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9th US missionary freed in Haiti, returns home (AP)

March 9, 2010

Charisa Coulter, second from right, of Meridian, Idaho, one of two US Baptist missionaries held on kidnapping charges in Haiti, arrives to the airport, accompanied by US embassy staff, after her release from jail in Port-au-Prince, Monday, March 8, 2010.  Coulter was set free more than a month after she and nine other Americans were arrested for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without proper documents after the Jan. 12 earthquake.  Laura Silsby, the leader of the Idaho-based missionaries, remains detained. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - A U.S. missionary held for more than a month in Haiti on kidnapping charges flew back to the United States after being released from prison, while the leader of her Baptist group remained in custody.


2 of oldest people in US die: in NH 114, Mich. 113 (AP)

March 9, 2010

FILE - This May 17, 2006 file photo shows Mary Josephine Ray during her 111th birthday party in Westmoreland, N.H.  She died Sunday, March 7, 2010 in Westmorland at age 114. The Gerontology Research Group says that until her death, Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second oldest person in the world. (AP Photo/Keene Sentinel, Steve Hooper, File)AP - Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day.


Police: Man eyed in 2nd teen murder investigation (AP)

March 9, 2010

FILE - This undated file image provided by the Dubois family shows Amber Dubois. Authorities in Southern California say the skeletal remains of Dubois, a 14-year-old girl who disappeared a year ago while walking to school, have been found in a remote area of the Pala Indian Reservation. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dubois family, File) NO SALESAP - A registered sex offender charged with murdering a teen girl last month is a focus of the investigation into the death of a 14-year-old girl whose remains were found more than a year after she disappeared near her school, police said Monday.


Co. owner indicted in deadly NYC crane collapse (AP)

March 9, 2010

AP - A construction crane owner got a bargain-basement repair job on a giant rig, which fell apart and killed two workers when the fix failed, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against the owner and a former mechanic.

Oscar's big question: How did David slay Goliath? (AP)

March 9, 2010

From left, screen writer Mark Boal, director Kathryn Bigelow and producer Greg Shapiro pose backstage with their Oscars for screen writing, directing and best movie for “The Hurt Locker” at the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday, March 7, 2010, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - For Hollywood pundits, industry folk and Oscar fans still paying attention on Monday, a major question remained: How did David slay Goliath?


Man holding fake gun fatally shot near NYC school (AP)

March 9, 2010

This photo taken Monday, March 8, 2010 and provided by the New York City Police Department shows a fake handgun on the street near an elementary school in the Brooklyn borough of New York. When police responded to a 911 call reporting a man with a gun near the school, the man pointed the fake gun at the police and was shot and killed by one of the officers. (AP Photo/New York Police Department)AP - A police officer in Brooklyn has fatally shot a man who the NYPD says was brandishing a fake pistol near a school.


Paterson seeks to show he's still in charge (AP)

March 9, 2010

New York Gov. David Paterson listens during a town hall meeting at Brooklyn's Borough Hall in New York, Monday, March 8, 2010.   (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Gov. David Paterson was adamant about governing Monday, taking questions from the public at a town hall meeting and trying to make clear his authority to negotiate a state budget amid two scandals that threaten his job.


Stupak: Health bill abortion fight can be resolved (AP)

March 9, 2010

U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee holds a  town hall meeting in Tawas City, Mich., Monday, March 8, 2010. Stupak said he expects to resume talks with House leaders this week in a quest for wording that would impose no new limits on abortion rights but also would not allow use of federal money for the procedure. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday.


Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking (AP)

March 9, 2010

A vacant house near City Airport is seen Feb. 23, 2010 in Detroit. After decades of decline that gutted many once-vibrant neighborhoods, Detroit is preparing a radical renewal effort on a scale never attempted in this country: returning a large swath of the city to fields or farmland, much like it was in the middle of the 19th century. Under plans now being refined, demolition crews would move through the most desolate and decayed areas of urban Detroit with building-chomping excavators, reducing houses to rubble. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.


Ohio inmate ODs on pills hours before execution (AP)

March 9, 2010

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, Lawrence Reynolds is seen. The state will try again Tuesday, March 9, 2010 to execute Reynolds, who strangled his 67-year-old neighbor in her home to get money for his alcohol addiction. Reynolds had been scheduled to die last October, but Gov. Ted Strickland delayed the execution so the state could review its lethal injection procedure.  (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, File)AP - Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday postponed the execution of a convicted killer who managed to take an overdose of pills in his death row cell and was found unconscious just hours before he was to be driven to his execution.


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