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Authorities: Body on Wash. beach is missing boy (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 09:43 PM PDT

Members of Pierce County Sheriff's Metro Dive Rescue Team carry a stretcher ashore as they prepare to retrieve the body of a young boy found on Fox Island, Wash., Thursday, March 18, 2010. Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer is at right. Washington state authorities say they're '99 percent sure' that the child's body found in Puget Sound is that of an 8-year-old boy who vanished with his mother last weekend. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Dean J. Koepfler)AP - A child's body found Thursday on an island beach in Puget Sound is that of an 8-year-old boy who vanished last weekend with his mother, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman said.

Kids who helped deliver baby describe ordeal (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 09:29 PM PDT

This Tuesday, March 16, 2010 picture shows the Sanders family, from left, Alana, Faith, 11, Geoffrey, newborn Joseph, Jabari, 9, and Janelle, 2, in Fremont, Calif. Jabari and Faith helped their mother Alana deliver their baby brother Joseph at home on March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group - The Contra Costa Times, Anda Chu) ** MANDATORY CREDIT: BAY AREA NEWS GROUP - THE CONTRA COSTA TIMES, ANDA CHU; MAGS OUT **AP - When their mom went into labor with no one else around, a 9-year-old California boy and his 11-year-old sister quickly responded like pros and helped care for their newborn brother.

US Rep: Pa. 'Jihad Jane' terror suspect cooperated (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 10:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 26, 1997 booking photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, is shown Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose makes her first court appearance Thursday March 18, 2010 since a stunning indictment last week that charged that she plotted with terror suspects abroad to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail)AP - A woman accused of trolling the Internet as Jihad Jane and agreeing to marry a suspected terrorist and kill a Swedish artist targeted by radical Muslims cooperated with authorities, a congressman said.

APNewsBreak: SC gov to pay $74K in ethics fines (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:12 PM PDT

FILE- In this file photo taken Jan. 20, 2010, Gov. Mark Sanford delivers his last State of the State address to the joint legislative session at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. Sanford has agreed to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve dozens of charges that he violated state ethics laws with his campaign spending and travel, including a taxpayer-funded rendezvous with his Argentine mistress, the State Ethics Commission said Thursday, March 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has agreed to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve dozens of charges that he violated state ethics laws with his campaign spending and travel, including a taxpayer-funded rendezvous with his Argentine mistress, the State Ethics Commission said Thursday.

Marine general to testify at Haditha hearing (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 06:31 PM PDT

AP - A four-star general will testify at a pretrial hearing in the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops to arise from the Iraq war, a Marine Corps spokesman said Thursday.

Gunman kills KC 7-Eleven clerk working final shift (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 10:25 PM PDT

AP - Gurpreet Singh was working his final shift as a 7-Eleven clerk, before moving on next week to full-time job at a hospital, when he was gunned down during a robbery.

Fargo residents learn from mistakes in flood fight (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 06:10 PM PDT

Mark Houglum works on a 40 foot flood wall used to protect his Moorhead, Minn. residence from the swollen Red River on Thursday, March 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Jay Pickthorn)AP - Before this flood season, officials in Fargo asked homeowners to clear paths in their yards so that firm and straight walls of sandbags could be placed to protect their homes. One resident cut down his tree. Another went so far to use a torch to melt the ice off his ground.

Terror suspect admits scouting for Mumbai massacre (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:33 PM PDT

FILE- In this Dec. 9, 2009 file courtroom drawing shows David Coleman Headley, left, pleads not guilty before U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber in Chicago to charges that accuse him of conspiring in the deadly 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai and of planning to launch an armed assault on a Danish newspaper. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - A Chicago man admitted Thursday that he scouted out the Indian city of Mumbai for a 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead and plotted an attack on a Danish newspaper over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

NTSB seeks better communications after NWA mishap (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 08:14 PM PDT

AP - Federal safety officials recommended Thursday that better communications procedures be adopted in the wake of a fatal Montana plane crash and a Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Minneapolis airport by more than 100 miles last year.

Medical marijuana a frequent target for criminals (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 06:29 PM PDT

Steve Sarich stands in a room used to grow medical marijuana in his home, Tuesday, March 16, 2010, in Kirkland, Wash. King Co. Sheriff's deputies said they found 385 marijuana plants in Sarish's home as they investigated a shootout between Sarich and a robber in his home earlier in the week. Sarich uses pot for back pain and runs an organization called CannaCare. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands of pot thieves.

