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Calif. voters to decide whether to legalize pot (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 06:29 PM PDT

In this photo taken May 13, 2009 a grower holds a marijuana plant being grown for medical purposes inside a greenhouse at a farm in Potter Valley, Calif. In the mountain forests along California's North Coast, refugees from San Francisco's Summer of Love have spent four decades hiding from the law as they tended some of the world's most fabled marijuana gardens. After all those years, several statewide efforts to legalize marijuana could finally let those growers come out into the light. But at a community meeting in the heart of Northern California pot country on Tuesday, many growers said they were more worried about the cost of legalization to their bottom lines than about any federal raid. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - California voters will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana use for adults, after the secretary of state on Wednesday certified the initiative for the November ballot.

Hurled bricks, threats surround health overhaul (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 08:43 PM PDT

This picture provided on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by the Monroe County Democratic Committee in Rochester, N.Y. shows damage to their office after a glass door was struck with a brick with a note reading 'Exremism in Defense of Liberty Is no Vice' sometime from late Saturday, March 20, 2010 or Sunday, March 21, 2010. Bricks have been hurled through Democrats' windows, a propane line was cut at the home of a congressman's brother and lawmakers who voted for a federal health care bill have received phone threats in the days before and after passage of the sweeping legislation. (AP Photo/Monroe County Democratic Committee)AP - Unrest over sweeping federal health care legislation has turned to vandalism and threats, with bricks hurled through Democrats' windows, a propane line cut at the home of a congressman's brother and menacing phone messages left for lawmakers who supported the bill.

Fugitive missing for 38 years found running chapel (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:40 PM PDT

This Feb. 21, 1955 photo provided by the Montana Department of Corrections shows Frank Dryman when he was sentenced to Montana State Prison. Dryman, a hitchhiker convicted of killing a Montana man who picked him up during a 1951 blizzard, and then skipped out on parole 38 years ago, has been found running a wedding chapel in Arizona. Now 78, Dryman was arrested Tuesday March 23, 2010 by police and is awaiting extradition back to Montana. (AP Photo/Montana Department of Corrections)AP - A hitchhiker originally sentenced to be executed for the 1951 killing of a Montana man who picked him up during a blizzard has been found running a wedding chapel under an assumed name in Arizona 38 years after he skipped out on parole.

Immigration concerns trump abortion worry in Neb. (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 08:26 PM PDT

AP - Opposition to taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants appears to have trumped anti-abortion sentiments in Nebraska, likely ending an unusual collision of the two explosive political issues.

NJ gov off to a strong start; some say too strong (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2010 file photo, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie delivers an address to a special joint session of the New Jersey Legislature in Trenton, N.J. Christie's take-no-prisoners approach to fixing New Jersey's budget woes is garnering national attention at a time when the Republican Party faces questions about a future leader. (AP Photo/Curt Hudson, File)AP - There's not a lot that's small about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. He is a big man with a big personality and a big problem — namely, closing a nearly $11 billion deficit in a state whose residents carry the biggest property-tax burden in the country.

Divorce attorney says Dennis Hopper is dying (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:45 PM PDT

FILE- In this May 22, 2008 file photo, actor Dennis Hopper, left, and his wife Victoria Duffy Hopper arrive at the amfAR's annual Cinema Against AIDS 2008 gala at Le Moulin de Mougins, southern France. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)AP - Dennis Hopper is terminally ill and unable to undergo chemotherapy as he battles prostate cancer, his attorney wrote in a court filing.

Feds: Guns, cash stashed in reputed mobster's home (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 07:38 PM PDT

This Tuesday, March 23, 2010 evidence photo provided by the FBI and U.S. Marshalls Service shows a wrapped handgun at the Oak Brook, Ill. home of reputed mobster Frank Calabreese Sr. Federal officials say seven loaded firearms, jewelry and more than $700,000 cash was discovered in a secret compartment during a search of the suburban home. (AP Photo/FBI, U.S. Marshalls Service)AP - Federal agents searching a convicted mobster's home near Chicago found loaded guns, nearly $730,000 in cash and tape recordings that may contain "criminal conversations" hidden behind a basement wall, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

Judge's action in 9/11 health case raises eyebrows (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:45 PM PDT

Chilean fishermen work with a crane that was used to clean up the destruction of New York's World Trade Center, to put their boats back in the water after the February 27th tsunami left them on dry land, in the port of Talcahuano March 22, 2010. REUTERS/Jose Luis Saavedra (CHILE - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)AP - A federal judge pushed the limits of his legal authority when he rejected a settlement that would have paid at least $575 million to thousands of people who fell ill after working in the toxic ash of the World Trade Center, legal experts say.

Judge lifts stay blocking Noriega's extradition (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:35 PM PDT

AP - A Miami federal judge has lifted a stay blocking former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega from being extradited to France.

KC and Sunshine Band founder held on Ohio sex rap (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 09:11 PM PDT

AP - A music producer and co-founder of KC and the Sunshine Band responsible for such hits as "Shake Your Booty" and "Keep It Comin' Love" has acknowledged having sex with teenage boys, police said Wednesday.

