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• Ice, snow chill southern Plains amid power outages (AP)
• Lawyer: Phone scheme meant to embarrass senator (AP)
• No manslaughter defense in abortion doc's slaying (AP)
• Officials voice opposition to 9/11 trials in NYC (AP)
• Pilot considered the only ace Tuskegee Airman dies (AP)
• Parole recommended for Manson family member Davis (AP)
• Girl's visit with accused abductor violated order (AP)
• Edwards aide's book details trail of hush money (AP)
• Fugitive Idaho developer captured in LA (AP)
• AP Exclusive: States struggle to keep top teachers (AP)
• Calif. Senate approves single-payer health care (AP)
• No charge for Md. college student in sword slaying (AP)
• Owners say AZ sweat lodge not to blame for deaths (AP)
• The mystery grows: What's in Salinger's safe? (AP)
• Brown says he can beat the president — at hoops (AP)
• In NH town, Salinger's privacy is important to all (AP)
• Voters say Obama's speech a call to lawmakers (AP)
• Shiny gadget, icky name: iPad jokes fly on Web (AP)
• Matthews' remark exposes complexity of 'transcending race' (AP)
• NH teen gets 20 to 40 years in slaying of cashier (AP)

Ice, snow chill southern Plains amid power outages (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:14 PM PST AP - A powerful storm dumped snow, sleet and freezing rain on the southern Plains Thursday, disrupting power to thousands of homes and businesses, canceling flights and shutting down major highways across three states.

Lawyer: Phone scheme meant to embarrass senator (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:04 PM PST AP - Four conservative activists accused of trying to tamper with a senator's phones were just trying to record embarrassing undercover video of her staff ignoring phone calls from constituents angry that she supported health care reform, one of their attorneys said Thurday.

No manslaughter defense in abortion doc's slaying (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:04 PM PST AP - The judge in the trial of a man accused of murdering an abortion doctor dealt the defense a major setback Thursday, ruling that the jury cannot consider a lesser charge of manslaughter.

Officials voice opposition to 9/11 trials in NYC (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:06 PM PST AP - Opposition to the government's plans to hold the Sept. 11 terrorist trial in New York City intensified Thursday, one day after Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed he had changed his mind and now hoped the trial would be held elsewhere.

Pilot considered the only ace Tuskegee Airman dies (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:50 PM PST AP - Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman considered to be the only black ace pilot who also broke racial barriers as an executive at a major U.S. company and founder of a venture capital firm, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 90.

Parole recommended for Manson family member Davis (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:32 PM PST AP - Bruce Davis, a member of Charles Manson's murderous cult who participated in two killings, was recommended for parole Thursday after nearly four decades in prison.

Girl's visit with accused abductor violated order (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:47 PM PST AP - The father of a 7-year-old Oklahoma girl believed to have been abducted by her slain mother's estranged husband violated a court order when he let the child make an unsupervised visit with the woman, an attorney said Thursday.

Edwards aide's book details trail of hush money (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:57 PM PST AP - Dealing with a pregnant mistress and a suspicious wife, John Edwards and a close aide agreed by the middle of 2007 to solicit funds from a wealthy widow who had promised to "do whatever it takes" to make him president, according to the former confidant's new book.

Fugitive Idaho developer captured in LA (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 04:07 PM PST AP - A fugitive lawyer accused of stealing millions of dollars in an Idaho real estate development has been captured in Los Angeles after living for years in Mexico.

AP Exclusive: States struggle to keep top teachers (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 12:00 PM PST AP - Most states are holding tight to policies that protect incompetent teachers and poor training programs, shortchanging educators and their students before new teachers even step into the classroom, according to a new national report card.

Calif. Senate approves single-payer health care (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 01:20 PM PST AP - The California Senate approved creating a government-run health care system for the nation's most populous state on Thursday, ignoring a veto threat from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

No charge for Md. college student in sword slaying (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 04:01 PM PST AP - Prosecutors say a Johns Hopkins University student feared for his life when he used a samurai sword to kill an unarmed intruder and they have decided not to file any charges.

Owners say AZ sweat lodge not to blame for deaths (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:24 AM PST AP - The owner of the Arizona retreat where a sweat lodge ceremony turned deadly said the man who led it was a perfectionist who controlled every detail of an event meant to push people beyond their physical limits.

The mystery grows: What's in Salinger's safe? (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:05 PM PST AP - So what about the safe? The death this week of J.D. Salinger ends one of literature's most mysterious lives and intensifies one of its greatest mysteries: Was the author of "The Catcher in the Rye" keeping a stack of finished, unpublished manuscripts in a safe in his house in Cornish, N.H? Are they masterpieces, curiosities or random scribbles?

Brown says he can beat the president — at hoops (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:48 PM PST AP - Barely a week after his knockout win in the Massachusetts Senate race, Scott Brown boasted Thursday that he can beat President Barack Obama.

In NH town, Salinger's privacy is important to all (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 04:05 PM PST AP - In the small New Hampshire town where recluse J.D. Salinger hid from the world, he lived in bucolic isolation in a hilltop home with commanding southerly views across the Connecticut River, Vermont's ski resorts visible in the distance.

Voters say Obama's speech a call to lawmakers (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:20 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama's intense focus on jobs in his first State of the Union speech hit close to home for the millions of Americans who are in a bad mood over their financial distress a year into his term.

Shiny gadget, icky name: iPad jokes fly on Web (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 04:08 PM PST AP - You have to wonder whether there were any women in the room when the marketing geniuses at Apple decided to call the company's new gadget the "iPad." Because the jokes about feminine hygiene products are flying.

Matthews' remark exposes complexity of 'transcending race' (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 02:09 PM PST AP - Five little words â€" "I forgot he was black" â€" have exposed a contradiction in the idea of a post-racial nation.

NH teen gets 20 to 40 years in slaying of cashier (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 11:14 AM PST AP - A New Hampshire teenager convicted in the killing of a disabled Wal-Mart cashier was sentenced Thursday to 20 to 40 years in prison, capping the prosecutions of four young people who set out to avenge the victim's passes at a co-worker.

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