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'Jihad Jane' Indicted for Helping Terrorists
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:19:54 -0500
Colleen LaRose, who called herself Jihad Jane, is listen in a federal indictment that accuses her of using the Internet to help terrorists overseas.
David Letterman Blackmailer Pleads Guilty
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:08:30 -0500
David Letterman's accused blackmailer Robert Halderman will plead guilty for a diminished sentence of 6 months in prison, 4 and half years of probation and 1000 hours of community services.
Massa Hints Salty Text Messages Are Coming
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:12:02 -0500
Former Rep. Massa says he groped a male staffer, but said it wasn't sexual.
FDA: Pringles Shipped Despite Salmonella
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:41:30 -0500
FDA report finds company behind nationwide seasoning recall that includes Pringles continued selling and shipping products after finding salmonella.
Toyota With 'Stuck' Accelerator Hits 94 MPH, Driver Rescued by California Highway Patrol
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:58:40 -0500
James Sikes, whose 2008 Toyota Prius accelerated suddenly on a California interstate Monday, reaching 94 MPH before he was able to bring it under control with the help of the California Highway Patrol, said the cause of the incident was a "stuck" accelerator.
Body of Missing Houston Exec. Found
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:25:15 -0500
Douglas Shantz, a Houston executive and the father of three children, has been missing since early Friday morning.
Should I Go to His Funeral? Woman Wanted Husband Killed, Cops Say
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:29:21 -0500
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Lohan's 'Milkaholic' $100M E-Trade Lawsuit
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:32:33 -0500
Lindsay Lohan sues E-Trade for $100M, claiming baby in 'milkaholic' ad is based on her.
Calif. Jury Recommends Death for Serial Killer
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:04:37 -0500
Calif. jury recommends death for serial killer convicted of killing 4 women, girl in 1970s
WATCH: Trapped in Runaway Toyota
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:53:39 -0500
A driver speeds down a San Diego freeway, unable to stop or slow his Prius.
WATCH: The Evolving Face of Terrorism
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:55:01 -0500
A Pennsylvania woman is accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadists.
WATCH: Health Reform Supporters March in D.C.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:37:14 -0500
Protesters echo President Obama's condemnation of health insurance companies.
WATCH: Fosamax Side Effects: Your Stories
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:54:23 -0500
Many users of the popular osteoporosis drug are suffering broken femurs.
WATCH: Cop Cam
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:28:43 -0500
New technology lets us see the perils of police work like never before.
WATCH: Preserving a Dress and History
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:54:44 -0500
Michelle Obama donates her iconic inauguration ball gown to the Smithsonian.
WATCH: Spreading Joy to Special Kids
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:35:16 -0500
A Texas man creates the first large theme park for people with special needs.
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Man pleads guilty after security scare
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:42:49 EST
A New Jersey man who breached security to give his girlfriend a kiss, causing scores of flight delays, pleaded guilty Tuesday to defiant trespass, his lawyer said.
Missing exec's body found in river
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:01:47 EST
The body of a missing energy executive was pulled from the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Tuesday, four days after he disappeared, a police spokesman said.
Iditarod struggles for sponsorship
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:57:45 EST
Cash is of little to no use for mushers along the isolated frontier trail that marks the self-titled "Last Great Race on Earth." However, even the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has proven it's not immune to a struggling economy.
Doctor gets life for wife's cyanide poisoning death
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:21:08 EST
A former Ohio doctor was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for poisoning his wife with cyanide five years ago.
Activists picket at health insurance conference
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:30:32 EST
Progressive activists ratcheted up the pressure for health care reform Tuesday, picketing in front of a hotel where a group of insurance industry leaders were meeting.
Unemployment benefit bill moves forward in Senate
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:04:33 EST
A nearly $140 billion bill to extend unemployment benefits and a host of expiring tax cuts cleared a procedural hurdle Tuesday in the Senate on a vote of 66-34, setting up passage of the bill possibly later in the day.
U.S.: Woman in Pennsylvania tried to recruit terrorists
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:43:46 EST
A Pennsylvania woman has been indicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Guilty plea reached in Letterman extortion case
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:37:20 EST
The man accused of trying to blackmail comedian David Letterman, is expected to enter a guilty plea in a hearing Tuesday afternoon, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
Same-sex couples in D.C. say 'I do'
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:31:36 EST
Dozens of same-sex couples plan to marry in the District of Columbia on Tuesday, the first day that such unions will be legal in the nation's capital.
Financial reform key as Obama meets with Greek leader
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:59:34 EST
Global financial reform is expected to top the agenda Tuesday as President Obama huddles with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, whose country is at the center of Europe's debt crisis.
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Runaway Prius driver: Brakes were 'almost burned' (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:27:34 GMT
Driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in El Cajon, Calif. Sikes' 2008 Toyota Prius raced out of control on a San Diego freeway Monday. A California Highway Patrol officer helped him stop the car.  (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move.


