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Christian militia accused of plotting to kill cops (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:22 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 - Nine alleged members of a Christian militia group that was girding for battle with the Antichrist were charged Monday with plotting to kill a police officer and slaughter scores more by bombing the funeral — all in hopes of touching off an uprising against the U.S. government.

US transit security beefed up after Moscow blast (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 06:21 PM PDT

A Russian holds candles and flowers in memory of the victims of a blast near the Lubyanka metro station in Moscow. Russian leaders vowed to avenge the twin rush-hour suicide bombings on packed metro trains in Moscow that killed at least 38 people on Monday.(AFP)AP - U.S. transit agencies beefed up security as a precaution Monday after the double suicide bombing in Moscow's subway system, sending more police into stations and officers to conduct random inspections of rail yards.

US judge strikes down patent on cancer genes (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:18 PM PDT

AP - In a ruling with potentially far-reaching implications for the patenting of human genes, a judge on Monday struck down a company's patents on two genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

Tennessee man pleads guilty in plot against Obama (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 06:24 PM PDT

President Barack Obama delivers remarks on health insurance reform during his event at the University of Iowa in Iowa City Iowa, Thursday, March 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - A Tennessee man authorities say is a white supremacist has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and dozens of other black people in 2008.

Heavy rain threatens to topple records in East (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 07:38 PM 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 - Nervous residents along the sodden East Coast watched rivers rise Monday as they braced for a new round of flooding — and the wettest March on record in some areas.

Calif. man missing on Mount Shasta, friend rescued (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 07:50 PM PDT

AP - A California man was rescued Monday from Mount Shasta, but his climbing partner remained missing and was believed to be trapped near the summit, where stormy conditions restricted search operations.

Pilot: Bang before plane hit, killed SC beachgoer (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 07:56 PM PDT

AP - The pilot of a kit-built single-engine plane that struck and killed a jogger on a South Carolina beach told investigators that he heard a loud bang before the engine failed and he was forced to make an emergency landing, according to a preliminary federal report.

Republicans spent $1,946 at topless club (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2010 file photo Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. A federal court Friday denied a Republican Party bid to raise soft money, the unlimited donations from corporations and individuals banned by a 2002 campaign finance law. In a separate ruling, judges said a conservative group can raise unlimited sums for independent election ads but must regularly disclose its donors. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)AP - The Republican National Committee spent $1,946 last month at a sex-themed Hollywood club that features topless dancers and bondage outfits. Now the GOP wants its money back.

Criticism of Vatican in Wis. over abuse scandal (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 08:24 PM PDT

AP - A man who says he was among some 200 deaf boys allegedly molested by a priest in Wisconsin said Monday the Vatican's defensive responses to revelations about the case make him feel like he did when he was 12, when no one would listen to him about the abuse.

French president, first lady take on New York (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:29 PM 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 - With a lectern flown in from France and his fingers firmly entwined with those of his smiling wife, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a splash Monday even before he opened his mouth for a no-holds-barred speech at Columbia University.

Health premiums could rise 17 pct for young adults (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:47 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)AP - Under the health care overhaul, young adults who buy their own insurance will carry a heavier burden of the medical costs of older Americans — a shift expected to raise insurance premiums for young people when the plan takes full effect.

'Nyet' to $1 million? Math genius may reject award (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 06:27 PM PDT

AP - Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia — and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century.

Calif. officials seek extradition of 'heroin king' (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks shows Mexican tar heroin and methamphetamine seized in different raid operations at a news conference at the Ventura County Sheriff's Department Jail Annex Building, in Ventura, Calif. on Monday, March 29, 2010. Ventura County officials say the arrest of a man dubbed Mexico's 'King of Heroin' has removed a half-million doses of the drug from California streets. Authorities said a regional task force spent more than two years working its way up the chain of dealers until the arrest of Jose Antonio Medina, AKA Don Pepe, last week in Mexico. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - The arrest of a man dubbed Mexico's "king of heroin" has disrupted a $10 million-a-month operation that smuggled tons of heroin a year into the United States, authorities said Monday.

Palin steps up rhetoric against her detractors (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 02:56 PM PDT

AP - Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had some harsh words for her detractors in the health care debate with a thinly veiled, March Madness-themed Facebook post in which she declared, "never retreat, instead RELOAD!"

Adult trial for boy in death of Pa. woman, fetus (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:13 PM PDT

AP - A Pennsylvania boy who was 11 when he was accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancee with a shotgun blast to the back of her head as she lay in bed will be tried as an adult in the death of both the woman and the fetus, a judge ruled Monday.

Specter pushes for stronger federal privacy laws (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 02:47 PM PDT

Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., speaks with reporters at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, March 8, 20201, after accompanying President Barack Obama on Air Force One to Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., where he spoke about health care reform. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Broadening wiretap laws to include videotaped surveillance could either safeguard privacy or thwart efforts to recover stolen property, a U.S. senator was told Monday at a hearing not far from a school that's being sued for trying to find missing laptops by activating their webcams.

Feds pick Delaware, Tenn. for $600M ed grants (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:47 PM PDT

U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan 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 - Federal officials on Monday awarded Tennessee and Delaware $600 million in grants to improve failing schools, sending a message to other states hoping to win money: revamp your education laws and get your districts and teachers to sign off.

In Texas, fear follows Mexicans who flee drug war (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:39 PM PDT

Members of the Mexican Federal Investigation Agency inspect a burnt car on the outskirts of Monterrey-Reynosa highway in Nuevo Leon, Mexico on March 18, after the highway was blocked by suspected drug traffickers. A senior US delegation led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday pledged to boost joint efforts to tackle surging violence by Mexico's powerful drug cartels.(AFP/File/Dario Leon)AP - When black SUVs trail school buses around here, no one dismisses it as routine traffic. And when three tough-looking Mexican men pace around the high school gym during a basketball game, no one assumes they're just fans.

9 charged with bullying Mass. teen who killed self (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:38 PM PDT

AP - Insults and threats followed 15-year-old Phoebe Prince almost from her first day at South Hadley High School, targeting the Irish immigrant in the halls, library and in vicious cell phone text messages.

Jewish leader doubts Carter apology on Israel (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:38 PM PDT

AP - A prominent Jewish leader criticized former President Jimmy Carter on Monday, blasting Carter for saying in a speech this month that the U.S. government has "yielded excessively" to Israel.
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