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• Madoff's eldest son hangs himself in NYC apartment (AP)
• With Dream Act shelved, immigrants look to 2012 (AP)
• Elizabeth Edwards remembered for her wit, resolve (AP)
• Protecting Abducted Kids: Rethinking the Hague Convention (Time.com)
• Iran Nuclear Talks: Senators Urge Obama to Stand Firm (Time.com)
• Calif. bomb house site declared safe after burn (AP)
• Stanford law students appeal three-strike cases (AP)
• Police: Remains found believed to be missing girl (AP)
• 1 small NY town's battle for tolerance (AP)
• Blizzard socks Midwest with 20 inches of snow (AP)
• 'Strippermobile' delivers Christmas donations (AP)
• Lead smelter's pending exodus tugs at Mo. town (AP)
• After expanding coverage, Mass. looks to cut costs (AP)
• Adults blame parents for education problems (AP)
• UN climate meeting OKs Green Fund in new accord (AP)
• Couple wanted in dismemberment killing arrested (AP)

Madoff's eldest son hangs himself in NYC apartment (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 04:08 PM PST AP - Every day for two years, he carried the toxic burden of a name that meant fraud to the world. On Saturday, the eldest son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment, another casualty in the saga that sent his father to prison and swindled thousands of their life savings.

With Dream Act shelved, immigrants look to 2012 (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 01:26 PM PST AP - The illegal immigrants who more than a decade ago were just teens hoping to forge a legal path to citizenship are vowing to make the Dream Act a campaign issue come 2012, even though they'll likely be too old to benefit if the law ever passes.

Elizabeth Edwards remembered for her wit, resolve (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 04:14 PM PST AP - Family and friends of Elizabeth Edwards recalled her Saturday as an idealistic law student who challenged professors, a political sage who offered advice at every turn and a matriarch who comforted her family even as she was dying of breast cancer.

Protecting Abducted Kids: Rethinking the Hague Convention (Time.com) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 06:05 AM PST Time.com - The Hague Convention was designed to return children abducted by a parent who moved to another country. But new research indicates it is being used to force battered women to send their kids back to abusive husbands

Iran Nuclear Talks: Senators Urge Obama to Stand Firm (Time.com) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 06:05 AM PST Time.com - Warning that they would "strongly oppose" any deal under which Tehran retained any ability to enrich uranium, U.S. legislators lay down a marker against nuclear compromise

Calif. bomb house site declared safe after burn (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 12:45 PM PST AP - Two days after an explosives-laden house was destroyed in a carefully orchestrated burn that played out on television screens across the country, the site of the so-called "bomb factory" was declared safe Saturday by California authorities.

Stanford law students appeal three-strike cases (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 11:25 AM PST AP - Nearly 15 years after sentencing, an inmate is getting an unexpected chance at freedom — and the judge a shot at redemption.

Police: Remains found believed to be missing girl (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 04:41 PM PST AP - Police said a search of woods next to a rural Alabama road on Saturday uncovered human remains that likely belong to a young girl whose father is charged with killing her and her brother.

1 small NY town's battle for tolerance (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 07:15 AM PST AP - The cemetery lies beneath a grove of maples on a hill overlooking the farm. On a crisp November day in 2009, it received its first guest — a 28-year old stonemason killed in a car accident two days earlier.

Blizzard socks Midwest with 20 inches of snow (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 04:52 PM PST AP - A powerful snowstorm socked the upper Midwest on Saturday with as much as 20 inches of snow, forcing authorities to close state roads across five states as heavy winds made for treacherous driving conditions.

'Strippermobile' delivers Christmas donations (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 03:53 PM PST AP - The "strippermobile" has made another run in Las Vegas, this time with properly dressed Santa's helpers riding for a good cause.

Lead smelter's pending exodus tugs at Mo. town (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 10:24 AM PST AP - The sprawling green space across from the Catholic church might be Herculaneum's prettiest asset, the kind of inviting place where people could flock to picnic or sling a Frisbee — if potential danger didn't lurk in the grass and ground.

After expanding coverage, Mass. looks to cut costs (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 09:42 AM PST AP - Four years after Massachusetts embarked on the nation's most ambitious health care overhaul, Gov. Deval Patrick and legislative leaders are stepping up efforts to rein in spiraling insurance costs.

Adults blame parents for education problems (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 06:20 AM PST AP - Blaming teachers for low test scores, poor graduation rates and the other ills of American schools has been popular lately, but a new survey wags a finger closer to home.

UN climate meeting OKs Green Fund in new accord (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 05:15 AM PST AP - A U.N. conference on Saturday adopted a modest climate deal creating a fund to help the developing world go green, though it deferred for another year the tough work of carving out deeper reductions in carbon emissions causing Earth to steadily warm.

Couple wanted in dismemberment killing arrested (AP) Posted: 11 Dec 2010 02:06 AM PST AP - A Pennsylvania couple far from home and suspected of cutting up a Good Samaritan into pieces were arrested after being found in an abandoned office building just several miles from the slaying.

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