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Snowstorm in Northeast, rain pounds New England (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 10:57 PM PST

A US Airways Express plane is treated prior to take off at Newark Liberty International Airport today, Thursday, Feb. 25 in Newark, NJ. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)AP - A slow-moving winter storm packing heavy, wet snow and potentially flooding rain spread over the Northeast on Thursday, disrupting air traffic and closing schools. Utility companies braced for possible widespread power outages overnight due to high winds and toppled trees.

NY Gov. Paterson won't drop bid despite scandal (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 10:42 PM PST

New York Gov. David Paterson speaks during a news conference Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 in New York. Paterson is under pressure to drop his run for a full term this year after a report about a domestic abuse complaint against a top aide David Johnson stemming from a Halloween 2009 argument between the aide and a woman, according to a police report. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - Despite calls from leading Democrats to step aside, Gov. David Paterson said Thursday he won't drop his election bid amid a growing scandal surrounding accusations of domestic violence against a key aide.

Mass. DA seeks inquest in '86 Bishop shooting case (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 09:30 PM PST

This police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Dept.)AP - A Massachusetts prosecutor ordered an inquest into Amy Bishop's 1986 fatal shooting of her brother, saying there are new questions about whether it was the accident investigators concluded at the time.

SeaWorld will keep whale despite trainer's death (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 10:43 PM PST

Guests pass a sign noting the Shamu Show is closed as they enter the SeaWorld theme park the day after an incident involving the death of a trainer at the theme park in Orlando, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Despite calls to free or destroy the animal, SeaWorld said Thursday it will keep the killer whale that drowned its trainer, but will suspend all orca shows while it decides whether to change the way handlers work with the behemoths.

Gunman dead in Calif. rampage that killed deputy (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 09:16 PM PST

A Fresno County Sheriff's Deputy ducks for cover behind irrigation wells while responding to a shooting of three officers in Minkler, Calif. on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Justin Kase Conder)AP - A gunman opened fire Thursday on authorities who tried to serve search warrants at his mobile home in Central California, killing one law enforcement officer and wounding two others before barricading himself in the residence during a raging gunbattle that also left him dead.

California man convicted of 5 serial slayings (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 06:18 PM PST

Rodney Alcala looks up after being found guilty on all counts in Santa Ana, Calif. on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 in the murder of a 12-year-old girl and four women in the late 1970s. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Michael Goulding)AP - A jury convicted an amateur photographer Thursday for the third time in the murder of a 12-year-old girl and also found him guilty in the brutal stranglings of four women, whose deaths went unsolved for decades until investigators discovered DNA and other evidence tying the cases together.

Friend: NY mom had obsessed over dead son's autism (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 06:12 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2010 file photo, members of the Medical Examiners Office remove the body of 8-year-old Jude Michael Mirra from the Peninsula Hotel in New York where his mother, Gigi Jordan, is accused of killing him. After years of struggling - with his severe autism and her inability to help him - Jordan gave up. To those who knew her, she was a loving, overprotective single mother who snapped under incredible strain. To prosecutors, she is a killer. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Gigi Jordan quit a high-powered job as a pharmaceutical company executive and abandoned her social life to devote all her time to her severely autistic son.

Md. inmate leaves prison by impersonating cellmate (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 09:50 PM PST

In this undated photo released by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Raymond Taylor is shown. Maryland's Commissioner of Correction J. Michael Stouffer said Thursday night Feb. 25, 2010, that 26-year-old Raymond Taylor of New York, who was serving three life sentences for attempted murders, pretended to be another inmate and was mistakenly released from custody. (AP Photo/Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services)AP - An inmate serving three life sentences for attempted murder convictions pretended to be a cellmate who was due for release and walked out of a Baltimore prison, corrections officials said Thursday night.

2 indicted in foiled NYC subway bomb plot case (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:49 PM PST

In this courtroom sketch, Adis Medunjanin, second from left, stands next to lawyer Michael Marinaccio and his client Zarein Ahmedzay, fourth from left, during a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010. Medunjanin and Ahmedzay, both high school classmates of admitted terrorist plotter Najibullah Zazi, were indicted Thursday in a foiled scheme to bomb New York City subways that a prosecutor said was directed by 'al-Qaida leadership.' Assistant US Attorney Berit Berger, second from right, and Assistant US Attorney Jeffery Knox, right, stand in front of the defendants. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)AP - Two high school classmates of admitted terrorist Najibullah Zazi were indicted Thursday in a foiled scheme to bomb New York City subways that a prosecutor said was directed by "al-Qaida leadership."

