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Feds: Christian militia needed to be `taken down' (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:31 PM PDT

This combo of eight photos provided by the U.S. Marshals Service on Monday March 29, 2010 shows from top left, David Brian Stone Sr., 44, of Clayton, Mich,; David Brian Stone Jr. of Adrian, Mich,; Jacob Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio; Tina Mae Stone and bottom row from left, Michael David Meeks, 40, of Manchester, Mich,; Kristopher T. Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio; Joshua John Clough, 28, of Blissfield, Mich.; and Thomas William Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Ind.,. Nine suspects tied to Hutaree, a Christian militia that was preparing for the Antichrist were charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then kill scores more by attacking a funeral using homemade bombs, federal prosecutors said Monday. Federal authorities say Stone's other son, Joshua Matthew Stone is a fugitive. Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Ind., was arrested Sunday in Illinois after an FBI raid Saturday in Hammond, Ind. In court Monday, he initially said he was the person named in the federal indictment, but when read the allegations, he said 'I'm not that guy.' U.S. District Judge Paul Cherry ordered Piatek to return Wednesday for an identity and bond hearing. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshall)AP - It started inside a trailer home in rural Michigan, where a small family gathered before bed for prayer. Years later, the private devotions had evolved into a small militia of "Christian warriors" preparing to fight the Antichrist.

A battered Rhode Island watches as the water rises (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:12 PM PDT

A man leaps across flooded Valley Street in Providence, R.I., Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Heavy rains and swollen rivers have caused flooding in the area. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - A record-shattering rainstorm hammered the Northeast on Tuesday, delivering widespread flooding for the second time this month and unleashing particular havoc in Rhode Island, a tiny coastal state already beleaguered by a sagging economy and backbreaking unemployment rate.

DC officials: 9 shot, 3 dead; arrests, no motive (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:53 PM PDT

AP - A drive-by shooting killed three people and wounded six others in the nation's capital Tuesday night, and three people were in custody, officials said.

Philly charter school moonlights as a nightclub (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:55 PM PDT

City Controller Alan Butkovitz makes remarks during a news conference in Philadelphia, Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Butkovitz is investigating spending practices at the Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School, which is already under fire for operating in a building that doubles as a nightclub. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Who knew a school cafeteria could be so much fun?

Calif. judge sentences serial killer to death (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:42 PM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 11, 2010 file photo shows Rodney Alcala, a former death row inmate who was twice convicted of the 1979 killing of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl, sitting in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)AP - Relatives of victims poured out their grief and anger Tuesday before convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala was sentenced to death in a packed courtroom in the 1970s strangling of four women and a 12-year-old girl.

Bullying raises questions about schools' vigilance (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:55 PM PDT

AP - A gay teenager in New York wins $50,000 from a school district that failed to stop taunts about his sexual orientation. The Justice Department investigates complaints that administrators ignored racial bullying in a Philadelphia school.

Dem AGs rebuff GOP govs on health-care lawsuits (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 05:47 PM PDT

AP - Republican governors in two western states want to join in legal challenges to recent federal health care legislation, but each is meeting stiff resistance from the same obstacle: an attorney general from the rival party.

Priest defends Vatican's handling of Wis. scandal (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:37 PM PDT

AP - A priest who investigated allegations that another priest sexually abused some 200 deaf Wisconsin children over a 24-year span defended the Vatican's handling of the case Tuesday, saying it's unfair to assume the current pope knew about the investigation at the time.

Body parts found at Kansas medical waste company (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 07:26 PM PDT

Containers holding unidentified body parts are stored by the Wyandotte County coroner Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in Kansas City, Kan. The body parts were discovered in a truck at a medical waste company. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - Three individuals have been identified so far among six heads and numerous other human body parts found in a truck at a Kansas medical waste facility, including at least one man who was to have been cremated, a coroner said Tuesday.

Fire at La. chemical warehouse forces evacuations (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:35 PM PDT

Firefighters spray water onto the burning Coco Resources warehouse on Eden Church Road in Denham Springs, La. on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Tim Mueller)AP - A huge fire broke out at a chemical warehouse Tuesday in southeastern Louisiana, rocketing 55-gallon drums into the sky, forcing the evacuation of about 200 people and pulling in about 100 firefighters, authorities said.

FAA, NTSB investigate near mid-air crash over SF (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:48 PM PDT

AP - Federal investigators are looking into the weekend near collision of a commercial jet and small airplane near San Francisco International Airport.

