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• Fargo residents learn from mistakes in flood fight (AP)
• Terror suspect admits scouting for Mumbai massacre (AP)
• Child's body found during search for WA boy, mom (AP)
• Medical marijuana a frequent target for criminals (AP)
• Leprechaun holdup suspect linked to Santa robbery (AP)
• US rep: Pa. Jihad Jane terror suspect cooperated (AP)
• APNewsBreak: SC gov to pay $74K in ethics fines (AP)
• NH man convicted of killing landlord for truck (AP)
• Dad praises Calif. kids who helped deliver baby (AP)
• US citizen pleads guilty in 1968 air hijacking (AP)
• Fess Parker, TV's `Davy Crockett,' dies at 85 (AP)
• Polanski lawyers seek inquiry into misconduct (AP)
• Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers (AP)
• Woman testifies against RI officer accused of rape (AP)
• Prosecutor: Serial killer linked to more cases (AP)
• Private drama plagues Oscar winner Sandra Bullock (AP)
• Attempt stalls to ban smoking at Calif state parks (AP)
• AP Enterprise: NASA, cruise line got flu shots (AP)
• Why don't Fargo's flood holdouts leave? (AP)
• Immigrants heading to Washington to push reforms (AP)

Fargo residents learn from mistakes in flood fight (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:14 PM PDT AP - Before this flood season, officials in Fargo asked homeowners to clear paths in their yards so that firm and straight walls of sandbags could be placed to protect their homes. One resident cut down his tree. Another went so far to use a torch to melt the ice off his ground.

Terror suspect admits scouting for Mumbai massacre (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:33 PM PDT AP - A Chicago man admitted Thursday that he scouted out the Indian city of Mumbai for a 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead and plotted an attack on a Danish newspaper over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Child's body found during search for WA boy, mom (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:22 PM PDT AP - A child's body washed up on an island in Puget Sound on Thursday, and law enforcement officials said it could be an 8-year-old boy who went missing with his mother last weekend.

Medical marijuana a frequent target for criminals (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 05:49 PM PDT AP - Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands of pot thieves.

Leprechaun holdup suspect linked to Santa robbery (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:46 PM PDT AP - The man who staged a St. Patrick's Day bank robbery in a leprechaun costume and died during a police shootout also held up a bank three days before Christmas in a Santa suit, police said Thursday.

US rep: Pa. Jihad Jane terror suspect cooperated (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:23 PM PDT AP - A woman accused of trolling the Internet as Jihad Jane and agreeing to marry a suspected terrorist and kill a Swedish artist targeted by radical Muslims cooperated with authorities, a congressman said.

APNewsBreak: SC gov to pay $74K in ethics fines (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has agreed to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve dozens of charges that he violated state ethics laws with his campaign spending and travel, including a taxpayer-funded rendezvous with his Argentine mistress, the State Ethics Commission said Thursday.

NH man convicted of killing landlord for truck (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:08 PM PDT AP - A jury convicted a New Hampshire man Thursday of beating his landlord to death with a hammer to steal his new pickup truck, and rejected the defendant's claims he acted in self-defense when the landlord tried to rape him.

Dad praises Calif. kids who helped deliver baby (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:09 PM PDT AP - When Alana Sanders gave birth to her fourth child, the people on hand to towel off the baby and tie its umbilical cord weren't the usual team of doctors or nurses. They were her 11-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son.

US citizen pleads guilty in 1968 air hijacking (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:08 PM PDT AP - A 67-year-old man on Thursday admitted hijacking a plane four decades ago and forcing it to land in Cuba, telling a judge how he threatened to cut a flight attendant's throat to get access to the cockpit, where another man held a gun to the back of the co-pilot.

Fess Parker, TV's `Davy Crockett,' dies at 85 (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:45 PM PDT AP - Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.

Polanski lawyers seek inquiry into misconduct (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:03 PM PDT AP - Roman Polanski's attorneys filed an appeal Thursday asking that a special counsel be appointed to investigate alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the director's 32-year-old sex case.

Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:52 PM PDT AP - A teacher at a failing school where he and all his colleagues are being fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama's support of extreme measures to ensure accountability in schools.

Woman testifies against RI officer accused of rape (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 03:34 PM PDT AP - A woman who says an on-duty Providence police officer raped her testified on the opening day of a sexual assault trial Thursday that she woke up in the bathroom stall of a police substation with her pants undone and her undergarments removed.

Prosecutor: Serial killer linked to more cases (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:08 PM PDT AP - Convicted serial killer Rodney James Alcala may be linked to the unsolved cases of at least six people who disappeared or were killed, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said Thursday.

Private drama plagues Oscar winner Sandra Bullock (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 04:28 PM PDT AP - Sandra Bullock is on a career high. America's Sweetheart and "Miss Congeniality" was repeatedly anointed as Hollywood royalty this year, sweeping awards season and capping it off with an Oscar for her role as a devoted mom in "The Blind Side."

Attempt stalls to ban smoking at Calif state parks (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 01:35 PM PDT AP - An attempt by the California Legislature to impose what is believed to be the nation's most far-reaching smoking ban in state parks stalled Thursday over objections it would inappropriately punish smokers.

AP Enterprise: NASA, cruise line got flu shots (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 12:39 PM PDT AP - Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the Royal Caribbean cruise line, the headquarters of drug giant Merck, the Johnson Space Center and a Department of Energy office in Idaho.

Why don't Fargo's flood holdouts leave? (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 06:31 AM PDT AP - Mac Butler believes he'll beat the bloated Red River and save his home again this year. But a canoe and kayak are tied up outside his house just in case he's wrong.

Immigrants heading to Washington to push reforms (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 02:23 PM PDT AP - Day laborers on foot from Long Island and Californians who sold tamales to pay for their trip are expected to rally on Sunday in Washington, D.C., with tens of thousands of immigrants, many of them undocumented Hispanics, to dramatize their pleas for immigration reform.

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