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Haiti frees US missionary; group leader still held (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 08:38 PM PST

Charisa Coulter, second from right, of Meridian, Idaho, one of two US Baptist missionaries held on kidnapping charges in Haiti, arrives to the airport, accompanied by US embassy staff, after her release from jail in Port-au-Prince, Monday, March 8, 2010. Coulter was set free more than a month after she and nine other Americans were arrested for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without proper documents after the Jan. 12 earthquake. Laura Silsby, the leader of the Idaho-based missionaries, remains detained. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released and flew to Miami on Monday, but the U.S. group's leader remained in custody.

2 of oldest people in US die: in NH 114, Mich. 113 (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 06:34 PM PST

FILE - This May 17, 2006 file photo shows Mary Josephine Ray during her 111th birthday party in Westmoreland, N.H. She died Sunday, March 7, 2010 in Westmorland at age 114. The Gerontology Research Group says that until her death, Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second oldest person in the world. (AP Photo/Keene Sentinel, Steve Hooper, File)AP - Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day.

Police: Man eyed in 2nd teen murder investigation (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 09:19 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 - A registered sex offender charged with murdering a teen girl last month is a focus of the investigation into the death of a 14-year-old girl whose remains were found more than a year after she disappeared near her school, police said Monday.

Co. owner indicted in deadly NYC crane collapse (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:32 PM PST

AP - A construction crane owner got a bargain-basement repair job on a giant rig, which fell apart and killed two workers when the fix failed, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against the owner and a former mechanic.

Oscar's big question: How did David slay Goliath? (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 06:27 PM PST

From left, screen writer Mark Boal, director Kathryn Bigelow and producer Greg Shapiro pose backstage with their Oscars for screen writing, directing and best movie for AP - For Hollywood pundits, industry folk and Oscar fans still paying attention on Monday, a major question remained: How did David slay Goliath?

Man holding fake gun fatally shot near NYC school (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 09:57 PM PST

This photo taken Monday, March 8, 2010 and provided by the New York City Police Department shows a fake handgun on the street near an elementary school in the Brooklyn borough of New York. When police responded to a 911 call reporting a man with a gun near the school, the man pointed the fake gun at the police and was shot and killed by one of the officers. (AP Photo/New York Police Department)AP - A police officer in Brooklyn has fatally shot a man who the NYPD says was brandishing a fake pistol near a school.

Paterson seeks to show he's still in charge (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:44 PM PST

New York Gov. David Paterson listens during a town hall meeting at Brooklyn's Borough Hall in New York, Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Gov. David Paterson was adamant about governing Monday, taking questions from the public at a town hall meeting and trying to make clear his authority to negotiate a state budget amid two scandals that threaten his job.

Stupak: Health bill abortion fight can be resolved (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 06:16 PM PST

U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee holds a town hall meeting in Tawas City, Mich., Monday, March 8, 2010. Stupak said he expects to resume talks with House leaders this week in a quest for wording that would impose no new limits on abortion rights but also would not allow use of federal money for the procedure. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday.

Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 01:33 PM PST

A vacant house near City Airport is seen Feb. 23, 2010 in Detroit. After decades of decline that gutted many once-vibrant neighborhoods, Detroit is preparing a radical renewal effort on a scale never attempted in this country: returning a large swath of the city to fields or farmland, much like it was in the middle of the 19th century. Under plans now being refined, demolition crews would move through the most desolate and decayed areas of urban Detroit with building-chomping excavators, reducing houses to rubble. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.

Ohio inmate ODs on pills hours before execution (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 01:57 PM PST

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, Lawrence Reynolds is seen. The state will try again Tuesday, March 9, 2010 to execute Reynolds, who strangled his 67-year-old neighbor in her home to get money for his alcohol addiction. Reynolds had been scheduled to die last October, but Gov. Ted Strickland delayed the execution so the state could review its lethal injection procedure. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, File)AP - Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday postponed the execution of a convicted killer who managed to take an overdose of pills in his death row cell and was found unconscious just hours before he was to be driven to his execution.

