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Queens Woman Charged With Beating Bulldog Pup With a Shovel
March 10, 2010A Queens woman has been charged with animal cruelty after her neighbors caught her on video beating an 11-month-old English bull dog with a snow shovel.
‘Amazing Grace’ leaves $7m for alma mater
March 10, 2010An Illinois woman who lived through the Great Depression and worked as a secretary for 43 years before passing away at age 100 has left $7 million to Lake Forest College.
Girl’s remains found near recent killing
March 10, 2010When 17-year-old Chelsea King vanished last month, Maurice Dubois had a sinking feeling that his 14-year-old daughter had fallen victim to the same killer.
Toyota, U.S. officials probe runaway Prius
March 10, 2010U.S. safety regulators and Toyota Motor Corp dispatched investigators to San Diego on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier.
Obama using 'bounty hunters' to root out fraud (AP)
March 10, 2010
AP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system.
Soldier tells how he threw back Taliban grenade (Reuters)
March 10, 2010
Reuters - A soldier serving with the British Army in Afghanistan has told of the moment he threw back a Taliban hand grenade, telling himself: "I've really only got one chance to do this."
U.S. Sitting on Mother Lode of Rare Tech-Crucial Minerals (LiveScience.com)
March 10, 2010LiveScience.com - China supplies most of the rare earth minerals found in technologies such as hybrid cars, wind turbines, computer hard drives and cell phones, but the U.S. has its own largely untapped reserves that could safeguard future tech innovation.
Bank of America ends overdraft fees on debit cards (AP)
March 10, 2010
AP - Bank of America customers will soon be unable to spend more than they have in the accounts linked to their debit cards. It's a step that may become a common move ahead of new regulations limiting overdraft fees.
Massa denies he sexually groped male staffer (AP)
March 10, 2010
AP - Former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, offered contradictory explanations for his behavior Tuesday, acknowledging he groped a male staffer in a non-sexual way but later denying any groping.
New book: Defector tells of shopping in Europe for North Korea dictators (The Christian Science Monitor)
March 10, 2010
The Christian Science Monitor - Firsthand exposés about the personal lives of North Koreaâs leaders can put the lives of their authors at risk, even if they are far away.The latest tell-all, published in Austria by two journalists to whom former Army Col. Kim Jong-ryul told his story, is a case in point.
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