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• Calif. police: 14-year-old girl's remains found (AP)
• 3.1M customers face Oscar night without broadcast (AP)
• Database can crack missing person cases — if used (AP)
• Suspected gunman killed outside Walmart in Texas (AP)
• Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow (AP)
• Police: 8 teens shot while leaving Indiana concert (AP)
• Ground zero hotel wants to attract 9/11 tourists (AP)
• Kansas City wants to close half its public schools (AP)
• Hollywood billboards taken down amid legal battle (AP)
• Duncan won't cancel Montgomery school visit (AP)
• Judge orders bus firm to stop interstate service (AP)
• RI mayor faces new questions in Congressional run (AP)
• `Avatar,' `Hurt Locker' lead expanded Oscar parade (AP)
• Va. AG: Colleges can't ban gay discrimination (AP)
• WWII-era plane crashes off Fla. Panhandle; 2 dead (AP)
• New case: Steelers QB investigated for Ga. assault (AP)
• NY gov faces legal minefield in conduct inquiries (AP)
• After much anticipation, it's finally Oscar time (AP)
• Ruling on gay Air Force major creates dilemma (AP)

Calif. police: 14-year-old girl's remains found (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 05:16 PM PST AP - Authorities in Southern California say the skeletal remains of a 14-year-old girl who disappeared a year ago while walking to school have been found in a remote area of the Pala Indian Reservation.

3.1M customers face Oscar night without broadcast (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 02:59 PM PST AP - Cablevision subscribers were scrambling Sunday to hook up antennas or find live TV on the Internet in order to watch the Academy Awards after ABC's parent company Walt Disney Co. switched off its signal in a dispute over fees.

Database can crack missing person cases — if used (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:55 AM PST AP - A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.

Suspected gunman killed outside Walmart in Texas (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 03:10 PM PST AP - A man walked into a Walmart in Texas carrying at least two guns before engaging in a shootout with police outside the store, authorities said. The man was killed and an off-duty officer in the store who had tried to stop him was injured.

Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:15 AM PST AP - The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease.

Police: 8 teens shot while leaving Indiana concert (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:52 PM PST AP - Authorities say eight teenage boys were shot while leaving a Gary, Ind., skating rink where they were attending a concert.

Ground zero hotel wants to attract 9/11 tourists (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 10:10 AM PST AP - Looking down into the construction site covering the 16 acres where the World Trade Center once stood, some might see a place shadowed by death.

Kansas City wants to close half its public schools (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 12:54 PM PST AP - Kansas City was held up as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many kids were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and another with recording studios.

Hollywood billboards taken down amid legal battle (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:50 PM PST AP - Five giant billboards have been removed from buildings in Hollywood near the site of the Academy Awards after Los Angeles prosecutors charged four people and four companies with hanging the so-called supergraphics illegally.

Duncan won't cancel Montgomery school visit (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 03:48 PM PST AP - U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will meet with students as planned at Montgomery's Robert E. Lee High School, despite a state legislator's call to cancel the appearance.

Judge orders bus firm to stop interstate service (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 12:01 PM PST AP - A federal judge has ordered a bus company involved in an Arizona crash that killed six people and injured more than a dozen others to cease interstate operations.

RI mayor faces new questions in Congressional run (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:09 AM PST AP - Mayor David Cicilline claims he has cleaned up Providence after the corruption of his predecessor, but his family relationships and connection to a former staffer could raise new questions about his reformer credentials.

`Avatar,' `Hurt Locker' lead expanded Oscar parade (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 03:41 PM PST AP - Academy Awards voters are expected to go very big or very small on their best-picture winner at Sunday's Oscars.

Va. AG: Colleges can't ban gay discrimination (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 08:39 PM PST AP - Virginia's attorney general has advised the state's public colleges that they don't have the authority to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, saying only the General Assembly has that power.

WWII-era plane crashes off Fla. Panhandle; 2 dead (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:31 AM PST AP - A neurosurgeon and one other person were killed when the World War II-era plane they were in crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Panhandle.

New case: Steelers QB investigated for Ga. assault (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 06:54 PM PST AP - For the second time in a year, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is being accused of sexual misconduct, with a police investigating him Saturday for an alleged assault at a nightclub in a Georgia college town.

NY gov faces legal minefield in conduct inquiries (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 07:13 PM PST AP - Legal experts say the next few days and weeks could be the most dangerous yet for the embattled administration of Gov. David Paterson.

After much anticipation, it's finally Oscar time (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2010 02:49 PM PST AP - The big day is here.

Ruling on gay Air Force major creates dilemma (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 07:38 PM PST AP - A pressing legal reality for the "don't ask, don't tell" standard for gays serving in the military is that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already struck down the way it's practiced in much of the Western United States.

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