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• Supreme Court allows military funeral anti-gay protests (Reuters)
• Robert Kennedy assassin faces parole board (Reuters)
• Ohio panel votes to end union right to strike (Reuters)
• Want to Grow Your Own Bud? Head to California's 'Wal-Mart of Weed' (Time.com)
• The NFL Unfolds a Standardized Concussion Test. Took Them Long Enough (Time.com)
• U.S. files 22 new charges against WikiLeaks soldier (Reuters)
• 2 US airmen killed in Frankfurt airport shooting (AP)
• AP: Gingrich to start testing presidential bid (AP)
• TSA probes allegations of unscreened plane luggage (AP)
• More charges filed in deadly Houston day care fire (AP)
• Ohio Senate passes bill to restrict public unions (AP)
• Winning? Sheen gains Twitter followers, loses kids (AP)
• SD Senate backs abortion bill requiring 72-hr wait (AP)
• Okla. tests inconclusive in Amelia Earhart search (AP)
• Piracy victims' colleagues, friends hold memorial (AP)
• Fla. wildfire battle likely to last rest of week (AP)
• Study: 50-year-old with diabetes dies 6 yrs sooner (AP)
• Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii won't seek re-election (AP)
• Replacement execution drug ample, but has issues (AP)
• Barbour says Obama cheers for higher gas prices (AP)

Supreme Court allows military funeral anti-gay protests (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 10:16 AM PST Reuters - The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that members of a fundamentalist church have a free-speech right to hold anti-gay protests at military funerals to promote their view that God hates America for tolerating homosexuality.

Robert Kennedy assassin faces parole board (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:14 PM PST Reuters - Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Senator Robert Kennedy serving a life sentence for the 1968 murder, faced a parole board hearing on Wednesday for the 14th time.

Ohio panel votes to end union right to strike (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 12:18 PM PST Reuters - An Ohio state Senate panel voted on Wednesday to strip public sector unions of some collective bargaining rights and end their right to strike, in the latest swipe at the power of unions by a state.

Want to Grow Your Own Bud? Head to California's 'Wal-Mart of Weed' (Time.com) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PST Time.com - Pot-enthusiasts, rejoice: Sacramento's new weed-centric megamall is open for business

The NFL Unfolds a Standardized Concussion Test. Took Them Long Enough (Time.com) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PST Time.com - Concussion detection in football is crucial, but could have been tackled long ago

U.S. files 22 new charges against WikiLeaks soldier (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:15 PM PST Reuters - The U.S. military said it has brought 22 new charges against a soldier accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents that were later published by the website WikiLeaks.

2 US airmen killed in Frankfurt airport shooting (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PST AP - Two U.S. airmen were killed and two others were wounded at Frankfurt airport Wednesday when a man opened fire on them at close range with a handgun, the first such attack on American forces in Germany in a quarter century. President Barack Obama called the shooting an "outrageous act."

AP: Gingrich to start testing presidential bid (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:31 PM PST AP - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will begin raising money to test whether a bid for the GOP presidential nomination is feasible, his spokesman told The Associated Press Wednesday night.

TSA probes allegations of unscreened plane luggage (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:17 PM PST AP - Several Transportation Security Administration officers have been disciplined after an investigation into allegations that workers at Honolulu International Airport didn't screen checked bags for traces of explosives, the agency said Wednesday.

More charges filed in deadly Houston day care fire (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:25 PM PST AP - The operator of a Houston day care where four children died in a fire now faces 10 charges arising from the deadly blaze.

Ohio Senate passes bill to restrict public unions (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PST AP - The bargaining rights of public workers in Ohio would be dramatically reduced and strikes would be banned under a bill narrowly passed by the Ohio Senate on Wednesday.

Winning? Sheen gains Twitter followers, loses kids (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:12 PM PST AP - When Charlie Sheen threatened and maligned his bosses over "Two and a Half Men," it was business and, to some people at least, bizarrely comic. When his estranged wife alleged that she and their twin toddlers were in peril from the TV star, the saga turned ugly.

SD Senate backs abortion bill requiring 72-hr wait (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:35 PM PST AP - The South Dakota Senate has approved a bill that would require women to wait 72 hours before they could have an abortion and to submit to counseling about why they shouldn't go through with the procedure.

Okla. tests inconclusive in Amelia Earhart search (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:33 PM PST AP - Tests to determine if bone fragments found on a remote South Pacific island are the remains of Amelia Earhart are inconclusive, researchers announced Wednesday, dashing hopes they might help explain what happened to the famed aviator who disappeared in 1937 while trying to fly around the world.

Piracy victims' colleagues, friends hold memorial (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:53 PM PST AP - Weeks before Scott and Jean Adam's yacht was hijacked by Somali pirates, the couple told their friends in a monthly e-mail that they were about to approach the Horn of Africa but were traveling with a large flotilla and didn't feel afraid of what lay ahead.

Fla. wildfire battle likely to last rest of week (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:12 PM PST AP - Florida's first significant wildfire of the year is threatening to keep dozens of firefighters busy for several more days and force more highway closures, the state agriculture commissioner said Wednesday.

Study: 50-year-old with diabetes dies 6 yrs sooner (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PST AP - A 50-year-old with diabetes dies six years sooner than someone without the disease, and not just from a heart attack or a stroke, new research suggests.

Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii won't seek re-election (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:19 PM PST AP - Democratic U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii announced Wednesday he won't run for re-election next year after 22 years in the Senate.

Replacement execution drug ample, but has issues (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 12:45 PM PST AP - On paper, the drug that states are increasingly counting on to replace a sedative used in executions shares several drawbacks with the one that's no longer readily available.

Barbour says Obama cheers for higher gas prices (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 01:46 PM PST AP - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential Republican presidential contender, accused the Obama administration Wednesday of favoring a run-up in gas prices to prod consumers to buy more fuel-efficient cars.

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