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• Hurled bricks, threats surround health overhaul (AP)
• Fugitive missing for 38 years found running chapel (AP)
• NJ gov off to a strong start; some say too strong (AP)
• Calif. voters to decide whether to legalize pot (AP)
• Judge's action in 9/11 health case raises eyebrows (AP)
• Judge lifts stay blocking Noriega's extradition (AP)
• Divorce attorney says Dennis Hopper is dying (AP)
• Execution halted for Texas man claiming innocence (AP)
• Outlaw pot growers in California fear legalization (AP)
• Texas Tech offers quicker degrees to family docs (AP)
• Flood of appeals likely after Neb. CSI conviction (AP)
• Robert Culp, who starred in `I Spy,' dead at 79 (AP)
• Trucks burned in possible threat to Calif. police (AP)
• Ed Secretary Duncan faces questions on admissions (AP)
• Dwight Gooden charged with driving on drugs in NJ (AP)
• New ancestor? Scientists ponder DNA from Siberia (AP)
• Study adds evidence that bone drugs work, are safe (AP)
• 1 in 10 Chinese adults are diabetics, study finds (AP)
• Elusive monkey romps in Tampa Bay area (AP)
• Doctor pleads not guilty to molesting 100 patients (AP)

Hurled bricks, threats surround health overhaul (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:12 PM PDT AP - Bricks have been hurled through Democrats' windows, a propane line was cut at the home of a congressman's brother and lawmakers who voted for a federal health care bill have received obscenity-laced phone threats in the days before and after passage of the sweeping legislation.

Fugitive missing for 38 years found running chapel (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:40 PM PDT AP - A hitchhiker originally sentenced to be executed for the 1951 killing of a Montana man who picked him up during a blizzard has been found running a wedding chapel under an assumed name in Arizona 38 years after he skipped out on parole.

NJ gov off to a strong start; some say too strong (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:52 PM PDT AP - There's not a lot that's small about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. He is a big man with a big personality and a big problem — namely, closing a nearly $11 billion deficit in a state whose residents carry the biggest property-tax burden in the country.

Calif. voters to decide whether to legalize pot (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:24 PM PDT AP - California voters will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana use for adults after an initiative was certified for the November ballot.

Judge's action in 9/11 health case raises eyebrows (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:45 PM PDT AP - A federal judge pushed the limits of his legal authority when he rejected a settlement that would have paid at least $575 million to thousands of people who fell ill after working in the toxic ash of the World Trade Center, legal experts say.

Judge lifts stay blocking Noriega's extradition (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:35 PM PDT AP - A Miami federal judge has lifted a stay blocking former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega from being extradited to France.

Divorce attorney says Dennis Hopper is dying (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:45 PM PDT AP - Dennis Hopper is terminally ill and unable to undergo chemotherapy as he battles prostate cancer, his attorney wrote in a court filing.

Execution halted for Texas man claiming innocence (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:33 PM PDT AP - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday stopped the execution of condemned prisoner Hank Skinner about an hour before he could have been taken to the Texas death chamber.

Outlaw pot growers in California fear legalization (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:26 PM PDT AP - The smell of pot hung heavy in the air as men with dreadlocks and gray beards contemplated a nightmarish possibility in this legendary region of outlaw marijuana growers: legal weed.

Texas Tech offers quicker degrees to family docs (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - Texas Tech University's medical school will soon become the first in the U.S. to offer aspiring family doctors a three-year degree at half the cost of a traditional four-year path, university officials said.

Flood of appeals likely after Neb. CSI conviction (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:50 PM PDT AP - As the chief crime scene investigator for Nebraska's busiest county, David Kofoed spent more than a decade helping put away hundreds of criminals using cold, hard science. He developed a reputation as a man who could find things others couldn't.

Robert Culp, who starred in `I Spy,' dead at 79 (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:27 PM PDT AP - Robert Culp, the actor who teamed with Bill Cosby in the racially groundbreaking TV series "I Spy" and was Bob in the critically acclaimed sex comedy "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," died Wednesday after collapsing outside his Hollywood home, his manager said. Culp was 79.

Trucks burned in possible threat to Calif. police (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:32 PM PDT AP - Four municipal trucks were set ablaze in a rural Riverside County town plagued by bizarre booby trap attempts to kill police officers, and authorities said Wednesday the fire may be linked to the earlier attacks.

Ed Secretary Duncan faces questions on admissions (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:53 PM PDT AP - News that President Barack Obama's top education official kept a log of calls from powerful people trying to get students into top Chicago high schools is raising more questions about the city's admissions practices.

Dwight Gooden charged with driving on drugs in NJ (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:17 PM PDT AP - Former Major League Baseball star Dwight Gooden has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs and leaving the scene of an accident.

New ancestor? Scientists ponder DNA from Siberia (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 12:35 PM PDT AP - In the latest use of DNA to investigate the story of humankind, scientists have decoded genetic material from an unidentified human ancestor that lived in Siberia and concluded it might be a new member of the human family tree.

Study adds evidence that bone drugs work, are safe (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:10 PM PDT AP - A new study gives reassuring news about the safety of Fosamax and Reclast, bone-building drugs taken by millions of American women. It found that long-term use does not significantly raise the risk of a rare type of fracture near the hip.

1 in 10 Chinese adults are diabetics, study finds (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 02:12 PM PDT AP - After working overtime to catch up to life in the West, China now faces a whole new problem: the world's biggest diabetes epidemic.

Elusive monkey romps in Tampa Bay area (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:30 PM PDT AP - In the hours after a monkey on the lam fell into a woman's pool and then swiped some fruit from her backyard tree, fans of the wily primate cheered it for avoiding capture.

Doctor pleads not guilty to molesting 100 patients (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 12:43 PM PDT AP - A Delaware pediatrician pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he molested more than 100 of his patients, many of them repeatedly, and videotaped the assaults.

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