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2010-03-10 20:42	AP Top News	US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal. Biden's handshakes and embraces gave way to one of the strongest rebukes of Israel by a senior U.S. official in years after Israel's announcement during his visit that it plans to build 1,600 homes in disputed east Jerusalem. Israel apologized for the poor timing but is sticking to its plan to build the homes, enlarging one of the settlements that have impeded negotiations with Palestinians....
2010-03-10 20:42	AP Top News	Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal WASHINGTON (AP) - They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered real military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home. These aviators - all women - got long-overdue recognition on Wednesday. They received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor given by Congress, in a ceremony on Capitol Hill....
2010-03-10 20:42	AP Top News	House GOP leaders press earmark moratorium WASHINGTON (AP) - House GOP leaders are pushing rank-and-file Republicans to break their addiction to pet projects by going cold turkey and giving up the long-cherished practice of directing federal dollars to their home districts. The move is an election-year appeal to voters frustrated with Washington's free-spending ways and seeks to trump new reforms announced earlier Wednesday by Democratic leaders. Democrats announced they would ban the much-criticized practice of using annual spending bills to direct pet projects to companies that often return the favor with campaign contributions. Democratic leaders considered - and dismissed - the idea of a complete earmark ban....
2010-03-10 20:35	Reuters UK	Madonna to launch fashion lines
2010-03-10 20:32	AP Top News	Corey Haim prolonged tragic Hollywood tradition LOS ANGELES (AP) - Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded. Haim died Wednesday at 38, another chapter in Hollywood's tragic history of careers ravaged by drugs....
2010-03-10 20:32	AP Top News	Mattingly, Dodgers have talked about manager's job GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - On his first day as Dodgers interim manager, hitting coach Don Mattingly said Wednesday that the team has made overtures about him eventually becoming Joe Torre's permanent replacement. With Torre en route to Taiwan to manage a Dodgers split squad for three exhibition games, Mattingly is in charge of the team in Arizona and will work at least five games as manager....
2010-03-10 20:32	AP International	Credit card users: Not so responsible after all? (AP) - NEW YORK - With unemployment high and personal wealth diminished, how was it that strapped consumers were paying down their credit card debt last year? It turns out they probably weren't....
2010-03-10 20:22	AP Top News	Pelosi: Dems close on health care agreement ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them off stride. Obama himself, rallying support outside Washington for the second time this week, shouted to a crowd in Missouri, "The time for talk is over. It's time to vote."...
2010-03-10 20:12	AP Top News	Pelosi says Dems near deal on health care bill ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them off stride. Obama himself, rallying support outside Washington for the second time this week, shouted to a crowd in Missouri, "The time for talk is over. It's time to vote."...
2010-03-10 20:12	AP Top News	US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal. Biden's handshakes and embraces gave way to one of the strongest rebukes of Israel by a senior U.S. official in years after Israel's announcement during his visit that it plans to build 1,600 homes in disputed east Jerusalem. Israel apologized for the poor timing but is sticking to its plan to build the homes, enlarging one of the settlements that have impeded negotiations with Palestinians....
2010-03-10 20:12	AP Top News	Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal WASHINGTON (AP) - They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered real military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home. These aviators - all women - got long-overdue recognition on Wednesday. They received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor given by Congress, in a ceremony on Capitol Hill....
2010-03-10 20:12	AP Top News	Church abuse scandal reaches pope's brother VATICAN CITY (AP) - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself. While there has been no suggestion of wrongdoing by Benedict, the launch of an inquiry by German Catholic officials after his brother admitted he slapped children years ago is stirring Vatican fears of a major crisis for the papacy....
2010-03-10 20:12	AP Top News	Pa. suspect: Caretaker by day, 'Jihad Jane' online PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend's father in a second-floor apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia. But online, federal authorities say, the devoted caretaker developed a daring alter ego, refashioning herself as "Jihad Jane" while helping recruit and finance Muslim terrorists - and eventually moving overseas to try to kill an artist she perceived as an enemy to Islam....
2010-03-10 20:12	AP Top News	Spike in Prius complaints may not be all it seems NEW YORK (AP) - Reports of sudden acceleration in the Toyota Prius have spiked across the country. But that doesn't mean there's an epidemic of bad gas pedals in the popular hybrid. Experts on consumer psychology say the relentless negative media attention Toyota has received since the fall makes it much more likely that drivers will mistake anything unexpected - or even a misplaced foot - for actual danger....
