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Attorney releases photo of accused terrorist (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 04:35 PM PST AP - An attorney for alleged al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali al-Marri has released a photo of the accused enemy combatant, the first since he was incarcerated in a South Carolina Navy brig in 2003.

Dad pleads guilty in 4 kids' deaths, wants to die (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 03:31 PM PST AP - A man accused of tossing his four young children to their deaths from a coastal Alabama bridge pleaded guilty Thursday and told a state judge he wants to be put to death.

Iowans say pig-odor study passes the smell test (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 02:56 PM PST AP - On Capitol Hill, a $1.7 million earmark for pig odor research in Iowa has become a big, fat joke among Republicans, a Grade A example of pork. But the people who live cheek by jowl with hog farms in the No. 1 pig-producing state aren't laughing.

Slain suspect jumped judge with 6-inch metal spike (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 06:50 PM PST AP - Investigators on Thursday were trying to figure out how a murder suspect sneaked a 6-inch metal spike into the Stockton courtroom where he attacked a judge with the handcrafted weapon before a detective shot him to death.

Inspector failed to flag salmonella-linked plant (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 06:04 PM PST AP - A Texas agriculture inspector failed to note that a peanut plant at the center of a national salmonella outbreak was operating without a state health department license, despite at least three visits in the years before hundreds of people got sick, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Gandhi items sell for $1.8M; owner has cold feet (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 03:41 PM PST AP - Mohandas Gandhi's eyeglasses and other items sold for $1.8 million Thursday at an auction that drew outrage from the Indian government, a last-minute reversal from the seller and a frenzy of bidding won by an Indian conglomerate that said the pacifist leader's possessions will be coming home.

Calif. Supreme Court weighs same-sex marriage ban (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 06:48 PM PST AP - As thousands of demonstrators chanted slogans and waved placards outside, California's highest court on Thursday skeptically grilled lawyers seeking to overturn the state's ban on gay marriage.

Memphis car blast injures woman when fumes ignite (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 02:36 PM PST AP - A cleaning woman who was trying to light a cigarette inside her car instead ignited fumes from cleaning products and caused an explosion that blew out the vehicle's windows and sun roof, police said.

Former pro wrestler accused in nursing home death (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:35 PM PST AP - During his glory days as a pro wrestler, Verne Gagne shared the spotlight with other burly men in trunks, guys with names like Killer Kowalski, Mad Dog Vachon, The Crusher and Baron Von Raschke.

Half-billion dollars settles 92 lawsuits from 9/11 (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 04:33 PM PST AP - A mediator said Thursday that all but three of nearly 100 lawsuits brought on behalf of those killed or injured in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have been settled for half a billion dollars. Many of the legal battles hinged not on money, she added, but on a chance for families to express their losses and anger.

2 found guilty of killing family on Fla. turnpike (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 01:51 PM PST AP - Two men were convicted Thursday of gunning down a family of four along a dark stretch of Florida's Turnpike to settle a drug debt and now could face the death penalty.

Obama cabinet members pledge faster Katrina effort (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 01:45 PM PST AP - Disturbed by what they saw on a bus ride through a city still bearing Hurricane Katrina's scars, two members of President Barack Obama's cabinet pledged Thursday to speed the pace of the Gulf Coast recovery operation they inherited from the Bush administration.

Utah judge denies motion to dismiss Smart case (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 01:53 PM PST AP - A state court judge on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss kidnapping, sexual assault and other charges filed against the man accused in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart.

Prosecutors defy judge's order in Al-Arian case (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:43 AM PST AP - Federal prosecutors have defied a judge's order to turn over evidence of their internal deliberations in coming to a plea agreement with a former professor once accused of being a top Palestinian terrorist.

Upstate NY woman sentenced for poisoning husband (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 01:06 PM PST AP - An upstate New York woman was sentenced Thursday to more than 50 years in prison for poisoning her husband with antifreeze and then trying to kill her daughter and frame her as the murderer.

Recession, tax plans worry donors and nonprofits (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 01:10 PM PST AP - Chicago philanthropist Richard Kiphart contributed generously to Barack Obama's campaign and is glad he backed a winner.

Prosecutors will retry Miss. mayor in house attack (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 10:35 AM PST AP - Federal prosecutors said Thursday they will retry the mayor of Mississippi's largest city on civil rights charges for leading the destruction of a duplex apartment the mayor considered a crack house.

Police arrest 2 Ga. students, find gun in school (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2009 09:41 AM PST AP - Two students are in custody, three guns were seized and a suburban Atlanta school was locked down after authorities were tipped that a student planned to bring guns to school.

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