Father: Suspect may have contacted students online (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 06:01 PM PST

Deer Creek Middle School teacher David Benke describes his altercation with school shooting suspect Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood during a news conference at the Jeffco Public Schools administration building in Golden, Colo. on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)AP - Among items seized from the room of a man accused of wounding two students at a Colorado middle school were photos of youths who appear to be in their teens, prompting the accused's father to speculate that his son may have had online contact with students there prior to the attack.

Step show prize to be shared after Internet stir (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 05:29 PM PST

In this photo provided by Sprite, members of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority from the University of Arkansas compete in the Sprite Step Off National Finals Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, in Atlanta. Eighty teams from fraternities and sororities at forty universities participated in the competition which featured a grand prize of $100,000 in scholarships, triumphing in the largest prize pool ever of $1.5 million in scholarships. After days of controversy over Zeta Tau Alpha group's win in a step competition, sponsor Coca-Cola said Thursday Feb. 25, 2010, the second-place team Alpha Kappa Alpha will share top honors. (AP Photo/Sprite, John Amis)AP - After days of controversy over a white group's win in a step competition, sponsor Coca-Cola said Thursday the second-place team will share top honors.

Neb. lawmakers discuss fetal pain abortion bill (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2006, file photo Nebraska abortion provider Dr. LeRoy Carhart is seen at his clinic in Bellevue, Neb. A determined group of state lawmakers is pushing legislation that would make Nebraska the first state to limit so-called late-term abortions based on the belief that a fetus feels pain during the procedure. The legislation looks to again thrust Carhart, who is one of a handful of remaining doctors in the United States who perform third-trimester abortions, into the center of the national abortion debate. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)AP - A group of lawmakers is pushing to make Nebraska the first state to outlaw most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on the argument that the fetus might feel pain during the procedure.

Conn. officer who shot chimp testifies of trauma (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 02:45 PM PST

Stamford police officer Frank Chiafari testifies in Hartford, Conn., Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, before state lawmakers about the need to reform workers compensation laws. Chiafari says he was traumatized after shooting a rampaging chimpanzee to death after it mauled and blinded its owner's friend about a year ago. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - A police officer on Thursday recalled how he plunged into "a depression beyond depression" after shooting a rampaging 200-pound chimpanzee and said he was traumatized by seeing the woman who had been brutally mauled by an animal he calls "a monster."

'Toyota defense' might rescue jailed Minnesota man (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:43 AM PST

Koua Fong Lee wipes his eye as he is interviewed Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 at the state prison in Lino Lakes, Minn., where he is serving a sentence for a fatal accident involving his 1996 Toyota Camry in June 2006 in St. Paul, Minn., that killed three people. With recent revelations of safety problems with later-model Toyotas, Lee is pressing to get his case reopened and his freedom restored. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen)AP - Ever since his 1996 Toyota Camry shot up an interstate ramp, plowing into the back of an Oldsmobile in a horrific crash that killed three people, Koua Fong Lee insisted he had done everything he could to stop the car.

Military spouses angry that DoD halts job grants (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:15 PM PST

AP - Military spouses were enthusiastic when the government started offering them grants last year of up to $6,000 for college or career training. Word spread quickly and they signed up by the tens of thousands.

Age hasn't slowed 80-year-old California burglar (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 01:44 PM PST

This undated booking photo provided by the Torrance Police Department shows Doris Thompson, an 80-year-old woman with a criminal record stretching back to 1955 who was sentenced Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010 to three years in state prison for ransacking and stealing cash from a medical office. (AP Photo/Torrance Police Department)AP - Doris Thompson hasn't let age slow her down. At 80, she's still ransacking and burglarizing medical offices.

Calif. lawmakers: Cut the foul language, please (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 03:21 PM PST

AP - Californians had better start watching their mouths.

Officials rule arson caused fire at pilot's house (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 05:55 AM PST

FILE - This Feb. 18, 2010, file photo shows the Austin, Texas, home of Joseph Stack, a software engineer, who set it on fire, law enforcement officials said. Stack's views on taxation follow a long line of protesters, who believe tax laws don't apply to them; his bitter feud with the IRS apparently drove him to commit suicide by slamming his single-engine Piper PA-28 into an Austin office building where the IRS has offices. (AP Photo/ Thao Nguyen, File)AP - Authorities in Texas have ruled arson is the official cause of the fire that destroyed the house belonging to the man who flew his plane into an office building.

Ex-Klansman convicted in '64 slayings sues FBI (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 12:11 PM PST

AP - A former Ku Klux Klansman convicted in the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers has sued the FBI, claiming the government used a mafia hit man to pistol-whip and intimidate witnesses for information in the case.
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