2010-03-10 20:12	AP Top News	Mexico's Slim named 'world's richest' person MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's Carlos Slim, the son of an immigrant shopkeeper who amassed a $53.5 billion fortune and bought a major stake in the New York Times, became the first person from a developing nation to be named the world's richest person. Slim, a telecom magnate, edged out U.S. billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to earn the top spot on Forbes' list of the world's richest people - the first time a non-American has topped the list since 1994. The jump in position comes following a year in which Slim's cell phone holdings rebounded in value....
2010-03-10 20:07	AP Top News	Pelosi says Dems near deal on health care bill ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them off stride. Obama himself, rallying support outside Washington for the second time this week, shouted to a crowd in Missouri, "The time for talk is over. It's time to vote."...
2010-03-10 20:07	AP Top News	Mexico's Slim named 'world's richest' person MEXICO CITY (AP) - The son of an immigrant shopkeeper has become the first person from a developing nation, and the first from Latin America, to be named the world's richest person. Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim has passed U.S. billionaires Warren Buffet and Bill Gates to earn the top spot on Forbes' world's richest list....
2010-03-10 20:07	AP Top News	Police: Burglar uses church equipment to view porn Police: Burglar uses church equipment to view pornAMES, Iowa (AP) - Second-degree burglary charges have been filed against an Ames man who broke into a church where he allegedly used the institution's electronic equipment to watch pornography. Police allege the 55-year-old man broke into the First Christian Church on Thursday. After gathering items from around the building, he is believed to have gone to the basement to spend the night. Police summoned to the church Friday by staff, found the man trying to haul away a garbage can filled with food, kitchen utensils, clothes, electronic equipment and a 26-inch flat-screen television....
2010-03-10 20:05	Reuters UK	Retailers to shine light on consumer health
2010-03-10 19:57	AP International	AP Top Nebraska Headlines At 6:18 p.m. CST (AP) -...
2010-03-10 19:57	AP International	Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given (AP) - NEW YORK - A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests....
2010-03-10 19:47	AP Top News	Spike in Prius complaints may not be all it seems NEW YORK (AP) - Reports of sudden acceleration in the Toyota Prius have spiked across the country. But that doesn't mean there's an epidemic of bad gas pedals in the popular hybrid. Experts on consumer psychology say the relentless negative media attention Toyota has received since the fall makes it much more likely that drivers will mistake anything unexpected - or even a misplaced foot - for actual danger....
2010-03-10 19:47	AP Top News	Corey Haim prolonged tragic Hollywood tradition LOS ANGELES (AP) - Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded. Haim died Wednesday at 38, another chapter in Hollywood's tragic history of careers ravaged by drugs....
2010-03-10 19:47	AP International	Tampa Bay area unemployment rate tops 13% (AP) - MCT REGIONAL NEWS/BUSINESS...
2010-03-10 19:47	AP International	Analysis: Note to Washington: Voters say talk jobs (AP) - WASHINGTON - They just don't get it in Washington....
2010-03-10 19:42	AP Top News	Garciaparra comes back to Red Sox to retire FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - Six years after he was traded away for the final pieces of Boston's World Series puzzle, Nomar Garciaparra finally got a friendly farewell from the Red Sox. The rookie of the year, batting champion and All-Star whose trade began a bitter back-and-forth in Boston and, for Garciaparra, an inglorious slide into irrelevance, signed a ceremonial one-day contract with the Red Sox on Wednesday for the purpose of retiring in the uniform of his original team....
2010-03-10 19:42	AP International	New OSI head: It's all about the consumer's experience (AP) - MCT REGIONAL NEWS/BUSINESS...
2010-03-10 19:42	AP International	AP Top Headlines At 6:19 p.m. EST (AP) -...
2010-03-10 19:42	AP International	Summary Box: Video providers seek fee dispute help (AP) - THE REQUEST: Cable TV, satellite and other video providers, joined by consumer and trade groups, want the government to intervene in ongoing fee disputes with TV networks....
2010-03-10 19:42	AP International	Palm Inc. teeters in crowded smart phone market (AP) - SAN FRANCISCO - Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround in the market it pioneered: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smart phone called the Pre and fresh, intuitive operating software....
