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• Private sector adds more than 200,000 jobs (Reuters)
• Wisconsin governor releases bond restructuring bill (Reuters)
• Ohio state House passes bill curbing union rights (Reuters)
• Where Has Japan's Radiation Been Detected in the U.S.? (Time.com)
• Obama's Libya Speech: The Doctrine Is Clear, but the Mission Isn't (Time.com)
• Ex-wife of SAC's Cohen has lawsuit dismissed (Reuters)
• Anniversary flight to Gulf disaster site planned (AP)
• No joke: Spring snowstorm bears down on Northeast (AP)
• Man presumably shot by Mexican thugs still missing (AP)
• AP source: Bullet found aboard US Airways plane (AP)
• 110 mph winds damage homes in Mississippi (AP)
• Ohio House OKs collective bargaining limits (AP)
• Whale that killed trainer returns to SeaWorld show (AP)
• Wis. GOP bullish in pressing union bargaining law (AP)
• NYPD officer's family upset by 9/11 death probe (AP)
• Calif. drought officially ends after snowy winter (AP)
• NH police: Woman who posted ad kidnapped, raped (AP)
• FDA won't stop cheap version of preterm birth drug (AP)
• First Mercury images in orbit show lots of craters (AP)
• Biden says 'good progress' on budget talks (AP)

Private sector adds more than 200,000 jobs (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 09:29 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. private employers added more than 200,000 jobs in March while planned layoffs fell, underscoring expectations that momentum in the labor market will help underpin the economic recovery.

Wisconsin governor releases bond restructuring bill (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 01:19 PM PDT Reuters - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker released on Wednesday bond restructuring and other plans to close a current year budget gap that were cut from a controversial law to curb the powers of public sector unions.

Ohio state House passes bill curbing union rights (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:05 PM PDT Reuters - Ohio's Republican-dominated House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would strip state employees of most collective bargaining rights and ban them from striking, a measure that would make Ohio the largest U.S. state so far to curb the power of unions.

Where Has Japan's Radiation Been Detected in the U.S.? (Time.com) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:30 PM PDT Time.com - Trace amounts of radiation have been found on both of America's coasts -- but citizens should not be worried

Obama's Libya Speech: The Doctrine Is Clear, but the Mission Isn't (Time.com) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:30 PM PDT Time.com - President Obama may have disappointed Americans by dancing around the challenge that remains in Libya

Ex-wife of SAC's Cohen has lawsuit dismissed (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by the former wife of hedge fund manager Steven Cohen, who accused him of hiding assets from her when they split up.

Anniversary flight to Gulf disaster site planned (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:34 PM PDT AP - The owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico nearly one year ago is quietly arranging to fly relatives of the 11 men who died out to the disaster site on the anniversary next month.

No joke: Spring snowstorm bears down on Northeast (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:47 PM PDT AP - Weather forecasters say a springtime snowstorm is likely to dump as much as a foot of wet, heavy snow and rain in the Northeast just ahead of April Fools' Day.

Man presumably shot by Mexican thugs still missing (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 01:17 PM PDT AP - A Colorado woman is demanding that the U.S. government do more to find the body of her husband, six months after he was presumably gunned down on a lake along Texas' border with Mexico.

AP source: Bullet found aboard US Airways plane (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:21 AM PDT AP - Investigators have found a bullet aboard a US Airways plane that was grounded in Charlotte, N.C., after a pilot making a pre-flight inspection found a hole in the fuselage, a law enforcement official said Wednesday.

110 mph winds damage homes in Mississippi (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:23 PM PDT AP - Winds that reached estimated speeds of 110 miles per hour in central Mississippi damaged more than 40 homes as severe storms dumped large hail and heavy rain flooded roads, officials said Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Ohio House OKs collective bargaining limits (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:03 PM PDT AP - Labor stronghold Ohio assumed center stage Wednesday in the battle over collective bargaining rights for public workers as the state Legislature was poised to send to the governor a bill that was in some ways tougher than that seen in Wisconsin.

Whale that killed trainer returns to SeaWorld show (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:06 PM PDT AP - The killer whale that drowned a female trainer at Orlando's SeaWorld flawlessly performed Wednesday for the first time since last year's death, wowing thousands amid heightened safety that included a steel bar protecting the orca's trainers.

Wis. GOP bullish in pressing union bargaining law (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:06 PM PDT AP - Wisconsin's Republican leaders appear to be taking the same confident and bullish approach to implementing their divisive collective bargaining law that they took to passing it, suggesting they may ignore a judge's warning there would be consequences for moving ahead while challenges to the law are pending.

NYPD officer's family upset by 9/11 death probe (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:20 PM PDT AP - City medical officials declined to sign off on a police officer's death certificate this week after a hospice doctor declared that his fatal stomach cancer was caused by World Trade Center toxins, then angered his family by asking to examine his body on the day of the wake.

Calif. drought officially ends after snowy winter (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:25 PM PDT AP - A drought that loomed over some of California's most fertile farmland officially ended Wednesday after a winter of relentless mountain storms that piled snow up to three stories high and could keep some ski resorts open until the Fourth of July.

NH police: Woman who posted ad kidnapped, raped (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 02:57 PM PDT AP - The New York woman posted a Craigslist ad seeking housing, saying she was looking to make a "fresh start" in New England.

FDA won't stop cheap version of preterm birth drug (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:34 PM PDT AP - Pregnant women will still be able to get a drastically cheaper version of a new expensive drug that prevents premature birth, federal health officials said Wednesday.

First Mercury images in orbit show lots of craters (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PDT AP - Think the moon has many craters? New photos from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury show the tiny inner planet has far more impressive battle scars from regular high-speed peltings by space rocks.

Biden says 'good progress' on budget talks (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:12 PM PDT AP - Vice President Joe Biden says there's "good progress" being made in talks with Congress on a government funding bill to avoid a government shutdown next week.

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