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• Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen (AP)
• Obama promise: Focus on getting kids to college (AP)
• Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession (AP)
• Native Hawaiian government may become reality (AP)
• Judge faces election after unpopular decision (AP)
• US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting (AP)
• Jewish retiree creates stir defending Pope Pius (AP)
• Wind, rain knocks out power to 300K in Northeast (AP)
• Daylight-saving time: It's back (AP)
• Analysis: NY politics goes from drama to tragedy (AP)
• Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot (AP)
• Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests (AP)
• Many WTC responders show early signs of heart woes (AP)
• Authorities: Haim's name on illegal prescription (AP)
• New Florida case thwarts Calif. molester's release (AP)
• Ohio man found guilty in teens' slayings (AP)

Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 04:31 PM PST AP - Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school football stadium Saturday to honor a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave, allegedly killed by a registered sex offender.

Obama promise: Focus on getting kids to college (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 02:37 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.

Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 03:42 PM PST AP - Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager.

Native Hawaiian government may become reality (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 01:31 PM PST AP - Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii.

Judge faces election after unpopular decision (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 01:25 PM PST AP - The judge didn't believe the father was a threat and denied the mother's plea to keep him away from their 9-month-old son. It was a seemingly routine ruling in a busy family law court called on too often to referee passionate fights between broken young families over the care of babies.

US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 01:27 PM PST AP - A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.

Jewish retiree creates stir defending Pope Pius (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 11:04 AM PST AP - In the long and painful debate over whether he should have done more to halt the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II, Pope Pius XII has an unusual defender.

Wind, rain knocks out power to 300K in Northeast (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 04:46 PM PST AP - Strong winds and heavy rain have knocked out power for nearly 300,000 customers in the Northeast, while diverting international flights and toppling a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site.

Daylight-saving time: It's back (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 08:18 AM PST AP - America is springing forward.

Analysis: NY politics goes from drama to tragedy (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 11:40 AM PST AP - New York politics, which has consumed more than a dozen elected officials or top staffers in the past two years, has become a kind of bizarre "Survivor" show. And although careers have been ruined and some face prison sentences, none of them lost their jobs by actually being voted off this island.

Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 03:25 PM PST AP - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist.

Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 02:07 PM PST AP - Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks.

Many WTC responders show early signs of heart woes (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 05:20 AM PST AP - Law enforcement officers who worked near ground zero after the World Trade Center attacks seem to show early signs of heart problems at a higher rate than would be expected for their age, a new study suggests.

Authorities: Haim's name on illegal prescription (AP) Posted: 13 Mar 2010 04:23 AM PST AP - The name of the late actor Corey Haim was found on a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said Friday was obtained through a major drug ring.

New Florida case thwarts Calif. molester's release (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2010 08:47 PM PST AP - The feared release of a convicted child molester from a California prison was thwarted Friday by 11th-hour federal charges involving child porn and a woman's allegations that he bought her as a child in Asia and subjected her to years of sexual abuse while molesting her young friends.

Ohio man found guilty in teens' slayings (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2010 08:29 PM PST AP - An Ohio registered sex offender, whose attorneys had told jurors he admitted to killing two teenage girls, has been found guilty of the slayings.

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