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• Allen Stanford incompetent for trial: judge (Reuters)
• California governor, mayors at odds over redevelopment (Reuters)
• Rabbis protest Fox host's use of Holocaust imagery (Reuters)
• When Life in Prison Doesn't Mean Life in Prison (Time.com)
• State of the Union: Why the Middle East Won't Be the Focus (Time.com)
• Woman treated for gunshot wound at Texas border (Reuters)
• Montana files lawsuit over video late fees (AP)
• No one hurt in a not-quite-miracle on the Hudson (AP)
• What does it mean to be a resident of a city? (AP)
• Ex-SC governor, Argentine lover hit Uruguay resort (AP)
• Doctors: Rep. Giffords ready to start full rehab (AP)
• Medical examiner: missing Texas teen was strangled (AP)
• Suspect who fled into Ore. woods avid outdoorsman (AP)
• Not again! Another snowstorm hits East Coast (AP)
• Republicans back at work cutting spending (AP)
• Mixed results shown from dispersants in BP spill (AP)
• About 26 million Americans have diabetes, up 9 pct (AP)
• Mosque to be built in CA city after appeal denied (AP)
• GOP invokes 1700s doctrine in health care fight (AP)

Allen Stanford incompetent for trial: judge (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 05:17 PM PST Reuters - Financier Allen Stanford is incompetent to stand trial at this time over accusations that he led a $7 billion fraud, a U.S. judge in Texas ruled on Wednesday.

California governor, mayors at odds over redevelopment (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 01:36 PM PST Reuters - California mayors will press Governor Jerry Brown hard on Wednesday to drop a plan to raise money for the state by scrapping redevelopment agencies.

Rabbis protest Fox host's use of Holocaust imagery (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:54 PM PST Reuters - Four hundred rabbis will publish a letter on Thursday calling on Fox News to sanction host Glenn Beck for repeated use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery and for airing attacks on World War Two survivor George Soros.

When Life in Prison Doesn't Mean Life in Prison (Time.com) Posted: 25 Jan 2011 08:30 PM PST Time.com - A Christmas day killing in Massachusetts has rekindled a debate about the parameters of paroling people on so-called life sentences

State of the Union: Why the Middle East Won't Be the Focus (Time.com) Posted: 25 Jan 2011 03:55 PM PST Time.com - Washington's influence on events is slipping fast in the region that has been the dominant focus of U.S. foreign policy over the past decade

Woman treated for gunshot wound at Texas border (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:48 PM PST Reuters - A woman injured by gunfire received emergency medical attention as she crossed into Texas from Mexico on Wednesday, authorities said, while news reports identified her as an American missionary and said she died from her wounds.

Montana files lawsuit over video late fees (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:31 PM PST AP - People who didn't return movies to Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery before they closed their doors for good last year may run into credit trouble when looking to take out a mortgage or finance a car.

No one hurt in a not-quite-miracle on the Hudson (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 11:51 AM PST AP - A commuter ferry that was among the first to respond to the plane splashdown in the Hudson River two years ago had to be rescued itself Wednesday morning when an engine began emitting dark smoke.

What does it mean to be a resident of a city? (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 02:19 PM PST AP - If history unfolded differently, and Abraham Lincoln had served out his second term in the White House, could he have returned to Illinois to run for mayor of his hometown?

Ex-SC governor, Argentine lover hit Uruguay resort (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:23 PM PST AP - A week after divorced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford left office, he and his Argentine lover he called his "soul mate" were spotted frolicking on the beach in the same resort where their romance began.

Doctors: Rep. Giffords ready to start full rehab (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:30 PM PST AP - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Wednesday left intensive care for the first time since she was shot in the head in Arizona more than two weeks ago, the latest big step in the long road to recovery.

Medical examiner: missing Texas teen was strangled (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:52 PM PST AP - A 15-year-old girl whose body was found along a roadside in West Texas was strangled soon after her abduction from a motel where she had been babysitting the children of a man accused in her disappearance, authorities said Wednesday.

Suspect who fled into Ore. woods avid outdoorsman (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:24 PM PST AP - A man who fled into the wilderness along the Oregon coast after allegedly shooting a police officer is an avid outdoorsman who designs his own camouflage clothing, his brother said Wednesday as police searched for the suspect on a small peninsula.

Not again! Another snowstorm hits East Coast (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 05:40 PM PST AP - Schools closed, governments sent workers home early and planes were grounded Wednesday in an all-too-familiar routine along the East Coast as another snowstorm swept over a region already beaten down by a winter not even half over.

Republicans back at work cutting spending (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 10:34 AM PST AP - Moving quickly on their own priorities, House Republicans pushed legislation to abolish partial public financing of presidential campaigns on Wednesday, one day after a State of the Union address in which President Barack Obama pronounced the country "poised for progress" and beckoned lawmakers of both parties to make job creation their common goal.

Mixed results shown from dispersants in BP spill (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 02:32 PM PST AP - Dispersants injected deep in the Gulf of Mexico to counter an oil gusher last spring seemed to keep some oil from fouling the water's surface, but the chemicals lingered underwater, raising concerns about long-term problems, a new study found.

About 26 million Americans have diabetes, up 9 pct (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:23 AM PST AP - U.S. health officials have raised their estimate of how many Americans have diabetes to nearly 26 million.

Mosque to be built in CA city after appeal denied (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:13 PM PST AP - Opponents of a proposed mosque in the Southern California city of Temecula collected hundreds of signatures, bombarded city planners with angry letters and e-mails, and even staged protests with bullhorns and dogs.

GOP invokes 1700s doctrine in health care fight (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 11:56 AM PST AP - Republican lawmakers in nearly a dozen states are reaching into the dusty annals of American history to fight President Obama's health care overhaul.

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