Supreme Court allows military funeral anti-gay protests (Reuters)

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• Supreme Court allows military funeral anti-gay protests (Reuters)
• Robert Kennedy assassin denied parole (Reuters)
• Ohio advances union restrictions as dispute spreads (Reuters)
• Want to Grow Your Own Bud? Head to California's 'Wal-Mart of Weed' (Time.com)
• The NFL Unfolds a Standardized Concussion Test. Took Them Long Enough (Time.com)
• U.S. files 22 new charges against WikiLeaks soldier (Reuters)
• Ohio Senate passes bill to restrict public unions (AP)
• AP: Gingrich to start testing presidential bid (AP)
• TSA probes allegations of unscreened plane luggage (AP)
• Charges grow in deadly Houston day care fire (AP)
• SD Senate votes to require 72-hr wait for abortion (AP)
• Okla. tests inconclusive in Amelia Earhart search (AP)
• Sirhan Sirhan denied parole board in RFK killing (AP)
• Piracy victims' colleagues, friends hold memorial (AP)
• Fla. wildfire battle likely to last rest of week (AP)
• Wisconsin stalemate could drag on for months (AP)
• Study: 50-year-old with diabetes dies 6 yrs sooner (AP)
• Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii won't seek re-election (AP)
• Winning? Sheen gains Twitter followers, loses kids (AP)
• 2 US airmen killed in Frankfurt airport shooting (AP)

Supreme Court allows military funeral anti-gay protests (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 10:16 AM PST Reuters - The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that members of a fundamentalist church have a free-speech right to hold anti-gay protests at military funerals to promote their view that God hates America for tolerating homosexuality.

Robert Kennedy assassin denied parole (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 06:58 PM PST Reuters - Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Senator Robert Kennedy serving a life sentence for the 1968 murder, faced a parole board hearing on Wednesday and was again denied release, prison officials said.

Ohio advances union restrictions as dispute spreads (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:38 PM PST Reuters - Ohio joined Wisconsin on Wednesday in advancing a plan to restrict public sector unions, posing a new threat to labor union power in one of the most politically and economically important states.

Want to Grow Your Own Bud? Head to California's 'Wal-Mart of Weed' (Time.com) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PST Time.com - Pot-enthusiasts, rejoice: Sacramento's new weed-centric megamall is open for business

The NFL Unfolds a Standardized Concussion Test. Took Them Long Enough (Time.com) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PST Time.com - Concussion detection in football is crucial, but could have been tackled long ago

U.S. files 22 new charges against WikiLeaks soldier (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:15 PM PST Reuters - The U.S. military said it has brought 22 new charges against a soldier accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents that were later published by the website WikiLeaks.

Ohio Senate passes bill to restrict public unions (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 06:34 PM PST AP - The bargaining rights of public workers in Ohio would be dramatically reduced and strikes would be banned under a bill narrowly passed by the state Senate on Wednesday.

AP: Gingrich to start testing presidential bid (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 06:34 PM PST AP - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will begin raising money to test whether a bid for the GOP presidential nomination is feasible, his spokesman told The Associated Press Wednesday night.

TSA probes allegations of unscreened plane luggage (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:17 PM PST AP - Several Transportation Security Administration officers have been disciplined after an investigation into allegations that workers at Honolulu International Airport didn't screen checked bags for traces of explosives, the agency said Wednesday.

Charges grow in deadly Houston day care fire (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 06:26 PM PST AP - A day care operator accused of leaving the children she was watching alone when a fire broke out at the facility, killing four kids, faced a growing list of charges Wednesday as authorities continued to answer questions about why the woman wasn't detained before she fled to Nigeria.

SD Senate votes to require 72-hr wait for abortion (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 06:33 PM PST AP - The South Dakota Senate voted Wednesday to require women to wait 72 hours before they can have abortions and to submit to counseling about why they shouldn't go through with the procedures.

Okla. tests inconclusive in Amelia Earhart search (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:33 PM PST AP - Tests to determine if bone fragments found on a remote South Pacific island are the remains of Amelia Earhart are inconclusive, researchers announced Wednesday, dashing hopes they might help explain what happened to the famed aviator who disappeared in 1937 while trying to fly around the world.

Sirhan Sirhan denied parole board in RFK killing (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 06:34 PM PST AP - A California board denied parole Wednesday for Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin, Sirhan Sirhan. A panel of two California parole board commissioners concluded after a four hour hearing that Sirhan hadn't shown adequate remorse or understanding of the crime that was mourned by a nation.

Piracy victims' colleagues, friends hold memorial (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:53 PM PST AP - Weeks before Scott and Jean Adam's yacht was hijacked by Somali pirates, the couple told their friends in a monthly e-mail that they were about to approach the Horn of Africa but were traveling with a large flotilla and didn't feel afraid of what lay ahead.

Fla. wildfire battle likely to last rest of week (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:12 PM PST AP - Florida's first significant wildfire of the year is threatening to keep dozens of firefighters busy for several more days and force more highway closures, the state agriculture commissioner said Wednesday.

Wisconsin stalemate could drag on for months (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:32 PM PST AP - Wisconsin's budget stalemate over union bargaining rights shows no sign of resolution — and it could be a long wait.

Study: 50-year-old with diabetes dies 6 yrs sooner (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PST AP - A 50-year-old with diabetes dies six years sooner than someone without the disease, and not just from a heart attack or a stroke, new research suggests.

Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii won't seek re-election (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 06:41 PM PST AP - Democratic U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii announced Wednesday he won't run for re-election next year after 22 years in the Senate.

Winning? Sheen gains Twitter followers, loses kids (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:12 PM PST AP - When Charlie Sheen threatened and maligned his bosses over "Two and a Half Men," it was business and, to some people at least, bizarrely comic. When his estranged wife alleged that she and their twin toddlers were in peril from the TV star, the saga turned ugly.

2 US airmen killed in Frankfurt airport shooting (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 06:34 PM PST AP - Two U.S. airmen were killed and two others were wounded at Frankfurt airport Wednesday when a man opened fire on them at close range with a handgun, the first such attack on American forces in Germany in a quarter century. President Barack Obama called the shooting an "outrageous act."

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