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Obama urges patience as health care law kicks in (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:59 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Boston, Thursday, April 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Facing a public still wary of his massive health care overhaul, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged Americans not to judge the nearly $1 trillion legislation he signed into law last week until the reforms take hold.

Obama talks to Chinese leader while plane idles (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:54 PM PDT

President Barack Obama waves from Air Force One upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, April 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - President Barack Obama spoke for an hour with China's president on the phone from Air Force One Thursday night, welcoming the Chinese leader's decision to attend a nuclear security summit in Washington and discussing how to deal with Iran's nuclear program.

Abortion doctor's killer gets forum, life sentence (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:59 PM PDT

Scott Roeder sits in a Sedgwick County District courtroom in Wichita, Kan., Thursday, April 1, 2010 for his sentencing for the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller. Roeder was convicted last January for the crime and is facing a life sentence. (AP Photo/Jeff Tuttle, Pool)AP - Defiant in court, a man who murdered one of the few U.S. doctors who performed late-term abortions used his sentencing hearing to do what the judge wouldn't let him do during his trial — justify his crime by describing abortion in gritty detail.

Health dangers lurk in New England floodwaters (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 08:08 PM PDT

Oil slick runs through an industrial area of the Pawtuxet River in Warwick, R.I., Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Rhode Island rivers overflowed their banks, causing flooding and road closures after three days of record breaking rains. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - The sun is out. The water level is falling. Traffic is starting to flow again. While things appear to be looking up in Rhode Island, the state hit hardest this week by three days of rain and record flooding, health and environmental officials warn there's still danger below the surface.

Medical waste shipments turn up heads, torsos (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT

Paul Montano is shown in this March 31, 2010, booking mug provided by the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque, N.M. Albuquerque police arrested Montano on fraud charges in a gruesome case in which body parts that were supposed to be cremated and returned to families turned up in plastic bins in a delivery truck in Kansas. (AP Photo/Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center)AP - The first discovery was gruesome enough: a head and torso tucked inside a red biohazard tub that arrived at a Kansas company. Then it got worse.

Ore. scouting exec says parents negligent in abuse (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 06:45 PM PDT

AP - The president of the Boy Scouts council for the Portland metro area has testified he believes the parents of some Scouts were negligent and even criminal for allowing sleepovers that led to sex abuse.

Fundraiser charged in Mass. Catholic school ruse (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 06:51 PM PDT

Michael P. Hlady, 37, of Greenville, R.I., is arraigned in Central District Court in Worcester, Mass., Thursday, April 1, 2010, on charges of larceny by false pretenses. Hlady allegedly duped officials at the Venerini Academy, a Catholic school in Worcester, Mass., into believing he had a donor to finance a $3 million renovation project. (AP Photo/Jim Collins, Pool)AP - For the Venerini Sisters, it seemed like the answer to their prayers: An anonymous donor, lined up by a professional fundraiser, willing to give at least $3 million to finance an expansion of a private school run by the order of Roman Catholic nuns.

Hope and a telescope enthrall Gaza stargazers (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PDT

In this photo taken Feb. 22, 2010, Palestinian scientist Suleiman Baraka stands with his family next to a hut where his mother lives in the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. The eldest of 14 children of a butcher, Baraka rose from humble beginnings in violence-wracked Gaza to become an astrophysicist, space weather expert and researcher for NASA, the U.S. space agency. Now he is back home with a new mission to teach kids to look up from their blockaded, beaten-down surroundings and into the limitless beauty of the universe. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - Suleiman Baraka's journey could be measured in light years: the eldest of 14 children of a butcher, he rose from humble beginnings in violence-wracked Gaza to become an astrophysicist, space weather expert and researcher for NASA, the U.S. space agency.

Calif. AG: No criminality found on ACORN tapes (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 08:06 PM PDT

California Attorney General Jerry Brown speaks at a news conference in Riverside, Calif., Thursday, March 18, 2010 seeking the public's help, with a $200,000 reward being offered, for information to identify those responsible for attacks on the Riverside County Gang Task Force's headquarters in Hemet, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - California Attorney General Jerry Brown determined Thursday that ACORN broke no criminal laws, after reviewing videotapes that sparked a recent political firestorm.

