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• Bill Clinton has two stents placed in heart artery (AP)
• Official: Nuclear problems were administrative (AP)
• WellPoint insurance hike becomes target for Obama (AP)
• Stolen plane, chalk-drawn feet: Teen burglar back? (AP)
• Kerrigan: Family will help brother 'fight' ruling (AP)
• Frisbee inventor dies at 90 (AP)
• Man named person of interest in Fla. girl's death (AP)
• Calif. Assembly rejects lt. governor nominee (AP)
• IRS, states crack down on independent worker abuse (AP)
• Haitian judge poised to release US missionaries (AP)
• Dugard diary shows conflicted emotion on captivity (AP)
• Atlanta's 'yellow' train line changed after outcry (AP)
• Haitian children begin enrolling in US schools (AP)
• Feds pass on surest solution to Asian carp advance (AP)
• States get new leeway to tally prisoners in census (AP)
• Florists fret storm will wilt Valentine's sales (AP)
• Ex-employees sue Blackwater, allege overbilling (AP)
• Where to go, all the snow? Even Minn. struggles (AP)
• Texas jury acquits nurse who complained of doctor (AP)

Bill Clinton has two stents placed in heart artery (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:57 PM PST AP - Former President Bill Clinton, who had quadruple bypass surgery more than five years ago, was hospitalized Thursday to have a clogged heart artery opened after suffering chest pains. Two stents resembling tiny mesh scaffolds were placed inside the artery as part of a medical procedure that is common for people with severe heart disease.

Official: Nuclear problems were administrative (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 04:51 PM PST AP - The Air Force on Thursday blamed administrative problems for the decision to remove an Air Force squadron overseeing an underground nuclear weapons cache, detailing another instance of questionable oversight even after the military took steps to correct similar issues.

WellPoint insurance hike becomes target for Obama (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:25 PM PST AP - Health insurer WellPoint blames the Great Recession and rising medical costs for its planned 39 percent rate increase for some California customers. To President Barack Obama, however, it's Exhibit A in his campaign to revive the health care overhaul.

Stolen plane, chalk-drawn feet: Teen burglar back? (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:25 PM PST AP - A stolen airplane found in the San Juan Islands and chalk-outline feet drawn all over a burgled grocery store suggest that Washington's infamous teenage "barefoot burglar" is back at it. Authorities across western Washington state have been hoping to catch alleged bandit Colton Harris-Moore since the lanky 18-year-old escaped from a halfway house in April 2008.

Kerrigan: Family will help brother 'fight' ruling (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:38 PM PST AP - Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan said Thursday that she and her family plan to help her brother fight a state medical examiner's finding that her father's death last month, following a fight, was a homicide.

Frisbee inventor dies at 90 (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:11 PM PST AP - Walter Fredrick Morrison, the man credited with inventing the Frisbee, has died. He was 90.

Man named person of interest in Fla. girl's death (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:16 PM PST AP - Authorities have arrested a man they are calling a person of interest in the kidnapping and killing of a northeast Florida girl whose body was found in a landfill after she vanished on her way home from school.

Calif. Assembly rejects lt. governor nominee (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:30 PM PST AP - The California Assembly on Thursday rejected Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's pick for lieutenant governor, marking another failed attempt at bipartisanship for a Legislature that has become a symbol of dysfunction.

IRS, states crack down on independent worker abuse (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 04:07 PM PST AP - The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, The Associated Press has learned. The practice costs governments billions in lost revenue and can leave workers high and dry when they are hurt at work or are left jobless.

Haitian judge poised to release US missionaries (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 03:34 PM PST AP - The 10 U.S. missionaries charged with kidnapping for trying to take a busload of children out of Haiti should be released from jail while an investigation continues, a Haitian judge said Thursday, giving the Americans their best news since their arrests nearly two weeks ago.

Dugard diary shows conflicted emotion on captivity (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 03:15 PM PST AP - Jaycee Dugard, the Northern California woman who was kidnapped as a child and held prisoner for 18 years, kept a diary in which she wrote of longing for freedom and feeling both emotionally trapped and protective of the man charged with raping her, court documents filed Thursday show.

Atlanta's 'yellow' train line changed after outcry (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 04:48 PM PST AP - The "yellow" train line in Atlanta is now going to be called the "gold" line after members of the local Asian community complained that it was racially insensitive.

Haitian children begin enrolling in US schools (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 10:19 AM PST AP - Some of the children arrived with no school records at all, some with only the clothes on their backs. A few still bear scrapes and bruises. All carry terrible memories.

Feds pass on surest solution to Asian carp advance (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 03:34 PM PST AP - The surest way to keep rampaging Asian carp from gaining a foothold in the Great Lakes is to sever the link between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River basin, created by engineers in Chicago more than a century ago.

States get new leeway to tally prisoners in census (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 01:35 PM PST AP - Prisoners will soon be bigger players in those high-stakes redistricting fights, even if unwittingly, thanks to a change in federal policy governing how they're to be counted in the 2010 census.

Florists fret storm will wilt Valentine's sales (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 03:38 PM PST AP - Snow-clogged streets and closed office buildings are posing twin logistical challenges for Mid-Atlantic florists as Valentine's Day approaches, and some worry it won't be a rosy holiday unless sales bloom when the shoveling ends.

Ex-employees sue Blackwater, allege overbilling (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 01:57 PM PST AP - Two former Blackwater Worldwide employees say the security company repeatedly billed the U.S. government for excessive or inappropriate expenses, including a prostitute for workers in Afghanistan and strippers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Where to go, all the snow? Even Minn. struggles (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 02:46 PM PST AP - Snow isn't usually a big deal in Minnesota.

Texas jury acquits nurse who complained of doctor (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2010 02:21 PM PST AP - A Texas nurse who was brought up on criminal charges for filing an anonymous complaint accusing a doctor of unethical conduct was acquitted by a jury Thursday in a case that watchdog groups warned could have a chilling effect on health care workers and patients.

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