Santorum: I won and raised about $250K Tues night (AP)
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:10:46 GMT
AP - Resurgent Rick Santorum said his sweep of three GOP contests earned his shoestring campaign $250,000 overnight, cash he needs to take his upstart bid for the Republican presidential nomination to Mitt Romney's turf.

Analysis: Romney losses show conservative woes (AP)
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:54:51 GMT
AP - Mitt Romney just can't shake his difficulty attracting conservatives. And that reality is undercutting his effort to cast himself as the inevitable Republican presidential nominee and prolonging a race that each day exposes deep divisions within the party.

In scientific coup, Russians reach Antarctic lake (AP)
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:40 GMT
AP - After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years — a pristine body of water that may hold life from the distant past and clues to the search for life on other planets.

Mo. teen gets life with possible parole in killing (AP)
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:15:50 GMT
AP - A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

In 911 call, worker fears for Josh Powell's sons (AP)
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:58:42 GMT
AP - A 911 call recording reveals a social worker's attempts over a more than six-minute call to get a dispatcher to send authorities quickly to the home of Josh Powell after he locked himself and his two sons in the home he then set ablaze.

Report: Teacher's aide sent love letters to boy (AP)
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:53:38 GMT
AP - Officials at an elementary school rocked by teacher sex abuse claims are investigating yet another allegation of misconduct, this one involving a teacher's aide accused of sending love letters to an 11-year-old boy.

Congress tries to give president line-item veto (AP)
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:00:08 GMT
AP - The Republican-led House is trying Wednesday to give President Barack Obama the line-item veto, a constitutionally questionable power over the purse that has been sought by both Republican and Democratic presidents.

Getting caffeine fix as easy as taking deep breath (AP)
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:43:34 GMT
AP - Move over, coffee and Red Bull. A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the novel product is not without its risks.

US, Japan closer to moving many Okinawa Marines (AP)
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:02:41 GMT
AP - Japan and the United States agreed Wednesday to proceed with plans to transfer thousands of U.S. troops out of the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, leaving behind the stalled discussion about closing a major U.S. Marine base there.

Forget fast food toys: 'Lorax' gets green tie-ins (AP)
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:27:30 GMT
AP - The Lorax, perhaps the most famous anti-industrial crusader from children's literature, is getting support from companies that are willing to go green.