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Toyota With 'Stuck' Accelerator Hits 94 MPH, Driver Rescued by California Hig...

9 Mar 2010 at 9:54am
James Sikes, whose 2008 Toyota Prius accelerated suddenly on a California interstate Monday, reaching 94 MPH before he was able to bring it under control with the help of the California Highway Patrol, said the cause of the incident was a "stuck" accelerator.



California Highway Patrol - Toyota Prius - California - Toyota - Recreation

Tracking the Dow One Year After Rock Bottom

9 Mar 2010 at 10:50am
We now know that March 9, 2009 was the Dow's rock bottom close of the Great Recession. One year later, the DJIA is up more 60 percent from its fear-of-another-Grea Depression-low.



Unemployment - Recession - Education - Colleges and Universities - Recreation

Priest Boots Child of Lesbians From School

9 Mar 2010 at 10:41am
A Catholic priest is defending his decision to deny re-enrollment to a preschool student with lesbian parents, saying he's standing up for the principles of his faith.



Lesbian - Catholic school - Gay Lesbian and Bisexual - Catholic Church - Priest

NYT > U.S.

Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates

9 Mar 2010 at 10:37am
The team behind ?The Cove? set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat.

Letters Capture Grief for President Kennedy

9 Mar 2010 at 7:53am
A new book has collected some of the thousands of surviving letters to Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases

9 Mar 2010 at 1:20am
The effect of a central federal witness?s death, the third suicide related to a sprawling inquiry into artifact theft, is unclear.

msnbc.com: U.S. news

NYT: Public pension funds ?going to Vegas?

9 Mar 2010 at 10:20am

States and other government bodies are making riskier investments to get higher returns for their pension funds in an attempt to pay all the benefits promised to retirees.

Worker suspected in Ohio State shooting dies

9 Mar 2010 at 11:24am
Ohio State University says a 51-year-old worker suspected of opening fire and killing another employee has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Weddings begin for D.C. same-sex couples

9 Mar 2010 at 11:50am

Same-sex couples started picking up marriage licenses and tying the knot in the nation's capital as the city became the sixth place in the U.S. to permit gay marriage.