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• Northeast recovers from wet, heavy snowstorm (Reuters)
• Illinois court says Emanuel can stay on Chicago ballot (Reuters)
• Alaska promises release of Palin emails by May 31 (Reuters)
• The Reagan Revelation (Time.com)
• Fixing Teacher Tenure Without a Pass/Fail Grade (Time.com)
• Nerve agent mix-up prompts Utah base lockdown (Reuters)
• Challenger: A painful wound 25 years later (AP)
• Ind.'s Pence won't run for president, mum on gov. (AP)
• Humans may have left Africa earlier than thought (AP)
• First lady: Army health initiative may be a model (AP)
• Bulgarian gets 2 years for stealing dead boy's ID (AP)
• Police: US missionary possibly killed over truck (AP)
• Snow, shovel, repeat: East Coast digs out again (AP)
• Ill. high court: Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor (AP)
• Potential scams top 7,000 in BP spill compensation (AP)
• Solved: Teen put piano on Miami sandbar; gone now (AP)
• NASA honors astronauts lost from Apollo, shuttles (AP)
• Century knocked off man's terror-support sentence (AP)
• Unmarked graves found at veteran cemetery in Miss. (AP)
• Calif. serial killer charged in 2 1970s NYC deaths (AP)

Northeast recovers from wet, heavy snowstorm (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:47 PM PST Reuters - The Northeast dug out of yet another winter storm on Thursday that pummeled the region with unexpectedly heavy snowfall, making January the snowiest month in New York in more than 85 years.

Illinois court says Emanuel can stay on Chicago ballot (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:53 PM PST Reuters - Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel can run for mayor of Chicago, the Illinois high court ruled unanimously on Thursday, overturning a lower court ruling earlier this week to exclude him.

Alaska promises release of Palin emails by May 31 (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:18 PM PST Reuters - Alaska officials must release by the end of May an estimated 26,500 pages of emails exchanged between former Governor Sarah Palin and her aides, the state's attorney general has determined.

The Reagan Revelation (Time.com) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:25 AM PST Time.com - One hundred years after his birth and 30 years after he took office, his optimistic vision and complex conservatism inspire and haunt Republicans and Democrats alike

Fixing Teacher Tenure Without a Pass/Fail Grade (Time.com) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 08:25 AM PST Time.com - Death penalty cases can be resolved faster than teacher-misconduct cases. Why is it so hard to streamline the process?

Nerve agent mix-up prompts Utah base lockdown (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:33 PM PST Reuters - A mix-up over a tiny vial of a deadly nerve agent led to the overnight lock-down of the Army's Dugway Proving Ground, a sprawling, remote base in Utah where the U.S. military conducts weapons tests, officials said on Thursday.

Challenger: A painful wound 25 years later (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:48 PM PST AP - For many, no single word evokes as much pain. Challenger. A quarter-century later, images of the exploding space shuttle still signify all that can go wrong with technology and the sharpest minds. The accident on Jan. 28, 1986 — a scant 73 seconds into flight, nine miles above the Atlantic for all to see — remains NASA's most visible failure.

Ind.'s Pence won't run for president, mum on gov. (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:21 PM PST AP - U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, a former talk show host and one of the more outspoken conservatives in Congress, said Thursday he won't seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012 because he wants to focus on issues "closer to home" — a message some supporters are interpreting as his clearest sign yet that he'll run for Indiana governor.

Humans may have left Africa earlier than thought (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:23 PM PST AP - Modern humans may have left Africa thousands of years earlier than previously thought, turning right and heading across the Red Sea into Arabia rather than following the Nile to a northern exit, an international team of researchers says.

First lady: Army health initiative may be a model (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:38 PM PST AP - First lady Michelle Obama said Thursday that the military's push to turn recruits into health-conscious warriors could be a model for making people across the U.S. more focused on fitness and nutrition.

Bulgarian gets 2 years for stealing dead boy's ID (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:30 PM PST AP - A Bulgarian man was sentenced to two years and a day in prison Thursday for stealing the identity of an Ohio boy who was kidnapped and killed at age 3.

Police: US missionary possibly killed over truck (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:13 PM PST AP - An American missionary couple who were attacked by gunmen in Mexico drove up to an illegal roadblock in a dangerous area of the country that has had 40 violent car thefts in the last two months, a Mexican official said Thursday.

Snow, shovel, repeat: East Coast digs out again (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 05:07 PM PST AP - Enough already.

Ill. high court: Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 05:07 PM PST AP - Illinois' highest court put Rahm Emanuel back in the race for Chicago mayor Thursday, three days after a lower court threw the former White House chief of staff off the ballot because he had not lived in the city for a full year.

Potential scams top 7,000 in BP spill compensation (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:40 PM PST AP - The $20 billion fund responsible for compensating victims of BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill has received more than 7,000 potentially fraudulent claims, many of which have been referred to the Justice Department for criminal investigations, the fund's administrator told a Senate panel on Thursday.

Solved: Teen put piano on Miami sandbar; gone now (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:13 PM PST AP - The rumors can stop swirling: The baby grand piano that turned up on a Miami sandbar was burned to tatters by New Year's revelers, then brought to its new home by a television designer's teenage son who said Thursday he hoped the idea might help him get into a prestigious art school.

NASA honors astronauts lost from Apollo, shuttles (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:01 PM PST AP - NASA paused Thursday to remember the 17 astronauts lost in the line of duty.

Century knocked off man's terror-support sentence (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:55 PM PST AP - In the shadow of 9/11, the 155-year sentence handed down to Hezbollah supporter Mohamad Hammoud was considered a milestone in the fight against terrorism and a strong warning to people who sent money to support militant groups.

Unmarked graves found at veteran cemetery in Miss. (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:51 PM PST AP - Authorities said Thursday they fear dozens of veterans could lie in unmarked graves at a Mississippi military cemetery after they found two unidentified coffins and used radar to detect other possible plots.

Calif. serial killer charged in 2 1970s NYC deaths (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:19 PM PST AP - The killings made headlines, spurred extensive investigations and frustrated authorities for decades: A flight attendant found raped and strangled with a pair of stockings in her Manhattan apartment in 1971. A Hollywood nightspot owner's daughter whose remains were found in the woods in 1978 after she disappeared in Manhattan the year before.

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