Lesbian, girlfriend OK for private Miss. prom (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:53 PM PDT

FILE - Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, is seen in a Monday, March 22, 2010 photo as she leaves the federal courthouse in Aberdeen, Miss. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Mississippi school district violated McMillen's rights by refusing to allow her to bring her girlfriend to the prom, but he said he would not force the school to hold the event.(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)AP - An attorney says a lesbian student who sued a Mississippi school over its policy banning same-sex prom dates can bring her girlfriend to a privately sponsored dance.

Man fleeing Ohio police jumps fence — into prison (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 07:09 PM PDT

AP - Police say a motorist fleeing officers in Cleveland abandoned his car and jumped a fence — landing in what turned out to be a prison yard.

Cops: Minn. man trapped, shot ex with kids in car (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:16 PM PDT

AP - A Minnesota man who repeatedly accused his ex-wife of child abuse rammed her car into a tree and shot her to death in front of their three young children before fleeing in a vehicle belonging to good Samaritans who responded to the crash, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Teacher who inspired 'Stand and Deliver' film dies (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:17 PM PDT

FILE - This March 9, 1988 file provided by Warner Bros., shows actor Edward James Olmos, left, comparing notes with high school teacher Jaime Escalante during the filming of the Warner Bros. film 'Stand And Deliver,' in Los Angeles. Escalante died Tuesday March 30, 2010 in Reno, Nev. He was 79. (AP Photo/Warner Bros., File) NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDITAP - Jaime Escalante, the math teacher who transformed a tough East Los Angeles high school and inspired the movie "Stand and Deliver," died Tuesday. He was 79.

Suicide-slaying suspected in deaths of 4 in NC (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:16 PM PDT

AP - Police on Tuesday said a North Carolina father sent his daughter to school for two weeks with a dire warning: Tell anyone about your two dead siblings at home, and I'll kill you and your brother, too.

Ex-Ga. congressman disputes ethics allegations (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:36 PM PDT

AP - A former congressman running for governor in Georgia disputed claims Tuesday that he may have broken ethics rules with his auto salvage business.

Atom smasher will help reveal 'the beginning' (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 22, 2007 file photo, the magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid) is shown in Geneva, Switzerland. The world's largest atom smasher set a record for high-energy collisions on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 by crashing proton beams into each other at three times more force than ever before. In a milestone in the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider's ambitious bid to reveal details about theoretical particles and microforces, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, collided the beams and took measurements at a combined energy level of 7 trillion electron volts. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini, File)AP - The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang — a success that kick-started a megabillion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began.

Judge asked to stop New Orleans hospital projects (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:33 PM PDT

AP - Preservationists say the construction of two hospitals to replace ones damaged by Hurricane Katrina would wipe out a historic New Orleans neighborhood, and they want a federal judge to block the projects.

NYC pays poor for good conduct, with mixed results (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:11 PM PDT

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, right, looks at Marilexis Guillen, as she talks to the media about benefits of the Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards Program, a program that gives money to low income families who make sure that their children improve their educational outcomes, during a news conference in The Bronx borough of New York, Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Looking on is Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs, center. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)AP - An experimental anti-poverty program that pays the poor for maintaining good habits — $25 to $150 for things such as going to the dentist, staying on the job or opening a bank account — has not exactly been life-changing.
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Obama signs final healthcare changes - Reuters

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 10:21 AM PDT


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Obama signs final healthcare changes
Reuters
US President Barack Obama greets the crowd as he arrives to deliver remarks and signs the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act into law at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia, March 30, 2010. ...
Obama signs student loan reforms into lawLos Angeles Times
Obama promotes 'overlooked' changes to student loan programUSA Today
It's official: President Obama signs health care reform billNew York Daily News
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FBI sees little chance of copycat militia plots - Washington Post

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:07 AM PDT


ABC News
FBI sees little chance of copycat militia plots
Washington Post
AP WASHINGTON -- FBI officials see little chance the arrests of nine suspects in an alleged Christian militia plot will spur other anti-government extremists to launch their own violent attacks. Suspected members of a group that ...
Should Hutaree group be called "Christian militia?"Kansas City Star
Stepmom Helped Militia Member's SurrenderCBS News
Feds: 9th militia suspect to face charges in Mich.The Associated Press
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Paul Using 9/11 Images In New TV Ad - WKRG-TV

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 10:17 AM PDT


Lexington Herald Leader
Paul Using 9/11 Images In New TV Ad
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by (AP) LOUISVILLE, Ky. Louisville, Kentucky - A new television ad from Republican Rand Paul is using images of a smoldering World Trade Center and the Pentagon after the Sept. 11 attacks. Paul's ad is a response to a recent spot by his opponent in the ...
Trey Grayson, Rand Paul and the politics of Sept. 11, 2001Washington Post (blog)
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Apple Fights for Broader Audience - Wall Street Journal

