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US priest accused of molesting 200 deaf boys (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 09:30 PM PDT

This 1974 photo shows Rev. Lawrence Murphy. The Vatican on Thursday March 25, 2010 strongly defended its decision not to defrock Murphy, an American priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin and denounced what it called a campaign to smear Pope Benedict XVI and his aides. (AP Photo/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ) MANDATORY CREDITAP - Arthur Budzinski says the first time the priest molested him, he was 12 years old, alone and away from home at a school for the deaf. He says he asked the Rev. Lawrence Murphy to hear his confession, and instead the priest took him into a closet under the stairs and sexually assaulted him.

FAA issues safety warning for homemade planes (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 03:59 PM PDT

AP - High-performance homemade planes like the one that killed a beach jogger last week in South Carolina are prone to stall, especially when going slower while waiting to land, and have been involved in a disproportionately large number of fatal accidents, federal officials warned Thursday.

Calif. pot vote isn't just hippies versus cops (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 04:10 PM PDT

In this photo taken May 13, 2009 marijuana grown for medical purposes is shown 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 - SAN FRANCISCO — Now that a proposal to legalize pot is on the ballot in California, well-organized groups are lining up on both sides of the debate. And it's not just tie-dyed hippies versus anti-drug crusaders.

RI Indians want valuable Navy property in Newport (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 06:52 PM PDT

The old naval hospital sits on ten acres of prime real estate abutting Narragansett Bay in Newport, R.I., Thursday, March 25, 2010. The hospital complex and 250 other acres on Aquidneck Island are being unloaded by the U.S. Navy as part of the nationwide Base Realignment and Closure process. The Narragansett Indian Tribe says the land falls under its ancestral footprint and is mounting a bid that may conflict with local development plans. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - Hundreds of prime acres are up for grabs in this waterfront city and its neighboring towns, valuable commodity on an island known for prized beaches, lavish homes and natural beauty.

Military judge could end case of 24 Iraqi killings (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 04:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 22, 2010 file photo, Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich arrives for a pretrial hearing at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in San Diego County, Calif. Wuterich, 30, is charged with voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, dereliction of duty and obstruction of justice. Lt. Col. David Jones says he will rule Friday March 26, 2010, on a motion to drop charges against Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the only remaining defendant in the case. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - The news came at a low point in the war in Iraq and seemed to reflect much of what was going wrong: A Marine squad killed 24 people in the town of Haditha in November 2005, including unarmed women and children in their homes.

3 Phoenix motorcycle riders killed in truck crash (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 09:41 PM PDT

Phoenix police detectives look over the scene of a multi-motorcycle and trash truck accident on the Carefree Highway Thursday, March 25, 2010 in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - A group of eight motorcycles stopped at a red light in north Phoenix were mowed down from behind by a dump truck early Thursday afternoon, killing three riders and injuring six others, at least one critically, authorities said.

2nd apparent pipe bomb found in east Texas mailbox (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 06:26 PM PDT

AP - An object resembling a pipe bomb was found in a mailbox in front of a small east Texas post office Thursday, the second such incident in three days, authorities said.

NYC's St. Vincent's Hospital fights for life (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 01:30 PM PDT

In this March 16, 2010 photo, Rev. James R. O' Connell sits by a notebook of handwritten prayers appealing to God to save St. Vincent's Hospital, in the hospital's chapel in New York. The 160-year-old hospital, known for treating survivors of the Titanic and New Yorkers fleeing the World Trade Center attacks, is threatened with closing because of a financial crisis. It is the only hospital with a trauma center on the west side of Lower Manhattan. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village has fought to save lives for more than 160 years, treating everyone from survivors of the Titanic in 1912 to New Yorkers fleeing the terror attack on the World Trade Center.

NY cops: Man, 90, hit, suffocated wife of 67 years (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 03:36 PM PDT

John Bunz, center, is escorted by Amherst Police from the Amherst Courthouse in Amherst, N.Y. on Thursday, March. 25, 2010. Bunz pleaded not guilty to 2nd degree murder charge in the death of his wife. Police say Bunz, a 90-year-old western New York man bludgeoned and suffocated his wife of nearly 68 years, but they still haven't released a motive for the attack. (AP Photo/Don Heupel)AP - A 90-year-old man accused of bludgeoning and suffocating his wife of nearly 68 years leaned on a walker as he made his way into court on a murder charge Thursday, both eyes blackened and his neck bruised.

Sex abuse scandal in US, Italy taints papacy (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 10:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 29, 2009 file photo, Gianni Bisoli gestures during an interview in Verona, Italy. Bisoli has accused Verona's late bishop, Monsignor Giuseppe Carraro, who is being considered for beatification, of molesting him on five separate occasions while he was a student at Verona's Provolo Institute for the deaf, which he attended from age 9 to 15. Revelations that the Vatican halted the investigation of a Wisconsin priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys have eerie echoes in Italy, where 67 deaf men and women accused two dozen priests of raping and molesting children for years. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, file)AP - Revelations that the Vatican halted the investigation of a Wisconsin priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys have eerie echoes in Italy, where 67 deaf men and women accused two dozen priests of raping and molesting children for years.

