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- Lawyer in Rutgers webcam case: Defendant just a kidThe roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide in September 2010, days after the alleged spying 鈥 drawing national attention to the challenges facing young gays and lesbians in society.
- Rutgers spy cam case: Dharun Ravi defense restsDharun Ravi faces 15 charges, but the most serious is 'bias intimidation.' Prosecutors in the Rutgers spy cam case must convince the jury that Dahrun Ravi acted out of hatred against gays. He faces up to 10 years of prison if convicted.
- F. Sherwood Rowland won Nobel Prize for ozone destruction researchRowland聽was among three scientists awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for chemistry for explaining how the ozone is formed and decomposed through chemical processes in the atmosphere.
- Richard Nixon: The gushy, romantic side of 'Tricky Dick'Richard Nixon's love letters to Patricia Ryan showed a romantic young man. The letters from 1938, reveal Nixon, the 37th US president, as idealistic, poetic.
- Santorum takes Kansas in a rout, Romney strong in WyomingRick Santorum's strong win in the Kansas caucuses Saturday will give him most of the delegates there. Now it's on to primary elections in Alabama and Mississippi next Tuesday.
- Caucuses in Kansas, Wyoming next for GOP hopefulsMitt Romney aims to add to his substantial lead in the delegate count, but Rick Santorum is strong in Kansas. All the Republican presidential candidates are concentrating on Tuesday's聽primaries in Mississippi and Alabama.
- Obama strikes back at critics on gas pricesPresident Obama is underscoring his administration's work to develop alternative energy sources and increase fuel efficiency. Republicans聽accuse him of blocking projects and technology that would allow greater energy production, including the聽Keystone XL pipeline.
- Judge, deputy wounded in Washington courtSome are saying that budget cuts to security made the courthouse particularly vulnerable.
- Romney dons jeans, turns to evangelical southRomney聽holds a comfortable lead over his rivals. But in the heart of the so-called Bible Belt, as a ring of conservative Southeastern states are known,聽Romney聽faces skeptics among some evangelical 海角大神s in his bid to become the first Mormon president.
- Sherrod firing: emails reveal White House roleThe Obama administration has released nearly 2000 pages of documents that document communications between the USDA and the West Wing.
- Ex-LAPD detective guilty in 1980s murderFormer detective Stephanie Lazarus was convicted of the 1986 murder of her ex-boyfriend's wife.
- Shooting at University of Pittsburgh clinic kills oneA man entered a psychiatric clinic on campus and opened fire, killing one person and wounding others before he was killed by police.
- Prosecution rests in Rutgers webcam spying trialDharun Ravi's lawyers are expected to present an investigator and several character witnesses starting Friday.
- Miss. Supreme Court: Barbour pardons validBarbour, a Republican who once considered running for president, pardoned 198 people before finishing his second term Jan. 10.聽
- Michigan $1M lotto winner can no longer collect food stampsThe Michigan Department of Human Services said Wednesday the lottery winner no longer was getting benefits.
- Chellie Pingree, Maine Rep., decides against Senate bidPingree聽said it was a difficult decision and that she's grateful for the support she's received from across Maine and the country.
- Peyton Manning: Where will he play next?Peyton Manning is expected to announce he's leaving the Indianapolis Colts at a news conference at noon today. Will Peyton Manning go to the New York Jets?
- Super Tuesday impossibly close for Romney, SantorumBoth Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have three states as they wait for results from Ohio to come in. 聽With 91 percent of the Ohio votes tallied, Romney only has a 5,000 vote lead out of the 1.1 million votes that have been counted.
- Super Tuesday results roll in for six statesMitt Romney won in three of the first primary results to come in on Super Tuesday. 聽Rick Santorum won two of the first states to tally their results, and聽Newt Gingrich took Georgia.
- 200 cats removed from New York homeA homeowner in Hopewell Junction, N.Y. faces 41 counts of animal cruelty for keeping 200 cats in her home. In Fort Wayne, 70 cats were removed from a home Monday.