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• Southwest may cancel another 300 flights Sunday (Reuters)
• Haley Barbour's wife says White House run "horrifies me" (Reuters)
• Obama pushes for oil use reduction, clean fuel technology (Reuters)
• Columbia University votes to end 4-decade ROTC ban (AP)
• Obama: Shift from imported oil, new jobs will come (AP)
• Autism fears, measles spike among Minn. Somalis (AP)
• Academics to dissect Bob Dylan at NY conference (AP)
• Southwest grounds about 80 planes after mishap (AP)
• State budget crises push sentencing reforms (AP)
• Opponents start push to repeal Ohio union law (AP)
• Old times not forgotten: Civil War at 150 (AP)
• 4 dead in crash of small plane at NM airport (AP)
• LA aims to whitewash graffiti writers going legit (AP)
• Elderly man stabs neighbor in fight over cats (AP)
• Intern says he's talked with Giffords by phone (AP)
• Iowa Republican Party warms to Rand Paul message (AP)
• AP sources: Obama set to launch re-election bid (AP)

Southwest may cancel another 300 flights Sunday (Reuters) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 03:07 PM PDT Reuters - Southwest Airlines could cancel 300 flights on Sunday as it continues to inspect 79 aircraft from its Boeing 737 fleet, after one of its planes with a gaping hole in the fuselage made an emergency landing, a company spokeswoman said.

Haley Barbour's wife says White House run "horrifies me" (Reuters) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 02:02 PM PDT Reuters - The wife of Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a possible contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, said in an interview that a bid for the presidency by her husband "horrifies me."

Obama pushes for oil use reduction, clean fuel technology (Reuters) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 01:21 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Saturday curbing foreign oil dependence and investments in clean fuel technology are the main tenets of his plan to meet long-term energy needs and in turn strengthen the domestic economy.

Columbia University votes to end 4-decade ROTC ban (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 08:56 AM PDT AP - Student and faculty leaders at Columbia University have voted to welcome the military's ROTC program back to campus four decades after it was banned during the Vietnam War peace movement.

Obama: Shift from imported oil, new jobs will come (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 05:03 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says shifting the U.S. away from imported oil and toward cleaner forms of energy will add momentum to a trend that has led to 1.8 million new jobs in the past 13 months.

Autism fears, measles spike among Minn. Somalis (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 12:17 PM PDT AP - Health officials struggling to contain a measles outbreak that's hit hard in Minneapolis' large Somali community are running into resistance from parents who fear the vaccine could give their children autism.

Academics to dissect Bob Dylan at NY conference (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 04:35 PM PDT AP - More than three decades have passed since Bob Dylan brought the plight of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter into the public consciousness: "Criminals in their coats and their ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise while Rubin sits like Buddha in a 10-foot cell, an innocent man in a living hell."

Southwest grounds about 80 planes after mishap (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 04:22 PM PDT AP - Flight attendants had just begun to take drink orders when the explosion rocked the cabin.

State budget crises push sentencing reforms (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 08:32 AM PDT AP - As costs to house state inmates have soared in recent years, many conservatives are reconsidering a tough-on-crime era that has led to stiffer sentences, overcrowded prisons and bloated corrections budgets.

Opponents start push to repeal Ohio union law (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 03:51 PM PDT AP - Opponents of an Ohio law to limit public workers' collective bargaining rights have started gathering signatures to get a referendum on the measure.

Old times not forgotten: Civil War at 150 (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 08:19 AM PDT AP - A hush fell over the crowd filling the elegant hall in downtown Richmond, Va. The vote was about to be announced, and a young staffer of the Museum of the Confederacy balanced his laptop across his knees, poised to get out the news as soon as it was official.

4 dead in crash of small plane at NM airport (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 03:26 PM PDT AP - Four Gulfstream employees were killed Saturday in a fiery crash of a test twin-engine luxury business aircraft at an airport, authorities said.

LA aims to whitewash graffiti writers going legit (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 12:43 PM PDT AP - Not so long ago, Cristian Gheorghiu roamed the streets of Los Angeles at all hours, black marker in his pocket, hunting for walls and street signs where he could scrawl his graffiti moniker, "Smear."

Elderly man stabs neighbor in fight over cats (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 02:59 PM PDT AP - Authorities say an elderly San Diego man stabbed his neighbor in a dispute over cats and dogs.

Intern says he's talked with Giffords by phone (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 05:59 AM PDT AP - The man who won praise for going to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords aid immediately after she was shot says he has spoken to the injured congresswoman several times on the phone and is amazed by her recovery.

Iowa Republican Party warms to Rand Paul message (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 01:35 PM PDT AP - U.S. Sen. Rand Paul was hailed Saturday in Iowa as an emerging party player for his government-shrinking, deficit-cutting message — nearly four years after his father championed similar themes but was excluded from a Republican presidential forum in Des Moines because of his poor showing in the polls.

AP sources: Obama set to launch re-election bid (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2011 02:27 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is about to make one of Washington's worst kept secrets official: He wants a second term.

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