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AP source: GM concession talks with UAW break down (AP) February 14, 2009 at 6:58 pm AP - Negotiators for the United Auto Workers walked out of concession talks with General Motors Corp. Friday night in a dispute over payments to a union-administered retiree health care fund, a person briefed on the talks said Saturday. Burris confirms request for Blagojevich donation (AP) February 14, 2009 at 6:22 pm AP - Sen. Roland Burris admitted in a document released Saturday that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's brother asked him for campaign fundraising help before the governor appointed Burris to the Senate. Congress strengthens exec pay limits (AP) February 14, 2009 at 5:36 pm AP - President Barack Obama's economic team tried to keep Democratic allies negotiating the stimulus bill from limiting paychecks for executives at banks in need of a bailout. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and economic aide Lawrence Summers failed. Charlotte in same predicament as Wall Street (AP) February 14, 2009 at 3:46 pm AP - The financial collapse has hit the city known as Wall Street South. Climate warming gases rising faster than expected (AP) February 14, 2009 at 3:46 pm AP - Despite widespread concern over global warming, humans are adding carbon to the atmosphere even faster than in the 1990s, researchers warned Saturday. Murder trial in Italy: US student had a scratch (AP) February 14, 2009 at 3:25 pm AP - An American student accused in the stabbing death of her British roommate had a scratch on her neck hours after the killing, a witness testified Saturday at the murder trial in Italy. Saudi king shakes up religious establishment (AP) February 14, 2009 at 3:18 pm AP - The Saudi king on Saturday dismissed the chief of the religious police and a cleric who condoned killing the owners of TV networks that broadcast "immoral" content, signaling an effort to weaken the country's hard-line Sunni establishment. Trade a gun for a rose in SC on Valentine's Day (AP) February 14, 2009 at 2:58 pm AP - Police in South Carolina gave away roses on Valentine's Day. All you had to do to get one for your sweetie was turn in a gun. Asthma May Start in the Womb (LiveScience.com) February 14, 2009 at 1:46 pm LiveScience.com - Children born in areas heavy traffic areas could be at greater risk of developing asthma due to genetic changes brought on by pollution and acquired in the womb, a new study suggests. Ohio woman pleads guilty in over-exercising death (AP) February 14, 2009 at 1:34 pm AP - A woman has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool, repeatedly refusing to let him leave the water. G7 finance ministers reject protectionist measures (AP) February 14, 2009 at 1:10 pm AP - The Group of Seven finance ministers pledged Saturday to avoid resorting to protectionism as they try to stimulate their own economies in the face of the world's worst economic crisis since the 1930s. GM considering Chapter 11 filing, new company: report (Reuters) February 14, 2009 at 12:28 pm Reuters - General Motors Corp, nearing a Tuesday deadline to present a viability plan to the U.S. government, is considering as one option a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that would create a new company, the Wall Street Journal said in its Saturday edition. SoCal octuplets mother now has agent, no publicist (AP) February 14, 2009 at 11:35 am AP - The public relations group that has represented octuplets mother Nadya Suleman is stepping down because of death threats, its president said Saturday. Conan O'Brien packing up for move West (AP) February 14, 2009 at 11:23 am AP - Nearly two dozen guitars are scattered on the floor and sofa in Conan O'Brien's office in Rockefeller Center, most of them gifts from musicians like Eddie Van Halen, Los Lobos, Les Paul and Brian Setzer. Former Gitmo guard recalls abuse, climate of fear (AP) February 14, 2009 at 11:15 am AP - Army Pvt. Brandon Neely was scared when he took Guantanamo's first shackled detainees off a bus. Told to expect vicious terrorists, he grabbed a trembling, elderly detainee and ground his face into the cement — the first of a range of humiliations he says he participated in and witnessed as the prison was opening for business. Residents return to fire-destroyed Australian town (AP) February 14, 2009 at 10:39 am AP - The school, the post office, the pub, the grocery store, the bakery, the gas station. All gone. So are as many as one in five of Marysville's 500 residents — killed when one of Australia's deadly wildfires raced through the town a week ago. The recovery plan: shock & awe for a shaken nation (AP) February 14, 2009 at 9:44 am AP - America is bringing shock and awe to the home front, using dollars instead of bombs. How will the government stimulus plan affect you? (AP) February 14, 2009 at 9:30 am AP - An examination of how the economic stimulus plan will affect Americans. British investor in Madoff scheme kills himself (Reuters) February 14, 2009 at 9:19 am Reuters - A former British soldier killed himself after losing his life savings in an alleged $50 billion fraud run by Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff, the dead man's son said.