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:47 AM PDT


The Hindu
Apple Fights for Broader Audience
Wall Street Journal
No matter how big the purse in a heavyweight boxing match, the real gold may come from staging the fight. It is a little like that in the wireless industry. If Verizon Wireless gets to sell the iPhone in the next year or so, ...
Verizon iPhone: A Reality CheckPC World
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Small Plane Crashes Near Va. Airport - FOXNews

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 10:37 AM PDT


Small Plane Crashes Near Va. Airport
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A small private plane has crashed by a two-story building near the Roanoke Regional Airport in Virginia, Roanoke.com reports. A small private plane has crashed by a two-story building near the Roanoke Regional Airport in Virginia, Roanoke.com reports. ...
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Mini-Big Bangs created in cosmos origins project - Reuters

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 10:47 AM PDT


Telegraph.co.uk
Mini-Big Bangs created in cosmos origins project
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GENEVA, March 30 (Reuters) - Physicists smashed sub-atomic particles into each other with record energy on Tuesday, creating thousands of mini-Big Bangs like the primeval explosion that gave birth to the universe 13.7 years ago. ...
Large Hadron Collider Smashes Protons, Sets RecordNational Geographic
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Obama to sign student loan legislation in Virginia (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:07 AM PDT

President Barack Obama exits Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Monday, March 29, 2010, after making a surprise visit to Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - President Barack Obama prepared Tuesday to sign the piece of his sweeping health care overhaul that makes the government the primary lender to students and strips banks of that power.

Militia accused of plotting war on US government (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:53 AM PDT

Two Detroit city police officers on horses wait outside the Federal Courthouse. Nine members of a radical Christian militia were charged with plotting to kill police in Michigan and wage war on the government, an indictment unsealed Monday said.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AP - A ninth alleged member of a Christian militia group that prepared to battle the Antichrist and the U.S. government was arrested after the FBI played recorded messages from family and friends, who urged the man to give himself up, over loudspeakers outside a home in rural Michigan.

Death toll from Moscow subway blasts rises to 39 (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:21 PM PDT

A woman cries as Interior Ministry officers block her way in front of the exit of Lubyanka metro station in Moscow March 29, 2010. Two blasts ripped through packed Moscow metro stations on Monday during rush hour, killing at least 34 people and wounding 18, Russian officials said. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin (RUSSIA - Tags: DISASTER CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST TRANSPORT)AP - A woman has died in a clinic from wounds suffered in the double suicide bombing of the Moscow subway, officials said Tuesday, raising the death toll to 39 as the country entered a day of mourning.

NASA will help probe Toyota acceleration problem (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:16 AM PDT

A Toyota Motor Corp car is seen inside the environment testing chamber during a quality control demonstration at its headquarters in Toyota, central Japan, March 30, 2010. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonAP - NASA and the National Academy of Sciences are joining the government's effort to figure out what caused the sudden acceleration problems that led to Toyota's massive recalls.

Obama set to ask visiting Sarkozy for Afghan help (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:07 AM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech to students at Columbia University in New York. Sarkozy called Monday for US economic reforms, and in comments echoing Franco-American spats of the past, said Washington cannot AP - France's President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves behind a romantic sojourn in New York for an encounter he's long been waiting for: talks Tuesday with President Barack Obama in the White House.

No communication from 153 trapped in China mine (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:44 PM PDT

Coal miners wait for news of their colleagues at the entrance to a flooded mine shaft at the Wangjialing coal mine, in northern China's Shanxi province on March 29, 2010. Nearly 1,000 rescuers raced against the clock Tuesday to free more than 150 workers trapped in a flooded half-built coal mine in north China, as officials warned gas was building up in the pit.(AFP/Peter Parks)AP - Anxious relatives of 153 workers trapped in a flooded mine in northern China milled helplessly above ground Tuesday, demanding action and answers as rescue efforts stretched into the third day with no communication from those stuck deep underground.

More flooding threatens storm-weary East Coast (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:47 AM PDT

National guardsmen, including Norma Fuentes, center, stack sandbags onto pallets at the Massachusetts Highway Department in Lexington, Mass., Monday, March 29, 2010, to be deployed to flood areas as needed around the state. Residents along the East Coast are bracing Monday for days of heavy rain, flooding and the wettest March on record in some areas. The National Weather Service posted flood warnings and advisories from Maine to the Carolinas as forecasts called for as much as 5-to-7 inches of rain over the next three days. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - A second major storm in less than a month continued to drench the East Coast as meteorologists predicted "very dangerous" flooding Tuesday in the Northeast and the wettest March on record in some places.

