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• Calif. parents recount ordeal of missing daughter (AP)
• Suspect in Elizabeth Smart case deemed competent (AP)
• All sides agree to donate Simpson `acquittal suit' (AP)
• Official: Substance at Utah IRS bldg not hazardous (AP)
• Brooklyn DA: No criminality caught on ACORN video (AP)
• Suggestive NJ billboard of jeans ad to come down (AP)
• SeaWorld workers describe speed of fatal attack (AP)
• Air Force nuclear units fail inspection in Montana (AP)
• Chicagoans hope stories will help overturn gun ban (AP)
• AP IMPACT: Drug gangs taking over US public lands (AP)
• Parents say doctors hastened death for dying kids (AP)
• 4 lost snowboarders spend night at Maine resort (AP)
• NY's Paterson declares he'll govern to end of term (AP)
• Vehicle on icy road sends Ohio officer flying (AP)
• Prosecutor: Mich. man killed 2 to avenge his mom (AP)
• Man to cooperate in NH machete murder case (AP)
• SC judge rejecting Susan Smith's appeal (AP)
• SC bill would get rid of filing law for terrorists (AP)
• Payback formula for Bernard Madoff victims upheld (AP)

Calif. parents recount ordeal of missing daughter (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 04:22 PM PST AP - Brent and Kelly King knew something was wrong when they discovered their 17-year-old daughter Chelsea wasn't home.

Suspect in Elizabeth Smart case deemed competent (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 02:37 PM PST AP - Brian David Mitchell, the man charged with snatching Elizabeth Smart nearly eight years ago, could finally face a jury after a federal judge ruled Monday that Mitchell was faking mental illness and is competent to stand trial.

All sides agree to donate Simpson `acquittal suit' (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 04:52 PM PST AP - After 13 years of legal battles, O.J. Simpson, his former agent, and Fred Goldman have agreed to donate Simpson's so-called "acquittal suit" to the Smithsonian Institution.

Official: Substance at Utah IRS bldg not hazardous (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 04:16 PM PST AP - A suspicious substance found at an IRS building in Ogden, Utah, on Monday is not hazardous, an official with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said.

Brooklyn DA: No criminality caught on ACORN video (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 04:29 PM PST AP - ACORN employees caught on video apparently advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend to lie about her profession and launder her earnings did not commit a crime, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office said Monday.

Suggestive NJ billboard of jeans ad to come down (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 04:50 PM PST AP - Like the pair of jeans it depicts, a billboard poster in downtown Newark is coming down.

SeaWorld workers describe speed of fatal attack (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 04:32 PM PST AP - A killer whale that dragged a trainer to her death eluded SeaWorld workers who furiously unfurled nets while it swam pool-to-pool during the attack last week, according to witness statements released Monday.

Air Force nuclear units fail inspection in Montana (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 03:59 PM PST AP - Two Air Force units responsible for the nuclear missiles warehoused in Montana failed inspections last month, military officials said Monday.

Chicagoans hope stories will help overturn gun ban (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 01:08 PM PST AP - A couple worries that burglars who tried to break in when the wife was home alone will return. A retiree fears the drug dealers and junkies just outside his window will attempt — again — to steal what he spent a lifetime earning. And a businessman wants to protect himself as he could when he was a police officer.

AP IMPACT: Drug gangs taking over US public lands (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 04:22 PM PST AP - Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.

Parents say doctors hastened death for dying kids (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 04:22 PM PST AP - It's a situation too agonizing to contemplate — a child dying and in pain. Now a small but provocative study suggests that doctors may be giving fatal morphine doses to a few children dying of cancer, to end their suffering at their parents' request.

4 lost snowboarders spend night at Maine resort (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 02:13 PM PST AP - Four teenage snowboarders who got lost at the Sugarloaf Mountain ski resort survived a cold night in dense woods and deep snow — despite their failure to start a fire by lighting a dollar bill — by continually moving around to stay warm.

NY's Paterson declares he'll govern to end of term (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:59 PM PST AP - As New York Gov. David Paterson tried to reassert his authority to govern for the remainder of his term, an investigation of his administration stormed ahead, making even the governor's long-term friends wonder whether his time in office might end much sooner.

Vehicle on icy road sends Ohio officer flying (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 11:36 AM PST AP - A police officer in suburban Cleveland is recovering after he was struck by a vehicle spinning out of control on an icy highway ramp.

Prosecutor: Mich. man killed 2 to avenge his mom (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:40 PM PST AP - A man who has his mother's name tattooed on his chest was out to avenge her when he killed an anti-abortion activist in a drive-by shooting and then gunned down her former boss in a small Michigan community, a prosecutor said Monday.

Man to cooperate in NH machete murder case (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 02:15 PM PST AP - One of five New Hampshire men charged in a fatal attack on a woman at her home has pleaded guilty to robbery and other charges.

SC judge rejecting Susan Smith's appeal (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 03:41 PM PST AP - A judge plans to throw out Susan Smith's request for a new trial unless the South Carolina mom convicted of leaving her two young sons in her car to drown in 1994 can come up with better arguments.

SC bill would get rid of filing law for terrorists (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 01:07 PM PST AP - In South Carolina, any group that plans to overthrow the federal government — or any other government in the U.S. — must register its activities.

Payback formula for Bernard Madoff victims upheld (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:39 PM PST AP - A New York bankruptcy judge has rejected a legal challenge by Bernard Madoff's victims over how they should be compensated.

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