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• Federal investigation underway on NY snow cleanup (Reuters)
• Police arrest Arizona mall shooter, hostages freed (Reuters)
• State lawmakers target children of illegal immigrants (Reuters)
• Why Did Thousands of Birds Drop Dead in the Arkansas Sky? (Time.com)
• Actor Pete Postlethwaite Dies at 64 (Time.com)
• Two principals shot at Omaha high school, gunman dead (Reuters)
• 3 charged in drive-by slaying of Ala. child (AP)
• Winner steps forward in Wash.; Idaho in suspense (AP)
• Homeless man's voice prompts job offers (AP)
• Man in custody following Arizona standoff (AP)
• Scientist haunted by misuse of drugs he invented (AP)
• Student opens fire at Omaha high school, 2 wounded (AP)
• Journal: Study linking vaccine to autism was fraud (AP)
• Boehner moved to tears as he moves to speakership (AP)
• 2nd person denied Ariz. transplant coverage dies (AP)
• Polygamist sect leader fires his new attorney (AP)
• Relative: Disabled NC girl died of natural causes (AP)
• O'Donnell lawyer: Campaign reviews spending (AP)
• Qualcomm makes $3.2B buy to ride new gadget wave (AP)

Federal investigation underway on NY snow cleanup (Reuters) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 01:55 PM PST Reuters - A federal investigation is underway to determine if sanitation workers were deliberately slow in removing snow from last week's massive blizzard, officials said on Wednesday.

Police arrest Arizona mall shooter, hostages freed (Reuters) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:57 PM PST Reuters - Police arrested a gunman on Wednesday who fired shots, fled to a shopping mall and then barricaded himself inside a Phoenix valley fast-food restaurant with hostages.

State lawmakers target children of illegal immigrants (Reuters) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 03:16 PM PST Reuters - State lawmakers launched a controversial drive on Wednesday to deny citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, a move that angered some Hispanics.

Why Did Thousands of Birds Drop Dead in the Arkansas Sky? (Time.com) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 10:20 AM PST Time.com - New Year's Day should be about turning over a new leaf. But for residents of Beebe, Arkansas, January 1, 2011 meant turning over thousands of bird carcasses

Actor Pete Postlethwaite Dies at 64 (Time.com) Posted: 03 Jan 2011 02:10 PM PST Time.com - Europe's film community is reeling at the beginning of 2011 from what is believed to be two significant deaths

Two principals shot at Omaha high school, gunman dead (Reuters) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 02:51 PM PST Reuters - The son of a police detective shot and wounded the principal and assistant principal of his high school on Wednesday, then shot himself in his car a few blocks away, authorities said.

3 charged in drive-by slaying of Ala. child (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 02:16 PM PST AP - Three people were charged Wednesday in the drive-by shooting death of a 6-year-old Alabama girl who was killed in her bed when up to 18 rounds were fired from a rifle through the home where she was sleeping.

Winner steps forward in Wash.; Idaho in suspense (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 05:00 PM PST AP - The suspense over who bought the two winning tickets in the $380 million Mega Millions lottery focused Wednesday on two small towns nestled just 125 miles apart in the snow-covered Pacific Northwest.

Homeless man's voice prompts job offers (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:43 PM PST AP - With a deep, refined voice, Ted Williams simply asked for help to get off the streets.

Man in custody following Arizona standoff (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:54 PM PST AP - An upscale shopping center in suburban Phoenix was engulfed in chaos Wednesday as a robbery suspect exchanged gunfire with authorities in a parking lot then ran inside, prompting an hours-long lockdown of the mall, authorities said.

Scientist haunted by misuse of drugs he invented (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:28 PM PST AP - David Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he's haunted by how humans hijack his work to make street drugs, sometimes causing overdose deaths.

Student opens fire at Omaha high school, 2 wounded (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:55 PM PST AP - The son of a police detective opened fire at a Nebraska high school Wednesday, wounding the principal and assistant principal and forcing panicked students to take cover in the kitchen of the building just as they returned from a holiday break.

Journal: Study linking vaccine to autism was fraud (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:50 PM PST AP - The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.

Boehner moved to tears as he moves to speakership (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 03:58 PM PST AP - The chin started trembling partway down the center aisle as the applause rose to a roar. John Boehner, the emotional Ohioan about to become the House's new speaker, took his time, shaking hands with colleagues and their children on his way to the rostrum. At its foot, the hankie came out.

2nd person denied Ariz. transplant coverage dies (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 03:58 PM PST AP - A second person denied transplant coverage by Arizona under a state budget cut has died, with this death "most likely" resulting from the coverage reduction, a Tucson hospital said Wednesday.

Polygamist sect leader fires his new attorney (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:04 PM PST AP - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has fired his attorney mere hours after hiring him, saying he'd like more time to find appropriate counsel.

Relative: Disabled NC girl died of natural causes (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST AP - A relative of Zahra Baker's stepmother said Wednesday that the jailed woman told her the 10-year-old girl died of an illness and that her parents "went wild," dismembering and hiding her remains.

O'Donnell lawyer: Campaign reviews spending (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 02:19 PM PST AP - An attorney for former Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell has told federal regulators the campaign could not afford finance professionals to oversee its early spending and is now trying to reconcile bank records with its federal spending reports.

Qualcomm makes $3.2B buy to ride new gadget wave (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 01:53 PM PST AP - Tech companies are sweating it out to keep ahead of what consumers want from their gadgets. Just look at Qualcomm Inc., which struck a $3.2 billion deal Wednesday in hopes of tapping into the explosion of Wi-Fi connected devices such as tablet computers and TVs.

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