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Calif. parents recount ordeal of missing daughter (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 09:38 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shows Chelsea King. King, of Poway, Calif., disappeared after going for a run near Lake Hodges at Rancho Bernardo Community Park in San Diego, a popular regional park full of trails. Authorities and volunteers are widening a search for King after John Gardner III was arrested for investigation in her disappearance. (AP Photo/National Sex Offender Public Web site)AP - Brent and Kelly King knew something was wrong when they discovered their 17-year-old daughter Chelsea wasn't home.

SeaWorld workers describe frenzy of fatal attack (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 07:20 PM PST

A SeaWorld trainer tosses a fish to a killer whale during the first show after a trainer was killed by an orca at the theme park three days earlier in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010. More than 2,000 people watched killer whales perform Saturday at SeaWorld for the first time since one of the orcas dragged a trainer to her death underwater in front of horrified spectators. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, Pool)AP - A killer whale that dragged a trainer to her death eluded SeaWorld workers' frenzied efforts to corral it with plastic nets while it swam pool-to-pool, according to witness statements released Monday.

O.J. Simpson's 'acquittal suit' to be donated (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 09:44 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 1995 file photo, O.J. Simpson, center, reacts as he is found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, as members of his defense team, F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie Cochran Jr., right, look on, in court in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Pool, Myung J. Chun, file)AP - With O.J. Simpson giving his agreement from prison, a judge approved a plan Monday to donate the suit the former NFL star was wearing when he was acquitted of murder to the Smithsonian Institution.

Wash. to intervene in Yucca Mountain case (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 06:18 PM PST

AP - Washington state plans to intervene in the federal government's decision to withdraw its license application for a Nevada nuclear waste repository.

Official: Substance at Utah IRS bldg not hazardous (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 04:16 PM PST

People stand around outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Ogden, Utah after hazardous materials and fire crew members arrived on Monday, March 1, 2010. Emergency workers were called to the building after a suspicious substance was found. (AP Photo/Standard-Examiner, Erin Hooley) MANDATORY CREDIT: STANDARD-EXAMINER, ERIN HOOLEY; MAGS OUT, NO SALES, TV OUT, ARCHIVE OUTAP - A suspicious substance found at an IRS building in Ogden, Utah, on Monday is not hazardous, an official with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said.

Brooklyn DA: No criminality caught on ACORN video (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 04:29 PM PST

AP - ACORN employees caught on video apparently advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend to lie about her profession and launder her earnings did not commit a crime, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office said Monday.

Suggestive NJ billboard of jeans ad to come down (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 04:50 PM PST

People walk along Market Street, Monday, March 1, 2010, in downtown Newark, N.J., near an advertising billboard for Akoo jeans. Some people have complained that the billboard is inappropriate. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Like the pair of jeans it depicts, a billboard poster in downtown Newark is coming down.

Air Force nuclear units fail inspection in Montana (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 03:59 PM PST

AP - Two Air Force units responsible for the nuclear missiles warehoused in Montana failed inspections last month, military officials said Monday.

Suspect in Elizabeth Smart case deemed competent (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 02:37 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2006 file photo, Brian David Mitchell, the alleged kidnapper of Elizabeth Smart, enters court for his competency hearing in Salt Lake City. U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled Monday, March 1, 2010 that 56-year-old Brian David Mitchell is competent to stand trial. Mitchell was indicted in 2008 on charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. Mitchell's defense attorneys have argued that the former street preacher could not participate in his own defense. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)AP - Brian David Mitchell, the man charged with snatching Elizabeth Smart nearly eight years ago, could finally face a jury after a federal judge ruled Monday that Mitchell was faking mental illness and is competent to stand trial.

Chicagoans hope stories will help overturn gun ban (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 01:08 PM PST

In this photo taken Feb. 25, 2010, in Chicago, Otis McDonald glances out the window in his south side home. McDonald is one of four plaintiffs in the Chicago gun ban lawsuit going before the Supreme Court this week. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - A couple worries that burglars who tried to break in when the wife was home alone will return. A retiree fears the drug dealers and junkies just outside his window will attempt — again — to steal what he spent a lifetime earning. And a businessman wants to protect himself as he could when he was a police officer.

AP IMPACT: Drug gangs taking over US public lands (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 06:12 PM PST

In this photo taken Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010, packages of pesticides and wound dressings are seen strewn about a camp site at an abandoned marijuana growing site in the Sequioa National Forest near Fresno, Calif. With billions of dollars in drug profits on the line, Mexican traffickers are expanding their foothold in the domestic marijuana market taking over vast swaths of public lands.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.

Parents say doctors hastened death for dying kids (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 06:12 PM PST

AP - It's a situation too agonizing to contemplate — a child dying and in pain. Now a small but provocative study suggests that doctors may be giving fatal morphine doses to a few children dying of cancer, to end their suffering at their parents' request.

4 lost snowboarders spend night at Maine resort (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 02:13 PM PST

AP - Four teenage snowboarders who got lost at the Sugarloaf Mountain ski resort survived a cold night in dense woods and deep snow — despite their failure to start a fire by lighting a dollar bill — by continually moving around to stay warm.

NY's Paterson declares he'll govern to end of term (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:59 PM PST

New York Gov. David Paterson speaks at a breakfast forum in New York, Monday, March 1, 2010. Paterson says he still has the authority to govern and will serve out his term, despite calls for his resignation amid a state police scandal. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - As New York Gov. David Paterson tried to reassert his authority to govern for the remainder of his term, an investigation of his administration stormed ahead, making even the governor's long-term friends wonder whether his time in office might end much sooner.

Vehicle on icy road sends Ohio officer flying (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 11:36 AM PST

AP - A police officer in suburban Cleveland is recovering after he was struck by a vehicle spinning out of control on an icy highway ramp.

Prosecutor: Mich. man killed 2 to avenge his mom (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:40 PM PST

AP - A man who has his mother's name tattooed on his chest was out to avenge her when he killed an anti-abortion activist in a drive-by shooting and then gunned down her former boss in a small Michigan community, a prosecutor said Monday.

Man to cooperate in NH machete murder case (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 02:15 PM PST

Eighteen-year-old Quinn Glover, one of five young New Hampshire men charged in connection with a fatal attack on a Mont Vernon woman at her home, arrives at the Hillsboropugh County Superior Court in Nashua, N.H., Monday, March 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - One of five New Hampshire men charged in a fatal attack on a woman at her home has pleaded guilty to robbery and other charges.

SC judge rejecting Susan Smith's appeal (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 03:41 PM PST

AP - A judge plans to throw out Susan Smith's request for a new trial unless the South Carolina mom convicted of leaving her two young sons in her car to drown in 1994 can come up with better arguments.

SC bill would get rid of filing law for terrorists (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 01:07 PM PST

AP - In South Carolina, any group that plans to overthrow the federal government — or any other government in the U.S. — must register its activities.

Payback formula for Bernard Madoff victims upheld (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:39 PM PST

Irving Picard, the bankruptcy trustee in the Bernard Madoff case, exits the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York, February 2, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidAP - A New York bankruptcy judge has rejected a legal challenge by Bernard Madoff's victims over how they should be compensated.
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