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• Winter storm traps drivers in Indiana, moves east (AP)
• Katrina shooting victim's skull still missing (AP)
• New anti-terror rules thwart US Cuban cigar trade (AP)
• Obama's Tax Compromise: A Model for Presidential Success (Time.com)
• Haiti: Sarah Palin Tours Cholera Centers in Lightning Trip (Time.com)
• Chief: Man shot by officers pointed a water nozzle (AP)
• Group wants plug-in cars to hit Calif. mainstream (AP)
• Lawyer: Baltimore bomb plot suspect was entrapped (AP)
• Metrodome roof collapse rekindles stadium debate (AP)
• Judge in health care case known as tough (AP)
• US sues school over denial of Muslim pilgrimage (AP)
• Madoff won't attend funeral of son who died in NYC (AP)
• Judge in Va. strikes down federal health care law (AP)
• Gulf spill claimants offered new, faster option (AP)
• APNewsBreak: NFL concussion reports up this season (AP)
• Medicaid cuts: teeth pulled, transplant called off (AP)
• Feds: Wolverines need protection but have to wait (AP)
• Discharged gay veterans sue for reinstatement (AP)
• Woman booked into Ala. jail in child deaths case (AP)
• ACLU lawsuit: Military won't release rape records (AP)

Winter storm traps drivers in Indiana, moves east (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 05:12 PM PST AP - Kate Ergang wasn't worried when two jackknifed semi-tractors trapped her and a friend on an Indiana highway in a blizzard. They had eaten dinner already and had blankets and pillows in the car. They talked, listened to their iPods and dozed off.

Katrina shooting victim's skull still missing (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 01:51 PM PST AP - Rebecca Glover said her family could not have been more horrified by what happened to her nephew: He was shot by police days after Hurricane Katrina hit, then left to die in a car that a police officer drove to a deserted levee and set ablaze. Now she wants to know what happened to her nephew's skull.

New anti-terror rules thwart US Cuban cigar trade (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 02:56 PM PST AP - It's an unintended consequence of the fight against terrorism that's left some cigar aficionados fuming: Terrorists in Yemen try to send bomb-laden packages to the U.S. aboard cargo planes, and now a connoisseur in Iowa can't get his Cubans from Switzerland.

Obama's Tax Compromise: A Model for Presidential Success (Time.com) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 10:25 AM PST Time.com - By closing 2010 with the kind of bipartisan compromise that was supposed to be the hallmark of his Administration, Obama showed that he is capable of change, and that there is hope he can achieve his goals

Haiti: Sarah Palin Tours Cholera Centers in Lightning Trip (Time.com) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 10:25 AM PST Time.com - The former Alaska governor paid a lightning visit to the troubled Caribbean nation with Fox News in tow, but most of the locals didn't notice

Chief: Man shot by officers pointed a water nozzle (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 04:17 PM PST AP - A man shot to death by two police officers was found to have pointed a pistol-grip water nozzle at them rather than a weapon, the police chief said Monday at a news conference marked by sobs from the victim's relatives.

Group wants plug-in cars to hit Calif. mainstream (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 05:00 PM PST AP - An alliance of automakers, utilities, regulators and clean-air advocates released an ambitious plan Monday to make California a national leader in accommodating electric vehicles with charging terminals available in thousands of homes, office buildings, shopping malls and other sites within the next decade.

Lawyer: Baltimore bomb plot suspect was entrapped (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 03:09 PM PST AP - A man accused of plotting to kill military recruiters with a car bomb was a victim of entrapment and was incapable of building or detonating explosives, his attorney said Monday.

Metrodome roof collapse rekindles stadium debate (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 04:31 PM PST AP - Frigid air whipped through a desolate Metrodome on Monday as crews began inspecting the Minnesota stadium's nearly three decades-old roof after it collapsed under the weight of heavy snow that pounded the Twin Cities and forced the Vikings to move their game to Detroit.

Judge in health care case known as tough (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST AP - The federal judge who struck down the very centerpiece of the Obama administration's health care law Monday is a George W. Bush appointee who earned the nickname "Hang 'Em High Henry" for his tough-on-crime stand as a prosecutor and on the bench.

US sues school over denial of Muslim pilgrimage (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 04:53 PM PST AP - The federal government sued a suburban Chicago school district Monday for denying a Muslim middle school teacher unpaid leave to make a pilgrimage to Mecca that is a central part of her religion.

Madoff won't attend funeral of son who died in NYC (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 05:12 PM PST AP - Imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff won't seek to attend his son's funeral out of consideration for the privacy of his son's wife and four children, his lawyer said Monday.

Judge in Va. strikes down federal health care law (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 01:07 PM PST AP - A federal judge declared the foundation of President Barack Obama's health care law unconstitutional Monday, ruling that the government cannot require Americans to purchase insurance. The case is expected to end up at the Supreme Court.

Gulf spill claimants offered new, faster option (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 12:26 PM PST AP - The administrator of a $20 billion fund doling out money to Gulf oil spill victims said Monday that people who want more cash can now get a quick check within two weeks, but there's a catch: Cashing it means giving up the right to sue BP or receive any more payments.

APNewsBreak: NFL concussion reports up this season (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 03:47 PM PST AP - With a late-season game on the line, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers exits with a concussion and doesn't return. Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Heath Miller and Arizona Cardinals quarterback Derek Anderson sit out games altogether because of head injuries.

Medicaid cuts: teeth pulled, transplant called off (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 03:25 PM PST AP - In Illinois, a pharmacist closes his business because of late Medicaid payments. In Arizona, a young father's liver transplant is canceled because Medicaid suddenly won't pay for it. In California, dentists pull teeth that could be saved because Medicaid doesn't pay for root canals.

Feds: Wolverines need protection but have to wait (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 02:49 PM PST AP - The threat of climate change warrants classifying wolverines as threatened or endangered, but other species are in more imminent danger and will delay protection for the small, ferocious mammals, wildlife officials said Monday.

Discharged gay veterans sue for reinstatement (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 01:59 PM PST AP - Three military veterans who were discharged under the law that prohibits gays from serving openly in uniform sued the government Monday to be reinstated and to pressure lawmakers to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law before a new Congress is sworn in.

Woman booked into Ala. jail in child deaths case (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 02:07 PM PST AP - A woman was due in court Tuesday to face charges that she tortured her common-law husband's two young children before they were killed and dumped in wooded areas in Alabama and Mississippi.

ACLU lawsuit: Military won't release rape records (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2010 01:52 PM PST AP - Sexual assault pervades the military, but the Pentagon refuses to release records that fully document the problem and how it is handled, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups said in a federal lawsuit that seeks access to the records.

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