SKorean president visits site where navy ship sank (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:14 AM PDT

South Korean Navy's Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH) vessel Dokdo (behind) and South Korean Marines on rubber boats search possible survivors and bodies from a sunken naval ship Cheonan along the seashore on Baengnyeongdo, an island near the border with North Korea March 30, 2010. The South Korean naval ship sank on Friday night near the disputed maritime border with the North and 46 sailors were reported missing. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: MILITARY DISASTER)AP - South Korea's president ordered the military on alert Tuesday for any moves by rival North Korea after the defense minister said last week's explosion that sank a South Korean ship may have been caused by a North Korean mine.

Ricky Martin is livin' la vida open, says he's gay (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:46 AM PDT

Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin arrives at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in this January 31, 2010 file photo. Martin admitted March 29, 2010 that he was gay in a blog posting, ending years of speculation on the subject. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY)AP - Ricky Martin is no longer denying the rumors: He's gay.

Nets get 10th win, avoid share of NBA's worst mark (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:45 PM PDT

San Antonio Spurs' Richard Jefferson, center, and Tim Duncan, upper right, knock the ball away from New Jersey Nets' Yi Jianlian, of China, as Nets' Brook Lopez, left rear, looks on during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game Monday, March 29, 2010 in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)AP - The New Jersey Nets notched their 10th victory Monday night, avoiding any chance of tying for the worst record in NBA history by beating the short-handed San Antonio Spurs 90-84.

G8 ministers call for strong measures against Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:20 PM PDT

Reuters - Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrial nations will call on the international community to take "appropriate and strong steps" to show its resolve over Iran's nuclear activities.

Obama administration has blunt message for insurers (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:54 PM PDT

Nils Higdon, 24, poses for a photo at his Chicago home, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Higdon is a self-employed percussionist and music teacher, and sees the age issue as a sign of why the health care system needed reform.(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)Reuters - The Obama administration on Monday had a blunt message for health insurers -- the new healthcare law requires that they not drop coverage for children with certain pre-existing conditions.

NASA to test Toyota electronics in safety probe (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:13 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. auto safety regulators are turning to NASA scientists for help in analyzing Toyota Motor Corp electronic throttles to see if they are behind unintended acceleration, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said on Tuesday.

Obama tells China U.S. wants positive relationship (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 08:21 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama told China's new ambassador Washington wanted to "further develop" a positive relationship with China, the White House said in a statement on Monday.

Christian militia members charged in Michigan (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:47 AM PDT

Reuters - Nine members of a Christian militia group were indicted on charges of conspiring to wage war against the U.S. government, federal prosecutors said on Monday.

Australia says Rio trials opaque, business seeks answers (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:29 PM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said the world is watching the trial of the Rio Tinto employees. The trial has been widely seen as a test of the rule of law in China and has sparked concerns about doing business in the world's third-largest economy.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)Reuters - Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Tuesday that the verdicts in the trial of four executives of global miner Rio Tinto left serious unanswered questions for business about China's legal system.

Health reform faces big test with implementation (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:04 AM PDT

Reuters - Democrats are pushing to shore up support for the U.S. healthcare overhaul signed into law by President Barack Obama, but the final public verdict will largely depend on how smoothly it is put into effect.

'Shattered' Russia mourns metro bombing victims (AFP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:44 PM PDT

Russian police stand near a map of the Moscow metro transport system outside the Lubyanka metro station in Moscow on March 29, 2010. Moscow held a day of mourning Tuesday for the 39 victims of twin rush-hour suicide bombings on packed metro trains, as Russian leaders pledged to hunt down and wipe out those behind the attacks.(AFP)AFP - Moscow held a day of mourning Tuesday for the 39 people killed in a pair of underground suicide bombings as the Russian authorities faced pressure to prevent a resurgence of deadly militant attacks.

Obama wants 'positive relationship' with China (AFP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:31 PM PDT

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama conducts a press conference February 18, 2010 in Washington, DC. Washington angered Beijing on its bubbling issues over separatism with a 6.4-billion-dollar arms sale to Taiwan in January, and US President Barack Obama's talks with the Dalai Lama at the White House the following month.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)AFP - US President Barack Obama is determined to further develop a "positive relationship" with China, the White House said in comments welcomed by Beijing as the two powers seek to overcome deep strains in their ties.
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