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Obama helps break ground on black history museum
22 Feb 2012 at 12:08pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama heralded a new national black history museum as "not just a record of tragedy, but a celebration of life" as he marked Wednesday's groundbreaking of the long-sought-after museum on the National Mall.... [From AP Top U.S. News At 1:04 p.m. EST]

Court says police cannot be sued over warrant
22 Feb 2012 at 12:04pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court said Wednesday that California police officers cannot be sued because they used a warrant that may have been defective to search a woman's house.... [From AP Top U.S. News At 1:04 p.m. EST]

'Occupy' to hold national conference in Philly
22 Feb 2012 at 12:00pm
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A group of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement plans to elect 876 "delegates" from around the country and hold a national "general assembly" in Philadelphia over the Fourth of July as part of ongoing protests over corporate excess and economic inequality.... [From AP Top U.S. News At 1:04 p.m. EST]

Rising sales point to better year for housing
22 Feb 2012 at 11:58am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The housing market is flashing signs of health ahead of the spring-buying season.... [From AP Top U.S. News At 1:04 p.m. EST]

Supreme Court sends back California Medicaid cuts case
22 Feb 2012 at 11:55am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court sent back to a lower court a case on whether Medicaid recipients and medical providers can sue California for cutting reimbursement rates in the healthcare program for low-income Americans. [From Reuters: U.S.]

Animal Rights Activists Charged in Murder Fur Hire
22 Feb 2012 at 11:53am
Meredith Lowell, a Cleveland Heights, Ohio animal activist, is being charged with solicitation to commit murder. Lowell told an undervover FBI agent over Facebook that she would pay for someone wearing fur to be murdered outside of a library. [From ABC News: U.S.]

Watch: Fish and Game President Under Fire for Lion Kill
22 Feb 2012 at 11:51am
Head of the Calif. commission posted photo of himself with a dead lion online. [From ABC News: U.S.]

Jurors weigh murder case of ex-Va. lacrosse player
22 Feb 2012 at 11:48am
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Jurors in the murder trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player began deliberating Wednesday whether he battered his ex-girlfriend to death in a drunken, jealous rage or if his intent to talk with her spiraled out of control, leaving her bleeding and dying in her bedroom.... [From AP Top U.S. News At 1:04 p.m. EST]

Prosecutor: Glock Lawyer Used Role to Steal Money
22 Feb 2012 at 11:48am
Prosecutor says former Glock attorney ran the company in the US and used role to steal from it [From ABC News: U.S.]

Watch: Ohio Activist Plotted Murder for Hire: Cops
22 Feb 2012 at 11:47am
Woman allegedly offered undercover agent $850 to kill someone wearing fur. [From ABC News: U.S.]

Watch: Boy With Cancer Chooses to Stop Treatment
22 Feb 2012 at 11:47am
Alex Rodriguez, 12, ends treatment after years of fighting rhabdomyosarcoma. [From ABC News: U.S.]

Pennsylvania university heads paint bleak tuition outlook
22 Feb 2012 at 11:40am
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - The heads of Pennsylvania's four largest universities pleaded with lawmakers on Wednesday to ignore Governor Tom Corbett's proposal to cut state subsidies on higher education by 30 percent. [From Reuters: U.S.]

George Huguely Trial: Jury Deliberates
22 Feb 2012 at 11:36am
The fate of accused murderer George Huguely V is in the hands of a Charlottesville, Va. jury that began deliberations this morning. Two female alternate jurors were dismissed by the judge after being chosen at random, leaving a final jury made up of five women and seven men. [From ABC News: U.S.]

Report: LA sub kept teaching after 3 abuse allegations
22 Feb 2012 at 11:26am
A substitute teacher in the nation's second-largest school district was investigated three times for allegations of sexual misconduct with students before he quit in 2007 and started teaching in another district, the Los Angeles Times reported. [From msnbc.com: US news]

Virginia lacrosse murder trial goes to jury
22 Feb 2012 at 11:16am
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (Reuters) - Jurors began deliberating on Wednesday to decide whether a former University of Virginia lacrosse player killed his ex-girlfriend in a drunken rage or if her 2010 death was accidental. [From Reuters: U.S.]


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