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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Florida Statesman.com http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/10/id/154063713fe5da1f/ en-us Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:23:56 -0500 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:23:56 -0500 30 US President Barack Obama has donated the $1.4 million that came with winning the Nobel Peace Prize to charity, the White House said Thursday. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/611126/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/611126/cs/1/ Extrajudicial killings by the Pakistani military in the ongoing fight with insurgents have further added to human rights concerns in the country, the US State Department said Thursday. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/611125/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:20:01 -0500 IANS http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/611125/cs/1/ President Barack Obama has delegated his authority to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to send mandatory certifications regarding the landmark India-US civil nuclear deal to the US Congress after every six months. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/611005/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/611005/cs/1/ United States President Barack Obama has appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the new certification authority to verify the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear agreement after every six months. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/611002/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:10:03 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/611002/cs/1/ Natalie Mejia, a member of US band Girlicious, has been arrested after drugs were found in her purse, police told The Los Angeles Times. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610961/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:00:10 -0500 IANS http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610961/cs/1/ Jamie Jungers, who has won Howard Stern's Tiger Woods' mistress beauty pageant, has revealed that the golfer never tipped waitstaff when they were together. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610926/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:20:08 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610926/cs/1/ Madonna and her daughter, Lourdes, have collaborated on a fashion line for teenage girls that debuts this August exclusively at Macy's. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610925/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:20:07 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610925/cs/1/ Mariah Carey has never met director Woody Allen, but she plans to work with him some day. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610923/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:20:06 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610923/cs/1/ American supermarket chain Walmart has received flak for selling black Barbie dolls at a lesser price than white Barbies. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610918/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:20:02 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610918/cs/1/ Rapper Jay-Z is said to have scrapped plans to invest in a racetrack casino project in New York after state officials allegedly ordered all backers to hand over detailed records of their finances. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610903/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:13 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610903/cs/1/ American scientists have developed a new nitric oxide-releasing cloth that may come handy in making a wrap for donor organs and therapeutic socks for diabetics. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610896/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:09 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610896/cs/1/ A new American study has suggested new ways to improve heart treatment. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610891/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:05 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610891/cs/1/ An American man has earned himself a Guinness World Record after he built the world's largest ever house of cards. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610868/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:20:04 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610868/cs/1/ The Pennsylvania woman linked this week to an alleged terrorist plot involving militant Muslims was not known in her neighbourhood for her extreme religious views. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610820/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:10:14 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610820/cs/1/ Scientists in the U.S. have for the first time unlocked the genetic code of an entire family, and discovered that parents give kids fewer mutations than previously thought. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610814/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:10:11 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610814/cs/1/ An average woman will spend 13,000 dollars on makeup during her lifetime, a new survey has found. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610808/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:10:08 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610808/cs/1/ A constant gum-chewing habit can cause wrinkles to pop up, health experts warn. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610804/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:10:05 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610804/cs/1/ Manoranjan 'Mano' Misra, an Indian American professor known for turning coffee grounds and chicken feathers into fuel, been honoured as the 2010 Regents' Researcher by the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610758/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:20:06 -0500 IANS http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610758/cs/1/ Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, as the wealth of the world's billionaires grew by 50 per cent over the last year. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610846/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:10:29 -0500 ANI http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/610846/cs/1/ Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 6:54 p.m. Add American Airlines boarding passes to the list of paperless services consumers can use to simplify their lives. Travelers flying out of Lindbergh Field can n... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047738/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:22:56 -0500 Sign on San Diego http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047738/ (Thursday, March 11th) Final Score: Western Michigan 69, Central Michigan 60 Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) - David Kool led all scorers with 26 points, as Western Michigan held on for a 69-60 win ove... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047737/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:14:25 -0500 Sports Network http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047737/ BUENA, N.J. — A New Jersey official says a suspected terrorist who worked at a complex of nuclear power plants did not breach security there. Mike Drewniak, a spokesman for Gov. Chris Chris... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047661/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:13:36 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047661/ HAMMOND, Ind. — A federal judge has ordered a former northern Indiana mayor and two ex-aides to pay $108 million in civil damages in an alleged sidewalks-for-votes scheme. U.S. District Jud... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047662/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:13:35 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047662/ TRENTON, N.J. — Authorities say three people were fatally struck by trains in New Jersey and New York. The first death occurred in Mercer County in New Jersey on Thursday morning when Amtra... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047396/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:13:33 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047396/ In this 2009 photo provided by the Lake and Peninsula Borough School District, Candice Berner, an Alaska special education teacher, holds up crab caught on a school district outing. Autopsy results an... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047663/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:13:31 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047663/ TRENTON, N.J. — Two people have been struck and killed by trains in separate accidents in New Jersey. The first death occurred in Mercer County on Thursday morning when Amtrak's Keystone 64... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047666/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:13:28 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047666/ NEW ORLEANS — An engineering firm hired to oversee the reconstruction of city buildings and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina has been overcharging the city, including billing for thea... