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• Co. owner indicted in deadly NYC crane collapse (AP)
• Oscar's big question: How did David slay Goliath? (AP)
• Paterson seeks to show he's still in charge (AP)
• Stupak: Health bill abortion fight can be resolved (AP)
• Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking (AP)
• Ohio inmate ODs on pills hours before execution (AP)
• Feds: Calif. man ran student visa fraud ring (AP)
• Accused Ga. killer uses creative legal argument (AP)
• Colo. rock slide rains boulders on bridge, highway (AP)
• Police look for missing Texas exec in New Orleans (AP)
• Ed chief: Agency to review equal access at schools (AP)
• Officer: DC gunman's expression warned of trouble (AP)
• Not more quakes, just more people in quake zones (AP)
• Sea lions killed for eating too many salmon (AP)
• Gunman, 2 others wounded in Dallas shootout (AP)
• Hustler asks for crime scene photos of slain hiker (AP)
• Oldest person in US dies in NH at age 114 (AP)
• No charges for Calif. officers in student beating (AP)
• Mass. judge turns down 'Rockefeller' new trial bid (AP)

Co. owner indicted in deadly NYC crane collapse (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:32 PM PST AP - A construction crane owner got a bargain-basement repair job on a giant rig, which fell apart and killed two workers when the fix failed, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against the owner and a former mechanic.

Oscar's big question: How did David slay Goliath? (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:46 PM PST AP - For Hollywood pundits, industry folk and Oscar fans still paying attention on Monday, a major question remained: How did David slay Goliath?

Paterson seeks to show he's still in charge (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:44 PM PST AP - Gov. David Paterson was adamant about governing Monday, taking questions from the public at a town hall meeting and trying to make clear his authority to negotiate a state budget amid two scandals that threaten his job.

Stupak: Health bill abortion fight can be resolved (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:59 PM PST AP - Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday.

Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 01:33 PM PST AP - Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.

Ohio inmate ODs on pills hours before execution (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 01:57 PM PST AP - Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday postponed the execution of a convicted killer who managed to take an overdose of pills in his death row cell and was found unconscious just hours before he was to be driven to his execution.

Feds: Calif. man ran student visa fraud ring (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 05:18 PM PST AP - A California man was charged Monday with operating a ring of illegal test-takers who helped dozens of Middle Eastern nationals obtain U.S. student visas by passing various proficiency and college-placement exams for them, federal authorities said.

Accused Ga. killer uses creative legal argument (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:41 PM PST AP - A Georgia man accused of killing two people used an innovative legal strategy Monday in an attempt to get his murder charges dismissed. Call it the Census defense.

Colo. rock slide rains boulders on bridge, highway (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:34 PM PST AP - A rock slide punched gaping holes in a bridge and left huge boulders on Interstate 70, closing a 17-mile stretch in western Colorado and prompting Gov. Bill Ritter to declare a disaster emergency Monday for the road.

Police look for missing Texas exec in New Orleans (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PST AP - Police are searching the French Quarter in New Orleans and checking with businesses for surveillance videotapes of a Texas energy executive who disappeared after walking out of a Bourbon Street bar.

Ed chief: Agency to review equal access at schools (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:04 PM PST AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday the federal government will become more vigilant to make sure students have equal access and opportunity to everything ranging from college prep classes to science and engineering programs.

Officer: DC gunman's expression warned of trouble (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:05 PM PST AP - There were no obvious signs of trouble when gunman John Patrick Bedell approached a Pentagon security checkpoint Thursday night. But Pentagon police officer Marvin Carraway had seen that facial expression before. It betrayed Bedell's intentions.

Not more quakes, just more people in quake zones (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:45 PM PST AP - First the ground shook in Haiti, then Chile and now Turkey. The earthquakes keep coming hard and fast this year, causing people to wonder if something sinister is happening underfoot.

Sea lions killed for eating too many salmon (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:54 PM PST AP - Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags from shotguns and boats. Now they are resorting to issuing death sentences to the most chronic offenders.

Gunman, 2 others wounded in Dallas shootout (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:51 PM PST AP - A gunman apparently angry over business dealings wounded a father and son at their financial services company inside an office building Monday, then shot himself as police closed in, authorities said.

Hustler asks for crime scene photos of slain hiker (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:00 PM PST AP - Authorities said Monday they will not give Hustler Magazine crime scene and autopsy photos of a Georgia college student who was slain while hiking, with one lawmaker calling the porn publication's request "vile" and "disgusting."

Oldest person in US dies in NH at age 114 (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:50 PM PST AP - Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, 294 days.

No charges for Calif. officers in student beating (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2010 12:52 PM PST AP - Prosecutors say they won't file criminal charges against four Northern California police officers in the beating of an unarmed college student that was caught on video.

Mass. judge turns down 'Rockefeller' new trial bid (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2010 05:10 PM PST AP - A Massachusetts judge has turned down a new trial request by a man who called himself Clark Rockefeller.

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