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Losing job for first time a painful experience
AP - Behind the latest unemployment figures showing another 500,000-plus Americans lost their jobs is a sad truth: The deeper the recession becomes, the more it touches people whose livelihoods have never been threatened by dark financial times.
Border Patrol: San Diego plaza used by smugglers
AP - The top U.S. Border Patrol official in San Diego says he closed a half-acre oceanfront plaza on California's border with Mexico to enhance security.
Mass. teacher accused of having sex with teen
AP - An elementary school teacher accused of having sex with a teenage boy pleaded not guilty to rape charges Friday.
Motorist with 16 guns, ammo arrested at LA airport
AP - A motorist with more than a dozen guns — two of them loaded — and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition in his pickup truck was arrested Friday at a vehicle checkpoint as he entered Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.
Feds have plan if Mexico drug violence spills over
AP - If Mexican drug violence spills across the U.S. border, Homeland Security officials say they have a contingency plan to assist border areas that includes bringing in the military.
Lawmakers to consider future of steroid testing
AP - Boys and girls in all sports, from football to tennis to cross country, have been randomly selected.
Veteran Pa. elem teacher arrested on drug charge
AP - Police in central Pennsylvania say they have arrested a veteran elementary school teacher and seized 72 pounds of marijuana from her home.
Boxing ring collapses on indicted Baltimore mayor
AP - The misfortunes for indicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon are continuing.
Budget woes prompt states to rethink prison policy
AP - Their budgets in crisis, governors, legislators and prison officials across the nation are making or considering policy changes that will likely remove tens of thousands of offenders from prisons and parole supervision.
Rainforest wood at issue in beach town repairs
AP - New Jersey's most popular beach town is about to make a decision that has been criticized by environmentalists around the world — using wood cut from Amazon rainforests to repair a section of its boardwalk.
William Zantzinger, villain in Dylan song, dies
AP - William Zantzinger, a Maryland socialite whose fatal beating of a black barmaid was recounted in a Bob Dylan protest song of the 1960s, was buried Friday. He was 69.
Blagojevich faces tough trial in Senate
AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich will face long odds, and perhaps some legal twists, in the Illinois Senate trial that will decide whether he'll keep his job or be tossed out of office.
'Man shot my mommy': Ohio woman slain, son taken
AP - The 4-year-old boy's explanation was even more startling than the sight of him, barefoot and clad in pajamas, standing alone in the lobby of a highway rest stop.
Snowstorm ices roads, grounds flights in Ohio
AP - Authorities from the Ohio Valley to the Northeast are warning motorists to stay home as a weekend snowstorm grounds flights and makes roads slippery.
Baltimore mayor shows she's not easily rattled
AP - It was easy to find the symbolism in Mayor Sheila Dixon's first public event since being indicted on theft and perjury charges.
CDC director is leaving with a mixed legacy
AP - The woman who led the nation's top public health agency for more than six years is leaving the post with a mixed legacy.
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