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2010-03-13 20:32	AP Top News	Suicide attackers hit Afghan city; at least 30 die KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland. The prison was the main target, but no prisoners escaped, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half-brother said. Ahmed Wali Karzai, a member of the Kandahar provincial council, said two of the explosions occurred near his home, which was not damaged....
2010-03-13 20:32	AP Top News	Al-Qaida suspect from US tricked his Yemeni guard SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time. The new details of Sharif Mobley's failed escape attempt, obtained by The Associated Press, indicate the 26-year-old American of Somali descent has a level of training and cunning characteristic of the terror network....
2010-03-13 20:32	AP Top News	New Sen. Brown bashes Obama's 'bitter' health push WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous. "An entire year has gone to waste," Brown said in the weekly GOP radio and Internet address. "Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and many more jobs are in danger. Even now, the president still hasn't gotten the message....
2010-03-13 20:32	AP Top News	US mom: Daughter held in Ireland 'lost her mind' LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) - Before her daughter disappeared last fall, Christina Mott recalls that the 31-year-old who had been held in connection with an alleged assassination plot announced she had converted to Islam and told them they'd go to hell if they didn't follow in her steps. Jamie Paulin-Ramirez also began talking about Jihad with her Muslim stepfather and spent most of her time online as she withdrew from her family, Mott said....
2010-03-13 20:32	AP Top News	Wind, rain knock out power to 400,000 in Northeast ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast on Saturday, knocking out power to nearly 400,000 customers, diverting international flights and toppling a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site, injuring one police officer. The winds downed trees and power lines throughout New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The New York City area and southern New Jersey were among the hardest hit, with wind gusts of up to 67 mph recorded and power cut to a combined 265,000 customers....
2010-03-13 20:32	AP Top News	Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen POWAY, Calif. (AP) - Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school football stadium Saturday 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 of Chelsea's big dreams, terrific sense of humor, sense of style, athleticism and thirst for knowledge and adventure....
2010-03-13 20:22	AP International	Native Hawaiian government may become reality (AP) - HONOLULU - Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii....
2010-03-13 20:15	Reuters UK	Two new British polls point to indecisive result
2010-03-13 20:15	Reuters UK	France's Lagarde not expecting decision on Greece
2010-03-13 20:07	AP Top News	Wind, rain knocks out power to 300K in Northeast ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Strong winds and heavy rain have knocked out power for nearly 300,000 customers in the Northeast, while diverting international flights and toppling a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site. The winds downed trees and power lines throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut on Saturday. The New York City area and Southern New Jersey were among the hardest hit with about 265,000 combined customers without power....
2010-03-13 20:07	AP Top News	Police: Woman in bust hid nearly $26,000 in bra Police: Woman in bust hid nearly $26,000 in braSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A fraud bust, indeed: Spokane County sheriff's deputies said a woman was hiding nearly $26,000 in her bra when she was booked into jail for investigation of theft. Lukeisha A. Harris was one of three Seattle-area residents arrested Friday as part of an alleged fraud ring. Deputies said they used phony Oregon driver's licenses and counterfeit credit cards to obtain cash advances from Spokane banks. Sheriff's spokesman Dave Reagan said the three were arrested after a worker at one bank reported that they tried to obtain money using a stolen credit card. The investigators followed the ring to two other banks before making the bust....
2010-03-13 19:57	AP Top News	Catholic hospitals support health care bill 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 people. The more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country do not provide abortions as a matter of conscience....
2010-03-13 19:57	AP Top News	Suicide attackers hit Afghan city; at least 30 die KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland. The prison was the main target, but no prisoners escaped, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half-brother said. Ahmed Wali Karzai, a member of the Kandahar provincial council, said two of the explosions occurred near his home, which was not damaged....
2010-03-13 19:57	AP Top News	Al-Qaida suspect from US tricked his Yemeni guard SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time. The new details of Sharif Mobley's failed escape attempt, obtained by The Associated Press, indicate the 26-year-old American of Somali descent has a level of training and cunning characteristic of the terror network....
2010-03-13 19:57	AP Top News	New Sen. Brown bashes Obama's 'bitter' health push WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous. "An entire year has gone to waste," Brown said in the weekly GOP radio and Internet address. "Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and many more jobs are in danger. Even now, the president still hasn't gotten the message....
