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Judge to hear plan to pay $657M to WTC responders (AP)
March 12, 2010
AP - A settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center goes before a judge Friday, and he has said he favored a settlement but planned to analyze it carefully to make sure it was fair.
Friend: Suspected US al-Qaida member grew radical (AP)
March 12, 2010
AP - Sharif Mobley had strong Muslim views as early as high school. But his old friend Roman Castro knew he had radicalized when he saw him about four years ago.
Lesbian teen sues to force school to hold prom (AP)
March 12, 2010
AP - An 18-year-old lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district reinstate the dance it canceled rather than let the couple attend.
After drop in poll, AG recuses himself in NY probe (AP)
March 12, 2010
AP - In recusing himself after two weeks of investigating Gov. David Paterson, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said there was no "technical conflict" but described the probe thus far as preliminary and bowed to pressure that included sinking approval ratings for the man widely expected to run for governor.
Utah House GOP leader says he paid off woman (AP)
March 12, 2010AP - Utah's House majority leader said Thursday he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going "hot-tubbing" with her when she was minor a quarter century ago.
Lawmakers probe lax enforcement of animal rules (AP)
March 12, 2010
AP - The knives at the slaughterhouse weren't properly sanitized, a government investigator said, and employees at the meatpacking plant didn't know how to test the carcasses of days-old veal calves for a dangerous pathogen. Food safety conditions were so poor at the Vermont processing facility that it should close before someone got sick, officials warned.
Report blasts firm overseeing Katrina recovery (AP)
March 12, 2010AP - 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 theater tickets and a flight to Las Vegas, an internal investigation found.
Man convicted in slaying of Broncos cornerback (AP)
March 12, 2010
AP - The group of Denver Broncos players arrived at the Safari nightclub to celebrate New Year's Eve and was whisked inside by bouncers. One of the dozens of people waiting in line to get in — an alleged Tre-Tre Crips gang member — took exception.
Indiana man who murdered 2 executed in Texas (AP)
March 12, 2010
AP - An Indiana man whose cross-country crime spree with his girlfriend a decade ago ended in a gun battle with police in San Francisco was executed Thursday in Texas for killing a sheriff's officer.
Woman beaten in NYC bar after rejecting advances (AP)
March 12, 2010AP - A stranger followed a woman into a New York City bar restroom after she rejected his advances early Thursday, savagely beat her in a toilet stall and perhaps tried to sexually assault her, police said.
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