion.How Twitter's owners and top executives say the company was founded is different than how it was actually founded.  Mainly, the official version leaves out the role of a major co-founder. Some early Twitter investors also wonder if it also leaves out a scandal.




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Ozzy Osbourne pays off $1.7 million tax debt

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 09:38 AM PDT

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have quickly paid off their tax debt.Heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne and his wife have quickly paid off their $1.7 million U.S. tax debts, a week after learning about their financial troubles from the news media.




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Ford recalling 1.2 million F-150 pickups

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 10:52 AM PDT

Ford is recalling 1.2 million F-150 trucks due to a problem that causes airbags to deploy suddenly.Under pressure from regulators, Ford Motor Co. is expanding a recall of the popular F-150 pickup truck to include nearly 1.2 million vehicles that may have defective air bags.




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Posted: 14 Apr 2011 10:52 AM PDT

Prosecutor: ex-UN inspector an exhibitionist

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 09:58 AM PDT

Scott Ritter walks out of a court room in Stroudsburg, Pa., on Tuesday.A  jury was being asked to decide whether a former U.N. weapons inspector thought he was dealing with a 15-year-old girl when he performed a sex act on himself on a webcam within an online chatroom.




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Study: Suicide rates go up when economic conditions sour

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 08:44 AM PDT

Life Inc.: A new and comprehensive study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that suicide rates generally rise during economic recessions, and fall during periods of strong economic expansion.

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Cut off by floods, Minn. town relies on boats

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 08:10 AM PDT

Locals get a ride on the Oslo Fire Department air boat on Wednesday after Red River flooding cut off road access to the town of Oslo, N.D.Residents of Oslo, Minn., walked levees and waited out massive flooding that has turned their community into a tiny temporary island in the Red River for a third year in a row.




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