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Palin to tea party rally: Don't sit down, shut up (AP)
US skylines join world going dark for 'Earth Hour' (AP)
Ex-Scientology lawsuits reveal elite Sea Org group (AP)
Cancer question complicates 9/11 compensation deal (AP)
Ky. Mennonites labor through grief to bury family (AP)
NJ county's Sunday buying ban may be checking out (AP)
Hundreds attend tribute for slain SoCal teen (AP)
Detectives probing 1978 NY arson that killed 8 (AP)
Church abuse victims dissect '08 pope meeting anew (AP)
Chicago taxi driver accused of supporting al-Qaida (AP)
Moth forces wine country's secret into the open (AP)
NY immigrants say tensions fade after bias attack (AP)
Former 6-term Va. congressman Stan Parris dies (AP)
Documents: Anesthetic found in Jackson home (AP)
Cyrus, Swift up for Kids' Choice Awards (AP)

Palin to tea party rally: Don't sit down, shut up (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:52 PM PDT

AP - Sarah Palin told thousands of tea party activists assembled in the dusty Nevada desert Saturday that Sen. Harry Reid will have to explain his votes when he comes back to his hometown to campaign.

US skylines join world going dark for 'Earth Hour' (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:37 PM PDT

AP - Who turned out the lights? A global campaign to raise awareness on climate change has reached the United States.

Ex-Scientology lawsuits reveal elite Sea Org group (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 02:52 PM PDT

AP - At the edge of arid foothills far outside Los Angeles, hundreds of Scientology followers live on a gated, 500-acre campus and work long hours for almost no pay reproducing the works of founder L. Ron Hubbard and creating the church's teaching and promotional materials.

Cancer question complicates 9/11 compensation deal (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 09:21 AM PDT

AP - Of all the illnesses people fear might be caused by toxic dust from the World Trade Center, nothing scares people like cancer.

Ky. Mennonites labor through grief to bury family (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:51 PM PDT

AP - As members of a close-knit Mennonite community prepared to bury their own, they sliced through wooden planks with electric saws Saturday and wrestled with the loss of a family of nine killed in a central Kentucky crash.

NJ county's Sunday buying ban may be checking out (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 01:17 PM PDT

AP - During a powerful storm that flooded basements, uprooted trees and left tens of thousands of families without power through a late winter weekend, residents of one New Jersey county had to wait till Monday morning to buy sump pumps, generators and other cleanup tools at local stores.

Hundreds attend tribute for slain SoCal teen (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 03:14 PM PDT

AP - A 14-year-old San Diego-area girl whose bones were found more than a year after she vanished walking to school is being remembered as a voracious reader with a fertile imagination and a profound love of animals.

Detectives probing 1978 NY arson that killed 8 (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 01:30 PM PDT

AP - A woman who lost seven children and her husband in a 1978 arson at their home near Albany was questioned again this week as investigators put renewed effort into solving the case.

Church abuse victims dissect '08 pope meeting anew (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 09:53 AM PDT

AP - Two years ago, Bernie McDaid stepped out of a police escort and into a Washington, D.C., chapel for a secret meeting with Pope Benedict XVI and a handful of clergy sex-abuse victims like him.

Chicago taxi driver accused of supporting al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 01:24 AM PDT

AP - Federal prosecutors have charged a Chicago cab driver with trying to provide funds to al-Qaida, saying the man planned to send money to a terrorist leader in Pakistan who had said he needed cash to buy explosives.

Moth forces wine country's secret into the open (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 03:05 PM PDT

AP - One of the dirty secrets of California's wine country is now on everyone's lips.

NY immigrants say tensions fade after bias attack (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 04:06 PM PDT

AP - Before an Ecuadorean immigrant was fatally stabbed in what prosecutors say was a hate crime by a swastika-tattooed teen, the illegal Latin American immigrants in this suburban middle-class village feared telling police about the young men on bikes who hurled stones and spit slurs at them.

Former 6-term Va. congressman Stan Parris dies (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 11:10 AM PDT

AP - Stanford E. Parris, a former Virginia congressman who served six terms and was an Air Force pilot during the Korean War, has died. He was 80.

Documents: Anesthetic found in Jackson home (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 04:08 AM PDT

AP - Unsealed search warrants in the Michael Jackson case reveal large quantities of general anesthetic and dozens of tubes of skin-whitening creams were among items found in the singer's home after his death.