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Nev. Medicaid cuts could lead to diaper rationing
Adult diapers could be rationed and personal care assistants may need to buy their own disposable gloves to help cut $109 million from the state's Medicaid costs, state lawmakers were told Tuesday.
updated: 1 minutes ago

Senate OKs resolution opposing terror trial in NYC
The New York Senate has passed a resolution opposing trials of terrorists being held in New York City.
updated: 3 minutes ago

Ill. murder suspect threatened to kill 2nd wife
The second wife of a former suburban Chicago police sergeant has testified that he threatened to kill her and make it look like an accident.
updated: 4 minutes ago

Snow shuts down federal government, life goes on
If snow keeps 230,000 government employees home for the better part of a week, will anyone notice? With at least another foot of snow headed for Washington, Philadelphia and New York, we're about to find out. The federal government in the nation's capital has largely been shut down since Friday afternoon, when a storm began dumping up to 3 feet of snow in some parts of the region. Offices could remain closed at least through Wednesday.
updated: 5 minutes ago

Iran boosts nuclear enrichment, drawing warnings
Iranian nuclear technicians set dozens of centrifuges spinning Tuesday to begin enriching uranium stocks to a significantly higher level, prompting President Barack Obama to warn of a "significant regime of sanctions."
updated: 5 minutes ago

Father of NY terror plot suspect pleads not guilty
The father of an airport driver accused of trying to cook up homemade bombs in a Colorado hotel for an attack on New York City pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he tried to get rid of chemicals and other evidence, prosecutors said.
updated: 8 minutes ago

Mass. mom guilty of murder in girl's fatal OD
A Massachusetts woman was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday in the fatal prescription drug overdose of her 4-year-old daughter.
updated: 13 minutes ago

LA-area foothills under mudslide threat
Homeowners in mud-ravaged foothill towns north of Los Angeles packed their cars and left Tuesday as evacuation orders took hold and a new winter storm arrived.
updated: 22 minutes ago

Feinstein aims to stop proposed landfill expansion
California's senior senator wants to halt the proposed expansion of the West's largest toxic waste dump while the state investigates birth defects in a nearby town.
updated: 26 minutes ago

NY expert: Sodomy claims not supported by injuries
A medical expert says a man claiming he was sodomized by police with a baton did not have severe enough injuries to support his account.
updated: 29 minutes ago

3 acquitted in Ohio teen's restraint death
A jury on Tuesday acquitted three former employees of an Ohio treatment center for troubled teens of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 17-year-old girl who suffocated and choked on her own vomit after being restrained facedown on the floor.
updated: 32 minutes ago

ATF blames Texas church fires on serial arsonist
A spate of recent fires that destroyed or damaged several churches in eastern Texas were intentionally set, likely by the same person or group, federal authorities said Tuesday.
updated: 32 minutes ago

New indictment boosts charges vs. Raj Rajaratnam
A new indictment has boosted criminal insider trading charges against one of America's richest men in what New York authorities have described as history's largest hedge fund insider trading case.
updated: 36 minutes ago

Suspect testifies in own defense in Calif. murders
A California man with a genius IQ who is charged with the serial killings of five females donned an earring Tuesday and took the witness stand in his own defense.
updated: 37 minutes ago

NY governor says rumors that haunted him are dying
New York Gov. David Paterson says he believes an anticipated story by The New York Times about his personal conduct won't include much-rumored talk of wild behavior.
updated: 37 minutes ago

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