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Berkeley eases anti-Marines stance (AP)
<p>AP - City councilmembers who were criticized for telling Marine recruiters they don't belong in Berkeley are moderating their position.



Sick astronaut well enough to spacewalk (AP)

<img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080212/capt.af886142450c43f78712d720c941cd61.space_shuttle_dn302.jpg?x=130&y=109&q=85&sig=MPvm4NBUBmfX80Jt8aTmmw--" align="left" height="109" width="130" alt="This image from NASA Television shows the European Space Agency's Columbus module, at lower right, attached to the International Space Station, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008. The module was lifted from the payload bay of the shuttle Atlantis on Monday, Feb. 11 and installed during a spacewalk. (AP Photo/NASA TV)" border="0" />AP - German astronaut Hans Schlegel said he's feeling great and well enough to make a spacewalk Wednesday, after sitting out the mission's first outing because of illness.



Sheriff: 5 die in Mich. house fire (AP)
AP - A fire raced through a home in rural northern Michigan before dawn Tuesday, killing a man and his four children and sending the children's mother to the hospital, authorities said.
Young storm victim was 'always smiling' (AP)
AP - Felicia Stephens, her arm in a splint, took one last look at the open coffin holding her 2-year-old son, then dropped back into her wheelchair sobbing.
Exemptions subvert open records laws (AP)
AP - A father fights for access to information about his son's death during a law enforcement chase, only to find that Mississippi's sunshine laws don't require the public release of investigative records.
Icy storm ties up travel, voting in East (AP)

</a>AP - Winter's latest delivery of misery slid across the East Coast after icing over parts of the Ohio Valley, snarling primary-day voting, delaying air travel and causing hundreds of traffic accidents.



Wheelchair dumping gets police suspended (AP)
AP - Four Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies have been suspended after purposely tipping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair at a jail, authorities said Tuesday.
Hail, Snoopy! Beagle wins Westminster (AP)

AP - Start dancin', Snoopy. You're out of the Westminster doghouse. At long last, a beagle is America's top dog. Baying and barking to his heart's delight, Uno lived up every bit to his name Tuesday night, becoming the first of his breed to win best in show at the nation's biggest canine competition.



FEMA to use trailers after tornadoes (AP)

AP - Some of the thousands of trailers sitting unused since they were purchased by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in 2005 for Gulf Coast hurricane victims may finally be put to use — to help victims of last week's tornadoes, officials said Tuesday.



Subsidies help some live in resort towns (AP)
AP - After spending his day in front of a middle school classroom, teacher Brook Yeomans sometimes jumps on his skateboard for the short commute to his home, a two-story, coffee-colored townhouse with views of the vast Wyoming mountains.
Jury deliberates in ex-officer's trial (AP)
<p>AP - Bobby Cutts Jr. admits he killed his pregnant lover and dumped her body.



Private crews to fight 'dormant volcano' (AP)

AP - Specialists arrived Tuesday to help extinguish a five-day-old sugar-refinery fire burning too intensely and deeply for standard firefighting to douse, and officials feared the deadly blaze could once again trigger explosions.



Prosecutor: Woman fatally beat boy, 4 (AP)
AP - A woman beat her cousin's 4-year-old son to death while two of her own children held him down and a third watched, all because the boy soiled his pants, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Student wounded at SoCal junior high (AP)
AP - A 15-year-old boy was shot and wounded in a junior high school computer lab Tuesday and another eighth-grader was taken into custody, authorities said.
Colleges seek to protect church tills (AP)

AP - The globe-trotting priest from Connecticut drove a Jaguar, shopped at Bergdorf Goodman and bought jewelry from Cartier, all of it with money stolen from his church's coffers. By the time the parish finance council caught on, he had embezzled $1.3 million.




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