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• Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 (Reuters)
• U.S. soldier pleads guilty to murdering Afghans (Reuters)
• U.S. nuclear agency plans safety review of reactors (Reuters)
• Facebook Flub: Man Charged with Polygamy After Posting Second Wedding Photo Online (Time.com)
• E-Book Era: Will Digital Best Sellers Force End of Print? (Time.com)
• NYC public retirees should pay health premiums: watchdog (Reuters)
• Toenail study: No heart risk from mercury in fish (AP)
• Philly abortion doc agrees to freeze most assets (AP)
• SC train wreck conductor: I'm a victim, too (AP)
• New NAACP seeing more gay, diverse chapter leaders (AP)
• Gulf probe: Blowout preventer was flawed (AP)
• Teacher letter to Ariz. lawmaker leads to inquiry (AP)
• US soldier gets 24 years for murders of 3 Afghans (AP)
• Slain Ky. couple banned teen from seeing girl (AP)
• Agents nab immigrants, others posing as military (AP)
• Lawyers: Loughner sent to Missouri for mental exam (AP)
• Coast Guard boat pilot gets jail in fatal wreck (AP)
• Regulators: Ohio funeral home can't liquefy bodies (AP)
• Panel: security probe missed clues in anthrax case (AP)
• Spring? Yeah, right: Snow for Midwest, Northeast (AP)

Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 (Reuters) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 01:21 PM PDT Reuters - Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor, whose violet eyes, tumultuous love life and passion for diamonds epitomized Hollywood glamour, died on Wednesday at age 79.

U.S. soldier pleads guilty to murdering Afghans (Reuters) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:34 PM PDT Reuters - The first of five U.S. soldiers charged with killing unarmed Afghan civilians in cold blood last year pleaded guilty on Wednesday to three counts of premeditated murder and apologized in court, saying, "I lost my moral compass."

U.S. nuclear agency plans safety review of reactors (Reuters) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:42 PM PDT Reuters - The top U.S. nuclear regulator on Wednesday approved the launch of a safety review of U.S. nuclear reactors in response to the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima plant.

Facebook Flub: Man Charged with Polygamy After Posting Second Wedding Photo Online (Time.com) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 02:25 AM PDT Time.com - Here's a tip we never thought we'd have to share: If you’re already married, don't post pictures of your new wife on Facebook

E-Book Era: Will Digital Best Sellers Force End of Print? (Time.com) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 02:25 AM PDT Time.com - In the still sluggish publishing business, e-books are rising stars

NYC public retirees should pay health premiums: watchdog (Reuters) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:52 PM PDT Reuters - New York City should require its retired public employees to pay for Medicare Part B premiums -- the way all but four states do -- instead of fully reimbursing them, according to a report released on Wednesday by a fiscal watchdog group.

Toenail study: No heart risk from mercury in fish (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:22 PM PDT AP - In an unusual health study, researchers analyzing toxin levels in tens of thousands of toenail clippings determined that mercury from eating fish does not raise the risk of heart disease or stroke.

Philly abortion doc agrees to freeze most assets (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 02:20 PM PDT AP - A jailed Philadelphia abortion doctor will sell his $900,000 beach home if he needs cash to defend himself in a capital murder case but will freeze other assets indefinitely amid a wrongful-death lawsuit, his lawyer said Wednesday.

SC train wreck conductor: I'm a victim, too (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:35 PM PDT AP - The man at the helm of the children's train ride that crashed and killed a 6-year-old boy said Wednesday that the wreck hurt him emotionally and physically.

New NAACP seeing more gay, diverse chapter leaders (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:50 AM PDT AP - The NAACP's newly revived Worcester chapter elected a 28-year-old openly gay black man as its president this month. In New Jersey, a branch of the organization outside Atlantic City chose a Honduran immigrant to lead it last year. And in Mississippi, the Jackson State University chapter recently turned to a 30-something white man.

Gulf probe: Blowout preventer was flawed (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:17 PM PDT AP - The blowout preventer that should have stopped the BP oil spill cold failed because of faulty design and a bent piece of pipe, a testing firm hired by the government said Wednesday in a report that appears to shift some blame for the disaster away from the oil giant and toward those who built and maintained the 300-ton safety device.

Teacher letter to Ariz. lawmaker leads to inquiry (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:19 PM PDT AP - A metropolitan Phoenix school district has launched an inquiry into a substitute teacher who wrote a letter that portrayed Hispanic students in a harsh light and was read aloud last week at the Arizona Legislature during a debate on an immigration bill.

US soldier gets 24 years for murders of 3 Afghans (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:40 PM PDT AP - A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 24 years in prison Wednesday after saying "the plan was to kill people" in a conspiracy with four fellow soldiers to kill unarmed Afghan civilians.

Slain Ky. couple banned teen from seeing girl (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:36 PM PDT AP - A troubled 15-year-old shot and killed relatives who had taken him in because his mother could not control him, then stole their car and fled with the younger girlfriend they had ordered him not to see, police and family members said.

Agents nab immigrants, others posing as military (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:34 PM PDT AP - At first glance, the white van seemed full of clean-cut Marines in uniform — not necessarily an unusual sight near the Border Patrol's desert checkpoint along Interstate 8.

Lawyers: Loughner sent to Missouri for mental exam (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:10 PM PDT AP - The suspect in the January shooting rampage in Tucson was flown Wednesday to a specialized facility in Missouri to undergo a court-ordered mental evaluation, and his lawyers immediately asked an appeals court for him to be returned.

Coast Guard boat pilot gets jail in fatal wreck (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 01:09 PM PDT AP - A Coast Guard petty officer was sentenced Wednesday to three months in the brig for his role in a boat collision in San Diego Bay that killed an 8-year-old boy.

Regulators: Ohio funeral home can't liquefy bodies (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 02:28 PM PDT AP - An Ohio funeral home that is the first in the nation to use a cremation alternative that dissolves bodies with lye and heat has effectively been blocked from using the procedure by state regulators.

Panel: security probe missed clues in anthrax case (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:41 PM PDT AP - A court-ordered review found Wednesday that security screeners repeatedly failed to recognize signs of mental illness that should have prevented the man blamed for deadly 2001 anthrax attacks from working with the deadly spores at the Army's flagship biodefense laboratory

Spring? Yeah, right: Snow for Midwest, Northeast (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:50 AM PDT AP - Spring can't seem to upstage winter in the Northeast and parts of the nation's midsection, as a far-reaching storm on Wednesday brought up to a foot of snow to areas from the Dakotas to upstate New York.

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