Execution halted for Texas man claiming innocence (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:33 PM PDT

This March 17, 2010 photo shows Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner in the visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas. Skinner is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. His lawyers, pointing to 'troubling, unresolved questions about whether Mr. Skinner could have committed the murders,' awaited the outcome of an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court that sought to stop his scheduled lethal injection so they can persuade a court his constitutional rights to due process were violated. They've also asked Gov. Rick Perry to issue a 30-day reprieve so testing can be conducted. (AP Photo/Mike Graczyk)AP - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday stopped the execution of condemned prisoner Hank Skinner about an hour before he could have been taken to the Texas death chamber.

Outlaw pot growers in California fear legalization (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:26 PM PDT

In this photo taken May 13, 2009 a grower holds a marijuana plant being grown for medical purposes inside a greenhouse at a farm in Potter Valley, Calif. In the mountain forests along California's North Coast, refugees from San Francisco's Summer of Love have spent four decades hiding from the law as they tended some of the world's most fabled marijuana gardens. After all those years, several statewide efforts to legalize marijuana could finally let those growers come out into the light. But at a community meeting in the heart of Northern California pot country on Tuesday, many growers said they were more worried about the cost of legalization to their bottom lines than about any federal raid. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - The smell of pot hung heavy in the air as men with dreadlocks and gray beards contemplated a nightmarish possibility in this legendary region of outlaw marijuana growers: legal weed.

Robert Culp, who starred in `I Spy,' dead at 79 (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 07:13 PM PDT

FILE - This May 5, 2002 file photo shows Robert Culp arriving at NBC's 75th anniversary celebration in New York. Culp, the versatile actor who teamed with Bill Cosby in the groundbreaking comedy-adventure TV series 'I Spy' and was Bob in the critically acclaimed sex comedy 'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,' died Wednesday March 24, 2010. He was 79. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, file)AP - Robert Culp, the actor who teamed with Bill Cosby in the racially groundbreaking TV series "I Spy" and was Bob in the critically acclaimed sex comedy "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," died Wednesday after collapsing outside his Hollywood home, his manager said. Culp was 79.

Texas Tech offers quicker degrees to family docs (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:47 PM PDT

AP - Texas Tech University's medical school will soon become the first in the U.S. to offer aspiring family doctors a three-year degree at half the cost of a traditional four-year path, university officials said.

Flood of appeals likely after Neb. CSI conviction (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:50 PM PDT

Douglas County CSI David Kofoed listens to the judge before his verdict in Plattsmouth, Neb., Tuesday, March 23, 2010. A judge on Tuesday convicted Kofoed, a top crime scene investigator of evidence tampering, after prosecutors argued that the investigator planted blood from a slaying victim in a car linked to two suspects to bolster the case against them. Kofoed faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine at his May sentencing hearing. He remains free on bond. (AP Photo/Robert Becker, Pool)AP - As the chief crime scene investigator for Nebraska's busiest county, David Kofoed spent more than a decade helping put away hundreds of criminals using cold, hard science. He developed a reputation as a man who could find things others couldn't.

Trucks burned in possible threat to Calif. police (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:32 PM PDT

AP - Four municipal trucks were set ablaze in a rural Riverside County town plagued by bizarre booby trap attempts to kill police officers, and authorities said Wednesday the fire may be linked to the earlier attacks.

Ed Secretary Duncan faces questions on admissions (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:53 PM PDT

AP - News that President Barack Obama's top education official kept a log of calls from powerful people trying to get students into top Chicago high schools is raising more questions about the city's admissions practices.

Dwight Gooden charged with driving on drugs in NJ (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:17 PM PDT

FILE- In this Jan. 20, 2010, file photo, former New York Mets' players Dwight Gooden is interviewed at Citi Field in New York. Gooden has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs and leaving the scene of an accident, police say. Franklin Lakes, N.J., police Capt. Joseph Seltenrich says the 45-year-old former pitcher for the Mets and Yankees had a child in his vehicle at the time of the two-vehicle crash around Tuesday morning, March 23, 2010. Police say he was also charged with child endangerment and several motor vehicle violations. They didn't say what drugs they believe Gooden was on. He was released on his own recognizance until a municipal court hearing. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)AP - Former Major League Baseball star Dwight Gooden has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs and leaving the scene of an accident.

New ancestor? Scientists ponder DNA from Siberia (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 12:35 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the journal Nature shows a view from a rock above Denisova cave to the excavation field camp in in Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, Russia. Scientists have decoded DNA from a human ancestor that lived in Siberia 30,000 to 50,000 years ago - possibly a new member of the human family tree. (AP Photo/Nature, Johannes Krause)AP - In the latest use of DNA to investigate the story of humankind, scientists have decoded genetic material from an unidentified human ancestor that lived in Siberia and concluded it might be a new member of the human family tree.

Rep. Markey asked for police patrols at Colo. home (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 10:10 PM PDT

AP - Fort Collins police say Rep. Betsy Markey's office has requested increased patrols around her Colorado home out of fear it might be vandalized because she supported health care legislation.
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