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• Walmart pulling jewelry cited in AP cadmium report (AP)
• NJ Legislature approves medical marijuana bill (AP)
• Some fear Kan. ruling may spur abortion violence (AP)
• Balloon boy's dad dashes into jail without a word (AP)
• Cold imperils Florida's fish, fruit and veggies (AP)
• Lawyer: Feds chose torture over trial for detainee (AP)
• TSA: Passenger carries ammo on plane in Milwaukee (AP)
• Worries over Hasan's competence didn't slow career (AP)
• Woman recalls emotional ordeal of gay marriage ban (AP)
• Boulder film festival to honor Alec Baldwin (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Mark McGwire admits using steroids (AP)
• `Spider-Man 4' delayed; Maguire, Raimi out (AP)
• Fla. lawmaker calls for probe of bogus Woods claim (AP)
• Trial opens in murder, kidnapping from womb case (AP)
• Mom gets 10 or more years in disabled girl's death (AP)
• Super Bowl ad prices fall; still most expensive (AP)
• Too much flu vaccine? Shot push this week to tell (AP)
• Jayson Williams pleads guilty in fatal NJ shooting (AP)
• NH tax evader gets 37 years on weapons charges (AP)

Walmart pulling jewelry cited in AP cadmium report (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:17 PM PST AP - Federal and state watchdogs opened a new front Monday in the campaign to keep poisons out of Chinese imports, launching inquiries into high levels of cadmium in children's jewelry while Walmart pulled many suspect items from its store shelves.

NJ Legislature approves medical marijuana bill (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:19 PM PST AP - The Legislature on Monday approved a bill that would allow chronically ill patients access to marijuana for medical reasons.

Some fear Kan. ruling may spur abortion violence (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:08 PM PST AP - Before the first juror is selected or witness called, a decision allowing a confessed killer to argue he believes the slaying of one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers was a justified act aimed at saving unborn children has upended what most expected to be an open-and-shut case.

Balloon boy's dad dashes into jail without a word (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:08 PM PST AP - There was no last second proclamation of innocence or even a statement to the handful of reporters waiting in the freezing cold for the man who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the balloon boy hoax.

Cold imperils Florida's fish, fruit and veggies (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:08 PM PST AP - Here's something you don't often see in this town at the heart of the state's $9 billion citrus industry: a sign at the public library that says, "ICE! On sidewalk. Be careful!"

Lawyer: Feds chose torture over trial for detainee (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:13 PM PST AP - A lawyer asked a judge Monday to toss out charges against the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be brought to civilian courts, saying he was tortured for 14 hours over five days and denied trial for nearly five years.

TSA: Passenger carries ammo on plane in Milwaukee (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:24 PM PST AP - A passenger inadvertently carried shotgun shells onto a Dallas-bound Midwest Airlines plane at Milwaukee's airport on Monday before he realized his mistake and alerted flight attendants, authorities said.

Worries over Hasan's competence didn't slow career (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:29 PM PST AP - In late December 2004, one of the officers overseeing Army Maj. Nidal Hasan's medical training praised him in an official evaluation as a qualified and caring doctor who would be an asset in any post.

Woman recalls emotional ordeal of gay marriage ban (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:05 PM PST AP - One of two lesbians suing California to overturn its ban on gay marriage testified Monday that she and her partner have experienced an emotional roller coaster during the past six years involving their desire to wed.

Boulder film festival to honor Alec Baldwin (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:23 PM PST AP - Boulder International Film Festival organizers say actor Alec Baldwin will be the featured guest at the sixth annual event.

APNewsBreak: Mark McGwire admits using steroids (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:12 PM PST AP - Sobbing and sniffling, Mark McGwire finally answered the steroid question. Ending more than a decade of denials and evasion, McGwire admitted Monday what many had suspected for so long — that steroids and human growth hormone helped make him a home run king.

`Spider-Man 4' delayed; Maguire, Raimi out (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:21 PM PST AP - Tobey Maguire's web-slinging days are behind him.

Fla. lawmaker calls for probe of bogus Woods claim (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:22 PM PST AP - A Florida lawmaker has called for an investigation into who phoned a hot line with a bogus claim that Tiger Woods' children were being abused.

Trial opens in murder, kidnapping from womb case (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:24 PM PST AP - A woman accused of cutting a baby from a pregnant teenager, killing her, and passing the baby off as her own, had not been pregnant, even though she told her family she was, according to a prosecutor and her doctor.

Mom gets 10 or more years in disabled girl's death (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:24 PM PST AP - Saying the child suffered "severe neglect in every way," a judge sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison Monday for the death of her adopted, quadriplegic daughter, whose starved body was discovered under mothballs in a storage unit.

Super Bowl ad prices fall; still most expensive (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:28 PM PST AP - The economic slump appears to have taken a toll on Super Bowl ads, pushing the price down for only the second time in the game's history, though they're still the most expensive on television.

Too much flu vaccine? Shot push this week to tell (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 12:10 PM PST AP - First there was too little swine flu vaccine. Now could there be way too much?

Jayson Williams pleads guilty in fatal NJ shooting (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 01:43 PM PST AP - Former NBA star Jayson Williams, his personal life in shambles, took responsibility for accidentally shooting his limousine driver to death eight years ago by pleading guilty Monday to assault and agreeing to serve at least 18 months in prison.

NH tax evader gets 37 years on weapons charges (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 01:50 PM PST AP - A tax-evading man convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons that he and his wife held during a nine-month standoff with federal authorities was sentenced Monday to 37 years in federal prison in a hearing punctuated by him laughing and chiding the judge and prosecutors.

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