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• Obama urges patience as health care law kicks in (AP)
• Kan. abortion doc's killer gets forum, 50 years (AP)
• Medical waste shipments turn up heads, torsos (AP)
• Obama visits flood emergency site in Massachusetts (AP)
• Authorities expand search for missing Colo. girl (AP)
• NJ man arrested in connection to gang-rape case (AP)
• Donations pour in to father of fallen Marine (AP)
• PC maker, inspiration for Microsoft dies in Ga. (AP)
• Ariz. governor signs bill authorizing health suit (AP)
• 2 exonerated Conn. inmates freed after 16 years (AP)
• Fundraiser charged in Mass. Catholic school ruse (AP)
• Ind. officer uses stun gun on unruly 10-year-old (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Ligatures, drugs found in Ohio deaths (AP)
• Conn. triple murder suspect wants to plead guilty (AP)
• Health dangers lurk in New England floodwaters (AP)
• 30 Haitians who came to Fla. without visas freed (AP)
• Red River recedes, ending major flood risk in ND (AP)
• 9-year-old boy killed by Disney bus in Fla. (AP)
• End of the (assembly) line for Calif. car plant (AP)
• Woman with 2 identities pleads guilty to fraud (AP)

Obama urges patience as health care law kicks in (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 06:35 PM PDT AP - Facing a public still wary of his massive health care overhaul, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged Americans not to judge the nearly $1 trillion legislation he signed into law last week until the reforms take hold.

Kan. abortion doc's killer gets forum, 50 years (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 06:35 PM PDT AP - Defiant in court, a man who murdered one of the few U.S. doctors who performed late-term abortions used his sentencing hearing to do what the judge wouldn't let him do during his trial — describe in gritty details the abortion procedure in order to justify his crime.

Medical waste shipments turn up heads, torsos (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 06:35 PM PDT AP - The first discovery was gruesome enough: a head and torso tucked inside a red biohazard tub that arrived at a Kansas company. Then it got worse. Six more heads and torsos showed up in the next week after someone apparently dismembered the bodies with a chain saw or another cutting device, police said.

Obama visits flood emergency site in Massachusetts (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - Detouring from his schedule, President Barack Obama on Thursday thanked emergency workers struggling against disastrous flooding in the Northeast.

Authorities expand search for missing Colo. girl (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 06:35 PM PDT AP - Four days after a 12-year-old northern Colorado girl disappeared after leaving home to walk to a friend's birthday party, authorities expanded their search Thursday to include places she was known to frequent, including a music store, library and shopping mall.

NJ man arrested in connection to gang-rape case (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:52 PM PDT AP - Police ramped up their investigation Thursday into the case of a 7-year-old girl who they say was gang-raped by a group of men while her 15-year-old stepsister watched and got paid for it.

Donations pour in to father of fallen Marine (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 03:41 PM PDT AP - Donations are pouring in for a fallen Marine's father who was ordered to pay the court costs of an anti-gay church he's been battling.

PC maker, inspiration for Microsoft dies in Ga. (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:55 PM PDT AP - Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, a developer of an early personal computer that inspired Bill Gates to found Microsoft, died Thursday in Georgia. He was 68.

Ariz. governor signs bill authorizing health suit (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 06:04 PM PDT AP - Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill giving her authority to skirt the state's Democratic attorney general and file a lawsuit challenging federal health care legislation.

2 exonerated Conn. inmates freed after 16 years (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 05:50 PM PDT AP - Ronald Taylor and George Gould, wearing shackles and the orange jumpsuits assigned to the state's convicted killers, entered court Thursday flanked by prison guards.

Fundraiser charged in Mass. Catholic school ruse (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 03:17 PM PDT AP - For the Venerini Sisters, it seemed like the answer to their prayers: An anonymous donor, lined up by a professional fundraiser, willing to give at least $3 million to finance an expansion of a private school run by the order of Roman Catholic nuns.

Ind. officer uses stun gun on unruly 10-year-old (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 04:37 PM PDT AP - Two officers called to a home day care to subdue an unruly 10-year-old have been suspended after one used a stun gun on the boy and another slapped him in the mouth, a central Indiana police chief said Thursday.

APNewsBreak: Ligatures, drugs found in Ohio deaths (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 04:27 PM PDT AP - Eight of 11 women whose remains were found in a sex offender's home were strangled, most with various household objects, and nine had traces of cocaine or depressants in their systems, according to autopsy reports obtained by The Associated Press.

Conn. triple murder suspect wants to plead guilty (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 03:47 PM PDT AP - One of two suspects charged in the home invasion killings of a Connecticut mother and her two daughters told a judge Thursday that he wants to plead guilty, but his own lawyers said the new plea should not be accepted.

Health dangers lurk in New England floodwaters (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 04:37 PM PDT AP - The sun is out. The water level is falling. Traffic is starting to flow again. While things appear to be looking up in Rhode Island, the state hit hardest this week by three days of rain and record flooding, health and environmental officials warn there's still danger below the surface.

30 Haitians who came to Fla. without visas freed (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 03:39 PM PDT AP - More than 30 Haitians who boarded U.S.-bound planes without paperwork in frenzied evacuations after the earthquake were freed from immigration detention centers Thursday after spending about two months behind bars, attorneys for the Haitians said.

Red River recedes, ending major flood risk in ND (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 03:03 PM PDT AP - Residents hauled sandbags to the street, the National Guard departed, and city officials lined up bulldozers to tear down clay levees Thursday as the major risk of flood passed in Fargo and Moorhead, Minn.

9-year-old boy killed by Disney bus in Fla. (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 03:43 PM PDT AP - A 9-year-old boy was struck and killed by a Walt Disney World bus while riding his bike with a friend on the theme-park's property Thursday, authorities said.

End of the (assembly) line for Calif. car plant (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 03:52 PM PDT AP - California's sole auto plant shut down Thursday as the last car rolled off the assembly line and thousands of now unemployed workers walked out the doors, some crying.

Woman with 2 identities pleads guilty to fraud (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2010 02:19 PM PDT AP - Rachel Yould is a former Rhodes scholar who took on a new identity under a federal program that helps rape and domestic violence victims hide from their tormentors.

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