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• Passengers still stranded as NY fights to dig out (AP)
• Hospital: Children were injured on Maine ski lift (AP)
• Hawaii's governor wants to reveal Obama birth info (AP)
• Interview with 'Charlie Brown Christmas' Producer Lee Mendelson (Time.com)
• Obama's Lame-Duck Comeback: Hello, Bipartisanship (Time.com)
• 8 killed in fire in abandoned New Orleans building (AP)
• Manatees paddle to warm water to escape Fla. chill (AP)
• Police force crash in Las Vegas Strip car chase (AP)
• Rep Davis to Clinton: Stay out of Chicago politics (AP)
• Police fatalities jump 37 percent in 2010 (AP)
• New laws may not be on the books for very long (AP)
• Family: 5 dead in Fla. motel were like brothers (AP)
• Flights make it to NYC, but are stranded on tarmac (AP)
• Police: Arizona strip club shooter fired at random (AP)
• Farmers, pecan growers say coal plant kills plants (AP)
• Jimmy Carter helps release loggerhead sea turtle (AP)
• After holiday spree, doubts about economy linger (AP)
• E-mails, letters favor pardon for Billy the Kid (AP)

Passengers still stranded as NY fights to dig out (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:10 PM PST AP - Hundreds of airline passengers were stranded for up to 10 hours on the tarmac at overworked Kennedy Airport. Ambulances struggled to get patients through unplowed streets. City buses sat abandoned in the snow. The Christmas weekend blizzard proved to be the curse that keeps on giving Tuesday, as confusion and frustration snowballed in New York and the rest of the country.

Hospital: Children were injured on Maine ski lift (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:39 PM PST AP - A 35-year-old chair lift set for improvements failed Tuesday in high winds at a Maine resort, sending skiers — some of them children — plummeting into ungroomed snow far below that fell with the Northeast's recent blizzard and softened the landing.

Hawaii's governor wants to reveal Obama birth info (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:10 PM PST AP - Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie wants to find a way to release more information about President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth and dispel conspiracy theories that he was born elsewhere.

Interview with 'Charlie Brown Christmas' Producer Lee Mendelson (Time.com) Posted: 27 Dec 2010 01:10 AM PST Time.com - Interview with 'Charlie Brown Christmas' Producer Lee Mendelson

Obama's Lame-Duck Comeback: Hello, Bipartisanship (Time.com) Posted: 27 Dec 2010 12:55 AM PST Time.com - Just over a year ago, Saturday Night Live lampooned President Obama for his record, or lack thereof

8 killed in fire in abandoned New Orleans building (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:23 PM PST AP - The deadliest city blaze in decades killed eight homeless squatters who were burning debris in an abandoned warehouse to stay warm Tuesday, authorities said.

Manatees paddle to warm water to escape Fla. chill (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:10 PM PST AP - People aren't the only ones in Florida who don't like cold weather. Manatees — those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails — are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of Mexico waters and into warmer springs and power plant discharge canals. On Tuesday, more than 300 manatees floated in the outflow of Tampa Electric's Big Bend Power Station.

Police force crash in Las Vegas Strip car chase (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 02:54 PM PST AP - A 20-year-old man who called 911 to report that he was drunk led police in a bizarre car chase early Tuesday that ended when he crashed on the Las Vegas Strip.

Rep Davis to Clinton: Stay out of Chicago politics (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:10 PM PST AP - Congressman Danny Davis has a message for former President Bill Clinton: Don't take sides in the Chicago mayor's race — or else.

Police fatalities jump 37 percent in 2010 (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 01:30 PM PST AP - Two officers in a remote Alaska town were ambushed as they chatted on a street. A California officer and deputy were killed by an arson suspect with a high-powered rifle as they tried to serve a warrant. Two other officers doing anti-drug work were gunned down by men along a busy Arkansas highway.

New laws may not be on the books for very long (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 02:06 PM PST AP - Revamped gun measures and tougher rules for payday lenders are among the laws set to take effect around the country on Jan. 1. But some of them may not be on the books for long.

Family: 5 dead in Fla. motel were like brothers (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:10 PM PST AP - Five young men who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a South Florida motel room were constant companions who acted like brothers and even went shoe shopping together before Christmas so they all would have the same pair, relatives said Tuesday.

Flights make it to NYC, but are stranded on tarmac (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 03:36 PM PST AP - For some airline passengers who were finally able to make it to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after a blizzard shut the region down, the travel nightmare started once they landed.

Police: Arizona strip club shooter fired at random (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 03:30 PM PST AP - A man accused of opening fire in a Phoenix strip club, killing two people and injuring three others, told police that he had planned the crime and chose the victims at random, according to a court document released Tuesday.

Farmers, pecan growers say coal plant kills plants (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 02:44 PM PST AP - Along a stretch of Highway 21, in a pastoral, hilly region of Texas, is a vegetative wasteland. Trees are barren, or covered in gray, dying foliage and peeling bark. Fallen, dead limbs litter the ground where pecan growers and ranchers have watched trees die slow, agonizing deaths.

Jimmy Carter helps release loggerhead sea turtle (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:43 PM PST AP - Jimmy Carter has helped release a rehabilitated loggerhead sea turtle during a family vacation in the Florida Keys.

After holiday spree, doubts about economy linger (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 02:03 PM PST AP - Holiday spending surged this year, but Americans still have their doubts about the economy.

E-mails, letters favor pardon for Billy the Kid (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2010 03:40 PM PST AP - More people say they favor a pardon for Billy the Kid than oppose the idea after Gov. Bill Richardson's office set up a website and e-mail address to take comments on a possible posthumous pardon for one of New Mexico's most famous Old West outlaws.

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