Palin notes irony of using Canada health care (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 07:46 PM PST

US President Barack Obama speaks on healthcare and health insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama has launched a populist assault on price-gouging American insurance firms, escalating his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AP - Sarah Palin has been no friend lately of socialized health care.

Feds: Calif. man ran student visa fraud ring (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 05:18 PM PST

AP - A California man was charged Monday with operating a ring of illegal test-takers who helped dozens of Middle Eastern nationals obtain U.S. student visas by passing various proficiency and college-placement exams for them, federal authorities said.

Accused Ga. killer uses creative legal argument (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:41 PM PST

AP - A Georgia man accused of killing two people used an innovative legal strategy Monday in an attempt to get his murder charges dismissed. Call it the Census defense.

Colo. rock slide rains boulders on bridge, highway (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 07:36 PM PST

In this Monday, March 8, 2010 photo released by the Colorado Department of Transportation, a portion of a 17-mile stretch of Interstate 70, which has been closed after a rock slide, is shown in Glenwood Springs, Colo. The slide struck around midnight Sunday near the Hanging Lake Tunnel in Glenwood Canyon, a deep and narrow chasm about 110 miles west of Denver, the Colorado Department of Transportation said. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Transportation)AP - A rock slide punched gaping holes in a bridge and left huge boulders on Interstate 70, closing a 17-mile stretch in western Colorado and prompting Gov. Bill Ritter to declare a disaster emergency Monday.

Police look for missing Texas exec in New Orleans (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PST

AP - Police are searching the French Quarter in New Orleans and checking with businesses for surveillance videotapes of a Texas energy executive who disappeared after walking out of a Bourbon Street bar.

Ed chief: Agency to review equal access at schools (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:04 PM PST

U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, center, with principal David Sikes and student Kimberly Fletcher, listens to students, teachers and former students about their educational experience as he visits Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Ala., during brief stops at schools in Montgomery and Selma, Ala., Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, David Bundy)AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday the federal government will become more vigilant to make sure students have equal access and opportunity to everything ranging from college prep classes to science and engineering programs.

Officer: DC gunman's expression warned of trouble (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:05 PM PST

Pentagon Police Officers, Jeffrey Amos, left, Marvin Carraway, and Colin Richards, are seen outside the Pentagon in Washington, Monday, March 8, 2010. The officers returned fire at suspected Pentagon metro shooter John Patrick Bedell on Thursday, March 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - There were no obvious signs of trouble when gunman John Patrick Bedell approached a Pentagon security checkpoint Thursday night. But Pentagon police officer Marvin Carraway had seen that facial expression before. It betrayed Bedell's intentions.

Not more quakes, just more people in quake zones (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:45 PM PST

Graphic shows statistics about the frequency of strong earthquakes and the number of earthquake fatalitiesAP - First the ground shook in Haiti, then Chile and now Turkey. The earthquakes keep coming hard and fast this year, causing people to wonder if something sinister is happening underfoot.

Sea lions killed for eating too many salmon (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:54 PM PST

FILE - In this April 12, 2007 photo, a sea lion catches an endangered Chinook salmon migrating up the Columbia River just below the spillway at Bonneville Dam, Wash. A task force is expected to recommend that pesky sea lions that gobble up threatened salmon at Bonneville Dam be killed in order to help conserve fish runs. The recommendation by the 18-member panel goes to the federal agency charged with making the final decision, likely to come in March 2010 when spring salmon runs peak. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Janet Jensen)AP - Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags from shotguns and boats. Now they are resorting to issuing death sentences to the most chronic offenders.

Gunman, 2 others wounded in Dallas shootout (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:51 PM PST

Dallas Police officials walk into the building where a shooting took place in Dallas, Monday, March 8, 2010. The shooting happened just before 11 a.m. outside the United Texas Bank. The bank is located on the first floor of the Four Forest high-rise office building, near the intersection of U.S. 75 and Interstate 635. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - A gunman apparently angry over business dealings wounded a father and son at their financial services company inside an office building Monday, then shot himself as police closed in, authorities said.
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