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047665/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:13:26 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047665/ This undated photo provided March 10, 2010 by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Joshua Maxwell. Maxwell is scheduled to be executed Thursday, March 11, 2010, in Huntsville, Texas, ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047664/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:13:24 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047664/ SAN FRANCISCO — More than two-dozen drug-related cases were dismissed in San Francisco courtrooms for a second day following allegations that a longtime lab technician stole cocaine evidence las... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047667/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:13:23 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047667/ In a remote mountainside on the Norwegian tundra sits the "doomsday vault," a backup against disaster -- manmade or otherwise. Inside lives the last hope should the unthinkable occur: a global seedban... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047646/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:01:28 -0500 Fox News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047646/ That lawsuit reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004, but the high court ruled that Newdow lacked the legal standing to file the suit because he didn't have custody of his daughter, on whose behalf he ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047647/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:01:25 -0500 Fox News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047647/ After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $6... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047529/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:01:08 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047529/ (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESThis 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking int... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047638/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:01:07 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047638/ (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)This undated photo provided March 10, 2010 by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Joshua Maxwell. Maxwell is scheduled to be executed T... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047731/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:01:04 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047731/ California teenager and under investigation for another killing violated his parole by moving too close to a school but was allowed to remain free, according to records obtained Thursday by http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047733/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:01:03 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047733/ (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047218/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:01:02 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047218/ (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,Ffile)File - In this June 14, 2004 file photo, Michael Newdow looks down at the fax copy of the Supreme Court's ruling preserving the phrase "one nation under God" in the Pl... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047735/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:01:01 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047735/ (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)FILE - This April 24, 2005, file photo shows Darrent Williams smiling as he holds a Denver Broncos' jersey bearing his name during a news conference at the team's headquar... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047734/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:01:00 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047734/ Federal regulators expanded their efforts Thursday to go after children's jewelry that has high levels of the toxic metal cadmium by telling parents to throw away "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"-them... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047724/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:55:23 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047724/ Harry Reid 's wife and daughter were hospitalized Thursday after their minivan was rear-ended by tractor-trailer truck on an interstate in suburban Virginia, authorities said. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33048030/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:51:42 -0500 USA Today http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33048030/ NEW YORK (AP) — After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 Ground Zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement th... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047141/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:51:21 -0500 USA Today http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047141/ ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A jury on Thursday awarded $95 million in damages to the families of eight people who claimed their loved ones were among dozens of patients murdered by a nurse considered to be one o... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047528/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:50:40 -0500 MSNBC http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047528/ B&O American Brasserie, recently named one of the top ten Best Restaurants by Baltimore magazine, is gearing up for Baltimore’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 14. The parade,... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047730/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:49:26 -0500 Baltimore Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047730/ WASHINGTON -- Throughout the epic race for the U.S. presidency in 2008, the tight-knit group of advisers around Barack Obama employed a simple guiding principle to keep them from being distracted by t... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047571/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:47:40 -0500 National Post http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047571/ Beethoven ’s Violin Concerto, as enduring a work as you’ll find, and Franck’s Symphony in D minor, a score that has always struck many listeners as diffuse and bombastic. Oddly, at t... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047373/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:44:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047373/ LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Equities in Brazil slipped Thursday, with shares of some resource-related stocks weighed by worries that the country's biggest trading partner, China, is set to raise inte... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047605/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:39:34 -0500 Market Watch http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047605/ wrote about a family in West Chicago who would drive many hours round trip just to taste the chain's chicken sandwiches. This was nearly three years ago, when a spokesman assured me they would ope... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33048032/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:35:42 -0500 Chicago Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33048032/ FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2001 file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York. New York City has agreed to pay up to ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047533/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:33:31 -0500 ABC News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047533/ (AP) — WHO TESTIFIED: Christine Varney, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, and Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. WHAT THEY SAID: The regu... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047728/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:27:20 -0500 New Jersey Online http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047728/ Federal safety regulators recalled a line of Christmas-themed bracelets Thursday, expanding their effort to purge children's jewelry boxes and store shelves of items containing high levels of the toxi... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047725/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:22:42 -0500 Gadsden Times http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33047725/ (1/5/2010) After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33048025/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:16:49 -0500 WBZ4 http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33048025/ BRUSSELS (AP) ― Major European polluters are buying their way out of making big cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon offsets that pay for environmental programs in developing n... