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Authorities: Prius seen near Border Patrol vehicle (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 07:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in El Cajon, Calif. A law firm for the driver who says his Toyota Prius sped out of control in California doesn't plan to sue the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - A California Highway Patrol report released Wednesday says an officer responding to a report of a runaway Toyota Prius arrived to find a Border Patrol agent near the driver with lights flashing.

More multigenerational families living together (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 09:18 PM PDT

AP - Goodnight, John-Boy: Driven partly by job losses, more multigenerational families are choosing to live together as "boomerang kids" flock home and people help care for grandchildren or aging parents.

Calif. rape suspect lived by school for 16 months (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 08:49 PM PDT

AP - A convicted sex offender charged with murdering a California teenager lived near a preschool for at least 16 months before parole agents forced him to move, according to state corrections records released Wednesday.

More than 100 complaints lodged over fixed Toyotas (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 10:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, the Toyota logo is seen on a car at a dealership in Nashville, Tenn. An analysis by The Associated Press finds that the U.S. government has received more than 100 complaints from drivers who say their recalled Toyotas are still accelerating on their own even after receiving the automaker's fix. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)AP - Complaints of sudden acceleration in Toyotas repaired under recalls have nearly doubled in the past two weeks, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data.

Nation, world go green for St. Patrick's Day (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 05:45 PM PDT

John Ruplenas, foreground, of Harpers Ferry, W.Va., and in background from left, Jessica Scott, Brandy Bazinet, and Johnna Pitt, all from Alabama, wait on 5th Ave for the start of the St. Patrick's day parade, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, in New York. Ruplenas arrived on 5th Ave to get a spot at 5 a.m. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish, or at least Irish for the day, as revelers marked St. Patrick's Day with bagpipes, dancing, emerald lights and green body paint in a flurry of celebration.

Police say man fatally shoots wife at Wash. church (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 08:22 PM PDT

AP - Police in Washington state say a man who accompanied his wife to a church for a counseling session shot the woman several times at the church, killing her.

Sheriff: Man sold his wife for sex on Craigslist (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PDT

AP - A woman feared she'd never see her young child again unless she complied with her husband's scheme to sell her sexual services on Craigslist, authorities said Wednesday.

Texas polygamist guilty of child sexual assault (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 08:13 PM PDT

AP - Prosecutors say a member of a polygamist group whose sprawling West Texas ranch was raided in 2008 has been found guilty of sexual assault of a child.

Pilot trapped under plane's wreckage for 8 hours (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 10:19 PM PDT

AP - Authorities rescued an injured pilot who was trapped for about eight hours in the wreckage of an experimental plane that crashed on an Indian reservation south of Phoenix.

Group decries textbooks on Islam as inflammatory (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:48 PM PDT

Shown are 'World of Islam' books by Mason Crest Publishing before a news conference held by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. The Muslim civil liberties group is protesting the series of children's textbooks that it says contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric against Islam. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A series of children's textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as inherently violent and deserving of suspicion, according to a Muslim civil liberties group.

Influential Big Star member Alex Chilton dies (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 09:48 PM PDT

AP - Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, who topped the charts as a teen and later became a cult hero with Big Star, died Wednesday. He was 59.

Research monkey deaths prompt calls for crackdown (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PDT

** CLARIFIES ONE MONKEY WAS KILLED AT THE CHARLES RIVER LABORATORY FACILITY IN RENO, NEV. AND 32 MONKEYS WERE KILLED AT THE COMPANY'S SPARKS, NEV. FACILITY ** This Monday, March 9, 2010 photo shows the Charles River Laboratory in Reno, Nev. Federal regulators cited this facility for a violation of the U.S. Animal Welfare Act in 2009 after a monkey was killed when workers failed to remove it from its cage before running it through a cage-washer. The accident came less than a year after USDA cited Charles River at another one of its labs across town in Sparks, Nev. for the deaths of 32 monkeys in a room that became too hot because the heater was left on. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be euthanized.

Sandbags on hand, Red River area waits for flood (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 08:31 PM PDT

Volunteers form an assembly line to pass sandbags while building a dike up to 40-feet around a south Moorhead, Minn. home on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Schoolchildren, parents and hundreds of residents have spent days packing and stacking sandbags to protect their cities against the rising Red River. The National Guard is in place, keeping watch over the water. Dike builders are finishing last-minute work. (AP Photo/Jay Pickthorn)AP - Schoolchildren, parents and hundreds of residents have spent days packing and stacking sandbags to protect their cities against the rising Red River. The National Guard is in place, keeping watch over the water. Dike builders are finishing last-minute work.

Search for Washington state mom and son resumes (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:55 PM PDT

AP - Authorities in Washington state on Wednesday resumed their search for a woman who appears to have abandoned a van on a remote Puget Sound beach over the weekend and disappeared with her 8-year-old son.

Report alleges Afghan contractor shot Ind. Marine (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:54 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. Marine Corps' investigation of the February death of an Indiana Marine in Afghanistan concludes that he was fatally shot when an Afghan security contractor fired shots at a group of Marines.

Was Ala. snack food heir's death tied to business? (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:11 PM PDT

This is an undated family photo of lawyer Major Bashinsky. A body removed from a Birmingham, Ala., golf course pond Mon. March 15, 2010, has been identified as Bashinsky, according to the Jefferson County Coroner's Office. (AP Photo/ Birmingham News)AP - An angry letter and a bag of Golden Flake chips were taped inside Major Bashinsky's abandoned car when it was found near downtown Birmingham.

Leprechaun-garbed holdup suspect among 2 shot dead (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:44 PM PDT

AP - Two bank robbery suspects, including one dressed in a green leprechaun costume, were shot dead after a St. Patrick's Day chase and shootout with police in Tennessee, authorities said.

Prescription-drug heists on the rise (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 02:11 PM PDT

The Eli Lilly warehouse is seen here in Enfield, Conn., Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Authorities say tens of millions of dollars worth of prescription drugs have been stolen in a brazen, well-planned heist at a pharmaceutical company's regional warehouse in Connecticut. (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Leslloyd F. Alleyne) MANDATORY CREDITAP - The $75 million heist at a pharmaceutical warehouse in Connecticut this week was just the most audacious example of a growing phenomenon: Thieves are stealing large quantities of prescription drugs for resale on the black market.

Convicted embezzler given tax break, then arrested (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:30 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections shows Richard A. Short. Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan confirmed that RASCO CEO Richard A. Short was arrested Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Michigan Department of Corrections)AP - A convicted embezzler who snagged a $9.1 million business tax credit from the state of Michigan was arrested Wednesday on a parole violation, a day after he appeared on stage with Gov. Jennifer Granholm as she announced the credits.

Drunken thief takes singer Justin Moore's guitar (AP)

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 04:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 16, 2009 file photo, Justin Moore arrives at the CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)AP - Country singer Justin Moore knows his fans can get rowdy — maybe sometimes to a fault.
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