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From FoxNews.com

• GOP Rivals Spar in Arizona Debate
  GOP candidates Romney, Santorum trade blows on spending records in debate days ahead of Michigan primary, as all four candidates agree that managed bankruptcy, not bailouts, for auto industry would have worked for US government. Web Gives Voters Power to Nominate CandidatesSantorum, Romney Battle for Mich.Gingrich Plans 30-Minute TV Pitch on Gas Prices, Economy
• Report: Dirty Surgical Tools Used on Hospital Patients
  Technologically advanced surgical tools can be hard to clean, and can cause infection if used when dirty2 Injured, 1 Arrested in Connecticut Hospital Shooting
• Divers Pull 8 Bodies From Cruise Ship Wreckage
  Teams searching capsized Costa Concordia find eight bodies, including missing 5-year-old, authorities sayLawyers for Cruise Ship Survivors Call for New Drug Tests for Captain
• Ex-UVA Lacrosse Player Found Guilty of Murder
  Jury finds George Huguely guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of his ex-girlfriend, Yeardley LoveVIDEO: Huguely Found Guilty VIDEO: Verdict Break Down
• Anti-US protests spread in Afghanistan, 7 killed- NATO officials apologize again for defiled Koran

From Yahoo.com

• Virginia Gov. shifts on abortion bill; revised measure
  PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (Reuters) - Virginia's Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell on Wednesday abruptly shifted his stance on a hotly-contested bill requiring women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound, asking lawmakers to revise the legislation just before a scheduled vote. Virginia's House of Delegates by a vote of 65-32 approved the revised bill, which calls for women to undergo an abdominal ultrasound but not necessarily a more invasive internal one as required under the original measure. Whether the Senate will now follow suit remains in doubt. ...
• U.S. judge orders Moroccan held for Capitol plot
  ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered a Moroccan man to be held on charges that he planned a suicide bombing attack against Congress, believing he was working with al Qaeda militants when in fact his contacts were undercover agents. Amine El Khalifi, 29 and an illegal immigrant, was arrested last week and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against U.S. government property, intending to detonate a bomb and to shoot people. ...
• Struggling Floridians line up for a chance to keep homes
  MIAMI (Reuters) - Nearly 1,200 people lined up at a downtown Miami conference center on Wednesday, holding onto mortgage documents and income statements in the hope of saving the homes they are struggling to pay for. Seated at rows of long tables were scores of loan processing agents for 19 lenders who hold 85 percent of the home mortgages in the south Florida market. Over seven hours, the homeowners pleaded for loan modifications or other help under a variety of programs aimed at stabilizing the U.S. housing market and keeping struggling people in their homes. Nearly one million U.S. ...
• Ex-lacrosse player convicted of second-degree murder
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (Reuters) - A jury on Wednesday found former University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely V guilty of second-degree murder in the 2010 death of his ex-girlfriend. Huguely, 24, faces five to 40 years in prison for the charge, less than the lifelong sentence he could have received if found guilty of first-degree murder as charged. The jury deliberated for about nine hours. Jurors also found Huguely guilty of grand larceny, punishable by one day to 20 years in prison. He was found not guilty of the remaining charges he faced. ...
• Judge strikes down law mandating sale of
  TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A federal judge declared on Wednesday that a Washington state rule requiring pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptives against their religious beliefs is unconstitutional. In a decision with national implications for the role of personal morality in the workplace, U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton also imposed an injunction blocking enforcement of the regulation. Leighton said he struck down the state rule because it trampled on pharmacists' right to "conscientious objection. ...