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• Rajaratnam trial heads to opening statements (Reuters)
• Millions of dead sardines swamp L.A. (Reuters)
• New Mexico wildfire uncontained, threatens homes (Reuters)
• Health Care Law's Legal War: Personal, Partisan Battles (Time.com)
• Not Checking that Bag? It's Going to Cost Everyone (Time.com)
• Dutch man seeking reduced sentence in Peru: lawyer (Reuters)
• Suspect killed in St. Louis wanted on drug charge (AP)
• Flooding threatens parts of mid-Atlantic region (AP)
• Kilauea's new vent spewing loads of lava, fumes (AP)
• Rowdy Mardi Gras gives maskers a chance to mock BP (AP)
• Jury selection starts in NY insider trading trial (AP)
• Wis. gov. proposes union compromise in e-mails (AP)
• Angry residents of CA city vote on council recall (AP)
• Wis. governor's budget goes far beyond just unions (AP)
• 'Bigfoot' suit: NH is stomping on civil liberties (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Wis. girl admits to milk slaying (AP)
• NPR exec blasts tea party in hidden-camera video (AP)
• Young Mexican police chief seeking asylum in US (AP)
• Colo. woman admits aiding foreign terrorist cell (AP)
• 21 Pa. priests named in sex report are suspended (AP)

Rajaratnam trial heads to opening statements (Reuters) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:14 PM PST Reuters - The biggest U.S. insider trading case in decades was expected to head into opening statements on Wednesday in a court showdown between prosecutors and lawyers for Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam.

Millions of dead sardines swamp L.A. (Reuters) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 01:54 PM PST Reuters - Millions of dead sardines were found floating on Tuesday in a harbor marina just south of Los Angeles, creating a bizarre scene that experts blamed on a case of oxygen deprivation.

New Mexico wildfire uncontained, threatens homes (Reuters) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:30 PM PST Reuters - A wildfire burning in southwestern New Mexico remains 80 percent out of control, threatening 500 structures and keeping 100 people evacuated from their homes, state forestry officials said on Tuesday.

Health Care Law's Legal War: Personal, Partisan Battles (Time.com) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:35 PM PST Time.com - More than 20 challenges to the health care law are making their way through federal courtrooms across the country, and several are getting more attention than others

Not Checking that Bag? It's Going to Cost Everyone (Time.com) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:35 PM PST Time.com - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that the increase in the number of people carrying their luggage on flights is costing taxpayers

Dutch man seeking reduced sentence in Peru: lawyer (Reuters) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 11:50 AM PST Reuters - Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch man who has confessed to killing a young woman in Peru and been linked to the mysterious disappearance of a young American woman in Aruba, hopes to win a reduced sentence of just several years in prison, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Suspect killed in St. Louis wanted on drug charge (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:12 PM PST AP - A federal marshal was shot in the head and two other law enforcement agents were wounded Tuesday after a suspect they were trying to arrest on assault and drug charges opened fire. Authorities fired back, killing the man.

Flooding threatens parts of mid-Atlantic region (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:26 PM PST AP - The mid-Atlantic region braced Tuesday for heavy rains that forecasters said could push rivers and streams over their banks and into neighborhoods over the next few days.

Kilauea's new vent spewing loads of lava, fumes (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 05:06 PM PST AP - The latest eruption at Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has a new working name.

Rowdy Mardi Gras gives maskers a chance to mock BP (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:57 PM PST AP - Mardi Gras revelers drank and danced the rowdy Carnival season to its peak on Tuesday, defying drizzle to snag beads from the last parades and jamming the French Quarter with colorful, sweaty costumes.

Jury selection starts in NY insider trading trial (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:31 PM PST AP - Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of a hedge fund boss who was one of the richest Americans before he was charged in what prosecutors say was the biggest hedge fund insider trading case in history.

Wis. gov. proposes union compromise in e-mails (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:28 PM PST AP - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has offered to keep certain collective bargaining rights in place for state workers in a proposed compromise aimed at ending a nearly three-week standoff with absent Senate Democrats, according to e-mails released Tuesday by his office.

Angry residents of CA city vote on council recall (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:05 PM PST AP - Voters went to the polls Tuesday with a chance to elect a group of reformers in a blue-collar Southern California community that became the face of municipal corruption in the country when officials were accused of paying themselves six-figure salaries while the city was going broke.

Wis. governor's budget goes far beyond just unions (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PST AP - The showdown over collective bargaining rights for public employees is just the first step in a contentious debate over how to solve Wisconsin's budget woes, with newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker also seeking to dismantle an array of social policies enacted under his Democratic predecessor.

'Bigfoot' suit: NH is stomping on civil liberties (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:31 PM PST AP - First there was a Bigfoot sighting. Now, there's a Bigfoot suing.

APNewsBreak: Wis. girl admits to milk slaying (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:45 PM PST AP - A Milwaukee girl accused of stabbing and killing her step-grandfather at age 13 for pouring her milk down the drain admitted to the charge Tuesday, offering the juvenile equivalent of a guilty plea and receiving a sentence of at least one year of detention.

NPR exec blasts tea party in hidden-camera video (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:43 PM PST AP - A National Public Radio executive was captured on hidden camera calling the tea party movement racist and xenophobic and said NPR would be better off without federal funding, in an embarrassment likely to fuel the latest round of conservative attacks on public broadcasting.

Young Mexican police chief seeking asylum in US (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:04 PM PST AP - A young woman who received death threats after recently becoming police chief of a violence-plagued Mexican town is in the U.S and seeking asylum, Mexican and U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Colo. woman admits aiding foreign terrorist cell (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 01:43 PM PST AP - A Colorado woman has admitted she conspired to help a terrorist cell that sought to train with al-Qaida-linked group and incite an Islamic holy war.

21 Pa. priests named in sex report are suspended (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 05:11 PM PST AP - The Philadelphia archdiocese suspended 21 Roman Catholic priests Tuesday who were named as child molestation suspects in a scathing grand jury report last month, a move that comes more than eight years after U.S. bishops pledged swift action to keep potential abusers away from young people.

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