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Pa. suspect: Caretaker by day, 'Jihad Jane' online (AP)
March 11, 2010
AP - Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend's father in a second-floor apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia.
Calif. boy who called 911 thanks dispatcher (AP)
March 11, 2010
AP - A 7-year-old boy who called 911 from a locked bathroom while armed robbers threatened his parents hugged and high-fived on Wednesday the sheriff's dispatcher who took his call.
NJ man accused of raping, beating 5 daughters (AP)
March 11, 2010AP - A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three, beating his children with wooden boards and even moving at one point to avoid child welfare investigators.
Mass school closures approved in Kansas City, Mo. (AP)
March 11, 2010
AP - Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools.
Census campaign targets tech-savvy Hispanic youth (AP)
March 11, 2010
AP - Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census are enlisting a new corps of foot-soldiers in their battle to reach that hard-to-count demographic: tech-savvy, smart-phone-toting young people.
48 Hawaii-only species given endangered listing (AP)
March 11, 2010
AP - Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to allow the plants and animals to flourish.
Math and English classes could be standardized (AP)
March 11, 2010
AP - Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tests, replacing a patchwork of state and local systems in an attempt to raise student achievement nationwide.
Coast Guard: Icebreaker to be reactivated by 2013 (AP)
March 11, 2010AP - After a $62 million overhaul, the Coast Guard will have its third icebeaker back in service in 2013, filling a critical need as the fleet takes on new responsibilities, the commandant of the service said Wednesday.
Police surprised by teacher-student sex confession (AP)
March 11, 2010AP - In his 28 years with the Burbank Police Department, Sgt. Robert Quesada had never heard of anything quite like it: A well-respected teacher at one of the city's public schools walks into police headquarters and confesses to having an affair with a 14-year-old boy.
2 Marine Corps fighter pilots rescued off SC coast (AP)
March 11, 2010AP - Two Marine Corps fighter pilots have been rescued from the ocean off South Carolina after their aircraft went down.
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