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Calif. police: 14-year-old girl's remains found (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 05:16 PM PST

In this combination of photos, each released by the respective family, Amber Dubois, left, and Chelsea King, right, are shown. Police are investigating John Albert Gardner III, who pleaded not guilty Wednesday March 3, 2010 to the murder of Chelsea King, in the disappearance of Dubois, a 14-year-old who vanished a year ago while walking to school. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dubois and King families) NO SALESAP - Authorities in Southern California say the skeletal remains of a 14-year-old girl who disappeared a year ago while walking to school have been found in a remote area of the Pala Indian Reservation.

3.1M customers face Oscar night without broadcast (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 02:59 PM PST

FILE - Bob Iger, president and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, delivers a keynote speech during the TelecomNEXT convention in Las Vegas on in this March 20, 2006 file photo. Cablevision Systems Corp. said early Sunday March 7, 2010 the stall in negotiations should be blamed on Disney CEO Bob Iger. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP - Cablevision subscribers were scrambling Sunday to hook up antennas or find live TV on the Internet in order to watch the Academy Awards after ABC's parent company Walt Disney Co. switched off its signal in a dispute over fees.

Database can crack missing person cases — if used (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:55 AM PST

FILE- In a photo made March 17, 2007, Janice Smolinski poses in her Cheshire, Conn., home where a photo of her son, Billy, is visible in the foreground. Billy disappeared from his Waterbury, Conn. home in Aug. 2004 and Smolinski believes a Justice Department database program will someday help find her son who was 31 when he vanished. (AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, File)AP - A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.

Suspected gunman killed outside Walmart in Texas (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 03:10 PM PST

AP - A man walked into a Walmart in Texas carrying at least two guns before engaging in a shootout with police outside the store, authorities said. The man was killed and an off-duty officer in the store who had tried to stop him was injured.

Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:15 AM PST

AP - The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease.

Police: 8 teens shot while leaving Indiana concert (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:52 PM PST

AP - Authorities say eight teenage boys were shot while leaving a Gary, Ind., skating rink where they were attending a concert.

Ground zero hotel wants to attract 9/11 tourists (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 10:10 AM PST

In this photo taken March 3, 2010, the World Trade Center construction site is shown in a view taken from the rooftop restaurant of the World Center Hotel in New York. With rooms boasting views directly out on the construction, the hotel's proximity to the site of the Sept. 11 attacks is being used as a marketing tool. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Looking down into the construction site covering the 16 acres where the World Trade Center once stood, some might see a place shadowed by death.

Kansas City wants to close half its public schools (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 12:54 PM PST

AP - Kansas City was held up as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many kids were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and another with recording studios.

Hollywood billboards taken down amid legal battle (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:50 PM PST

A commercial billboard described as 'super graphic' ad for Asics sports wear, is seen on top of building in the Hollywood Boulevard section of Los Angeles on Thursday, March. 4, 2010. The Los Angeles city attorney's office has filed its first charges under a ban passed last year on the giant building-cloaking signs known as super graphics and most other digital billboards. The civil complaint filed Monday accuses 27 billboard companies, property owners and sign installers of violation of the ban approved in August by the City Council. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Five giant billboards have been removed from buildings in Hollywood near the site of the Academy Awards after Los Angeles prosecutors charged four people and four companies with hanging the so-called supergraphics illegally.

Duncan won't cancel Montgomery school visit (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 03:48 PM PST

Education Secretary Arne Duncan, center, gestures during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, to announce a national education initiative to boost academic achievement among Hispanic students from kindergarten through high school. From right to left are: Miami Dade College President Eduardo J. Padron, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, and Duncan. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will meet with students as planned at Montgomery's Robert E. Lee High School, despite a state legislator's call to cancel the appearance.

Judge orders bus firm to stop interstate service (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 12:01 PM PST

Arizona Department of Public Safety police officers and members of the medical examiner's office remove bodies from the site of a tour bus crash on Friday, March 5, 2010, in Sacaton, Ariz. Police are saying six people were killed in the crash on Interstate 10 about 25 miles south of Phoenix after a bus traveling from Mexico to Los Angeles struck a pickup truck and rolled before landing upright on its wheels. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - A federal judge has ordered a bus company involved in an Arizona crash that killed six people and injured more than a dozen others to cease interstate operations.

RI mayor faces new questions in Congressional run (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:09 AM PST

AP - Mayor David Cicilline claims he has cleaned up Providence after the corruption of his predecessor, but his family relationships and connection to a former staffer could raise new questions about his reformer credentials.

`Avatar,' `Hurt Locker' lead expanded Oscar parade (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 03:41 PM PST

With the threat of rain still present, a tent remains over the red carpet outside the entrance to the Kodak Theatre in preparation for the 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles, on Sunday, March 7, 2010. The Academy Awards will be held later in the day. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - Academy Awards voters are expected to go very big or very small on their best-picture winner at Sunday's Oscars.

Va. AG: Colleges can't ban gay discrimination (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 08:39 PM PST

AP - Virginia's attorney general has advised the state's public colleges that they don't have the authority to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, saying only the General Assembly has that power.

WWII-era plane crashes off Fla. Panhandle; 2 dead (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:31 AM PST

AP - A neurosurgeon and one other person were killed when the World War II-era plane they were in crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Panhandle.

New case: Steelers QB investigated for Ga. assault (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 06:54 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2008 file photo, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger reacts as the Jacksonville Jaguars kick a game-winning field goal during the fourth quarter of an NFL wild card playoff football game in Pittsburgh. A 20-year-old college student has accused Roethlisberger of sexually assaulting her at a nightclub early Friday, March 5, 2010, during a night on the town near where he owns a lake home. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)AP - For the second time in a year, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is being accused of sexual misconduct, with a police investigating him Saturday for an alleged assault at a nightclub in a Georgia college town.

NY gov faces legal minefield in conduct inquiries (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 07:13 PM PST

New York Gov. David Paterson speaks during a news conference at Terminal 4 of JFK airport Friday, March 5, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - Legal experts say the next few days and weeks could be the most dangerous yet for the embattled administration of Gov. David Paterson.

After much anticipation, it's finally Oscar time (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 02:49 PM PST

Fan Shiva Alizadeh of Denton, Texas, does a crossword puzzle while waiting in the red carpet bleacher seats outside the Kodak Theatre awaiting the start of the 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - The big day is here.

Ruling on gay Air Force major creates dilemma (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 07:38 PM PST

FILE - In this June 30, 2006 file photo shows U.S. Air Force Reservist Maj. Margaret Witt after a hearing of a case challenging her dismissal from the Air Force for being a lesbian in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Wash. A pressing legal reality for the 'don't ask, don't tell' standard for gays serving in the military is that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already struck down the way it's practiced in much of the Western United States. The 2008 ruling, while largely overlooked, would force the military to apply a much higher threshold in determining whether a service member should be dismissed for being gay. (AP Photo/John Froschauer, File)AP - A pressing legal reality for the "don't ask, don't tell" standard for gays serving in the military is that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already struck down the way it's practiced in much of the Western United States.

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