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AP Exclusive: Charges eyed for ex-Blackwater boss (AP)
SC filmmaker: Channels showed porn, not his comedy (AP)
Judge: No school prom but lesbian's right violated (AP)
White House, experts: Health care suit will fail (AP)
Murder charges filed in case of 5 missing NJ teens (AP)
Gun in Ala. campus shooting bought 2 decades ago (AP)
China thwarts Google's detour around censorship (AP)
APNewsBreak: Winfrey settles Pa. defamation suit (AP)
Bleak budgets force schools to consider closure (AP)
Witnesses: NY killing suspect had swastika tattoo (AP)
Older women need 1-hour workouts to fend off flab (AP)
Friend: US man held in NKorea 'not a terrorist' (AP)
Neb. CSI chief convicted of evidence tampering (AP)
Elderly Conn. sisters battle in court over jackpot (AP)
Condemned Texas man seeks reprieve for DNA testing (AP)
Endangered whale birth photos taken near Navy site (AP)
2 Philly kids face charges in random-attack game (AP)
Report: Catholic clergy abuse claims drop in US (AP)
Tea partiers vow revenge over health overhaul (AP)

AP Exclusive: Charges eyed for ex-Blackwater boss (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 09:17 AM PDT

AP - Federal prosecutors are considering weapons charges against former executives at Blackwater Worldwide over allegations the private security company illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at its North Carolina headquarters, The Associated Press has learned.

SC filmmaker: Channels showed porn, not his comedy (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT

AP - A former South Carolina lawmaker is suing cable TV channels HBO and Showtime, claiming they promoted his low-budget comedy about Appalachia called "The Hills Have Thighs" only to instead show a soft-core pornographic movie with the same title.

Judge: No school prom but lesbian's right violated (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 04:43 PM PDT

AP - The prom's still off at a Mississippi high school that canceled it instead of letting a lesbian student bring her girlfriend, but a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the district's actions did violate the teen's constitutional rights.

White House, experts: Health care suit will fail (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 04:56 PM PDT

AP - The White House says it isn't worried that 13 state attorneys general are suing to overturn the massive health care overhaul, and many legal experts agree the effort is futile.

Murder charges filed in case of 5 missing NJ teens (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:01 PM PDT

AP - One night in 1978, five teenage boys disappeared without a trace in what would become one of the longest and most baffling missing-persons cases New Jersey has ever seen.

Gun in Ala. campus shooting bought 2 decades ago (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:14 PM PDT

AP - The gun used to kill three people during a faculty meeting at an Alabama school was bought for the suspect's husband two decades ago when he said he was having problems with a neighbor, an investigator testified Tuesday.

China thwarts Google's detour around censorship (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:00 PM PDT

AP - Google's attempted detour around China's Internet censorship rules was met with countermeasures Tuesday by the communist government, which blocked people on the mainland from seeing search results dealing with such forbidden topics as the pro-democracy movement.

APNewsBreak: Winfrey settles Pa. defamation suit (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT

AP - Oprah Winfrey has settled a defamation lawsuit filed by a headmistress she had accused of performing poorly at her South African girls school, where some students claimed they were abused, lawyers said Tuesday.

Bleak budgets force schools to consider closure (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 12:23 PM PDT

AP - In a neighborhood dotted with boarded up homes, trash and gang graffiti, McCoy Elementary has been an oasis.

Witnesses: NY killing suspect had swastika tattoo (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:22 PM PDT

AP - A teenager accused of murder in the hate crime stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant had tattoos depicting a swastika and a symbol he said represented "white power," witnesses testified Tuesday.

Older women need 1-hour workouts to fend off flab (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:35 PM PDT

AP - Rev up the treadmill: Sobering new research spells out just how much exercise women need to keep the flab off as they age — and it's a lot.

Friend: US man held in NKorea 'not a terrorist' (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 12:12 PM PDT

AP - A Boston man facing trial in North Korea for illegally entering the communist country "is not a terrorist" but a deeply religious English teacher dedicated to his students, a friend told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Neb. CSI chief convicted of evidence tampering (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:56 PM PDT

AP - A judge on Tuesday convicted a top crime scene investigator of evidence tampering, after prosecutors argued that the investigator planted blood from a slaying victim in a car linked to two innocent suspects to bolster the case against them.

Elderly Conn. sisters battle in court over jackpot (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 01:31 PM PDT

AP - Among the nine siblings in their family, Rose Bakaysa and her younger sister Theresa Sokaitis always shared a special bond.

Condemned Texas man seeks reprieve for DNA testing (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 10:50 AM PDT

AP - A condemned man has asked Gov. Rick Perry to halt his execution so that DNA taken from the scene where his girlfriend and her sons were killed can be tested.

Endangered whale birth photos taken near Navy site (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:35 PM PDT

AP - Biologists conducting a survey for the U.S. military said Tuesday they photographed an endangered right whale giving birth near a proposed Navy training range offshore of Georgia and Florida.

2 Philly kids face charges in random-attack game (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 11:35 AM PDT

AP - Two preteens assaulted a woman walking home through a playground as part of a violent game called "Catch and Wreck," in which children identify targets they think are homeless and then beat and rob them for fun, police said Tuesday.

Report: Catholic clergy abuse claims drop in US (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:09 AM PDT

AP - While the Roman Catholic church in Europe reels from a widening sex abuse crisis, the scandal that has plagued the U.S. church for nearly a decade is tapering off, a report released Tuesday says.