2010-03-10 19:35	Reuters UK	CORRECTED: BA, American, Iberia offer EU concessions
2010-03-10 19:35	Reuters UK	Labour to remain biggest party - poll
2010-03-10 19:35	Reuters UK	Strike to paralyse Greece as anger builds
2010-03-10 19:32	AP Top News	US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal. Biden's handshakes and embraces gave way to one of the strongest rebukes of Israel by a senior U.S. official in years after Israel's announcement during his visit that it plans to build 1,600 homes in disputed east Jerusalem. Israel apologized for the poor timing but is sticking to its plan to build the homes, enlarging one of the settlements that have impeded negotiations with Palestinians....
2010-03-10 19:32	AP Top News	Pelosi says Dems near deal on health care bill ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them offstride. Obama himself, rallying support outside Washington for the second time this week, shouted to a crowd in Missouri, "The time for talk is over. It's time to vote."...
2010-03-10 19:32	AP Top News	US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal. Biden's handshakes and embraces gave way to one of the strongest rebukes of Israel by a senior U.S. official in years after Israel's announcement during his visit that it plans to build 1,600 homes in disputed east Jerusalem. Israel apologized for the poor timing but is sticking to its plan to build the homes, enlarging one of the settlements that have impeded negotiations with Palestinians....
2010-03-10 19:32	AP International	Spike in Prius complaints may not be all it seems (AP) - NEW YORK - Reports of sudden acceleration in the Toyota Prius have spiked across the country. But that doesn't mean there's an epidemic of bad gas pedals in the popular hybrid....
2010-03-10 19:32	AP International	Summary Box: Review of Google's social hub, Buzz (AP) - THE BUZZ: Google's answer to the popularity of social networking. Circles of friends can connect right on Google's Gmail home page....
2010-03-10 19:32	AP International	Obama takes health care overhaul push to Missouri (AP) - ST. CHARLES, Mo. - President Barack Obama denounced waste, inefficiency and downright fraud in the government's health care system on Wednesday as he sought to rally public support for his revamped overhaul plan....
2010-03-10 19:32	AP International	Summary Box: Review of Google's social hub, Buzz (AP) - THE BUZZ: Google's answer to the popularity of social networking. Circles of friends can connect right on Google's Gmail home page....
2010-03-10 19:32	AP International	Recall news (AP) - The following recalls have been announced:...
2010-03-10 19:32	AP International	Summary Box: OnLive game streaming to come in June (AP) - THE SERVICE: OnLive will let you "stream" popular high-end games over the Internet, using a mechanism similar to watching TV shows or listening to music online....
2010-03-10 19:25	Reuters UK	House rejects pullout from Afghanistan
2010-03-10 19:22	AP Top News	Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal WASHINGTON (AP) - They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered real military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home. These aviators - all women - got long-overdue recognition on Wednesday. They received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor given by Congress, in a ceremony on Capitol Hill....
2010-03-10 19:12	AP Top News	Spike in Prius complaints may not be all it seems NEW YORK (AP) - Reports of sudden acceleration in the Toyota Prius have spiked across the country. But that doesn't mean there's an epidemic of bad gas pedals in the popular hybrid. Experts on consumer psychology say the relentless negative media attention Toyota has received since the fall makes it much more likely that drivers will mistake anything unexpected - or even a misplaced foot - for actual danger....
2010-03-10 19:10	Reuters UK	Best Buy bets on 3D TV, but no quick payoffs seen
2010-03-10 19:07	AP Top News	Pelosi: Dems close on health care agreement ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them offstride. Obama himself, rallying support outside Washington for the second time this week, shouted to a crowd in Missouri, "The time for talk is over. It's time to vote."...
2010-03-10 19:07	AP Top News	US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal. Biden's handshakes and embraces gave way to one of the strongest rebukes of Israel by a senior U.S. official in years after Israel's announcement during his visit that it plans to build 1,600 homes in disputed east Jerusalem. Israel apologized for the poor timing but is sticking to its plan to build the homes, enlarging one of the settlements that have impeded negotiations with Palestinians....
2010-03-10 19:07	AP Top News	Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal WASHINGTON (AP) - They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered "real" military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home. These aviators - all women - got long-overdue recognition on Wednesday. They received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor given by Congress, in a ceremony on Capitol Hill....
2010-03-10 19:07	AP Top News	Church abuse scandal reaches pope's brother VATICAN CITY (AP) - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself. While there has been no suggestion of wrongdoing by Benedict, the launch of an inquiry by German Catholic officials after his brother admitted he slapped children years ago is stirring Vatican fears of a major crisis for the papacy....


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