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• Wisconsin Senate passes public-sector union ban (Reuters)
• Accused Tucson shooter says not guilty of new charges (Reuters)
• Seven children die in Pennsylvania farmhouse fire (Reuters)
• Ancient Human Bones Discovered in Florida Woman's Backyard (Time.com)
• Healthy and Holy? Nuns Dig Into McDonald's Over Childhood Obesity (Time.com)
• Oklahoma House passes bill banning abortion after 20 weeks (Reuters)
• Severe weather flips cars, rips roofs in Southeast (AP)
• 82 percent of US schools may be labeled 'failing' (AP)
• Ohio to give condemned better attorney access (AP)
• Exhibit introduces Hindu holy art to US audiences (AP)
• Wis. GOP bypass Dems, cut collective bargaining (AP)
• Ex- Ill. Gov. Blagojevich asks to cancel retrial (AP)
• Tucson shooting survivors attend Loughner hearing (AP)
• Preemie birth preventive spikes from $10 to $1,500 (AP)
• Shuttle Discovery ends flying career, museum next (AP)
• Illinois abolishes death penalty, clears death row (AP)
• Tons of dead fish pulled from California marina (AP)
• Boston church aims to bring back lapsed Catholics (AP)
• Color pics of San Francisco after 1906 quake found (AP)
• NPR CEO resigns after VP criticizes tea party (AP)

Wisconsin Senate passes public-sector union ban (Reuters) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:49 PM PST Reuters - Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate approved the most controversial portion of Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill late on Wednesday, stripping out the sections that required the presence of their 14 absent Democratic colleagues in the chamber.

Accused Tucson shooter says not guilty of new charges (Reuters) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 03:52 PM PST Reuters - Tucson shooting rampage suspect Jared Loughner pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to an expanded, 49-count indictment that set the stage for prosecutors to decide whether to seek the death penalty.

Seven children die in Pennsylvania farmhouse fire (Reuters) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PST Reuters - Fire engulfed a farmhouse in Pennsylvania, killing seven children while their mother milked cows in a nearby barn and their father was out driving a milk delivery truck, police said on Wednesday.

Ancient Human Bones Discovered in Florida Woman's Backyard (Time.com) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 06:15 AM PST Time.com - It's not every day that a backyard becomes a site of archaeological significance, but that's exactly what happened in the Florida Keys

Healthy and Holy? Nuns Dig Into McDonald's Over Childhood Obesity (Time.com) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 06:15 AM PST Time.com - The Sisters of St. Francis in Philadelphia have answered a call, and it's told them to go after Mickey D's.

Oklahoma House passes bill banning abortion after 20 weeks (Reuters) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:17 PM PST Reuters - The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of gestation.

Severe weather flips cars, rips roofs in Southeast (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:22 PM PST AP - A severe weather system that trudged across the Southeast Wednesday tore roofs off buildings, overturned cars and caused a house fire that killed a woman.

82 percent of US schools may be labeled 'failing' (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:29 PM PST AP - The number of schools labeled as "failing" under the nation's No Child Left Behind Act could skyrocket dramatically this year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday.

Ohio to give condemned better attorney access (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:39 PM PST AP - The state will insert intravenous needles into condemned inmates' arms in a more public way so that prisoners will have better access to attorneys in case something goes wrong, a policy change that also accompanies the first U.S. execution involving a single dose of the drug pentobarbital.

Exhibit introduces Hindu holy art to US audiences (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 06:00 PM PST AP - Hinduism is the world's third largest religion and its oldest continuously practiced one, so it's somewhat surprising there has never been a major museum exhibition on Vishnu, one of its most important deities.

Wis. GOP bypass Dems, cut collective bargaining (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 06:17 PM PST AP - The Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday night to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers, approving an explosive proposal that had rocked the state and unions nationwide after Republicans discovered a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats.

Ex- Ill. Gov. Blagojevich asks to cancel retrial (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:21 PM PST AP - Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked a judge Wednesday to cancel his upcoming retrial on political corruption charges and promptly sentence him on the sole conviction from the first trial, saying money woes prevent him from mounting an ample defense.

Tucson shooting survivors attend Loughner hearing (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:36 PM PST AP - Survivors of the Tucson shooting rampage came face to face Wednesday with the man accused of carrying out the attack that killed six people and wounded 13 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

Preemie birth preventive spikes from $10 to $1,500 (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PST AP - The price of preventing preterm labor is about to go through the roof. A drug for high-risk pregnant women has cost about $10 to $20 per injection. Next week, the price shoots up to $1,500 a dose, meaning the total cost during a pregnancy could be as much as $30,000.

Shuttle Discovery ends flying career, museum next (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 03:40 PM PST AP - Discovery ended its career as the world's most flown spaceship Wednesday, returning from orbit for the last time and taking off in a new direction as a museum piece.

Illinois abolishes death penalty, clears death row (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:17 PM PST AP - After two decades of debate about the risk of executing an innocent person, Illinois abolished the death penalty Wednesday, a decision that was certain to fuel renewed calls for other states to do the same.

Tons of dead fish pulled from California marina (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:14 PM PST AP - Authorities scooped, blasted and vacuumed Wednesday as they removed tons of dead sardines from a Southern California marina before the fish rot and possibly poison remaining sea life in the harbor.

Boston church aims to bring back lapsed Catholics (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:42 PM PST AP - Cardinal Sean O'Malley kicked off a massive ad campaign Wednesday to draw Boston's vast population of lapsed Catholics back to the church by inviting them to "come home."

Color pics of San Francisco after 1906 quake found (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 06:03 PM PST AP - A museum volunteer has unearthed what the Smithsonian Institution believes to be the first — and perhaps only — color photographs of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire that nearly leveled the city.

NPR CEO resigns after VP criticizes tea party (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:21 PM PST AP - NPR's president and CEO resigned Wednesday in an effort to limit the damage from hidden camera footage of a fellow executive deriding the tea party movement as "seriously racist." Conservatives called the video proof that the network is biased and undeserving of federal funds.

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