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• Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession March 13, 2010
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager. Republican Rep.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests March 13, 2010
  ATLANTA (AP) — Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks. Duke University researchers found a link between how a key stock index performed and how many heart attacks were treated at their North Carolina hospital shortly after the recession began in December 2007 through July 2009, when signs of […]
• Native Hawaiian government may become reality March 13, 2010
  HONOLULU (AP) — Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii. Native Hawaiians are the last remaining indigenous group in the United States that hasn't been allowed to establish their own government, a right already extended to Alaska Natives and 564 Native Ame […]
• Judge faces election after unpopular decision March 13, 2010
  VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The judge didn't believe the father was a threat and denied the mother's plea to keep him away from their 9-month-old son. Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Obama looks to reward rather than punish schools March 13, 2010
  ATLANTA (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday unveiled his plan to improve the U.S. educational system by rewarding schools that make progress rather than punishing those that don't, as he looks to help American students make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries. Obama wants to overhaul the 2002 education law championed […]
• Earthquake recorded in Canadian County March 13, 2010
  A 3.1 magnitude earthquake struck southwest of El Reno in Canadian County early Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.Read more on NewsOK.com […]
• Obama promise: Brighter education futures for kids March 13, 2010
  ATLANTA (AP) — President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries. A plan to overhaul the 2002 education law championed by President George W. Bush was unveiled by the […]
• Sen. Reid's wife leaves hospital's intensive care March 13, 2010
  FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate highway near Washington. Jon Summers, a spokesman for the senator, says Landra Reid's condition was upgraded on Saturday to good […]
• Ohio opponents would fight ACORN attempt to return March 13, 2010
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The community organizing group ACORN is not expressly prohibited from returning to Ohio under a settlement reached in a lawsuit that claimed it used fraudulent voter registration practices. But a lawyer for a group that filed the lawsuit says it would fight in court any attempt by ACORN to reopen its doors in Ohio for voter registration […]
• Appeals court upholds conviction in Miss. killings March 13, 2010
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the 2007 conviction of a reputed Ku Klux Klan member in the kidnapping of two black men who were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi in 1964. In a 2-1 ruling, the panel of judges said the evidence in the case against James Ford Seale was sufficient for the jury conviction in the trial that took pl […]