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    Yemen holds NJ man after al-Qaida sweep, shootout (AP)

    This 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 into the case of 26-year-old son, Sharif Mobley, who grew up in Buena and is an alleged al-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen. (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESAP - He was raised in New Jersey, where he was on the high school wrestling team and earned a black belt in karate. Nearly a decade later, Sharif Mobley is under arrest in Yemen, suspected of being an al-Qaida member and accused of killing a guard in an attempt to break out of a hospital.


    Deal could pay $657M to sickened WTC responders (AP)

    Firemen and rescue personnel work at the base of the World Trade Center 14 September 2001, in New York. More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totalling 657 million dollars for health problems under a settlement reached.(AFP/File/Marcos Townsend)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 that could pay up to $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.


    Report blasts firm overseeing Katrina recovery (AP)

    AP - 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)

    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 headquarters in Denver. Jurors have reached a verdict in the trial of a man charged with murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams. The decision was expected to be read in court shortly. Defendant Willie Clark was taken to the courtroom Thursday, March 11, 2010,  to hear the decision. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)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.


    Lesbian teen in prom flap sues, returns to school (AP)

    Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, reads her many messages from Facebook and Myspace concerning her desire to attend her senior prom with a same-sex date and in a tuxedo, Thursday, March 11, 2010, at her father's house in Fulton, Miss. (AP Photo/Matthew Sharpe)AP - Constance McMillen didn't believe her Mississippi school district would really call off her senior prom rather than allow her to show up with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. On Thursday, a day after the Itawamba County school board did just that, the 18-year-old lesbian high school senior reluctantly returned to campus to some unfriendly looks, she said.


    Indiana man who murdered 2 executed in Texas (AP)

    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, for the robbery and fatal shooting of an off-duty police officer in San Antonio nearly 10 years ago. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)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)

    AP - 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.

    APNewsBreak: Calif. murder suspect broke parole (AP)

    This April 6, 2004 photo released Wednesday, March 10, 2010, by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows murder suspect John Albert Gardner III with a prison identification card. Gardner has pleaded not guilty to murdering Chelsea King in San Diego County and to the attempted rape of another woman. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 ordered California corrections officials to keep sex offenders' parole records indefinitely after he learned the files of a man now charged with killing a 17-year-old girl had been destroyed. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)  EDS NOTE: IMAGE PROVIDED BY POLICE SHOWS WHITE AREA IN BOTTOM RIGHT CORNERAP - A convicted sex offender charged with murdering one 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 The Associated Press.


    Toyota 'mystified' by runaway Prius case in Calif. (AP)

    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 El Cajon, Calif. A law firm for the driver who says his Toyota Prius sped out of control in California doesn't plan to sue the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - A Toyota executive said Thursday the company is "mystified" by a report that a California man's Prius gas pedal became stuck and caused the car to speed out of control on a California freeway.


    Fed. appeals court upholds 'under God' in pledge (AP)

    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 outside his Sacramento, Calif., home. A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that the phrase 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected arguments by Newdow that the phrase violates the separation between church and state. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,Ffile)AP - A federal appeals court upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.


 
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