2010-03-13 19:57	AP Top News	Irish police release US woman held in alleged plot LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) - Before her daughter disappeared last fall, Christina Mott recalls that the 31-year-old who had been held in connection with an alleged assassination plot announced she had converted to Islam and told them they'd go to hell if they didn't follow in her steps. Jamie Paulin-Ramirez also began talking about Jihad with her Muslim stepfather and spent most of her time online as she withdrew from her family, Mott said. "We were enemies," Christine Mott, 59, said. "We couldn't even speak to each other."...
2010-03-13 19:57	AP Top News	Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen POWAY, Calif. (AP) - Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school football stadium Saturday 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 of Chelsea's big dreams, terrific sense of humor, sense of style, athleticism and thirst for knowledge and adventure....
2010-03-13 19:57	AP Top News	Wind, rain knocks out power to 300K in Northeast ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Strong winds and heavy rain have knocked out power for nearly 300,000 customers in the Northeast, while diverting international flights and toppling a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site. The winds downed trees and power lines throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut on Saturday. The New York City area and Southern New Jersey were among the hardest hit with about 265,000 combined customers without power....
2010-03-13 19:52	AP Top News	Catholic hospitals support health care bill 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 people. The more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country do not provide abortions as a matter of conscience....
2010-03-13 19:52	AP Top News	Suicide attackers hit Afghan city; at least 30 die KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland. The prison was the main target, but no prisoners escaped, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half-brother said. Ahmed Wali Karzai, a member of the Kandahar provincial council, said two of the explosions occurred near his home, which was not damaged....
2010-03-13 19:52	AP Top News	Al-Qaida suspect from US tricked his Yemeni guard SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time. The new details of Sharif Mobley's failed escape attempt, obtained by The Associated Press, indicate the 26-year-old American of Somali descent has a level of training and cunning characteristic of the terror network....
2010-03-13 19:52	AP Top News	New Sen. Brown bashes Obama's 'bitter' health push WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous. "An entire year has gone to waste," Brown said in the weekly GOP radio and Internet address. "Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and many more jobs are in danger. Even now, the president still hasn't gotten the message....
2010-03-13 19:52	AP Top News	Vatican officials defend pope on abuse VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland. It also insisted that church confidentiality doesn't prevent bishops from reporting abuse to police. The Vatican's campaign to defend the pope's reputation and resolve in combatting clergy abuse of minors followed acknowledgment by the Munich archdiocese that it had transferred a suspected pedophile priest to community work while Benedict was archbishop there....
2010-03-13 19:52	AP Top News	Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen POWAY, Calif. (AP) - Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school football stadium Saturday 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 of Chelsea's big dreams, terrific sense of humor, sense of style, athleticism and thirst for knowledge and adventure....
2010-03-13 19:52	AP Top News	Wind, rain knocks out power to 300K in Northeast ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Strong winds and heavy rain have knocked out power for nearly 300,000 customers in the Northeast, while diverting international flights and toppling a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site. The winds downed trees and power lines throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut on Saturday. The New York City area and Southern New Jersey were among the hardest hit with about 265,000 combined customers without power....
2010-03-13 19:47	AFP	Israel orders inquiry into Biden visit upset: official BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bid to retain his job gained steam on Saturday as early results put him ahead in the capital, while rival blocs began jostling over the formation of a government. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 19:47	AFP	25 killed in Mexico drug violence LONDON (AFP) - General Dynamics is the winner over BAE Systems in the race to build a new generation of armoured reconnaissance vehicles for the British army, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 19:32	AP International	Report: Google "99.9 percent" sure to close site in China as censorship negotiations founder (AP) -...
2010-03-13 19:32	AP International	New border violence erupts with Mexico cartel rift (AP) - REYNOSA, Mexico - This border city and others near the eastern end of the U.S. border escaped the worst of Mexico's bloody drug war for years, but now the bodies are piling up, several journalists are reportedly missing or dead and once-busy streets are empty after dark....
2010-03-13 19:32	AP International	ROUNDUP: Suicide attacks hit southern Afghan city, killing over 30 (AP) - Kandahar, Afghanistan (dpa)-Four suicide bombers attacked different parts of southern city of Kandahar on Saturday, killing more than 30 people and injured at least 40 others, officials said....
2010-03-13 19:15	Reuters UK	Lib Dems play down election fears for markets
2010-03-13 19:12	AP Top News	High winds, rain in Northeast topples crane in NJ ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast on Saturday, leaving more than 100,000 without power in New Jersey, where a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site tipped over, scattering debris over a six-block area and injuring a police officer. Father north, international flights bound for New York were diverted to Boston due to the high winds, causing numerous delays. The strong winds are being blamed for numerous downed trees and power lines throughout New Jersey, causing power outages across the state. In Atlantic City and just north in Ocean County, the National Weather Service says a wind gust of 67 mph was recorded. Meanwhile, about 2 to 3 inches of rain had fallen across the state by nightfall, and an additional 1 to 2 inches was expected through early Sunday....