Medical helicopter crashes in Tenn.; 3 crew killed (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 06:55 PM PDT

An Air Evac worker is comforted at the scene of a medical helicopter crash Thursday, March 225, 2010 just outside of Brownsville, Tenn. Three people were killed early Thursday when a medical helicopter crashed in a field east of downtown Brownsville, Tenn. killing a pilot and two nurses on a return trip from delivering a patient. (AP Photo/The Jackson Sun, Aaron Hardin)AP - A medical helicopter crashed in stormy weather over western Tennessee early Thursday, killing its crew of three, around the same time another helicopter company had declined to go on a flight in the area because of the weather conditions.

Coroner: Threat letter part of snack heir suicide (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 03:04 PM PDT

FILE - This is an undated family file photo of lawyer Major Bashinsky. Bashinsky, whose body was found in a golf course pond in Montgomery, Ala., on March 15, took steps to make it look like he'd been abducted and murdered before he shot himself in the head, the coroner's office said Thursday, March 25, 2010. Chief Deputy Jefferson County Coroner Pat Curry said the 63-year-old Bashinsky killed himself after loosely binding his body with a rope and putting the label from a Golden Flake chips bag in his mouth. (AP Photo/ Family photo, File)AP - Days after Major Bashinsky disappeared from his law office earlier this month, a letter turned up in his abandoned car that angrily accused his prosperous family of mistreating workers at the snack food company it founded.

Tentative deal reached on rebuilding WTC site (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 04:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo of May 23, 2007, World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein poses for a portrait in his office overlooking the site in New York. Silverstein and government agencies that control the trade center site have reached a deal to resolve a 16-month stalemate over rebuilding at ground zero. Two people familiar with the deal say the agreement will allow four office towers to be built. It was expected to be formalized at a meeting of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday, March 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - The World Trade Center developer and government agencies that control the site have reached a tentative deal to resolve a 16-month stalemate over rebuilding at ground zero.

CDC: Breast-feeding varies by race, place (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 01:50 PM PDT

Katie Ervin Carlson poses with a photo of her son Nile on her computer in her office, Wednesday, March 24, 2010, in Des Moines, Iowa. Breast-feeding advocates, including Carlson, are expressing bewilderment that a bill designed to make the practice easier for women has suddenly been changed to require advanced notification and notarized agreements. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - A new study confirms that Hispanic women generally breast-feed more than white and black women do. But it finds surprising regional differences in U.S. breast-feeding rates.

PBS, NPR stations get $10M infusion for local news (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 01:34 PM PDT

AP - Public radio and TV stations across the country will receive more than $10 million over the next two years to boost local news coverage as newspapers decline.

Strip club 'pole tax' in hands of Texas high court (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 02:52 PM PDT

AP - The Texas Supreme Court is deciding whether to strip away a $5 entrance fee to watch nude dancers.

Wis. priest accused of molesting 200 deaf boys (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 03:21 PM PDT

This 1974 photo shows Rev. Lawrence Murphy. The Vatican on Thursday March 25, 2010 strongly defended its decision not to defrock Murphy, an American priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin and denounced what it called a campaign to smear Pope Benedict XVI and his aides. (AP Photo/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ) MANDATORY CREDITAP - Arthur Budzinski says the first time the priest molested him, he was 12 years old, alone and away from home at a school for the deaf. He says he asked the Rev. Lawrence Murphy to hear his confession, and instead the priest took him into a closet under the stairs and sexually assaulted him.

Death of coral reefs could devastate nations (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 10:49 AM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a healthy coral reef in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands is shown. According to the NOAA, some 27 percent of the world's reefs are already gone. If current trends continue, the agency predicts another two-thirds will disappear by 2032. That's nearly 70 percent of the world's reefs gone in just the next 20 years. (AP Photo/U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, HO)AP - Coral reefs are dying, and scientists and governments around the world are contemplating what will happen if they disappear altogether.

Toyota asks panel to consolidate lawsuits in Calif (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:28 PM PDT

A security guard who declined to give his name helps Lam Tran, right, carry boxes containing documents on Toyota cases outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Calif., Thursday, March 25, 2010. Attorneys for Toyota are asking a panel of federal judges to consolidate more than 200 lawsuits involving sudden acceleration problems before a single judge in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Attorneys for Toyota Motor Corp. and people suing the Japanese automaker over sudden acceleration problems urged a federal panel Thursday to consolidate more than 200 lawsuits before a single judge, with Los Angeles federal court emerging as the favored venue.

Dozens of cars pulled from Alaska auto graveyard (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 10:18 AM PDT

Old cars are seen at an auto graveyard in Anchorage, Alaska on Thursday, March 11, 2010. The state of Alaska Department of Fish and Game is removing old cars and other debris dumped off a cliff in Anchorage, Alaska, deposited in now what is the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge. Many of the cars were damaged in the Good Friday 1964 earthquake in Anchorage and dumped at the site, a gravel pit. Over the years, illegal dumping has continued with unwanted or stolen cars and other debris, like refrigerators and freezers. (AP Photo/Mary Pemberton)AP - When Anchorage had to dispose of thousands of cars and trucks damaged in a powerful 1964 earthquake, it dumped them off a 350-foot bluff near the outskirts of town.
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