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Warrant: Chandra Levy suspect described slaying (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 06:44 PM PST AP - In the nearly eight years since intern Chandra Levy was attacked and killed in a Washington park, witnesses said a Salvadoran immigrant boasted in letters and jailhouse conversations that he picked out women randomly and stalked them. One witness even said the man even bragged of maiming and killing people.

Search ends for NFL players lost off Fla. coast (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 06:24 PM PST AP - After three days of combing 24,000 miles of ocean, the Coast Guard on Tuesday stopped searching for two NFL players and a third man lost in rough, chilly Gulf of Mexico waters off the Florida coast.

Ill. senator appears to survive Blagojevich furor (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 03:13 PM PST AP - Roland Burris seems to have weathered the storm. Fellow Democrats are no longer demanding his resignation. The new Illinois governor has stopped calling for a special election to replace him. And party leaders who control the Senate and Illinois Legislature are reluctant to risk losing his seat to Republicans.

NY appeals court: couple can't have son's sperm (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 04:56 PM PST AP - The parents of a 23-year-old killed by cancer are not entitled to use their dead son's preserved sperm so they can have a grandchild, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Octuplet mom had past police, child welfare visits (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 03:21 PM PST AP - Police say they've visited the homes of California octuplet mom Nadya Suleman several times in the last 14 months to respond to complaints about lost, trapped or poorly cared for children. Suleman gave birth to octuplets Jan. 26, and has six other children, ages 2 to 7.

14-year-old fake Chicago cop drove patrol car (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 04:45 PM PST AP - Chicago police said Tuesday that the 14-year-old who posed as an officer drove a patrol car and aided in an arrest, and that seven officers face disciplinary reviews for the "lax" behavior that allowed the teen's escapade to happen.

Jury convicts Vegas man in toddler video sex case (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 06:23 PM PST AP - A man tracked down after a video of him sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl was found in the Nevada desert was convicted Tuesday of that attack and another on a 6-year-old. Chester Arthur Stiles displayed no emotion as guilty verdicts were read against him for 22 felonies, including sexual assault. He faces multiple life prison terms at sentencing, set for May 8.

Military jet had chance to land before fatal crash (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 03:06 PM PST AP - The pilot of a crippled military jet that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood and killed four people was offered a chance shortly before impact to land at a base with an approach over open water rather than head inland, recordings released Tuesday indicate.

1993 WTC bomb victim testifies about her ordeal (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 05:24 PM PST AP - A woman seeking millions for injuries suffered in the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center testified Tuesday that she almost lost her will to live while she lay trapped and bleeding in the rubble, heat and smoke.

Texas executes killer of elderly woman in robbery (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 05:07 PM PST AP - An Oklahoma man convicted of shooting an 85-year-old woman to death during a burglary in far northeast Texas in 1993 was executed Tuesday night.

World War II hero gets out of jail after 8 years (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 01:28 PM PST AP - An 87-year-old World War II hero who has been behind bars for more than eight years for terrorizing one of his ex-wives in central Florida was sent home by a judge Tuesday, despite a prosecutor's claims that he's still a dangerous man.

NC body parts supplier's alleged fraud detailed (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 12:54 PM PST AP - When a North Carolina company that collected human body parts for transplants and other medical procedures was shut down in 2006, federal regulators cited inaccurate paperwork and poor record-keeping.

Court hears challenges over Simpson jury secrecy (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 02:36 PM PST AP - Nevada Supreme Court justices expressed doubts Tuesday about how the judge in the O.J. Simpson robbery-kidnapping trial first withheld jury questionnaires from the media and then released censored versions.

Docs seek gag orders to stop patients' reviews (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 06:07 PM PST AP - The anonymous comment on the Web site RateMDs.com was unsparing: "Very unhelpful, arrogant," it said of a doctor. "Did not listen and cut me off, seemed much too happy to have power (and abuse it!) over suffering people." Such reviews are becoming more common as consumer ratings services like Zagat's and Angie's List expand beyond restaurants and plumbers to medical care, and some doctors are fighting back.

A tragic end for minor leaguer traded for bats (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 03:38 PM PST AP - Ask the most hard-core baseball fan about John C. Odom and most likely you'll get a blank stare. Yet millions of people have heard of the slender right-hander.

Victim's sisters help pinpoint baby's Okla. grave (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 03:15 PM PST AP - Two sisters of a girl who was allegedly raped and impregnated four times by her father traveled from Missouri to Oklahoma to help locate the unmarked grave of a baby from one of those pregnancies, authorities said Tuesday.

Evangelist sues La. school over speech policy (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 12:19 PM PST AP - A federal judge made an initial ruling Tuesday in favor of a Louisiana university being sued by a Christian evangelist who claims he was threatened with arrest if he didn't stop speaking on campus.

Ring exposes rift in 'right-to-die' movement (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 11:10 AM PST AP - The case against members of an assisted suicide ring charged with helping a Georgia man kill himself has exposed a rift in the "right-to-die" movement as key players, including Dr. Jack Kevorkian, rush to distance themselves from the group's practices.

Stalkers turn to cell phones to 'textually harass' (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 10:36 AM PST AP - The college student had endured months of online and cell phone harassment from her ex-boyfriend. She ignored the barrage of e-mails, changed her phone number and dismantled online profiles to cut him off.

Husband in murder-suicide had killed previous wife (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 03:57 PM PST AP - A man who stabbed his first wife to death more than two decades ago used a Civil War replica rifle to kill his current wife and her son before committing suicide in their upscale suburban home, police said Tuesday.

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