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•Prom canceled over same-sex date flap
33 minutes ago
FULTON, Miss., March 10 (UPI) -- A Mississippi school board has canceled a high school prom after a lesbian student challenged its policy banning same-sex dates.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
•Pelosi: Dems close on health care agreement
by By DAVID ESPO and PHILIP ELLIOTT
1 hour ago
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....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:14 p.m. EST]
•U.S.: Restaurant sold banned whale meat
1 hour ago
LOS ANGELES, March 10 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors Wednesday accused a Santa Monica, Calif., restaurant and one of its chefs of selling Sei whale meat illegally.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
•Calif. boy who called 911 thanks dispatcher
by By THOMAS WATKINS
1 hour ago
NORWALK, Calif. (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy who called 911 from a locked bathroom while armed robbers threatened his parents hugged and high-fived on Wednesday the sheriff's dispatcher who took his call....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:14 p.m. EST]
•Mexico's Slim becomes 'world's richest' person
by By MARK STEVENSON
1 hour ago
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, jumping past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the first person from a developing nation to top the list, according to Forbes magazine....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:14 p.m. EST]
•Pa. suspect: Caretaker by day, 'Jihad Jane' online
by By MARYCLAIRE DALE
2 hours ago
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....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:14 p.m. EST]
•Spike in Prius complaints may not be all it seems
by By ERIN McCLAM and TOM KRISHER
2 hours ago
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....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:14 p.m. EST]
•House GOP leaders press earmark moratorium
by By ANDREW TAYLOR
2 hours ago
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....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:14 p.m. EST]
•Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal
by By KIMBERLY HEFLING
2 hours ago
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....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:14 p.m. EST]
•US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements
by By KARIN LAUB and STEVEN GUTKIN
2 hours ago
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....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:14 p.m. EST]
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