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Database can crack missing person cases — if used (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:55 AM PST

FILE- In a photo made March 17, 2007, Janice Smolinski poses in her Cheshire, Conn., home where a photo of her son, Billy, is visible in the foreground. Billy disappeared from his Waterbury, Conn. home in Aug. 2004 and Smolinski believes a Justice Department database program will someday help find her son who was 31 when he vanished. (AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, File)AP - A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.

Police say bones of 14-year-old Calif. girl found (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 08:53 PM PST

FILE - This undated file image provided by the Dubois family shows Amber Dubois. Authorities in Southern California say the skeletal remains of Dubois, a 14-year-old girl who disappeared a year ago while walking to school, have been found in a remote area of the Pala Indian Reservation. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dubois family, File) NO SALESAP - The bones of a 14-year-old Southern California girl who vanished more than a year ago while walking to school were discovered in a rugged, remote area, authorities said Sunday, less than a week after a registered sex offender was charged with murdering another teenage girl who lived nearby.

ABC restored to 3.1M customers after Oscars begin (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

FILE - Bob Iger, president and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, delivers a keynote speech during the TelecomNEXT convention in Las Vegas on in this March 20, 2006 file photo. Cablevision Systems Corp. said early Sunday March 7, 2010 the stall in negotiations should be blamed on Disney CEO Bob Iger. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP - Cablevision's 3.1 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut had their access to the Academy Awards telecast restored Sunday night after the cable operator reached a deal with ABC's parent company in a dispute over fees.

Suspected gunman killed outside Walmart in Texas (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 03:10 PM PST

AP - A man walked into a Walmart in Texas carrying at least two guns before engaging in a shootout with police outside the store, authorities said. The man was killed and an off-duty officer in the store who had tried to stop him was injured.

Mo'Nique is 5th black woman to win acting Oscar (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 08:42 PM PST

Mo'Nique, right, nominated for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for AP - Mo'Nique became the fifth black woman to win an acting Oscar, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel won the same honor for "Gone With the Wind" — the first Academy Award ever given to a black performer.

Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:15 AM PST

AP - The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease.

Police: 8 teens shot while leaving Indiana concert (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:52 PM PST

AP - Authorities say eight teenage boys were shot while leaving a Gary, Ind., skating rink where they were attending a concert.

Waltz goes from Hollywood unknown to Oscar winner (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 10:25 PM PST

Christoph Waltz accepts the Oscar for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for AP - Christoph Waltz was a veteran TV and stage actor in Europe who was virtually unknown in Hollywood. Then he met Quentin Tarantino.

Ground zero hotel wants to attract 9/11 tourists (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 10:10 AM PST

In this photo taken March 3, 2010, the World Trade Center construction site is shown in a view taken from the rooftop restaurant of the World Center Hotel in New York. With rooms boasting views directly out on the construction, the hotel's proximity to the site of the Sept. 11 attacks is being used as a marketing tool. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Looking down into the construction site covering the 16 acres where the World Trade Center once stood, some might see a place shadowed by death.

Kansas City wants to close half its public schools (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 12:54 PM PST

AP - Kansas City was held up as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many kids were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and another with recording studios.

Hollywood billboards taken down amid legal battle (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:50 PM PST

A commercial billboard described as 'super graphic' ad for Asics sports wear, is seen on top of building in the Hollywood Boulevard section of Los Angeles on Thursday, March. 4, 2010. The Los Angeles city attorney's office has filed its first charges under a ban passed last year on the giant building-cloaking signs known as super graphics and most other digital billboards. The civil complaint filed Monday accuses 27 billboard companies, property owners and sign installers of violation of the ban approved in August by the City Council. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Five giant billboards have been removed from buildings in Hollywood near the site of the Academy Awards after Los Angeles prosecutors charged four people and four companies with hanging the so-called supergraphics illegally.

RI mayor faces new questions in Congressional run (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:09 AM PST

AP - Mayor David Cicilline claims he has cleaned up Providence after the corruption of his predecessor, but his family relationships and connection to a former staffer could raise new questions about his reformer credentials.

`Avatar,' `Hurt Locker' lead expanded Oscar parade (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 03:41 PM PST

With the threat of rain still present, a tent remains over the red carpet outside the entrance to the Kodak Theatre in preparation for the 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles, on Sunday, March 7, 2010. The Academy Awards will be held later in the day. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - Academy Awards voters are expected to go very big or very small on their best-picture winner at Sunday's Oscars.

WWII-era plane crashes off Fla. Panhandle; 2 dead (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:31 AM PST

AP - A neurosurgeon and one other person were killed when the World War II-era plane they were in crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Panhandle.

After much anticipation, it's finally Oscar time (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 02:49 PM PST

Fan Shiva Alizadeh of Denton, Texas, does a crossword puzzle while waiting in the red carpet bleacher seats outside the Kodak Theatre awaiting the start of the 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - The big day is here.
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