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• New threat puts Calif. police on heightened alert (AP)
• Fargo calm, confident as Red River completes rise (AP)
• Police: Boy, 16, made racial comment at NJ Walmart (AP)
• Thousands rally to pull troops from 2 war zones (AP)
• Black support high for Obama's race-neutral stance (AP)
• 3 killed after small planes collide over Fla. (AP)
• Former Interior Secretary Udall dies at age 90 (AP)
• Boy Scouts sex abuse files now evidence in lawsuit (AP)
• Lawmakers wnt to limit txt msgs and e-mails (AP)
• Tight for cash, governments raise traffic fees (AP)
• 3 deaths reported as snow storm strikes Plains (AP)
• Former press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson dies (AP)
• Judge: $575M settlement rejected for 9/11 'heroes' (AP)
• Ore. town uses geothermal energy to stay warm (AP)
• Bloated lake haunts North Dakota town again (AP)
• Man wanted for Detroit slayings nabbed near LA (AP)
• Member of Texas polygamist sect sentenced 75 years (AP)
• Medical examiner: Boy found on Wash. beach drowned (AP)

New threat puts Calif. police on heightened alert (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 04:30 PM PDT AP - The tense atmosphere surrounding a California police department plagued by booby trap attacks has been stepped up a notch following the latest threat against officers.

Fargo calm, confident as Red River completes rise (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 03:57 PM PDT AP - They passed out cigars in Fargo on Saturday, but no matches just yet, as a flood-weary city that's spent the last week getting ready to hold back the Red River cautiously prepared to celebrate what appeared to be a successful defense against the swollen waterway.

Police: Boy, 16, made racial comment at NJ Walmart (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 02:06 PM PDT AP - A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in the southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, authorities said Saturday.

Thousands rally to pull troops from 2 war zones (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 04:30 PM PDT AP - Thousands of protesters — many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama — marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Black support high for Obama's race-neutral stance (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 02:46 PM PDT AP - In this banking center walloped by the Great Recession, where unemployment just hit a 20-year high and as many as one in three black people are out of work, blacks could easily be frustrated with President Barack Obama's insistence that a rising economic tide for all will lift African-American boats.

3 killed after small planes collide over Fla. (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 03:25 PM PDT AP - A single-engine plane and a kit-built aircraft collided in clear, sunny skies Saturday over central Florida, killing three people, authorities said.

Former Interior Secretary Udall dies at age 90 (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 04:49 PM PDT AP - Stewart Udall, who sowed the seeds of the modern environmental movement as secretary of the interior during the 1960s and later became a crusader for victims of radiation exposure from the government's Cold War nuclear programs, died Saturday. He was 90.

Boy Scouts sex abuse files now evidence in lawsuit (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 04:17 PM PDT AP - The Boy Scouts of America call them "perversion files," internal documents used to track Scout leaders suspected of sexually abusing young boys.

Lawmakers wnt to limit txt msgs and e-mails (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 12:47 PM PDT AP - Open government in the heart of Silicon Valley is starting to mean turn off, tune out, power down.

Tight for cash, governments raise traffic fees (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 12:00 PM PDT AP - Shomari Jennings was willing to pay the $70 ticket he received for driving without a seatbelt, but not the slew of tacked-on fees and penalties that ballooned the cost more than tenfold.

3 deaths reported as snow storm strikes Plains (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 04:15 PM PDT AP - A powerful storm began blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first day of spring Saturday, bringing heavy snow and strong winds a day after temperatures reached into the 70s.

Former press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson dies (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 03:45 PM PDT AP - Liz Carpenter, an author and former press secretary to first lady Lady Bird Johnson, died Saturday at an Austin hospital after contracting pneumonia earlier in the week, said her daughter, Christy Carpenter. Carpenter was 89.

Judge: $575M settlement rejected for 9/11 'heroes' (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 03:52 AM PDT AP - A federal judge rejected a multimillion dollar settlement for people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal to compensate 10,000 police officers, firefighters and other laborers didn't contain enough money.

Ore. town uses geothermal energy to stay warm (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 10:56 AM PDT AP - When snow falls on this downtown of brick buildings and glass storefronts in southern Oregon, it piles up everywhere but the sidewalks. It's the first sign that this timber and ranching town is like few others.

Bloated lake haunts North Dakota town again (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 07:20 AM PDT AP - Almost a year after worried authorities went door to door warning residents to flee as water carved through a nearby dam, this tiny North Dakota town is facing the possibility of having to evacuate again because of flooding.

Man wanted for Detroit slayings nabbed near LA (AP) Posted: 20 Mar 2010 11:08 AM PDT AP - U.S. Marshals using information from Detroit police have arrested in California a man wanted in a double slaying reported by the 8-year-old daughter of one of the victims.

Member of Texas polygamist sect sentenced 75 years (AP) Posted: 19 Mar 2010 07:56 PM PDT AP - The latest member of a polygamist group whose sprawling West Texas ranch was raided in 2008 has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for sexual assault of a child.

Medical examiner: Boy found on Wash. beach drowned (AP) Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:55 PM PDT AP - A day after a boy's body was found on an island beach in Puget Sound, authorities searched unsuccessfully for his missing mother.

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