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• U.S. Postal Service to cut 7,500 jobs, close offices (Reuters)
• City manager pleads not guilty in Bell, California, pay scandal (Reuters)
• Wisconsin's anti-union bill headed to state high court (Reuters)
• Facebook Kicks Off 20,000 Underage Users Every Day (Time.com)
• Nuclear-Fuel Storage to Be Probed in U.S. Safety Study (Time.com)
• Tennessee legislature passes bill changing teacher tenure rules (Reuters)
• US gov't rests perjury case against ex-CIA agent (AP)
• Man gets 32 years in Chicago student's slaying (AP)
• Liz Taylor buried in small ceremony at LA cemetery (AP)
• Court won't halt mental exam of Tucson suspect (AP)
• Ky teen may face adult charge in couple's slaying (AP)
• Jury selection begins in LA for Jackson doctor (AP)
• Calif. judge to rule if kids can see paralyzed mom (AP)
• California site for 'maternity tourists' shut down (AP)
• Verdict: Judge returns Texas beauty queen's crown (AP)
• Man accused of leaving explosive at US building (AP)
• Husband: Giffords wants to be at shuttle launch (AP)
• Ousted SC board member offers $5M gift to school (AP)
• Plato, Mo., sits at center of nation's population (AP)
• Weinglass, attorney in radicals' cases, dies in NY (AP)

U.S. Postal Service to cut 7,500 jobs, close offices (Reuters) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 01:47 PM PDT Reuters - The U.S. Postal Service said on Thursday it would cut 7,500 jobs and close seven district offices and 2,000 post offices as it handles less mail and faces greater staff costs and competition from FedEx and United Parcel Service.

City manager pleads not guilty in Bell, California, pay scandal (Reuters) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:50 PM PDT Reuters - Robert Rizzo, the former city administrator for Bell, California, at the center of a pay scandal over his $1.5 million in annual salary and benefits, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to corruption charges.

Wisconsin's anti-union bill headed to state high court (Reuters) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 02:04 PM PDT Reuters - The battle over Wisconsin's new law curbing the union rights of public workers is headed for the state Supreme Court after a lower court declined to weigh in on the issue.

Facebook Kicks Off 20,000 Underage Users Every Day (Time.com) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 03:30 AM PDT Time.com - According to a Pew study, nearly half of all 12-year-olds in the U.S. use social network sites, even though they don't meet the minimum age requirements? For Facebook, it's a headache they could do without

Nuclear-Fuel Storage to Be Probed in U.S. Safety Study (Time.com) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 10:50 AM PDT Time.com - Nuclear-industry officials say there's nothing to worry about, but watchdog groups aren't so sure. Will a new government investigation put fears to rest?

Tennessee legislature passes bill changing teacher tenure rules (Reuters) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 02:05 PM PDT Reuters - A bill to make it more difficult for Tennessee teachers to get tenure passed the state House on Thursday, following passage by the Senate earlier this month.

US gov't rests perjury case against ex-CIA agent (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:17 PM PDT AP - The U.S. government rested its much-watched perjury case against a former CIA agent from Cuba on Thursday after an 11-week parade of 23 witnesses, and the defense immediately began presenting its version of key events.

Man gets 32 years in Chicago student's slaying (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 03:33 PM PDT AP - Each time the video was played in court, spectators turned away at the sight of a young man bending his legs and jumping into the air near a teenager sprawled on the ground after being punched, kicked and hit over the head with a wooden board.

Liz Taylor buried in small ceremony at LA cemetery (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:08 PM PDT AP - Elizabeth Taylor's family mourned the screen legend in a brief private funeral service Thursday at a Southern California cemetery famous for being the final resting place of Hollywood celebrities, including her good friend Michael Jackson.

Court won't halt mental exam of Tucson suspect (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:26 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court rejected a request to halt the mental competency exam that's being conducted on the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage.

Ky teen may face adult charge in couple's slaying (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:57 PM PDT AP - A Kentucky couple who took in an incorrigible 15-year-old relative now accused of killing them had put their foot down when he wanted to date a 12-year-old girl, police and family members said.

Jury selection begins in LA for Jackson doctor (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 02:42 PM PDT AP - The judge's first question to the 159 prospective jurors in a Los Angeles courthouse was simple: How many of you have not heard about the case of the doctor accused in Michael Jackson's death?

Calif. judge to rule if kids can see paralyzed mom (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:11 PM PDT AP - It's a custody case in which no one disputes these tragic facts: A healthy young woman went to the hospital to deliver her triplets, was badly brain damaged by a series of medical errors and can no longer walk, talk or even feed herself.

California site for 'maternity tourists' shut down (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:25 PM PDT AP - For months, neighbors noticed a number of pregnant Asian women coming and going at all hours at an upscale townhouse development in suburban Los Angeles.

Verdict: Judge returns Texas beauty queen's crown (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:28 PM PDT AP - A 17-year-old Texas beauty queen allegedly told to "get off the tacos" after gaining weight has had her crown returned by a judge after a jury ruled that she was wrongly stripped of her title.

Man accused of leaving explosive at US building (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:25 PM PDT AP - A man with a history of bizarre rants against the FBI was charged Thursday with placing an explosive outside a federal building in Detroit in a case that has embarrassed the government because it was taken inside by a guard and left unattended for 20 days.

Husband: Giffords wants to be at shuttle launch (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:54 PM PDT AP - The astronaut husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Thursday that she wants to be at his shuttle launch next month. And she will be, he said, pending final approval from her doctors.

Ousted SC board member offers $5M gift to school (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 02:14 PM PDT AP - A University of South Carolina benefactor ousted from the school's Board of Trustees shrugged off the snub Thursday and promised to give the school $5 million for a new aerospace research center.

Plato, Mo., sits at center of nation's population (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:40 PM PDT AP - In a nation of nearly 310 million people, America's new population center rests not in a Midwestern skyline of St. Louis or Chicago, but in a tiny Missouri village named after an ancient Greek philosopher.

Weinglass, attorney in radicals' cases, dies in NY (AP) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 03:18 PM PDT AP - Leonard Weinglass was a modern-day Clarence Darrow, an attorney who defended people for their politics not their alleged crimes, friends said.

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