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Posted 03/13/2010 3:09 PM

POWAY, Calif. (AP) Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a San Diego-area high school football stadium to honor a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave, allegedly killed by a registered sex offender.

Family and friends told the crowd Saturday of Chelsea King's big dreams, terrific sense of humor, sense of style, athleticism and thirst for knowledge and adventure.

They were profusely thankful for… Click to Read More

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Posted 03/13/2010 2:22 PM

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) Officials say high winds and several inches of rain in Atlantic City caused at least two houses to collapse, toppled a crane at a casino construction site and sent broken glass and other debris raining down over a six-block area, leaving a police officer injured.

Atlantic City police Capt. Bill McKnight says strong winds and rain Saturday knocked down the houses and damaged several other homes and buildings in the seaside resort. The National… Click to Read More

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Posted 03/13/2010 2:50 PM

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate highway near Washington.

Jon Summers, a spokesman for the senator, says Landra Reid's condition was upgraded on Saturday to good, two days after a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were riding in on I-95.

L… Click to Read More

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Posted 03/13/2010 3:33 PM

Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian.

The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base.

Newsome and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint against the western South Dakota police departmen… Click to Read More

Tagged As: US-Lesbian-Sergeant-Discharged

Posted 03/13/2010 2:33 PM

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager.

Republican Rep. Kevin Garn's Thursday night confession came in a speech before House colleagues and stunned this conservative state. On Saturday, he apologized in an e-mail to House Speaker David Clark for becoming a … Click to Read More

Tagged As: US-Majority-Leader-Confession

Posted 03/13/2010 9:31 AM

HONOLULU (AP) Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii.

Native Hawaiians are the last remaining indigenous group in the United States that hasn't been allowed to establish their own government, a right already extended to Alaska Natives and 564 Native American tribes.

With a final vote pending in the U.S. Senate and Hawaii-born President Barack Obama on … Click to Read More

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Posted 03/13/2010 9:13 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) A group representing Catholic hospitals is rallying behind President Barack Obama's health care bill.

Support from the Catholic Health Association could help persuade anti-abortion lawmakers to provide critical votes in the House for the overhaul.

The group's chief executive, Carol Keehan, writes on the association's Web site that the legislation isn't perfect, but is "a major first step" toward covering all Americans and would m… Click to Read More

Tagged As: US-Health-Overhaul-Abortion

Posted 03/13/2010 2:09 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) A group representing Catholic hospitals Saturday rallied behind President Barack Obama's health care bill ahead of a House vote in which anti-abortion lawmakers could play a decisive role.

The chief executive of the Catholic Health Association, Carol Keehan, wrote on the group's Web site that although the legislation isn't perfect, it represents a "major first step" toward covering all Americans and would make "great improvements" for millions of peop… Click to Read More

Tagged As: US-Health-Overhaul-Abortion

Posted 03/13/2010 9:00 AM

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) Katie Tagle pleaded with the judge that her ex-boyfriend had threatened to kill their 9-month-old son and himself if the couple did not reconcile. She wanted the judge to revoke the boyfriend's custody of the baby with a restraining order.

"I'm going to deny it ma'am," San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Robert Lemkau said. "My suspicion is that you're lying."

Ten days later, Stephen Garcia shot and killed the baby befor… Click to Read More

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Posted 03/13/2010 8:37 AM

BARTOW, Fla. (AP) Authorities say a 55-year-old woman died alone in a bedroom of her central Florida home after locking herself in the room for several weeks for a lengthy religious fast.

Evelyn Boyd told her husband, a preacher at a Pentecostal church in the city of Bartow, not to disturb her when she locked herself in the room Feb. 7 to fast and pray with only water to drink. Family members forced open the door March 5 and found her dead.

Sher… Click to Read More

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