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U.S. likely to appeal WTO ruling on Boeing subsidies (Reuters)
N.C. state senate pardons governor who stood up to Klan (Reuters)
Redistricting error keeps Arkansas legislature in session (Reuters)
Federal Budget: Don't Cut Funding for Homeless Veterans (Time.com)
Not Such a Bargain: Costco Sells $1 Million Diamond Ring (Time.com)
Mob boss testifies against underling in Brooklyn court (Reuters)
NYC airport collision shows risks of huge planes (AP)
Ky. lawmaker-teacher injured in high school fight (AP)
Mountain justice? NC dad accused of avenging son (AP)
Fort Sumter: Somber 150th anniversary of Civil War (AP)
Most people won't notice these big budget cuts (AP)
Police note 'double-initial' similarities in cases (AP)
Ex-NY mob boss makes history with trial testimony (AP)
NASA to send shuttles to Fla., Calif., suburban DC (AP)
Texas lawmakers back off concealed carry on campus (AP)
iPads take a place next to crayons in kindergarten (AP)
Body count along NY beach highway now at 10 (AP)
SD prison guard killed during failed escape try (AP)
Jury convicts Mass. mom who withheld cancer meds (AP)
Michigan plan would tax retirees up to age 67 (AP)

U.S. likely to appeal WTO ruling on Boeing subsidies (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:37 PM PDT

Reuters - The Obama administration is almost certain to appeal a World Trade Organization ruling that Boeing received illegal subsidies as a long-running spat moves into its next stage, lawyers and analysts said.

N.C. state senate pardons governor who stood up to Klan (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:46 PM PDT

Reuters - The long-dead governor had said he didn't want a pardon but North Carolina's state Senate said justice required one for the first U.S. governor to be impeached and removed from office.

Redistricting error keeps Arkansas legislature in session (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:06 PM PDT

Reuters - The Arkansas House of Representatives has left two precincts unattached to their newly drawn congressional districts, a mistake that is keeping the state legislature in session for an extra day.

Federal Budget: Don't Cut Funding for Homeless Veterans (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 07:25 AM PDT

Time.com - A young Army veteran questions the priorities -- and stereotypes -- of U.S. policymakers as they slash funding for homeless ex-soldiers

Not Such a Bargain: Costco Sells $1 Million Diamond Ring (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 12:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Costco really does have everything -- including a 6.77-caret diamond ring

Mob boss testifies against underling in Brooklyn court (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:30 PM PDT

Reuters - Former Bonanno crime family boss Joseph Massino testified in a Brooklyn courtroom on Tuesday how he secretly taped his successor discussing murder, the first time a boss has taken the witness stand against an underling, prosecutors said.

NYC airport collision shows risks of huge planes (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:16 PM PDT

AP - A frightening collision between one of the world's largest airliners and a commuter jet on a dark, wet tarmac at Kennedy Airport is underscoring worries about ground accidents as U.S. airports begin handling a new generation of giant planes.

Ky. lawmaker-teacher injured in high school fight (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:21 PM PDT

AP - A Kentucky legislator who is also a high school teacher was critically injured Tuesday trying to break up a fight between two students.

Mountain justice? NC dad accused of avenging son (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:44 PM PDT

AP - Three months after Charles O'Shields' son was killed in an argument over a woman, the grieving father found the man charged with his death at a Dollar General store in the North Carolina mountains. Authorities say O'Shields gunned Toby Mathis down among the aisles of cheap merchandise last week and then fled in a getaway car driven by his sister.

Fort Sumter: Somber 150th anniversary of Civil War (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:16 PM PDT

AP - Booming cannons, plaintive period music and hushed crowds ushered in the 150th anniversary of America's bloodiest war on Tuesday, a commemoration that continues to underscore a racial divide that had plagued the nation since before the Civil War.

Most people won't notice these big budget cuts (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT

AP - It's touted as the biggest one-time rollback of domestic spending ever, but most folks will be hard-pressed to notice.

Police note 'double-initial' similarities in cases (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:01 PM PDT

AP - Authorities are investigating whether a man accused in four California cold-case deaths could be connected to the notorious "double-initial murders" of three girls in upstate New York in the early 1970s.

Ex-NY mob boss makes history with trial testimony (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:21 PM PDT

AP - A jailed former Mafia boss who once ordered a payback killing in the infamous "Donnie Brasco" case made gangland history Tuesday by becoming the highest-ranking member of the city's five Italian organized crime families to break their sacred vow of silence and testify against one of their own.

NASA to send shuttles to Fla., Calif., suburban DC (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:53 PM PDT

AP - On a memorable day in space history, NASA began its goodbyes to the shuttle program Tuesday, announcing the aged spacecraft will retire to museums in Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and suburban Washington and sending a test-flight orbiter to New York City.

Texas lawmakers back off concealed carry on campus (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:23 PM PDT

AP - Two months ago, Texas looked ready to allow concealed handguns in college classrooms. Lawmakers lined up to sponsor a bill, pistol-packing Gov. Rick Perry supported it and gun control activists had all but conceded defeat.

iPads take a place next to crayons in kindergarten (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:35 PM PDT

AP - Kindergarten classes are supplementing crayons, finger paints and flashcards with iPads, a development that excites supporters but that detractors worry is wasted on pupils too young to appreciate the expense.

Body count along NY beach highway now at 10 (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:31 PM PDT

AP - The number of possible victims of a serial killer rose to 10 on Tuesday after authorities confirmed that two sets of remains found along a New York highway a day earlier are human.

SD prison guard killed during failed escape try (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:09 PM PDT

AP - Two convicted kidnappers killed a 63-year-old guard Tuesday during a failed attempt to escape from a Sioux Falls prison where they were serving lengthy sentences, authorities said.

Jury convicts Mass. mom who withheld cancer meds (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:15 PM PDT

AP - A Massachusetts woman who withheld at-home chemotherapy medications from her autistic, cancer-stricken son was convicted of attempted murder Tuesday by jurors who dismissed her claim that she thought the side effects of the treatment could kill him.