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• Obama makes light of anti-tax protests (AP)
• Volcanic cloud casts long shadow over US travel (AP)
• Immigration agents raid AZ van shuttle businesses (AP)
• Volcanic ash affects airplanes, weather, sunsets (AP)
• Benjamin Hooks, who boosted NAACP, dead at 85 (AP)
• Russia adoption confusion rattles US families (AP)
• NYC to stop paying teachers to do nothing (AP)
• Court: Ore. medical marijuana can lead to firing (AP)
• Michelle Obama visits San Diego community farm (AP)
• Tea party leaders anxious about extremists (AP)
• No time behind bars for Imam in NYC subway-plot (AP)
• Lawmakers to review Calif. sale of state buildings (AP)
• Federal judge rules Day of Prayer unconstitutional (AP)
• Lawyer: Insanity plea coming in Vegas ax attack (AP)
• Ben Roethlisberger accuser says she told him 'no' (AP)
• Astronauts remove troublesome cargo container (AP)
• Porn star won't challenge Vitter for La. Senate (AP)
• Soaring meteor lights up skies across the Midwest (AP)
• Polygamist sect members plead no contest to bigamy (AP)
• Homeless 'Tent City' settlers in NJ get reprieve (AP)

Obama makes light of anti-tax protests (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:43 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday he's amused by the anti-tax tea party protests that have been taking place around Tax Day.

Volcanic cloud casts long shadow over US travel (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:05 PM PDT AP - A volcanic ash cloud that shut down airports and tied up air traffic across Europe could turn into a long, costly headache for businesses, airlines and tourists in the United States.

Immigration agents raid AZ van shuttle businesses (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:59 PM PDT AP - Federal agents arrested nearly 50 shuttle operators and smugglers Thursday accused of using vans to transport thousands of illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix in what was billed as one of the government's largest-ever human smuggling busts.

Volcanic ash affects airplanes, weather, sunsets (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 02:32 PM PDT AP - In 1989, all four engines of a Boeing 747 over Alaska conked out after it flew into a cloud of volcanic ash. The crew was able to restart them, but incidents like that dramatize why hundreds of flights every year are diverted around such gritty debris.

Benjamin Hooks, who boosted NAACP, dead at 85 (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:15 PM PDT AP - Civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, who shrugged off courtroom slurs as a young lawyer before earning a pioneering judgeship and later reviving a flagging NAACP, died Thursday in Memphis. He was 85.

Russia adoption confusion rattles US families (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 02:28 PM PDT AP - For the Zukors in Maryland, and hundreds of other families across the U.S., there were anxious and confusing moments Thursday as reports surfaced — and then were questioned — regarding a freeze of adoptions from Russia.

NYC to stop paying teachers to do nothing (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 02:46 PM PDT AP - The city will end the practice of paying teachers to play Scrabble, read or surf the Internet in reassignment centers nicknamed "rubber rooms" as they await disciplinary hearings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers union announced Thursday.

Court: Ore. medical marijuana can lead to firing (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 01:58 PM PDT AP - The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that workers can be fired for using medical marijuana even if they have a card from the state program authorizing its use.

Michelle Obama visits San Diego community farm (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:15 PM PDT AP - Returning from Mexico, Michelle Obama made a brief stop Thursday across the border in San Diego to visit a community garden farmed by international refugees that she called a model for building healthy communities across the nation and around the world.

Tea party leaders anxious about extremists (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 06:50 AM PDT AP - Organizers of tax-day tea parties are preparing for their biggest day of the year Thursday, as thousands of demonstrators participate in local rallies against high taxes and big government spending. But the leaders are striving to keep the rallies from presenting another image: one of fringe groups, extremists or infiltrators obsessed with hateful messages.

No time behind bars for Imam in NYC subway-plot (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 03:53 PM PDT AP - An Afghanistan-born imam who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into a suicide bomb plot against New York City subway stations will not go to prison but must leave the country within 90 days, a judge ruled Thursday.

Lawmakers to review Calif. sale of state buildings (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - California lawmakers said Thursday they will examine Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to sell state office buildings after revelations that it might be a bad deal for taxpayers.

Federal judge rules Day of Prayer unconstitutional (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:56 PM PDT AP - A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action.

Lawyer: Insanity plea coming in Vegas ax attack (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 01:54 PM PDT AP - A defense lawyer says the man accused of hacking a 4-month-old baby to death and critically wounding the infant's mother with a medieval-style battle ax will plead not guilty by reason of insanity.

Ben Roethlisberger accuser says she told him 'no' (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:34 PM PDT AP - The young woman who accused Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault said she tried to get away from the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and told him "no, this is not OK," according to police documents released Thursday.

Astronauts remove troublesome cargo container (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 03:23 PM PDT AP - After struggling for hours with a balky latching system, shuttle Discovery's astronauts successfully removed a cargo carrier from the International Space Station on Thursday.

Porn star won't challenge Vitter for La. Senate (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 02:27 PM PDT AP - Louisiana-born porn star Stormy Daniels announced Thursday that she will not run for U.S. Senate in her home state, ending a yearlong flirtation with politics that began as Republican incumbent Sen. David Vitter was working to overcome a sex scandal.

Soaring meteor lights up skies across the Midwest (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 03:22 PM PDT AP - A large meteor streaked across the Midwestern sky momentarily turning night into day, rattling houses and causing trees and the ground to shake, authorities said Thursday. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Polygamist sect members plead no contest to bigamy (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 01:52 PM PDT AP - Two members of a polygamist sect were sentenced to prison Thursday on bigamy charges, the first legal finding of multiple marriages in a community that has mostly dodged questions about the practice.

Homeless 'Tent City' settlers in NJ get reprieve (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 02:11 PM PDT AP - Homeless people who built a community of campground tents just a few blocks from downtown got a reprieve Thursday, allowing them to remain, at least for now, at the self-governing settlement in one of the nation's poorest cities.

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