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NFL to pay $42M for using retired players images
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The NFL has agreed to pay $42 million as part of a settlement with a group of retired players who challenged the league over using their names and images without their consent.
Pacific Command contractor charged with spying
HONOLULU (AP) - A defense contractor who works in intelligence at the U.S. Pacific Command has been charged with giving national security secrets to a 27-year-old Chinese woman with whom he was romantically involved, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday.
Woman who lost downloading case says she can't pay
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Minnesota woman at the center of a long-running court fight over the unauthorized downloading of copyrighted music said there's still no way she can pay record companies the $222,000 judgment she owes after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal Monday.
Police say Fla. college student plotted attack
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A college student with two guns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a backpack filled with explosives pulled a dorm fire alarm Monday in an apparent attempt to force other students out into the open so that he could slaughter them, authorities said. But he instead put a bullet in his head as police closed in.
LA youth team banned from practice at park
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Los Angeles youth football team has been banned from practicing at a park after a fight among adult fans at a pizza parlor led to a fatal stabbing.
Trial opens for NYC stop-and-frisk challenge
NEW YORK (AP) - Many of the tens of thousands of New Yorkers stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked by police in the past decade were wrongly targeted because of their race, lawyers for four men who claim they were illegally stopped said Monday.
ACLU alleges gay students harassed at high school
HESPERIA, Calif. (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California on Monday demanded that San Bernardino County school district officials step in to end discrimination againstgay students by teachers and administrators at a district high school.
Colorado governor to sign gun controls
DENVER (AP) - Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will sign legislation Wednesday that sets limits on ammunition magazines and expands background checks for firearms, marking a Democratic victory in a state where gun ownership is a treasured right and Second Amendment debate has played out in the wake of two mass shootings.
Mars rover Curiosity stands down after new problem
LOS ANGELES (AP) - After recovering from a computer problem, the Mars rover Curiosity is sidelined again, further delaying the restart of science experiments.
Detective describes note in Marine wife's killing
VISTA, Calif. (AP) - A document attributed to a woman charged in the death of a Camp PendletonMarine's wife identifies her as a participant in a beating and asphyxiation and says her co-defendant should not be charged with a crime, a detective testified Monday.
Cal State plans enrollment hike with extra funds
LOS ANGELES (AP) - California State University plans to spend the projected $125.1 million in extra state funding for the 2013-14 academic year to expand enrollment and online courses, boost employee salaries and pay for increased energy and health benefit costs, officials said Monday.
SF supe seeks anti-abortion protester buffer zones
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A San Francisco supervisor wants to create a 25-foot buffer zone around Planned Parenthood and other clinics that are the target of anti-abortion protesters.
Calif. nuke plant could breakdown at full power
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant in California could be restarted safely and run at full power, but the risk of a breakdown would increase to vexing levels after 11 months, a report concluded Monday.
Calif. raceway crash probe looks at steering wheel
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Authorities are investigating whether a faulty steering wheel caused a California raceway crash that killed two people, including the young cousin of the teenage driver, officials said Monday.
Ex-state official to oversee LA County jail system
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former California Department of Corrections official has been named assistant sheriff in charge of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Custody Division.
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Judge: Manson disciple can't keep tapes from LAPD
DALLAS (AP) - A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the Los Angeles Police Department should be able to obtain the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney.
Authorities: Neighbor claims battery by Bieber
CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) - Deputies were investigating claims made Tuesday by a neighbor that Justin Bieber attacked and threatened him during an argument in suburban Los Angeles, authorities said.
U.S. eyes anti-piracy effort along west Africa coast
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. and some of its allies are considering plans to increase anti-piracy operations along Africa's west coast, spurred on by concerns that money from the attacks is funding a Nigerian-based insurgent group that is linked to one of al-Qaida's most dangerous affiliates.
Lancaster city officials can pray at meetings
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court says members of a Southern California city council can open their meetings with a prayer.
Usher, Fogerty sign on for Rock Hall ceremony
CLEVELAND (AP) - Usher, Carole King, John Fogerty, Spike Lee, Harry Belafonte and others have been added to the list of performers and presenters for the next Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Consumer confidence falls in March
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans are less confident in the economy than they were last month as massive government spending cuts have stoked economic uncertainty.
Obama to name woman Secret Service head
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will appoint veteran Secret Service agent Julia Pierson as the agency's first female director, a White House official said, signaling his desire to change the culture at the male-dominated service, which has been marred by scandal.
Qualcomm CEO joins Sacramento bid to keep Kings
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Add another investor to the group Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is assembling to keep the Kings from moving to Seattle.
North Korea puts artillery forces at top combat posture
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's military warned Tuesday that its artillery and rocket forces are at their highest-level combat posture in the latest in a string of bellicose threats aimed at South Korea and the United States.
SpaceX Dragon cargo ship splashes into Pacific
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The SpaceX Dragon capsule is back on Earth.
Riverside pulls 100K pledge from $1M Dorner reward
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The city of Riverside now says it's pulling its pledge of $100,000 toward the $1 million reward offered during the manhunt for rogue ex-Los Angeles cop Christopher Dorner.
Court grounds packed on first day of marriage case
WASHINGTON (AP) - They mostly kept their distance, these supporters and opponents of gay marriage, as they massed Tuesday in front of the stately Supreme Court to proclaim with signs and sayings their conflicting views about a cutting-edge issue now in the hands of America's top jurists.
Vehicle crash kills state prison K-9 officer, dog
SACRAMENTO (AP) - A state correctional officer and his search dog died Monday in a single-vehicle crash in San Diego County.
People paying big to see court case
WASHINGTON (AP) - The most expensive ticket to "The Book of Mormon" on Broadway: $477. The face value of a great seat for this year's Super Bowl: $1,250. Guaranteed seats to watch the U.S. Supreme Court hear this week's gay marriage cases: about $6,000.
Spring snow closes US schools, cancels flights
HAMBURG, Pa. (AP) - Five days into spring, warm weather and budding flowers were just a rumor Monday as the East Coast endured another blast of winter.
