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• New York governor hits school districts, defends education cut (Reuters)
• Camden, New Jersey to hire back some laid-off police (Reuters)
• Report criticizes immigrant detention system (Reuters)
• The White House Gets Behind New Internet Privacy Efforts (Time.com)
• Our No. 1 Priority: Jobs for Egypt's Restive Youth (Time.com)
• Maine takes aim at coyotes to bolster deer population (Reuters)
• Country entertainer Ferlin Husky dies at age 85 (AP)
• NYC revels at 250th St. Patrick's Day celebration (AP)
• Ill. inmate who claimed torture exults in release (AP)
• OJ appeals conviction to full Nevada Supreme Court (AP)
• Feds: Pattern of misconduct by New Orleans police (AP)
• Obama: Japan's radiation won't reach US (AP)
• Transplant patient got AIDS from new kidney (AP)
• Torture charges shatter Croatian's quiet Ky. life (AP)
• Overdose leaves Minn. teen dead, 10 hospitalized (AP)
• Pageant: Beauty queen bikini photos 'unusable' (AP)
• Hawaii braces for downturn in travelers from Japan (AP)
• President O'Bama? Irish-American relatives ID'd (AP)
• Yale U. lab tech admits killing grad student (AP)
• Gas line explodes in Minneapolis; no injuries (AP)

New York governor hits school districts, defends education cut (Reuters) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 12:26 PM PDT Reuters - Claiming local school districts are playing "political games," New York's governor on Thursday defended his $1.5 billion cut to education spending.

Camden, New Jersey to hire back some laid-off police (Reuters) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 01:07 PM PDT Reuters - Camden, New Jersey, forced to lay off nearly half its police force in a dramatic austerity measure at the start of the year, said on Thursday it will rehire nearly a third of the officers who were let go.

Report criticizes immigrant detention system (Reuters) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:44 PM PDT Reuters - PHOENIX (Reuters)- Immigrants detained in the United States lack adequate access to legal representation and medical care, while the system itself is over reliant on detention, a human rights report released on Thursday found.

The White House Gets Behind New Internet Privacy Efforts (Time.com) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:20 PM PDT Time.com - President Obama is endorsing a "bill of rights" for onlineconsumers--and so are his Silicon Valley friends

Our No. 1 Priority: Jobs for Egypt's Restive Youth (Time.com) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:20 PM PDT Time.com - Libya doesn't matter as much as finding jobs for the young protesters in Egypt

Maine takes aim at coyotes to bolster deer population (Reuters) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 03:08 PM PDT Reuters - Maine officials unveiled a plan on Thursday to beef up the state's dwindling deer population, including paying hunters to kill more coyotes in affected areas.

Country entertainer Ferlin Husky dies at age 85 (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:05 PM PDT AP - Ferlin Husky, a pioneering country music entertainer in the 1950s and early '60s known for hits like "Wings of a Dove" and "Gone," died Thursday. He was 85.

NYC revels at 250th St. Patrick's Day celebration (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 12:49 PM PDT AP - The nation's largest St. Patrick's Day celebration gave the city's Irish-Americans a chance to settle a score Thursday with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, still taking heat for disparaging comments about Irish stereotypes, but most parade-goers chose instead to enjoy the spectacle of bands, dancers and dignitaries.

Ill. inmate who claimed torture exults in release (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:07 PM PDT AP - Imprisoned for life for a double killing after what he said was a coerced confession, Eric Caine spent years behind bars quietly wishing he had been condemned to death instead.

OJ appeals conviction to full Nevada Supreme Court (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:19 PM PDT AP - O.J. Simpson asked the full Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday to do what three of its members have already declined to do — overturn his conviction and sentence in a botched Las Vegas hotel room heist.

Feds: Pattern of misconduct by New Orleans police (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 03:21 PM PDT AP - New Orleans police officers have often used deadly force without justification, repeatedly made unconstitutional arrests and engaged in racial profiling, the Justice Department said Thursday in a scathing report.

Obama: Japan's radiation won't reach US (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:05 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama, trying to reassure a worried nation, declared Thursday that "harmful levels" of radiation from the Japanese nuclear disaster are not expected to reach the U.S., even as other officials conceded it could take weeks to bring the crippled nuclear complex under control.

Transplant patient got AIDS from new kidney (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:25 PM PDT AP - A transplant patient contracted AIDS from the kidney of a living donor, in the first documented case of its kind in the U.S. since screening for HIV began in the mid-1980s.

Torture charges shatter Croatian's quiet Ky. life (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 03:55 PM PDT AP - If Azra Basic needed a place to run from the bloody aftermath of the breakup of Yugoslavia, her small-town Kentucky neighbors said she found it. The Croatian woman locals knew as "Issabella" settled years ago in this rural, hilly area and took jobs bathing elderly nursing home patients and working at a sandwich factory.

Overdose leaves Minn. teen dead, 10 hospitalized (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:06 PM PDT AP - One teen died and 10 teenagers and young adults were hospitalized Thursday after an apparent mass overdose on a designer hallucinogen at a suburban Minneapolis home, authorities said.

Pageant: Beauty queen bikini photos 'unusable' (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:05 PM PDT AP - A Texas beauty queen gained enough weight that airbrushing couldn't fix photos of her in a bikini, but that's not why the size-2 teen had her Miss San Antonio crown revoked, the pageant president told a jury Thursday.

Hawaii braces for downturn in travelers from Japan (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:56 PM PDT AP - A tsunami spawned by the deadly earthquake in Japan caused tens of millions of dollars in damage to homes, businesses and boats in Hawaii after the waves roared ashore last week.

President O'Bama? Irish-American relatives ID'd (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:25 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama found out years ago he had an Irish great-great-great-grandfather who fled the potato famine in 1850. He can now claim 28 living relatives who also descended from that Irishman, including a Vietnam veteran, a school nurse and a displeased Arizona Republican.

Yale U. lab tech admits killing grad student (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:16 PM PDT AP - A former animal research technician pleaded guilty Thursday to killing a Yale University graduate student days before her 2009 wedding, and prosecutors revealed that he left behind evidence of a sexual assault and desperately tried to cover his tracks.

Gas line explodes in Minneapolis; no injuries (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:23 PM PDT AP - A major natural gas line exploded Thursday outside a large Minneapolis supermarket, spewing flames skyward just 100 yards from a busy freeway and snarling rush-hour traffic but injuring nobody in what fire officials called an amazing stroke of luck.

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