Calif. jury recommends death for serial killer (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:03:59 GMT
AP - It was 2005 when Bruce Barcomb received the call he'd been awaiting for nearly three decades: Police had finally identified the man who raped and murdered his little sister in a remote canyon on a dark night in 1977.
Roberts: Scene at State of Union 'very troubling' (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:09:46 GMT
FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2009, file photo, Chief Justice John Roberts sits for a new group photograph with other Supreme Court judges at the Supreme Court in Washington. For a short time Thursday, March 4, 2010, Washington buzzed over a rumor reported exclusively by an online gossip Web site with no particular Supreme Court expertise that Chief Justice John Roberts was considering stepping down. He is not resigning, as even the Radar Online site quickly concluded in backing away from its own story. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally."


In rare case, Pa. woman accused of aiding terror (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:33:02 GMT
This image provided by the SITE Intelligence Group shows Colleen LaRose an American woman from Pennsylvania indicted Tuesday March 9, 2010 accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas. A federal indictment charges that Colleen R. LaRose, who called herself JihadJane and Fatima LaRose online, agreed to kill the Swede on orders from the unnamed terrorists and traveled to Europe to carry out the killing. It doesn't say whether the Swede was killed, but LaRose was not charged with murder. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group) -- MANDATORY CREDIT SITE INTELLIGENCE GROUP --AP - An indictment against a suburban Philadelphia woman accused of recruiting jihadist fighters online and moving to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists, authorities say, and shows the evolution of the threat of terrorism.


Dozen same-sex couple tie knot in DC (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:15:53 GMT
Cuc Vu (L) shows her ring after she and her partner Gwen Migita (R) applied for their marriage license at the DC Superior Court in Washington, DC. The US Supreme Court refused March 2 to block a law allowing same-sex marriages in Washington DC, clearing the way for the legislation to go into effect Wednesday.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)AP - At least a dozen couples tied the knot in the District of Columbia on the first day same-sex ceremonies were legally allowed, and many more unions were on the way.


Workers urge faster rebuilding at ground zero site (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:30:31 GMT
Laborers hoping to help rebuild the World Trade Center site hold a rally  to urge for quicker action on the project, Tuesday, March 9, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Hundreds of construction workers raised a rallying cry of "Build it now!" on Tuesday, gathering with elected officials at the World Trade Center site to urge a quick rebuilding of the complex.


Ex-Edwards aide narrowly avoids jail over sex tape (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:14:51 GMT
Andrew Young, right, former aide to former Senator John Edwards, speaks with his attorneys Robert Elliot, left, and David Pishko, center, during a hearing at the Chatham County Superior Court House in Pittsboro, N.C., Tuesday, March 9, 2010.   John Edwards former mistress, Rielle Hunter, has sued Young for invasion of privacy.   Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones considered twice whether to send Young to jail for contempt over his handling of copies of photographs taken by Rielle Hunter.  (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)AP - A former aide to John Edwards has been given until Friday to provide a judge with a full explanation of how he handled materials including a videotape purportedly showing the two-time presidential candidate in a sexual encounter.


NH campaign finance activist Granny D dies at 100 (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:34:10 GMT
AP - Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate, has died. She was 100.
Texas ed board set to take 1st vote since primary (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:13:14 GMT
In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo, Don McLeroy, former Texas State Board of Education chairman, talks with new Chairwoman Gail Lowe during a break in a meeting of the board where hearings on a new social studies curriculum were taking place. On Wednesdsay, March 10, 2010, McLeroy, a devout Christian conservative, will be attending his first board meeting as a lame duck, where the board is set to take their first vote on new social studies curriculum standards. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File)AP - Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide.


Ohio State janitor's gunfire kills co-worker, self (AP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:30:21 GMT
In this ID photo released by Ohio State University, is shown Nathaniel Brown. Brown, a university custodial employee, reportedly shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio, according to officials. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Ohio State University) NO SALESAP - An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt.


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Runaway Prius driver: Brakes were 'almost burned'
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:27:43 GMT
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -- Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move....
Calif. jury recommends death for serial killer
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:04:09 GMT
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- It was 2005 when Bruce Barcomb received the call he'd been awaiting for nearly three decades: Police had finally identified the man who raped and murdered his little sister in a remote canyon on a dark night in 1977....
Roberts: Scene at State of Union 'very troubling'
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:09:48 GMT
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally."...
In rare case, Pa. woman accused of aiding terror
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:33:12 GMT
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- An indictment against a suburban Philadelphia woman accused of recruiting jihadist fighters online and moving to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists, authorities say, and shows the evolution of the threat of terrorism....
Dozen same-sex couple tie knot in DC
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:16:01 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- At least a dozen couples tied the knot in the District of Columbia on the first day same-sex ceremonies were legally allowed, and many more unions were on the way....
Workers urge faster rebuilding at ground zero site
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:30:34 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hundreds of construction workers raised a rallying cry of "Build it now!" on Tuesday, gathering with elected officials at the World Trade Center site to urge a quick rebuilding of the complex....
Ex-Edwards aide narrowly avoids jail over sex tape
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:14:52 GMT
PITTSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- A former aide to John Edwards has been given until Friday to provide a judge with a full explanation of how he handled materials including a videotape purportedly showing the two-time presidential candidate in a sexual encounter....
NH campaign finance activist Granny D dies at 100
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:34:14 GMT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate, has died. She was 100....
Texas ed board set to take 1st vote since primary
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:13:16 GMT
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide....
Ohio State janitor's gunfire kills co-worker, self
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:30:27 GMT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt....
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