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• New York court system to lay-off up to 500 employees: union (Reuters)
• Mom given 10 years for playing on Facebook as baby drowned (Reuters)
• Foes of Ohio anti-union bill start repeal fight (Reuters)
• Tax Study: Scientists More Likely to Cheat Than Lawyers (Time.com)
• Obama Preaches Sanity in Federal Budget Deficit Debate (Time.com)
• Tornadoes, storms leave at least nine dead (Reuters)
• Abducted Tenn woman's lunchbox found (AP)
• Ariz. immigrant who ran over daughter gets 34 yrs. (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Texas dad told 911 he killed his kids (AP)
• Theories abound in mysterious NY beach bodies case (AP)
• Powerful spring storms kill 9 in Ark., Okla. (AP)
• Official: Texas firefighter dies battling wildfire (AP)
• Wolves to come off endangered list within 60 days (AP)
• Ariz. plows controversial ground with birther bill (AP)
• Mom on Facebook sentenced in son's drowning death (AP)
• Man wanted in Portugal arrested in NJ carpool lane (AP)
• Few blacks attend Civil War anniversary events (AP)
• Great Lakes wolves could come off endangered list (AP)
• Spring runoff swells ND's biggest natural lake (AP)
• Clinton hometown Hope-ing for tourism boost (AP)

New York court system to lay-off up to 500 employees: union (Reuters) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:38 PM PDT Reuters - The New York State court system will lay-off as many as 500 workers in the coming weeks, according to a union memo released on Friday, as the state works to close a $10 billion budget gap.

Mom given 10 years for playing on Facebook as baby drowned (Reuters) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:58 PM PDT Reuters - A Colorado woman who admitted her 13 month-old son drowned in the bathtub while she played on Facebook was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison, prosecutors said.

Foes of Ohio anti-union bill start repeal fight (Reuters) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:31 PM PDT Reuters - Foes of a controversial Ohio law which limits collective bargaining for public workers can proceed with their attempt to repeal it, the Ohio attorney general said on Friday.

Tax Study: Scientists More Likely to Cheat Than Lawyers (Time.com) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 10:40 AM PDT Time.com - A recent study looked at tax cheats and found that one of the best indicators of whose likely to pay their taxes in full is their profession

Obama Preaches Sanity in Federal Budget Deficit Debate (Time.com) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 10:40 AM PDT Time.com - How Paul Ryan and deficit hysteria have made President Obama Mr. Prudent

Tornadoes, storms leave at least nine dead (Reuters) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:11 PM PDT Reuters - Violent storms ripped across the south overnight and Friday, killing at least nine people including three children, and cutting a path of destruction through Little Rock and Jackson, Miss., authorities said on Friday.

Abducted Tenn woman's lunchbox found (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:07 PM PDT AP - Searchers have found a lunchbox belonging to a western Tennessee nursing student who was abducted from her home by a man wearing full hunting camouflage, authorities said Friday.

Ariz. immigrant who ran over daughter gets 34 yrs. (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:05 PM PDT AP - An Iraqi immigrant was sentenced Friday to 34 1/2 years in an Arizona prison for running over his 20-year-old daughter because she became too Westernized.

APNewsBreak: Texas dad told 911 he killed his kids (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:12 PM PDT AP - A Texas father accused of killing his two sons called 911 and confessed about 10 hours before the infant and toddler were found dead under a home, according to police documents released Friday.

Theories abound in mysterious NY beach bodies case (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:22 PM PDT AP - Is there a serial killer on the loose in Long Island? More than one? Could he be a police officer or an ex-cop? Are some of the victims rubbed-out mobsters sleeping near the fishes? Or could they be the long-undiscovered victims of New York's most prolific serial killer of them all, Joel Rifkin?

Powerful spring storms kill 9 in Ark., Okla. (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:53 PM PDT AP - Powerful spring storms roared through parts of the South on Friday, toppling trees, smashing buildings and killing at least nine people, including two sets of parents and children who were huddled together as the winds raged outside their homes.

Official: Texas firefighter dies battling wildfire (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:37 PM PDT AP - A wildfire sweeping across some 20,000 acres in North Texas has killed a firefighter, forced hundreds of evacuations — including an entire town — and destroyed at least 30 homes, state officials said Friday.

Wolves to come off endangered list within 60 days (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:31 PM PDT AP - Federal wildlife officials say they will take more than 1,300 gray wolves in the Northern Rockies off the endangered species list within 60 days.

Ariz. plows controversial ground with birther bill (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:26 PM PDT AP - Arizona, a state that has shown little reluctance in bucking the federal government, is again plowing controversial political ground, this time as its Legislature passed a bill to require President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names can appear on the state's ballot.

Mom on Facebook sentenced in son's drowning death (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:43 PM PDT AP - A northern Colorado woman who was playing a game on Facebook while her 13-month-old baby drowned in a full bathtub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.

Man wanted in Portugal arrested in NJ carpool lane (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:21 PM PDT AP - An international fugitive who authorities say skipped out on a prison sentence in Portugal was finally tripped up this week by a formidable obstacle that rankles commuters here every day: the New Jersey Turnpike.

Few blacks attend Civil War anniversary events (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 12:19 PM PDT AP - As cannons thudded around Charleston Harbor this week in commemoration of the start of the war that extinguished slavery, the audiences for the 150th-anniversary events were nearly all-white. Even black scholars lecturing about black Union troops and the roots of slavery gazed out mostly on white faces.

Great Lakes wolves could come off endangered list (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:33 PM PDT AP - Federal officials said Friday they would try again to remove Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region, where they are thriving after being threatened with extinction decades ago.

Spring runoff swells ND's biggest natural lake (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:17 PM PDT AP - North Dakota's largest natural lake is expected to expand this year by 40,000 acres from heavy snow runoff and other moisture, a state Water Commission official said Friday.

Clinton hometown Hope-ing for tourism boost (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:00 PM PDT AP - The "place called Hope" that a misty-eyed Bill Clinton used to sell his vision for America during his first presidential run is hoping the public's interest in its most famous son can lift its sagging fortunes.

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