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Alaska volcano Mount Redoubt erupts 5 times (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:28 PM PDT AP - Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted five times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano's first emissions in nearly 20 years. Residents in the state's largest city were spared from falling ash, though fine gray dust fell Monday morning on small communities north of Anchorage.

Icing, overload are questions in MT crash probe (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:30 PM PDT AP - Speculation over the crash of a single-engine turboprop plane into a cemetery shifted to ice on the wings Monday after it became less likely that overloading was to blame, given that most of the 14 people on board were small children.

3 Northern Calif families killed in Montana crash (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 05:44 PM PDT AP - Dr. Irving "Bud" Feldkamp was at the entrance of the ultra-exclusive resort where he planned to spend the week skiing with his children and grandchildren when he got the call from his nephew.

Blizzard shuts down parts of Wyoming, South Dakota (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:10 PM PDT AP - A blizzard shut down major highways Monday in Wyoming and South Dakota, and meteorologists said one mountainous area might get as much as 40 inches of snow.

Prosecutor: Accused killer also called 2nd witness (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:16 PM PDT AP - A Baltimore drug dealer accused of orchestrating the death of a witness from behind bars hid another contraband phone in his maximum-security prison cell and called another witness in the days leading up to his trial, prosecutors said Monday.

NJ officials ID woman found wandering mall in 1994 (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:02 PM PDT AP - A mute elderly woman known only as "Jane Doe" since she was found wandering in a New Jersey mall 15 years ago has finally been identified. Lt. Eduardo Ojeda of the New Jersey Department of Human Services police discovered recently that the woman is Elba Leonor Diaz Soccarras, who turns 75 on March 28. She has Alzheimer's disease and has been bedridden in a New Jersey psychiatric hospital for years.

Connecticut lawmakers consider apology for slavery (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:19 PM PDT AP - Connecticut legislators are considering making their state the first in New England to apologize for slavery and other racist policies of old.

California AG to look into monitoring of parolee (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:29 PM PDT AP - Parolees like the one who killed three Oakland police officers and left a fourth brain-dead over the weekend must be tracked and restricted more aggressively, state Attorney General Jerry Brown said Monday.

Unabomber victim's art recovered after Yale theft (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 01:29 PM PDT AP - A Yale professor who learned to paint with his left hand after part of his right hand was ripped away in an explosion by the Unabomber will get back two beloved paintings that were recently stolen.

Miami vets get procedures with unsterile equipment (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 02:39 PM PDT AP - Officials say more than 3,000 patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Miami had colonoscopies with equipment that wasn't properly sterilized

Unemployment hits harder among Latinos, blacks (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 01:11 PM PDT AP - The ax fell without sound or shadow: Tatiana Gallego was suddenly called into human resources and laid off from her job as an admissions counselor for a fashion college.

ND univ cancels classes to help with sandbagging (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 10:37 AM PDT AP - High school and college students were let out of class Monday to help with sandbagging as residents raced to hold off a threat of flooding from the rising Red River.

Ex-Chicago official found guilty of hiring fraud (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:12 PM PDT AP - A federal jury convicted Chicago's former streets and sanitation commissioner Monday of using bogus documents and other fraudulent acts in a scheme to load the city payroll with political campaign workers.

New England lobster traps are nabbing dinner, data (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 12:51 PM PDT AP - Skip Ryan has worked the same channel into Boston Harbor for 50 years, setting and hauling his lobster traps so often that he is certain of one thing.

Poet Sylvia Plath's son commits suicide in Alaska (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:13 PM PDT AP - When Nicholas Hughes was in his early 20s, his father, poet Ted Hughes, advised him on the importance of living bravely.

Advocates want AG to probe NY group home fire (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 01:46 PM PDT AP - The New York Civil Liberties Union is calling for the state attorney general to investigate the weekend fire that killed four residents at a group home in the southern Adirondacks.

Obama admin. moves against bad bank assets (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 01:10 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration aimed squarely at the crisis clogging the nation's credit system Monday with a plan to take over up to $1 trillion in sour mortgage securities with the help of private investors. For once, Wall Street cheered. The announcement filled in crucial blanks in the administration's financial rescue package and formed what President Barack Obama called "one more critical element in our recovery."

Oops: Colbert wins NASA space station name contest (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 01:14 PM PDT AP - NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won.

Committee of NY transit agency votes for fare hike (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 11:33 AM PDT AP - New York City transit officials are poised to make drastic service cuts and raise the cost of a subway ride a whopping 25 percent, but they're hoping state lawmakers will come to the rescue.

NYer ignores friends, wins $26M on Friday the 13th (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2009 08:38 AM PDT AP - Ignoring his friends has paid off big for a New York man.

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