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• Florida pastor is focus of Muslim outrage - again (Reuters)
• Colorado boy arrested in murder of great-grandparents (Reuters)
• Nation's most dangerous small city rehires police (Reuters)
• Sorry, Seniors: College Admission Rates Are Down This Year (Time.com)
• Michele Bachmann: The Minnesota Clipper (Time.com)
• Employers step up hiring, jobless rate drops (Reuters)
• Tenn., Ky. turn over lethal injection drug to DEA (AP)
• FDA proposes calorie counts on menus (AP)
• Mine workers rally in Pa. for public employees (AP)
• Army group says there ARE atheists in foxholes (AP)
• 2 convicted of kidnapping slain US drug trafficker (AP)
• Tucson shooting victim honored with 9/11 memory (AP)
• Montana lawmaker's speech perpetuates boozy image (AP)
• Man gets life sentences in 'Westside Rapist' case (AP)
• Defense rests in Cuban ex-CIA agent's perjury case (AP)
• Locally grown? It all depends on how you define it (AP)
• Wis. Dems file 1st petition to recall GOP senator (AP)
• April Fools' Day noted online with spoof redesigns (AP)
• Highway deaths fall to lowest level since 1949 (AP)

Florida pastor is focus of Muslim outrage - again (Reuters) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 03:58 PM PDT Reuters - An American Christian preacher who caused an international uproar last year by threatening to burn the Koran has put himself back in the spotlight after incinerating Islam's holy book -- again with deadly consequences.

Colorado boy arrested in murder of great-grandparents (Reuters) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 02:55 PM PDT Reuters - A 16-year-old boy from rural Colorado was arrested on Friday for the shotgun killings of his great-grandparents, a crime that stunned residents of the small farming and ranching community where the couple lived for decades.

Nation's most dangerous small city rehires police (Reuters) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 04:33 PM PDT Reuters - Camden, New Jersey, the nation's most crime-ridden small city, on Friday welcomed back 55 police officers and 31 firefighters laid off in January because of lack of funding.

Sorry, Seniors: College Admission Rates Are Down This Year (Time.com) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 10:20 AM PDT Time.com - Student newspapers at various Ivy League schools are all reporting that as application rates have soared, admission rates have dropped

Michele Bachmann: The Minnesota Clipper (Time.com) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 09:00 AM PDT Time.com - Though not yet a candidate, Michele Bachmann is upending a stodgy GOP field. Why she's for real

Employers step up hiring, jobless rate drops (Reuters) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:20 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. employment grew firmly for a second straight month in March and the jobless rate hit a two-year low of 8.8 percent, underscoring a decisive shift in the labor market that should help to underpin the recovery.

Tenn., Ky. turn over lethal injection drug to DEA (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 03:55 PM PDT AP - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has taken supplies of a key lethal injection drug from Kentucky and Tennessee, effectively preventing any executions in three states while it investigates how the drug was imported during a national shortage.

FDA proposes calorie counts on menus (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 04:49 PM PDT AP - Like it or not, many restaurant diners will soon know more about what they are eating under menu labeling requirements proposed Friday by the Food and Drug Administration.

Mine workers rally in Pa. for public employees (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:40 PM PDT AP - Thousands of union coal miners and supporters from several states tried to fuel an uprising in southwestern Pennsylvania on Friday, proclaiming themselves ready to mobilize for the war they say is being waged on organized labor in the United States.

Army group says there ARE atheists in foxholes (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:40 PM PDT AP - The cliche notwithstanding, there are atheists in foxholes. In fact, atheists, agnostics, humanists and other assorted skeptics from the Army's Fort Bragg have formed an organization in a pioneering effort to win recognition and ensure fair treatment for nonbelievers in the overwhelmingly Christian U.S. military.

2 convicted of kidnapping slain US drug trafficker (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 06:09 PM PDT AP - A Texas jury on Friday found two men guilty of kidnapping an American drug trafficker who was found slain in Mexico with his hands chopped off in 2009.

Tucson shooting victim honored with 9/11 memory (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 05:01 PM PDT AP - You think of Christina-Taylor Green when you see the patch of dirt where she scooped grounders at second base in Canyon del Oro Little League. You think of the youngest victim of the Tucson shootings when you see the batter's box where she knocked line drives.

Montana lawmaker's speech perpetuates boozy image (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:30 PM PDT AP - A lawmaker's speech railing against drunken driving reform — mocked mercilessly by political opponents — is no laughing matter to activists who say it perpetuates the state's dangerous boozy culture.

Man gets life sentences in 'Westside Rapist' case (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 04:40 PM PDT AP - A former state insurance adjuster dubbed the "Westside Rapist" by police was sentenced to life in prison Friday for murdering seven women in sexual attacks that terrified Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s.

Defense rests in Cuban ex-CIA agent's perjury case (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 05:24 PM PDT AP - Attorneys for an elderly ex-CIA agent accused of lying to U.S. immigration authorities about his alleged role in deadly 1997 bombings in Cuba rested their case Friday without calling their client as a witness.

Locally grown? It all depends on how you define it (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 02:32 PM PDT AP - The No. 2 official at the Agriculture Department recently got a real-life lesson in the loose definition of the trendiest word in groceries: "local."

Wis. Dems file 1st petition to recall GOP senator (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 02:53 PM PDT AP - Wisconsin Democrats say they've collected enough signatures to trigger a recall election for one of eight Republican state senators they're seeking to oust for backing the governor's divisive union rights law.

April Fools' Day noted online with spoof redesigns (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:48 PM PDT AP - The online world got an April Fools' Day makeover as YouTube rolled out 1911 viral videos and the Huffington Post put up a mock pay wall.

Highway deaths fall to lowest level since 1949 (AP) Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:33 PM PDT AP - Highway deaths have fallen to levels not seen since the Korean War, helped by more people wearing seat belts, better safety equipment in cars and efforts to curb drunken driving.

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