Calif. bikers eyed in police building booby traps (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 08:39 PM PDT

A tract home that had been repurposed into the headquarters of the Riverside County Gang Task Force in Hemet, Calif., is seen Thursday, March 18, 2010. A triggering device attached to a ballistic device narrowly missed wounding a police officer who sought to open the gate, which had been barring a driveway to the home. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Authorities are investigating whether a motorcycle gang rigged a Southern California police building with booby traps after becoming angry when police monitored the funeral of a member.

Leprechaun holdup suspect linked to Santa robbery (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:46 PM PDT

In this image made from surveillance video provided by Gallatin Police Department, David Christopher Cotton, dressed as a leprechaun, is seen during a robbery of First State Bank in Gallatin, Tenn., Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Police have linked a deadly St. Patrick's Day bank robbery by a man in a leprechaun costume with a Christmastime bank holdup by a man in a Santa suit. Police on Thursday, March 18, 2010 said the two suspects who died after a shootout with Gallatin police were David Christopher Cotton of Brentwood and Jonathan Ryan Skinner, a Western Kentucky University student. Both were 20 years old. (AP Photo/Gallatin Police Department)AP - The man who staged a St. Patrick's Day bank robbery in a leprechaun costume and died during a police shootout also held up a bank three days before Christmas in a Santa suit, police said Thursday.

Polanski lawyers seek inquiry into misconduct (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 06:39 PM PDT

Polish-born film director Roman Polanski awaits a public talk in Potsdam February 19, 2009. REUTERS/Hannibal HanschkeAP - Roman Polanski's attorneys filed an appeal Thursday asking that a special counsel be appointed to investigate alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the fugitive director's 32-year-old sex case.

Fess Parker, TV's `Davy Crockett,' dies at 85 (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 09:02 PM PDT

In this undated image released by Disney, Fess Parker is shown Davy Crockett in Disney's, 'Davy Crockett.' Family spokeswoman Sao Anash says Parker died Thursday, March 18, 2010, of natural causes at his Santa Ynez home near the Fess Parker Winery. He was 85. (AP Photo/Disney)AP - Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.

NH man convicted of killing landlord for truck (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:08 PM PDT

AP - A jury convicted a New Hampshire man Thursday of beating his landlord to death with a hammer to steal his new pickup truck, and rejected the defendant's claims he acted in self-defense when the landlord tried to rape him.

US citizen pleads guilty in 1968 air hijacking (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:08 PM PDT

AP - A 67-year-old man on Thursday admitted hijacking a plane four decades ago and forcing it to land in Cuba, telling a judge how he threatened to cut a flight attendant's throat to get access to the cockpit, where another man held a gun to the back of the co-pilot.

Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:52 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 photo, former student Ashley Delgado, left, stands with a sign next to Joe Clavin outside Central Falls high school in Central Falls, R.I. Instructors and staff will be fired after the end of the school year in a desperate move to improve student performance at the school. The firings were provoked by dismal student performance: In 2009, fewer than half of its students graduated within four years. And standardized tests last fall showed just 7 percent of eleventh graders passing math, 33 percent passing writing and 55 percent proficient in reading. The school educates just over 1,000 students. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)AP - A teacher at a failing school where he and all his colleagues are being fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama's support of extreme measures to ensure accountability in schools.

Woman testifies against RI officer accused of rape (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:34 PM PDT

AP - A woman who says an on-duty Providence police officer raped her testified on the opening day of a sexual assault trial Thursday that she woke up in the bathroom stall of a police substation with her pants undone and her undergarments removed.

Prosecutor: Serial killer linked to more cases (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:08 PM PDT

These are five of the hundreds of photos recovered during court-authorized searches of Alcala's Monterey Park home and a storage locker Alcala rented in Seattle that were released Wednesday March 10, 2010 by the Huntington Beach police. Huntington Beach police are asking for the public's help in identifying any potential victims among dozens of young women apparently photographed by Rodney Alcala, convicted in the serial murders of four women and a 12-year-old girl. (AP Photo/Huntington Beach police)AP - Convicted serial killer Rodney James Alcala may be linked to the unsolved cases of at least six people who disappeared or were killed, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said Thursday.

Private drama plagues Oscar winner Sandra Bullock (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:28 PM PDT

FILE - Sandra Bullock and Jesse James arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party on in this March 7, 2010 file photo taken in West Hollywood, Calif. Sandra Bullock has canceled her appearance at the London premiere of 'The Blind Side' scheduled for Tuesday March 23, 2010 almost two weeks after winning a Best Actress Academy Award. In a statement released by Warner Bros UK., the 45-year-old actress says she can't attend the event for 'unforeseen personal reasons.' (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)AP - Sandra Bullock is on a career high. America's Sweetheart and "Miss Congeniality" was repeatedly anointed as Hollywood royalty this year, sweeping awards season and capping it off with an Oscar for her role as a devoted mom in "The Blind Side."
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