2010-03-13 19:02	AP Top News	Catholic hospitals support health care bill 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 people. The more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country do not provide abortions as a matter of conscience....
2010-03-13 19:02	AP International	Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen (AP) - POWAY, Calif. - 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....
2010-03-13 19:00	Reuters UK	French minister does not expect decision on Greece
2010-03-13 18:57	AP Top News	Catholic hospitals support health care bill Catholic hospitals support health care billWASHINGTON (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 people. The more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country do not provide abortions as a matter of conscience....
2010-03-13 18:52	AP Top News	Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession 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 distraction....
2010-03-13 18:42	AP Top News	Senate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ. The Senate-approved health measure lawmakers hope to send to Obama soon would steer $600 million over the next decade to Vermont in added federal payments for Medicaid and nearly as much to Massachusetts....
2010-03-13 18:42	AP Top News	Suicide attackers hit Afghan city; at least 30 die KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland. The prison was the main target, but no prisoners escaped, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half-brother said. Ahmed Wali Karzai, a member of the Kandahar provincial council, said two of the explosions occurred near his home, which was not damaged....
2010-03-13 18:42	AP Top News	Al-Qaida suspect from US tricked his Yemeni guard SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time. The new details of Sharif Mobley's failed escape attempt, obtained by The Associated Press, indicate the 26-year-old American of Somali descent has a level of training and cunning characteristic of the terror network....
2010-03-13 18:42	AP Top News	New Sen. Brown bashes Obama's 'bitter' health push WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous. "An entire year has gone to waste," Brown said in the weekly GOP radio and Internet address. "Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and many more jobs are in danger. Even now, the president still hasn't gotten the message....
2010-03-13 18:42	AP Top News	Vatican officials defend pope on abuse VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland. It also insisted that church confidentiality doesn't prevent bishops from reporting abuse to police. The Vatican's campaign to defend the pope's reputation and resolve in combatting clergy abuse of minors followed acknowledgment by the Munich archdiocese that it had transferred a suspected pedophile priest to community work while Benedict was archbishop there....
2010-03-13 18:42	AP Top News	Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen POWAY, Calif. (AP) - Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school football stadium Saturday 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 of Chelsea's big dreams, terrific sense of humor, sense of style, athleticism and thirst for knowledge and adventure....
2010-03-13 18:42	AP Top News	Iraqi vote signals shift from religious leaders BAGHDAD (AP) - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation. Partial results released by the Independent High Electoral Commission showed the State of Law coalition with about a 60,000-vote edge nationwide over its main moderate challenger, the secular Iraqiya coalition. The Shiite fundamentalist Iraqi National Alliance was in third place....
2010-03-13 18:42	AP Top News	Lesbian sgt. discharged after police tell military 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 department, claiming the officers violated her privacy when they informed the military about her sexual orientation. The case also highlights concerns over the ability of third parties to "out" service members, especially as the Pentagon has started reviewing the 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" law....
2010-03-13 18:32	AP Top News	Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot DENVER (AP) - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist. Christine Mott of Leadville told The Associated Press that she was told of the arrest of her 31-year-old daughter in the case by the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies....
2010-03-13 18:22	AP Top News	Irish police release US woman held in murder plot Irish police release US woman held in murder plotDENVER (AP) - Irish police say an American woman and three others arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks has been freed without charge. Seven people - including the American woman, three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestinian and a Croatian - were arrested Tuesday in Ireland. After the arrests, U.S. authorities unsealed terror charges against Colleen LaRose of Pennsylvania. She allegedly went by the name "Jihad Jane" to recruit others online to kill the cartoonist....
2010-03-13 18:22	AFP	South Afghanistan blasts kill at least 27: health official KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - A series of suicide attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar killed at least 27 people on Saturday, a senior official said, in the country's deadliest assault so far this year. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 18:12	AP Top News	Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession 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 distraction....
2010-03-13 17:57	AP International	US woman says Lexus accelerator fell to floor before car careered through lot and crashed (AP) - FORT WAYNE, Indiana - A woman says her Lexus careered through a parking lot and crashed into a light pole in Fort Wayne, Indiana, after its accelerator dropped to the floor....


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