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Fargo on brink of declaring victory in flood fight
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 AP - The approaching crest of the Red River was being met Sunday with more shrugs than white knuckles, as Fargo residents walked their dogs and went to church instead of sandbagging and escaping to higher ground.
03/21/2010 - 01:58 PM
2 Baltimore officers shot during traffic stop
(AP)
AP - Two police officers who had pulled over a suspicious vehicle were shot and wounded by the driver, and the suspect was killed when the officers returned fire, Baltimore police said Sunday.
03/21/2010 - 11:18 AM
Toyota shareholders sue over fallen stock price
(AP)
AP - Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker's stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems in millions of its vehicles.
03/21/2010 - 10:14 AM
Snowmobiles, ATVs, lobster boats used for census
(AP)
 AP - Census workers are using snowmobiles, airplanes, all-terrain vehicles — even lobster boats — to visit the most far-flung, hidden-away dwellings when counting the nation's populace.
03/21/2010 - 12:24 PM
Thousands rally for immigration reform in DC
(AP)
 AP - Immigrant rights supporters from around the country are rallying for immigration reform on the National Mall.
03/21/2010 - 01:56 PM
Former Interior Secretary Udall dies at age 90
(AP)
 AP - Stewart Udall, an elder in a famed political family who led the Interior Department as it promoted an expansion of public lands and helped win passage of major environmental laws, has died at the age of 90.
03/21/2010 - 06:28 AM
Giant bluestone sculpture for sale in Catskills
(AP)
 AP - Harvey Fite spent 37 years turning an abandoned bluestone quarry in the Catskill Mountains into a strange and striking landscape sculpture. Visitors to Opus 40 walk through rock-wall mazes that swirl around a 9-ton monolith looming in the center like a Stone Age exclamation mark.
03/21/2010 - 12:35 PM
Police: Boy, 16, made racial comment at NJ Walmart
(AP)
 AP - A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in a southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, authorities said Saturday.
03/21/2010 - 01:46 AM
New threat puts Calif. police on heightened alert
(AP)
 AP - The tense atmosphere surrounding a California police department plagued by booby trap attacks has been stepped up a notch following the latest threat against officers.
03/20/2010 - 06:30 PM
Enviros, growers agree on farmland reuse for solar
(AP)
AP - Cash-strapped farmers in California's agricultural heartland and environmentalists at odds over water rights and wildlife protections finally agree on something: that thousands of acres of cracked, salty farmland is the perfect site for a sprawling utility-scale solar farm.
03/21/2010 - 11:45 AM
More snow falling in Okla., Ark. spring blizzard
(AP)
 AP - More snow was falling Sunday as part of a powerful storm blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first weekend of spring.
03/21/2010 - 01:19 PM
Thousands rally to pull troops from 2 war zones
(AP)
 AP - Thousands of protesters — many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama — marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
03/21/2010 - 12:02 AM
Black support high for Obama's race-neutral stance
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 AP - In this banking center walloped by the Great Recession, where unemployment just hit a 20-year high and as many as one in three black people are out of work, blacks could easily be frustrated with President Barack Obama's insistence that a rising economic tide for all will lift African-American boats.
03/20/2010 - 04:46 PM
Struggling town turns out to bury fallen soldier
(AP)
AP - Residents from the small communities just outside the mountains of Glacier National Park buried one of their own Saturday, a young soldier from Hungry Horse killed by Afghan insurgents earlier this month.
03/20/2010 - 10:46 PM
3 killed after small planes collide over Fla.
(AP)
AP - A single-engine plane and a kit-built aircraft collided in clear, sunny skies Saturday over central Florida, killing three people, authorities said.
03/20/2010 - 05:25 PM
Boy Scouts sex abuse files now evidence in lawsuit
(AP)
 AP - The Boy Scouts of America call them "perversion files," internal documents used to track Scout leaders suspected of sexually abusing young boys.
03/20/2010 - 06:17 PM
Tight for cash, governments raise traffic fees
(AP)
AP - Shomari Jennings was willing to pay the $70 ticket he received for driving without a seatbelt, but not the slew of tacked-on fees and penalties that ballooned the cost more than tenfold.
03/20/2010 - 02:00 PM
Lawmakers wnt to limit txt msgs and e-mails
(AP)
AP - Open government in the heart of Silicon Valley is starting to mean turn off, tune out, power down.
03/20/2010 - 02:47 PM
Former press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson dies
(AP)
 AP - Liz Carpenter, an author and former press secretary to first lady Lady Bird Johnson, died Saturday at an Austin hospital after contracting pneumonia earlier in the week, said her daughter, Christy Carpenter. Carpenter was 89.
03/20/2010 - 05:45 PM
Judge: $575M settlement rejected for 9/11 'heroes'
(AP)
 AP - A federal judge rejected a multimillion dollar settlement for people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal to compensate 10,000 police officers, firefighters and other laborers didn't contain enough money.
03/20/2010 - 05:52 AM
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