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• Christian militia accused of plotting to kill cops (AP)
• US judge strikes down patent on cancer genes (AP)
• Republicans spent $1,946 at topless club (AP)
• Criticism of Vatican in Wis. over abuse scandal (AP)
• French president, first lady take on New York (AP)
• Why would anyone turn down a million bucks? Ask this guy (AP)
• Heavy rain threatens to topple records in East (AP)
• Health premiums could rise 17 pct for young adults (AP)
• Calif. officials seek extradition of 'heroin king' (AP)
• US transit security beefed up after Moscow blast (AP)
• Palin steps up rhetoric against her detractors (AP)
• Adult trial for boy in death of Pa. woman, fetus (AP)
• Specter pushes for stronger federal privacy laws (AP)
• Feds pick Delaware, Tenn. for $600M ed grants (AP)
• In Texas, fear follows Mexicans who flee drug war (AP)
• 9 charged with bullying Mass. teen who killed self (AP)
• Jewish leader doubts Carter apology on Israel (AP)
• 6-week search finds no Asian carp near Chicago (AP)
• Pa. city losing hockey team, just like 'Slap Shot' (AP)
• Lawyer who found documents has long pursued church (AP)

Christian militia accused of plotting to kill cops (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:43 PM PDT AP - Nine alleged members of a Christian militia group that was girding for battle with the Antichrist were charged Monday with plotting to kill a police officer and slaughter scores more by bombing the funeral — all in hopes of touching off an uprising against the U.S. government.

US judge strikes down patent on cancer genes (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - In a ruling with potentially far-reaching implications for the patenting of human genes, a judge on Monday struck down a company's patents on two genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

Republicans spent $1,946 at topless club (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:36 PM PDT AP - The Republican National Committee spent $1,946 last month at a sex-themed Hollywood club that features topless dancers and bondage outfits. Now the GOP wants its money back.

Criticism of Vatican in Wis. over abuse scandal (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:43 PM PDT AP - A man who says he was among some 200 deaf boys allegedly molested by a priest in Wisconsin said Monday the Vatican's defensive responses to revelations about the case make him feel like he did when he was 12, when no one would listen to him about the abuse.

French president, first lady take on New York (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:29 PM PDT AP - With a lectern flown in from France and his fingers firmly entwined with those of his smiling wife, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a splash Monday even before he opened his mouth for a no-holds-barred speech at Columbia University.

Why would anyone turn down a million bucks? Ask this guy (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:17 PM PDT AP - Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia — and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century.

Heavy rain threatens to topple records in East (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:41 PM PDT AP - Nervous residents along the sodden East Coast watched rivers rise Monday as they braced for a new round of flooding — and the wettest March on record in some areas.

Health premiums could rise 17 pct for young adults (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:41 PM PDT AP - Under the health care overhaul, young adults who buy their own insurance will carry a heavier burden of the medical costs of older Americans — a shift expected to raise insurance premiums for young people when the plan takes full effect.

Calif. officials seek extradition of 'heroin king' (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - The arrest of a man dubbed Mexico's "king of heroin" has disrupted a $10 million-a-month operation that smuggled tons of heroin a year into the United States, authorities said Monday.

US transit security beefed up after Moscow blast (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:35 PM PDT AP - U.S. transit agencies beefed up security as a precaution Monday after the double suicide bombing in Moscow's subway system, sending more police into stations and officers to conduct random inspections of rail yards.

Palin steps up rhetoric against her detractors (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 02:56 PM PDT AP - Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had some harsh words for her detractors in the health care debate with a thinly veiled, March Madness-themed Facebook post in which she declared, "never retreat, instead RELOAD!"

Adult trial for boy in death of Pa. woman, fetus (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:13 PM PDT AP - A Pennsylvania boy who was 11 when he was accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancee with a shotgun blast to the back of her head as she lay in bed will be tried as an adult in the death of both the woman and the fetus, a judge ruled Monday.

Specter pushes for stronger federal privacy laws (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 02:47 PM PDT AP - Broadening wiretap laws to include videotaped surveillance could either safeguard privacy or thwart efforts to recover stolen property, a U.S. senator was told Monday at a hearing not far from a school that's being sued for trying to find missing laptops by activating their webcams.

Feds pick Delaware, Tenn. for $600M ed grants (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:47 PM PDT AP - Federal officials on Monday awarded Tennessee and Delaware $600 million in grants to improve failing schools, sending a message to other states hoping to win money: revamp your education laws and get your districts and teachers to sign off.

In Texas, fear follows Mexicans who flee drug war (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:39 PM PDT AP - When black SUVs trail school buses around here, no one dismisses it as routine traffic. And when three tough-looking Mexican men pace around the high school gym during a basketball game, no one assumes they're just fans.

9 charged with bullying Mass. teen who killed self (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:38 PM PDT AP - Insults and threats followed 15-year-old Phoebe Prince almost from her first day at South Hadley High School, targeting the Irish immigrant in the halls, library and in vicious cell phone text messages.

Jewish leader doubts Carter apology on Israel (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:38 PM PDT AP - A prominent Jewish leader criticized former President Jimmy Carter on Monday, blasting Carter for saying in a speech this month that the U.S. government has "yielded excessively" to Israel.

6-week search finds no Asian carp near Chicago (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:25 PM PDT AP - An initial six-week mission to catch and kill Asian carp lurking on the Great Lakes' doorstep turned up none of the despised fish, suggesting few if any have eluded an electric barrier designed to block their path to Lake Michigan, officials said Monday.

Pa. city losing hockey team, just like 'Slap Shot' (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 08:15 AM PDT AP - In the 1977 cult hit movie "Slap Shot," when player/coach Reggie Dunlop learns his minor-league hockey team will fold, he boosts player morale by planting a phony story in the local paper: The Charlestown Chiefs are moving south.

Lawyer who found documents has long pursued church (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:31 AM PDT AP - Jeff Anderson has filed thousands of lawsuits alleging sex abuse by priests and won tens of millions of dollars for his clients, but he has had a bigger goal in mind for nearly two decades. He wants to bring his career-long legal crusade against misconduct in the Roman Catholic Church right to the top.

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