Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:27:43 GMT
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EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -- Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the 'stuck' accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move....
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:04:09 GMT
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- It was 2005 when Bruce Barcomb received the call he'd been awaiting for nearly three decades: Police had finally identified the man who raped and murdered his little sister in a remote canyon on a dark night in 1977....
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:09:48 GMT
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was 'very troubling' and that the annual speech to Congress has 'degenerated into a political pep rally.'...
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:33:12 GMT
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- An indictment against a suburban Philadelphia woman accused of recruiting jihadist fighters online and moving to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists, authorities say, and shows the evolution of the threat of terrorism....
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:16:01 GMT
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- At least a dozen couples tied the knot in the District of Columbia on the first day same-sex ceremonies were legally allowed, and many more unions were on the way....
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:30:34 GMT
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Hundreds of construction workers raised a rallying cry of 'Build it now!' on Tuesday, gathering with elected officials at the World Trade Center site to urge a quick rebuilding of the complex....
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:14:52 GMT
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PITTSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- A former aide to John Edwards has been given until Friday to provide a judge with a full explanation of how he handled materials including a videotape purportedly showing the two-time presidential candidate in a sexual encounter....
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:34:14 GMT
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Doris 'Granny D' Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate, has died. She was 100....
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:13:16 GMT
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide....
Published: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:30:27 GMT
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt....
