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Cuban arrests of women relatives shows hardening on rights issue

UPI  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:59 PM EST   [*New!*]

STRASBOURG, France, March 19 (UPI) -- Cuba's detention of 30 women relatives of political prisoners showed no sign of an early resolution as European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek issued a sharp condemnation of Havana's actions aimed at crushing dissent.

NIU report analyzes shooter's troubles

UPI  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:57 PM EST   [*New!*]

DEKALB, Ill., March 19 (UPI) -- A Northern Illinois University in-depth report on the February 2008 shooting at the school said the shooter may have felt betrayed by the Sociology Department.

7th anniversary of Iraq War passes, little noticed

AP Top U.S. News  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:56 PM EST   [*New!*]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- It was a day like any other day - except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And, for the most part, that was forgotten....

Haiti Quake Worsens Plight of Mentally Ill

NYT International  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:52 PM EST   [*New!*]

As disasters often do in poor countries, Haiti’s earthquake has exposed the extreme inadequacies of its mental health services just at the moment when they are most needed.

End in sight, health care battle tilts Obama's way

AP Top Political News  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:52 PM EST   [*New!*]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One by one, Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction....

APNewsBreak: Calif boosts sex offender tracking

AP Top U.S. News  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:51 PM EST   [*New!*]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California parole officials said Friday they have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after recent high-profile lapses, most notably the case of a young woman who was held captive for 18 years....

Loophole may derail voyeurism case

UPI  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:51 PM EST   [*New!*]

INDIANAPOLIS, March 19 (UPI) -- The case against an Indiana man facing charges of voyeurism may collapse because of a loophole in the state's law, experts say.

Group: Rocket responsibility is Hamas's

UPI  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:47 PM EST   [*New!*]

JERUSALEM, March 19 (UPI) -- Hamas should bring to justice those responsible for a rocket attack fired from Gaza into Israel that killed a civilian, a human rights group says.

APNewsBreak: URS settles with Minn. in bridge case

AP Top U.S. News  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:46 PM EST

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Contractor URS Corp. and the state of Minnesota reached a $5 million settlement Friday in the state's lawsuit over the 2007 downtown Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145 others....

Landscapers see green as weary East greets spring

AP Top U.S. News  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:44 PM EST

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Gardeners and landscapers along the Eastern seaboard are making haste - and money - as spring begins and they pick up the pieces from the region's particularly harsh winter, which toppled more than snowfall records....

Airport full-body scanners called safe

UPI  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:43 PM EST

CHICAGO, March 19 (UPI) -- U.S. airline passengers with heart pacemakers or surgically replaced body parts can safely pass through new airport full-body scanners, officials say.

NCAA: Check out 'Dash' and 'Pooh'

Examiner Top News  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:42 PM EST

Some interesting names in the Texas A&M-Utah State game.

Pope's Irish letter faces critical Catholics

MSNBC.com: World news  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:39 PM EST

The pope addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal — a message being watched  by Catholics worldwide to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups.

Pope's Irish letter faces critical Catholic world

AP Top International News  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:39 PM EST

DUBLIN (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal here - a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to Berlin to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups....

Mountain lion seen in Calif. community

UPI  | Links  | Related | Mar 19, 2010 05:38 PM EST

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 19 (UPI) -- Animal lovers in Redwood City, Calif., may have a new visitor to their community: A mountain lion was seen in their neighborhood, emergency officials say.