Yahoo! News: U.S. News

---

• Wal-Mart gets sympathetic court bias case hearing (Reuters)
• Judge again blocks Wisconsin's anti-union law (Reuters)
• FDA chemist, son charged with insider trading (Reuters)
• Marijuana College: Oaksterdam Focuses on Higher Education (Time.com)
• With a Shutdown Looming, Budget Bickering Intensifies (Time.com)
• Recovery proving uneven among states: report (Reuters)
• Population near ground zero doubles since 2000 (AP)
• Colo. concussions law most far-reaching in country (AP)
• Two-thirds of oil and gas leases in Gulf inactive (AP)
• Virginia Tech fined $55K for response to shootings (AP)
• Ohio House panel OKs public worker union bill (AP)
• 9 dead after infection outbreak in Ala hospitals (AP)
• Appeals court overturns release of Gitmo detainee (AP)
• AP IMPACT: Long blackouts pose risk to US reactors (AP)
• Wal-Mart sex-bias case hits possible court block (AP)
• US sending robots to Japan to help nuclear plant (AP)
• Investigators eye safety of fatal sailing outing (AP)
• Court: Eagle feathers only for American Indians (AP)
• Conn. governor opens up about dyslexia struggles (AP)
• Missing BP laptop had personal data of claimants (AP)

Wal-Mart gets sympathetic court bias case hearing (Reuters) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 01:47 PM PDT Reuters - Wal-Mart got a sympathetic hearing from several Supreme Court justices on Tuesday as the retailer sought to prevent female employees from bringing the largest class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit in history.

Judge again blocks Wisconsin's anti-union law (Reuters) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:15 PM PDT Reuters - A Wisconsin judge issued a revised order on Tuesday blocking implementation of a controversial state law curbing collective bargaining by public unions while she hears a legal challenge to the proposed law.

FDA chemist, son charged with insider trading (Reuters) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:01 PM PDT Reuters - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration chemist and his son were charged with using inside information about drug approvals to reap more than $3.6 million in profits, in an embarrassing blow to the health industry regulator.

Marijuana College: Oaksterdam Focuses on Higher Education (Time.com) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 06:00 AM PDT Time.com - California's Oaksterdam University is America's first cannabis college, offering training for the lucrative medical-marijuana industry

With a Shutdown Looming, Budget Bickering Intensifies (Time.com) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 06:00 AM PDT Time.com - Congress returns Monday for its latest round of budget brinksmanship. After a half-dozen stopgap funding bills in as many months, the threat of a government shutdown looms once more

Recovery proving uneven among states: report (Reuters) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 03:41 PM PDT Reuters - The economic recession that began in 2007 was uniformly damaging to U.S. states, sparing just one or two from its effects, but the recovery is promising to be uneven across the country.

Population near ground zero doubles since 2000 (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 01:45 PM PDT AP - After the Sept. 11 attacks, there were grim questions about the future of the shaken, dust-covered neighborhoods around the World Trade Center. Would residents flee uptown or to the suburbs? Would the epic job of rebuilding lower Manhattan be too much to bear? Who would want to live so close to a place associated with such horror?

Colo. concussions law most far-reaching in country (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PDT AP - The nation's most sweeping rules addressing youth-concussions in sports was signed into law Tuesday in Colorado, where the guidelines for protecting child athletes will require coaches to bench players as young as 11 when it's believed they've suffered a head injury.

Two-thirds of oil and gas leases in Gulf inactive (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 04:36 PM PDT AP - More than two-thirds of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico are sitting idle, neither producing oil and gas, nor being actively explored by the companies who hold the leases, according to a Department of Interior report released Tuesday.

Virginia Tech fined $55K for response to shootings (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 04:06 PM PDT AP - Virginia Tech will have to pay the maximum $55,000 fine for violating federal law by waiting too long to notify students during the 2007 shooting rampage but will not lose any federal student aid, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday.

Ohio House panel OKs public worker union bill (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 03:19 PM PDT AP - A panel of Ohio lawmakers made a bill to limit collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers even tougher for unions on Tuesday, as the state moved closer to Wisconsin-style restrictions.

9 dead after infection outbreak in Ala hospitals (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 04:39 PM PDT AP - Nine Alabama hospital patients who were treated with contaminated intravenous feeding bags have died and the maker has pulled the product off the market, state health officials said Tuesday.

Appeals court overturns release of Gitmo detainee (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 02:40 PM PDT AP - Federal appeals court judges on Tuesday rejected what they described as a Guantanamo Bay detainee's "Forrest Gump" defense, because they found it unlikely he was an innocent who repeatedly just happened to find himself at hot spots in the war on terror.

AP IMPACT: Long blackouts pose risk to US reactors (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 04:52 PM PDT AP - It's a nightmarish scenario — a days-long blackout at a nuclear power plant leading to a radioactive leak. Though the odds of that happening are extremely remote, an Associated Press investigation has found that some U.S. plants are more vulnerable than others.

Wal-Mart sex-bias case hits possible court block (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 03:26 PM PDT AP - The Supreme Court appears ready to block a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of up to 1.6 million women, and that could make it harder for other workers nationwide to bring class-action claims against large employers.

US sending robots to Japan to help nuclear plant (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:25 PM PDT AP - The U.S. government is sending some robotic help to Japan to help regain control of the tsunami-damaged nuclear plant.

Investigators eye safety of fatal sailing outing (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 04:33 PM PDT AP - A charity that stages free sailing trips for people with special needs said Tuesday a gust of wind caused an accident that killed two passengers and dumped eight others into the cold water of San Diego Bay.

Court: Eagle feathers only for American Indians (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 03:15 PM PDT AP - Restricting use of eagle parts and feathers to members of federally recognized American Indian tribes for religious purposes does not violate the religious freedoms of non-Indians seeking the same right, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Conn. governor opens up about dyslexia struggles (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 01:38 PM PDT AP - Teachers said he was mentally retarded. Some of his nastier classmates called him dummy. Today, Dannel P. Malloy is called something else: governor of Connecticut.

Missing BP laptop had personal data of claimants (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 03:43 PM PDT AP - A BP employee lost a laptop containing personal data belonging to thousands of Louisiana residents who filed claims for compensation after the Gulf oil spill, a company spokesman said Tuesday.

You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News: U.S. News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610