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• Wisconsin police sent to search for Democratic senators (Reuters)
• Saudi charged in U.S. bomb plot, Bush possible target (Reuters)
• "Pacman" Jones gets probation for Vegas brawl (Reuters)
• Beyond Wis. Union Debate: Five New Rules for Teachers (Time.com)
• Mrs. Smith Doesn't Go to Washington (Time.com)
• Wisconsin serial killer gets consecutive life sentences (Reuters)
• Tenn. man indicted in fatal post office shooting (AP)
• Fire at Houston daycare center kills 3, injures 4 (AP)
• Alaska lawmaker returns home after refusing search (AP)
• Va. OKs bill to likely close most abortion clinics (AP)
• Wis. man gets life sentence in slayings of 7 women (AP)
• Throngs view space shuttle Discovery's last launch (AP)
• Troopers sent to homes of some Wisconsin Democrats (AP)
• Indiana House adjourns amid GOP, Dems stalemate (AP)
• Maryland Senate approves gay marriage rights (AP)
• Earliest human remains in US Arctic reported (AP)
• Census: St. Louis population down 8 percent (AP)
• Police cleared of killing man who shot 2 officers (AP)
• Genetic tests show fire ants in Asia came from US (AP)
• Tweeter pretending to be Rahm Emanuel disappears (AP)

Wisconsin police sent to search for Democratic senators (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 03:42 PM PST Reuters - Wisconsin Republicans dispatched police to the homes of absent Democratic senators on Thursday to try to round them up for a vote on a plan to strip public sector unions of most collective bargaining rights.

Saudi charged in U.S. bomb plot, Bush possible target (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:18 AM PST Reuters - A 20-year-old Saudi student has been arrested in Texas in a bomb plot that may have targeted former President George W. Bush and nuclear plants, U.S. authorities said on Thursday.

"Pacman" Jones gets probation for Vegas brawl (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:26 PM PST Reuters - Cincinnati Bengals defensive back Adam "Pacman" Jones was sentenced on Thursday to a year's probation for his role in a 2007 Las Vegas strip club brawl that left one man paralyzed from the waist down and two others wounded.

Beyond Wis. Union Debate: Five New Rules for Teachers (Time.com) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 01:35 PM PST Time.com - Teachers' unions are front and center in the debate that is happening in Wisconsin. But beyond the clashes between Tea Partyers and public-employees' unions are policy issues that reformers, teachers' unions and analysts have been debating for years

Mrs. Smith Doesn't Go to Washington (Time.com) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 01:35 PM PST Time.com - Since the first woman was elected to Congress in 1917, there have only been 274 female representatives and senators

Wisconsin serial killer gets consecutive life sentences (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:24 PM PST Reuters - Serial killer Walter E. Ellis on Thursday received consecutive life sentences with no parole in Milwaukee County Circuit Court for committing seven homicides over a 21-year-period.

Tenn. man indicted in fatal post office shooting (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:59 PM PST AP - A sense of measured relief worked its way through this small town Thursday after a man was charged with shooting and killing two female postal workers, a crime that had sewn months of uncertainty and fear among locals.

Fire at Houston daycare center kills 3, injures 4 (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:45 PM PST AP - A kitchen fire filled a home daycare center with smoke on Thursday, killing three children and injuring four others. Firefighters ran with babies and small children in their arms to nearby ambulances on the crowded street, a fire official said.

Alaska lawmaker returns home after refusing search (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 03:19 PM PST AP - Determined to avoid a pat-down search to board her flight home, an Alaska state lawmaker took an unusual route: a roundabout four-day detour via rental car, a small plane, taxicab and a ferry.

Va. OKs bill to likely close most abortion clinics (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 03:11 PM PST AP - Virginia took a big step Thursday toward eliminating most of the state's 21 abortion clinics, approving a bill that would likely make rules so strict the medical centers would be forced to close, Democrats and abortion rights supporters said.

Wis. man gets life sentence in slayings of 7 women (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 05:06 PM PST AP - A Milwaukee man convicted of choking the life out of seven women during a 21-year killing spree was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison, and prosecutors said they may yet tie Walter E. Ellis to two or more unsolved slayings.

Throngs view space shuttle Discovery's last launch (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:58 PM PST AP - Discovery, the world's most traveled spaceship, thundered into orbit for the final time Thursday, heading toward the International Space Station on a journey that marks the beginning of the end of the shuttle era.

Troopers sent to homes of some Wisconsin Democrats (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 05:14 PM PST AP - Wisconsin state troopers were dispatched Thursday to the doorsteps of some of the AWOL Democratic senators in hopes of finding at least one who would come back to allow a vote on a measure to curb the power of public-employee unions.

Indiana House adjourns amid GOP, Dems stalemate (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 03:29 PM PST AP - With Democrats still in Illinois and neither party showing signs of compromise Thursday, the Republican leader of the Indiana House shut down the chamber and said it would remain closed until at least Monday.

Maryland Senate approves gay marriage rights (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 05:07 PM PST AP - Same-sex couples in Maryland would have the same full marriage rights as heterosexuals under a bill that cleared the Senate Thursday. If the House of Delegates approves it and the governor signs it, Maryland would be the sixth U.S. state to approve gay marriage.

Earliest human remains in US Arctic reported (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 12:23 PM PST AP - Some 11,500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a 3-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. The discovery of that burial is shedding new light on the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

Census: St. Louis population down 8 percent (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 03:24 PM PST AP - St. Louis is losing residents, according to U.S. Census figures released Thursday, and the population decline goes deeper than being another blow to the proud city's image.

Police cleared of killing man who shot 2 officers (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 02:56 PM PST AP - A wanted fugitive hiding in a cramped attic laid down on his stomach and appeared to surrender just before igniting a gunfight that left two St. Petersburg police officers dead last month, according to a report released Thursday by the region's chief prosecutor.

Genetic tests show fire ants in Asia came from US (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 11:08 AM PST AP - Even as the United States battles the spread of fire ants within its borders, this country is serving as the jumping-off point for the pest to invade other nations.

Tweeter pretending to be Rahm Emanuel disappears (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2011 03:01 PM PST AP - Rahm Emanuel complained that he didn't know it was OK to bring a ventriloquist's dummy to a debate. He marveled at a tiny model of Tokyo somebody gave him and couldn't wait to crush it while wearing a Godzilla suit.

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