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33048026/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:16:47 -0500 WBZ4 http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33048026/ BANGKOK (AP) ― The Thai capital braced for possible violence as anti-government activists launched Friday what they hope will be one of the country's biggest protests in an effort to force Prim... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33048027/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:16:47 -0500 WBZ4 http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33048027/ BAGHDAD (AP) ― First results from Iraq's parliamentary election showed the prime minister and his secular rival locked in an extremely tight contest Thursday amid fraud allegations by rival par... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33048028/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:16:46 -0500 WBZ4 http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33048028/ Wake Forest's C.J. Harris (11), center, battles Miami's Julian Gamble (45) and Miami's DeQuan Jones (31), right, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the Atlantic Coast Confere... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33045412/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:56:17 -0500 The Ledger http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33045412/ This ID photo provided by Ohio State University shows Nathaniel Brown. Brown, a university custodial employee, reportedly shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044647/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:42 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044647/ FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2001 file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York. New York City has agreed to pay up to ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044403/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:37 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044403/ File - In this June 14, 2004 file photo, Michael Newdow looks down at the fax copy of the Supreme Court's ruling preserving the phrase "one nation under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044648/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:35 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044648/ Clarissa Martinez de Castro, with the National Council of La Raza, center, talks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010, after meeting with Presi... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044649/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:33 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044649/ The wreckage of a plane is shown in an airplane hanger Thursday, March 11, 2010 at Stellar Air Park in Chandler, Ariz. A World War II-era plane crashed Thursday while attempting to land at a small air... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33043699/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:30 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33043699/ COVINGTON, La. — A Louisiana man accused of helping his father hide the body of a Ku Klux Klan recruit pleaded guilty Thursday to obstruction of justice and was sentenced to three years in priso... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044650/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:28 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044650/ ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An autopsy has concluded that a rural teacher was killed by animals, and the head of the Alaska State Troopers says wolves are the likely suspect. However, Col. Audie Ho... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044651/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:24 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044651/ KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City school officials promised Thursday to shut down nearly half the district's schools by the start of classes in the fall without offering details of how they intend ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044652/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:21 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044652/ This 2009 photo released by Constance McMillen's family via The ACLU of Mississippi, taken in Fulton, Miss., shows Constance McMillen, 18, a student at the Itawamba County Agricultural High School... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044653/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:19 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044653/ COLUMBUS, Ohio — John Nance, a former Associated Press reporter and photographer who covered the Vietnam War and later oversaw the news cooperative's operations in the Philippines, has died. He ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044655/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:16 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044655/ UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. humanitarian chief says Israel's blockade of Gaza is not helping its security or weakening Hamas' hold on the territory. John Holmes also warned that as bad as the... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044656/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:14 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044656/ NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans' watchdog has found serious problems with the work of an engineering company hired to oversee the rebuilding of city buildings and infrastructure damaged in Hurricane K... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044654/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:11 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044654/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans' watchdog has found serious problems with the work of an engineering company hired to oversee the rebuilding of city buildings and infrastructure dam... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33045411/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:52:54 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33045411/ The White House struck back at comments made by Chief Justice John Roberts, who criticized the president for using his State of the Union pulpit to voice disapproval of the high court's ruling on camp... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044037/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:50:38 -0500 PBS http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044037/    The founder of an Afghanistan orphanage profiled on NBC Nightly News, Andeisha Farid, was honored at a ceremony at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday by the global women’s organization Vital Voice... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33045406/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:48:17 -0500 Newsweek http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33045406/ KTNV ABC,Channel 13,Las Vegas,Nevada,News,Weather,Sports,Entertainment,KTNV.com,Action News .:. Senator Reid's wife & daughter hurt in accident in Washington, DC area http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044834/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:45:49 -0500 KTNV http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044834/ A nonpartisan study is casting new doubt on President Obama's campaign pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class. The Senate health care bill crucial to saving President Obama's signature domesti... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044624/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:15 -0500 Fox News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044624/ Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Air Force Junior ROTC cadet Kwameka Jones salutes before her squad practiced drills, Nov. 12, 2009, in Baltimore (AP). http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044625/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:14 -0500 Fox News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044625/ Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were being treated in a hospital Thursday for serious injuries they sustained when their vehicle was rear-ended by a truck, a spokesman said. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044626/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:13 -0500 Fox News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044626/ Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with top military and government officials in the United Arab Emirates Thursday in a effort to bolster support among partners in the region for harsher sanctions aga... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044630/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:11 -0500 Fox News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044630/ Vice President Biden's trip to the Middle East -- meant to pave the way for a new round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks -- is coming to a close, leaving in its wake a trail of stinging snubs, cring... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044629/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:10 -0500 Fox News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044629/ After pounding targets in the California desert Wednesday until almost midnight, Marines with the Marines' 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion spent Thursday morning cleaning and reloading befo... