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• New York wins ruling in tribal cigarette tax clash (Reuters)
• Two small planes collide in upstate New York (Reuters)
• After the Tucson Shooting, Arizona Addresses Mental Health (Time.com)
• Bin Laden's Great Mistake: Misjudging the American Spirit (Time.com)
• Minneapolis proposes $895 million Vikings stadium plan (Reuters)
• Woman free from prison for belated Mother's Day (AP)
• Efforts to curtail private-sector unions faltering (AP)
• SC teen charged with killing mom on Mother's Day (AP)
• Study: Many elderly get colon screening too often (AP)
• Memphis music landmarks spared from river flooding (AP)
• Suspect in flight disturbance had California ID (AP)
• $2B for rail projects, speed upgrades announced (AP)
• Jury selection opens in Casey Anthony murder trial (AP)
• Absolute Poker lays off US pros after indictments (AP)
• NY Jewish paper sorry for altering White House pic (AP)
• Woman stranded for weeks upgraded to solid food (AP)
• Study finds gas in drinking water near drilling (AP)
• Driver freed after car crashes down elevator shaft (AP)
• Ariz. taking immigration law to US Supreme Court (AP)

New York wins ruling in tribal cigarette tax clash (Reuters) Posted: 09 May 2011 01:51 PM PDT Reuters - Two Native American tribes have lost a round in their court battle to block New York state from collecting cigarette taxes from reservation stores.

Two small planes collide in upstate New York (Reuters) Posted: 09 May 2011 03:36 PM PDT Reuters - Two single-engine planes collided in upstate New York on Monday, killing two people and critically injuring a third, authorities said.

After the Tucson Shooting, Arizona Addresses Mental Health (Time.com) Posted: 09 May 2011 09:30 AM PDT Time.com - A quiet sensitivity to mental-health needs spread through Arizona, including a careful crafting of potential rules to report worrisome behaviors

Bin Laden's Great Mistake: Misjudging the American Spirit (Time.com) Posted: 09 May 2011 09:30 AM PDT Time.com - Osama bin Laden's fateful error was to assume that American society in the wake of 9/11 looked anything like that of the U.S.S.R. during its last decade of existence

Minneapolis proposes $895 million Vikings stadium plan (Reuters) Posted: 09 May 2011 03:53 PM PDT Reuters - The Minnesota Vikings football team would get a new stadium built at the same location as the current Metrodome under a proposed $895 million plan announced by the city of Minneapolis on Monday.

Woman free from prison for belated Mother's Day (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 04:29 PM PDT AP - A Utah woman freed from prison after 17 years began celebrating a belated Mother's Day with her family Monday now that she has been declared "factually innocent" in a 1993 murder.

Efforts to curtail private-sector unions faltering (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 02:42 PM PDT AP - Not content to target only public-sector unions, Republican lawmakers in more than one-quarter of the states this year launched their most ambitious attempt in about generation to break up union shops in factories, offices and other private-sector workplaces.

SC teen charged with killing mom on Mother's Day (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 01:40 PM PDT AP - A high school sophomore in South Carolina shot his mother to death and critically injured his brother after a family argument on Mother's Day, police said Monday.

Study: Many elderly get colon screening too often (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 01:12 PM PDT AP - Many older Americans get repeat colon cancer tests they don't need and Medicare is paying for it, suggests a study that spotlights unnecessary risks to the elderly and a waste of money.

Memphis music landmarks spared from river flooding (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 05:11 PM PDT AP - The Mississippi River rose Monday to levels not seen in Memphis since the 1930s, swamping homes in low-lying neighborhoods and driving hundreds of people from their homes. But officials were confident the levees would protect the city's world-famous musical landmarks, including Graceland and Beale Street, and that no new areas would have any serious flooding.

Suspect in flight disturbance had California ID (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 05:10 PM PDT AP - The passengers sat stunned as they watched a man walk quickly toward the front of American Airlines Flight 1561 as it was descending toward San Francisco. He was screaming and then began pounding on the cockpit door.

$2B for rail projects, speed upgrades announced (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 04:57 PM PDT AP - Money designated for a now-canceled rail line in Florida was divvied up among nearly two dozen projects around the country Monday, heartening supporters but giving critics fuel to deride it as a diversion from President Barack Obama's high-speed-train ambitions or as a simple waste of money.

Jury selection opens in Casey Anthony murder trial (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 04:37 PM PDT AP - Jury selection started Monday in the trial of an Orlando woman charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter.

Absolute Poker lays off US pros after indictments (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 03:17 PM PDT AP - The parent company of online poker websites Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet said Monday it laid off 11 sponsored poker professionals in the United States as two of its executives face charges of tricking banks into processing illegal gambling payments.

NY Jewish paper sorry for altering White House pic (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 04:37 PM PDT AP - An Orthodox Jewish newspaper on Monday apologized for digitally deleting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton from a photo of President Barack Obama and his staff watching Navy SEALs move in on Osama bin Laden.

Woman stranded for weeks upgraded to solid food (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 04:35 PM PDT AP - A Canadian woman who lived off nothing but trail mix, fish oil tablets and candy for seven weeks in the remote Nevada mountains was upgraded to a solid diet Monday, and hospital officials said her spirits were "extremely high" despite nearly starving to death.

Study finds gas in drinking water near drilling (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 02:58 PM PDT AP - New research is providing some of the first scientific evidence that a controversial gas drilling technique can contaminate drinking water.

Driver freed after car crashes down elevator shaft (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 02:35 PM PDT AP - The Seattle Fire Department says a woman has been safely rescued after her car crashed through Sheetrock in a hospital parking garage and plunged 10 feet down an elevator shaft.

Ariz. taking immigration law to US Supreme Court (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 04:29 PM PDT AP - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced Monday she will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that put the most controversial parts of the state's immigration enforcement law on hold.

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