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• Wisconsin Republicans retreat from procedural threat (Reuters)
• Quake-prone California questions nuclear safety (Reuters)
• NY Governor seeks "unfettered power" for commissioners (Reuters)
• In Japan's Disaster, Lessons for the U.S. on Foreign Aid (Time.com)
• NFL Labor Crisis: Why Players, Fans Should Boo Owners (Time.com)
• Pennsylvania sued for axing low-income health plan (Reuters)
• Bus in fatal NJ Turnpike crash flagged for safety (AP)
• APNewsBreak: DEA seizes key execution drug in Ga. (AP)
• Rockefeller impostor charged with murder in LA (AP)
• NYC bus crash spotlights cut-rate bus companies (AP)
• Japanese plant poses little threat to US — for now (AP)
• NH murder suspect: felt nothing during attacks (AP)
• Ex-nurse to appeal aiding suicides conviction (AP)
• Napolitano: US drills for disasters like Japan's (AP)

Wisconsin Republicans retreat from procedural threat (Reuters) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 01:41 PM PDT Reuters - Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate dropped a threat on Tuesday to deny 14 Democratic counterparts the right to vote in the chamber because they fled to Illinois last month.

Quake-prone California questions nuclear safety (Reuters) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:16 PM PDT Reuters - Californians have long had an uneasy relationship with their two nuclear power plants, and the crisis in Japan raises new doubts about how long nuclear power will survive in the earthquake-prone state.

NY Governor seeks "unfettered power" for commissioners (Reuters) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 01:18 PM PDT Reuters - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's budget plan gives some of his commissioners "unfettered power" to cut the Medicaid program and close upstate prisons, the state comptroller said in a report on Tuesday.

In Japan's Disaster, Lessons for the U.S. on Foreign Aid (Time.com) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:00 AM PDT Time.com - One lesson U.S. policymakers should learn from the Japan earthquake: development money spent now can help stave off calamity later

NFL Labor Crisis: Why Players, Fans Should Boo Owners (Time.com) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 01:55 AM PDT Time.com - NFL owners aren't taking the players' request for financial transparency seriously. But by decertifying the union, the players have showed they mean business

Pennsylvania sued for axing low-income health plan (Reuters) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:59 PM PDT Reuters - Pennsylvania's governor and other state politicians have been sued in a class action suit after 41,000 residents lost health coverage following the state's axing of an insurance program for low-income workers.

Bus in fatal NJ Turnpike crash flagged for safety (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:42 PM PDT AP - The tour bus company involved in a fatal crash on the New Jersey Turnpike had been flagged by safety officials for extra scrutiny due to a higher than average number of violations, federal records show.

APNewsBreak: DEA seizes key execution drug in Ga. (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:35 PM PDT AP - The Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed Tuesday that the agency seized Georgia's supply of a key lethal injection drug because of questions about how the stockpile was imported to the U.S.

Rockefeller impostor charged with murder in LA (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PDT AP - A mystery man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller was charged Tuesday with murder in the disappearance of a Southern California man more than 25 years ago, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office said.

NYC bus crash spotlights cut-rate bus companies (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:07 PM PDT AP - Cut-rate bus companies. Driver fatigue. And the need for safer windows and roofs. The New York bus crash that killed 15 people on their way home from a casino has focused renewed attention on problems federal safety investigators have been warning about for years.

Japanese plant poses little threat to US — for now (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:53 PM PDT AP - It's a big ocean between northeastern Japan and the United States and thousands of miles from the crippled nuclear power plant to much of Asia. That means there's little chance — at least for now — that radiation from the shattered reactors could pose a serious threat to the wider world.

NH murder suspect: felt nothing during attacks (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 01:37 PM PDT AP - A New Hampshire man trying to convince a jury he was insane when he took part in a machete and knife attack that killed a woman and injured her daughter testified Tuesday that he felt nothing during the attacks and a flood of relief afterward.

Ex-nurse to appeal aiding suicides conviction (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:20 PM PDT AP - A former nurse accused of seeking out depressed people online and encouraging two to kill themselves was found guilty Tuesday of aiding the suicides of an English man and Canadian woman.

Napolitano: US drills for disasters like Japan's (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:44 PM PDT AP - U.S. emergency agencies constantly rehearse for a disaster like the one unfolding in Japan, and American first responders will learn from the experience of their Japanese counterparts, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday.

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