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Posted 03/10/2010 3:50 AM

NEW YORK (AP) Investors are continuing to search for direction after two days of relatively flat trading. Stock futures are edging higher.

A market surge that began a year ago appears to have run out of steam recently. Traders are no longer looking for just anecdotal evidence that a recession is easing like they were last year. Now they want to see signs of sustained economic growth.

With little economic data released since last week's better-th… Click to Read More

Tagged As: US-Wall-Street

Posted 03/10/2010 2:07 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama meets with the president of Haiti Wednesday morning and later flies to Missouri for another gathering on health care reform.

The president sits down in the Oval Office with Haiti's President Rene Preval (reh-NAY' preh-VAHL') before the two leaders make statements in the Rose Garden. Among those there to hear them will be members of Congress, Haitian-American community leaders and people and organizations involved in the earthqua… Click to Read More

Tagged As: US-Obama-Preview

Posted 03/10/2010 1:53 AM

Another snowy day was expected over the central part of the country Wednesday as two low pressure systems were forecast to combine over the Plains.

A system that brought snow and rain to the Northern and Central High Plains would slowly move toward the Great Lakes. At the same time, another low pressure system was expected to move from the Central Rockies and into the Southern Plains. Thus, a large area of low pressure would develop over the Plains and flow around this s… Click to Read More

Tagged As: US-Weatherpage-Weather

Posted 03/10/2010 12:31 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) An Ohio State University janitor who shot two supervisors, one fatally, and then killed himself had complained that he was being treated unfairly, though records show he slept on the job and was late to work during his probation.

Nathaniel Brown was days away from losing his job when he opened fire with two handguns early Tuesday in a maintenance building at the nation's largest university, police said. No students were hurt.

Posted 03/10/2010 2:05 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home.

It ends when a person is forbidden to board an airplane a decision that's in the hands of about six experts from the Transportation Security Administration.

The no-fly list they oversee constantly changes as hundreds of analysts churn through a steady stream of intelligence. Managing the list is a high-stakes process. Go too… Click to Read More

Tagged As: US-No-Fly-List

Posted 03/10/2010 12:34 AM

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana's plan to lay off some meat inspectors to save money and reduce the time inspectors spend with small, independent processors has the industry and farmers fearing it could hurt what has been a growing industry.

It's not clear how many of the state's 52 inspectors will be let go, but meatpackers say any layoffs will prevent them from growing to meet demand for locally raised meat. And, if state inspectors are scarce or unavailable, small meatp… Click to Read More

Tagged As: US-Food-and-Farm-Meat-Inspection-Cuts

Posted 03/10/2010 3:54 AM

LAS VEGAS (AP) Marie Osmond told a Las Vegas Strip audience as she returned to the stage less than two weeks after her son's apparent suicide that she has relied on her spirituality to cope with his death

"Little did I know I would be relying on my faith, especially as much as I did this past week," Osmond said before dedicating a song to her 18-year-old son, Michael Bryan, whom she called "my angel."

Wrapped in a robe with white feathers that r… Click to Read More

Tagged As: US-Marie-Osmond's-Son-Vegas

Posted 03/09/2010 9:49 PM

NORWALK, Calif. (AP) A dramatic 911 call reveals a terrified 7-year-old boy begging emergency dispatchers to send police to his California home where three armed robbers were threatening his parents.

The boy called emergency operators early Tuesday after the gunmen broke into the Norwalk home.

He said he was hiding in a locked bathroom with his younger sister while the suspects threatened his mother and father at gunpoint.

… Click to Read More

Tagged As: US-Boy's-911-Call

Posted 03/09/2010 9:02 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.

In fact, demographers say this year could be the "tipping point" when the number of babies born to minorities outnumbers that of babies born to whites.

The numbers are growing because immigration to the U.S. has boosted the number of Hispanic women in their pri… Click to Read More

Tagged As: US-White-Minority

Posted 03/09/2010 9:02 PM

Today is Wednesday, March 10, the 69th day of 2010. There are 296 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On March 10, 1876, the first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard Bell say, "Mr. Watson come here I want to see you."

On this date:

In 1496, Christopher Columbus co… Click to Read More

Tagged As: History