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044628/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:08 -0500 Fox News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044628/ — Jonathan, 46* With so much talk about cheating, sex addiction and horny housewife shows, I've been getting a lot of mail asking questions that span from inane to fantastic. How does polyamory ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044627/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:07 -0500 Fox News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044627/ (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESThis 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking int... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044616/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:48 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044616/ California teenager and under investigation for another killing violated his parole by moving too close to a school but was allowed to remain free, according to records obtained Thursday by http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044820/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:47 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044820/ Kansas City school officials promised Thursday to shut down nearly half the district's schools by the start of classes in the fall without offering details of how they intend to implement the complica... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044823/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:46 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044823/ (AP Photo/The McMillen Family via The ACLU of Mississippi) NO SALES.This 2009 photo released by Constance McMillen's family via The ACLU of Mississippi, taken in Fulton, Miss., shows Constance McMille... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044822/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:45 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044822/ (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)FILE - In this May 2, 2008 file photo, Chief Judge Judith Kaye speaks during a Law Day event in Albany, N.Y. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday, March 11, ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044066/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:43 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044066/ Federal safety regulators recalled a line of Christmas-themed bracelets Thursday, expanding their effort to purge children's jewelry boxes and store shelves of items containing high levels of the toxi... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044821/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:43 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044821/ (AP Photo/George Ruhe, File)FILE - This Oct. 27, 2008 file photo shows the locked gate, left, at the main entrance to the Westfield Sportmen's Club in Westfield, Mass. Christopher Bizilj of Ashford, C... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044824/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:42 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044824/ Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Thursday that he is seeking federal permission to import cheaper drugs from Canada for use in state insurance programs.Schweitzer said he thinks the move could chop 40 perce... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044663/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:40 -0500 The Examiner http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044663/ told Houston TV station KPRC. Staff members at Foerster Elementary discovered a small amount of marijuana on the first grade student at about 10 a.m., Houston Independent School District officials sai... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044688/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:36:49 -0500 CBS Atlanta http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044688/ LOS ANGELES -- Federal safety regulators recalled a line of Christmas-themed bracelets Thursday, expanding their effort to purge children's jewelry boxes and store shelves of items containing high lev... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044689/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:36:47 -0500 CBS Atlanta http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044689/ U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Federal safety regulators recalled a line of holiday-themed bracelets Thursday, expanding their effort to purge children's jewelry boxes and store shelves of ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044830/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:33:03 -0500 WBZ http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044830/ NEW YORK - New York City has agreed to pay up to $657 million to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits filed by ground zero rescue and response workers who say they were sickened by World Trade Center dust... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044425/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:29:42 -0500 MSNBC http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044425/ LAS VEGAS - A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a Nevada law that bars legal brothels that operate in some of the state's rural areas from advertising by newspaper, leaflets and billboards in L... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33045408/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:29:41 -0500 MSNBC http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33045408/ A town which played an iconic and controversial part in the British mission in Afghanistan is to be handed over to the Americans in a move signalling a major change in Western strategy. Musa Qala, wh... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33043670/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:28:29 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33043670/ -5 C Schwartzel (SA) -4 R Allenby (Aus), V Singh (Fij), E Els (SA) -3 J Senden (Aus), F Molinari (Ita), S Hansen (Den), JB Holmes (US), D Johnson (US), P Casey (Eng) Selected others: -2 P Harrington (... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33045398/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:24:41 -0500 BBC Sport http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33045398/ Open Internet Reporting Fellowships Sponsored by the G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism in partnership with New America Media Applications Due: April 2, 2010, 5 PM PDT The G.W. Williams C... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33043785/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:23:56 -0500 New America Media http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33043785/ A MINIATURE portrait of a Scottish naval officer who helped burn down the White House in a British attack on Washington is being sold by his family 200 years later. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044817/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:23:55 -0500 The Scotsman http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044817/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is finalizing rules on the first U.S. greenhouse gas emission standard for automobiles, which would raise average fuel economy 42 percent by 2016 in a bid to sla... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044808/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:19:28 -0500 Reuters http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044808/ (Reuters) - The wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were injured on Thursday when their vehicle was rear-ended by a truck on a highway, the senator's office said. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044806/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:15:03 -0500 Reuters http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044806/ DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unprecedented discounts after a series of damaging recalls boosted Toyota Motor Corp's U.S. sales in early March, as U.S. regulators weighed new auto safety measures. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044807/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:15:03 -0500 Reuters http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044807/ SAN DIMAS, Calif. - (Business Wire) American States Water Company (NYSE:AWR) held its Fourth Quarter 2009 results teleconference and Internet webcast at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time today. Due to telecommu... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044181/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:13:35 -0500 Earth Times http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044181/ Nobel Peace Prize monies to the (the Fund). In a statement issued by the White House, Obama said of the Fund and nine other charity organizations that received donations from the president, "These... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044687/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:13:33 -0500 Earth Times http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/33044687/