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Sisters to be buried with brother who killed them (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 04:03 PM PDT AP - Two sisters and the brother who killed them with a kitchen knife will share a single funeral service and be buried together. Samantha Revelus, 17, and her sister, Bianca, 5, were killed at their Milton home Saturday. Police shot the girls' brother, Kerby Revelus, 23, after an officer saw him decapitate the younger girl. A surviving sister, 9-year-old Saraphina, was recovering at a Boston hospital Monday after having surgery.

Man accused in NC rampage may have been after wife (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 04:20 PM PDT AP - A painter accused of shooting up a North Carolina nursing home may have been after his recently estranged wife during a rampage that killed seven defenseless residents and a nurse tending to their care, authorities said Monday.

Md. mom pleads guilty in cult starvation death (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 05:03 PM PDT AP - A former religious cult member pleaded guilty Monday to starving her 1-year-old son to death after making an unusual deal with prosecutors: If the child is resurrected, her plea will be withdrawn. Ria Ramkissoon, 22, also agreed to testify against four other members of the now-defunct religious group known as 1 Mind Ministries. All four are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Javon Thompson.

New snowstorm hammers northern Plains states (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 04:06 PM PDT AP - The second major snowstorm to hit the northern Plains in a week dropped more than a foot of snow Monday, closing hundreds of miles of highway and shutting government offices and schools. Three deaths were blamed on the storm.

In Fargo, goodwill runs as deep as the Red River (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 03:15 PM PDT AP - One family offered their home to anyone left homeless by flooding, even sharing their security entry code.

Vermont gay marriage bill veto threat draws mail (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 02:18 PM PDT AP - Some called him a homophobe. Some accused him of spreading hatred. Some thanked him, or applauded him for showing "backbone" in the face of pressure from gay rights advocates.

Federal judge blocks charges in Pa. 'sexting' case (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 04:27 PM PDT AP - A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a prosecutor from filing child pornography charges against three northeastern Pennsylvania teenagers who appeared in racy photos that turned up on classmates' cell phones.

'Rockefeller' tries to suppress police statements (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 04:13 PM PDT AP - Lawyers for the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller are asking a judge to suppress statements he made to investigators after he was arrested in Baltimore in the kidnapping of his 7-year-old daughter.

Young, decorated NC officer ended shooting rampage (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 03:54 PM PDT AP - Justin Garner turned down a chance to join the state highway patrol so he could stay on his small hometown's police force. In just five years, he'd already been named Officer of the Year. And when a call came in that a gunman was shooting up a nursing home, Garner was the only one on duty when seemingly everyone else in this town of 1,800 was at church.

Person with knowledge: Talks delay Burress hearing (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 04:09 PM PDT AP - Plaxico Burress will return to court Tuesday in his gun possession case as his lawyers and prosecutors haggle over a plea deal and what punishment the New York Giants star should face for accidentally shooting himself in a crowded nightclub last year.

EPA head announces new port emissions proposal (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 02:11 PM PDT AP - The head of the Environmental Protection Agency wants to limit emissions along the nation's coastline and within its seaports, just as the agency does along highways, with tougher pollution standards on large commercial ships.

77 names added to slain journalists memorial in DC (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 01:41 PM PDT AP - The journalism and free speech museum called the Newseum added 77 names to its Journalists Memorial on Monday to honor reporters, photographers and broadcasters who died while covering the news, including several killed in Mexican drug violence.

Journalist who sought justice posthumously honored (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 03:11 PM PDT AP - As editor and publisher of a small-town newspaper in the Mississippi Delta, Hazel Brannon Smith was boycotted by fellow whites and condemned in the state Senate because she advocated equal treatment of blacks during the volatile 1950s and '60s.

Romney's work puts him in 2012 political spotlight (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 04:03 PM PDT AP - Mitt Romney doesn't have a job for the first time in his adult life. That hardly means he's not working. In ways both subtle and overt, the 2008 Republican presidential contender, former Massachusetts governor, one-time Olympics chief and high-flying businessman is building toward a 2012 White House campaign by judiciously engaging and disengaging with the national debate.

Once-a-day heart combo pill shows promise in study (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 04:51 PM PDT AP - It's been a dream for a decade: a single daily pill combining aspirin, cholesterol medicine and blood pressure drugs — everything people need to prevent heart attacks and strokes in a cheap, generic form.

Motive sought in murder-suicide that left 6 dead (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 03:02 PM PDT AP - An apparent murder-suicide in an upscale neighborhood of Silicon Valley that left three children and three adults dead had police searching Monday for a possible motive and sorting out the relationships between the suspected gunman and his victims.

Hit-run driver kills 1 USC student, injures other (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 03:31 PM PDT AP - A driver hit two University of Southern California freshmen — killing one — and driving off with the other caught on the hood until stopping to let a passenger out to pull the wounded student off the car, police said Monday.

Palm Springs woos spring breakers, thongs and all (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:35 PM PDT AP - It wasn't that long ago this city of aging snowbirds fought back a rising tide of scantily clad college students with the ultimate spring break buzz kill: no thongs, no amplified music and no dancing.

Fish oil pills don't boost benefit of heart drugs (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:31 PM PDT AP - Heart attack patients who are already taking the right medicines to prevent future problems get no added benefit from taking fish oil capsules, a large study in Germany finds.

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