Drug firm's no-bid contract, Dem ties investigated

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• Drug firm's no-bid contract, Dem ties investigated
• Midnight deadline for Boston protesters
• Iran displays U.S. drone, but is it real?
• Dems' payroll tax cut plan blocked
• 2 dead, including officer, at Va. Tech
• Air Force: More remains went to landfill
• Sandusky's wife: No abuse at our home
• Suspect child killer to plead not guilty
• GOP threatens Holder over Fast, Furious
• Cartoonist behind The Joker, Robin dies

Drug firm's no-bid contract, Dem ties investigated Posted: 08 Dec 2011 07:22 PM PST Congressional investigators are examining a no-bid government contract to a small drug company whose controlling shareholder, Ronald Perelman, is a Democratic Party donor with ties to the White House.

Midnight deadline for Boston protesters Posted: 08 Dec 2011 06:02 PM PST A Massachusetts judge has ruled against Occupy Boston protesters' ability to camp in a downtown city square, setting up a possible confrontation with authorities who issued a midnight deadline to clear out.

Iran displays U.S. drone, but is it real? Posted: 08 Dec 2011 06:59 PM PST Iran on Thursday triumphantly displayed what it says is a U.S. stealth drone. One U.S. official says there's "no reason to believe" that the drone in the video is a fake, others wonder how it survived intact.

Dems' payroll tax cut plan blocked Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:35 PM PST Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic proposal to extend the payroll tax cut. House Republicans, meanwhile, set up a showdown with the White House.

2 dead, including officer, at Va. Tech Posted: 08 Dec 2011 07:20 PM PST A police officer was among two people killed Thursday on the Virginia Tech campus, prompting a sweeping search and school-wide lockdown that lasted over four hours.

Air Force: More remains went to landfill Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:07 PM PST The Air Force is admitting Thursday that it sent more sets of military personnel remains to a Virginia landfill than it originally acknowledged.

Sandusky's wife: No abuse at our home Posted: 08 Dec 2011 05:30 PM PST Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky remained in jail early Thursday morning on additional child sex charges involving two more alleged victims, bringing the total to 10.

Suspect child killer to plead not guilty Posted: 08 Dec 2011 07:02 PM PST Ryan Brunn, the suspect in the slaying of a 7-year-old Georgia girl who lived in the apartment complex where he worked, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

GOP threatens Holder over Fast, Furious Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:38 PM PST Eric Holder accused critics of the flawed "Fast and Furious" gun sting of using inflammatory rhetoric to score political points.

Cartoonist behind The Joker, Robin dies Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:05 PM PST Cartoonist Jerry Robinson, who worked on the earliest Batman comics and claimed credit for creating the super-villian The Joker, died Thursday at the age of 89, his family confirmed.

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