Obama visits flood emergency site in Massachusetts (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:02 PM PDT

President Barack Obama talks with emergency response coordinators at the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency in Framingham, Mass. Thursday, April 1, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Detouring from his schedule, President Barack Obama on Thursday thanked emergency workers struggling against disastrous flooding in the Northeast.

FBI says ruse created to arrest militia members (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 09:15 PM PDT

Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Andrew G. Arena speaks with the Associated Press in Detroit, Thursday, April 1, 2010. Arena said the government created a memorial service 'ruse' to arrest several Midwest Christian militia members over the weekend. The Hutaree members believed they were going to an event at an Ann Arbor warehouse. Arena says that allowed the FBI to safely draw them to a location 'away from their weapons.' (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - Five members of a Midwest Christian militia accused of conspiring to overthrow the government were lured to a warehouse to attend a phony memorial service so they would be unarmed when authorities arrested them, Michigan's chief federal agent said Thursday.

Authorities expand search for missing Colo. girl (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 11:08 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shows Kayleah Wilson. More than 20 police officers and FBI agents were searching Wednesday, March 30, 2010 for the 12-year-old Greeley, Colo. girl missing since Sunday, when she left home to go to a friend's birthday party. (AP Photo/National Center for Missing and Exploited Children) NO SALESAP - Four days after a 12-year-old northern Colorado girl disappeared after leaving home to walk to a friend's birthday party, authorities expanded their search Thursday to include places she was known to frequent, including a music store, library and shopping mall.

NJ man arrested in connection to gang-rape case (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:52 PM PDT

AP - Police ramped up their investigation Thursday into the case of a 7-year-old girl who they say was gang-raped by a group of men while her 15-year-old stepsister watched and got paid for it.

Donations pour in to father of fallen Marine (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 03:41 PM PDT

AP - Donations are pouring in for a fallen Marine's father who was ordered to pay the court costs of an anti-gay church he's been battling.

PC maker, inspiration for Microsoft dies in Ga. (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 06:50 PM PDT

This April 1997 picture shows Dr. Henry Edward Roberts with the Altair 8800 computer in Cochran, Ga. Roberts, the developer of an early personal computer that inspired Bill Gates to found Microsoft, died Thursday, April 1, 2010 in Georgia. He was 68. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal & Constitution, William Berry) ** MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT **AP - Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, a developer of an early personal computer that inspired Bill Gates to found Microsoft, died Thursday in Georgia. He was 68.

Ariz. governor signs bill authorizing health suit (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 06:04 PM PDT

AP - Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill giving her authority to skirt the state's Democratic attorney general and file a lawsuit challenging federal health care legislation.

2 exonerated Conn. inmates freed after 16 years (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:50 PM PDT

Ronald Taylor, left, and George Gould, right, speak to the media after a hearing at Rockville Superior Court in Vernon, Conn., Thursday, April 1, 2010. Taylor and Gould were convicted of a 1993 New Haven murder, and their convictions were overturned after a star witness recanted. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - Ronald Taylor and George Gould, wearing shackles and the orange jumpsuits assigned to the state's convicted killers, entered court Thursday flanked by prison guards.

Ind. officer uses stun gun on unruly 10-year-old (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 04:37 PM PDT

AP - Two officers called to a home day care to subdue an unruly 10-year-old have been suspended after one used a stun gun on the boy and another slapped him in the mouth, a central Indiana police chief said Thursday.

APNewsBreak: Ligatures, drugs found in Ohio deaths (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 04:27 PM PDT

AP - Eight of 11 women whose remains were found in a sex offender's home were strangled, most with various household objects, and nine had traces of cocaine or depressants in their systems, according to autopsy reports obtained by The Associated Press.

Conn. triple murder suspect wants to plead guilty (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 03:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photograph released by the Connecticut State Police, Steven Hayes is shown. Hayes, one of two suspects charged in the home invasion killings of a Connecticut mother and her two daughters, told a judge Thursday, April 1, 2010, that he wants to plead guilty, but his own lawyers said the new plea should not be accepted. (AP Photo/Connecticut State Police, File)AP - One of two suspects charged in the home invasion killings of a Connecticut mother and her two daughters told a judge Thursday that he wants to plead guilty, but his own lawyers said the new plea should not be accepted.
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