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Betty Doud lights candles in front of crosses representing the 11 victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion before a vigil to mark the first anniversary of the BP PLC oil spill on a beach in Grand Isle, Louisiana. (Photo by Patrick Semansky / AP)

Web’s ’content farms’ grow audiences for ads around Google

Think of Google like a well-traveled interstate. It’s how people get where they want to go on the Internet. And like a real highway, a whole industry has built up around the popular search engine.

NPR

Sites retool for Google effect

Wall Street Journal

Amish, state laws face conflicts

After months of negotiations, a judge in Pennsylvania ordered that two Amish buildings be closed until the owners comply with state rules requiring building and sewage permits.

USA TODAY

Lawsuits fly in BP’s Gulf spill blame game

BP and its partners involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have unleashed a $100 billion-plus barrage of legal claims a year after the rig blast killed 11 workers and created an environmental disaster.

Reuters

Cleaning oiled marshlands, a sea of unknowns

NPR

Dispatch from the oil islands

CNN

FAA fires 2 controllers, makes new rules

The Federal Aviation Administration has fired two controllers for sleeping on the job and has ordered a higher level of supervision over aircraft carrying the first lady or vice president.

TIME

Medical marijuana prescribed mostly for aches, pains

It’s not cancer or Alzheimer’s or glaucoma that had droves of Michiganders going to doctors to get certified to use medical marijuana, but ailments that cause severe and chronic pain.

Detroit Free Press

Map:

Medical pot: a breakdown of laws by state

Associated Press

NATION

Man wanted for questioning after attempted bombing at Colo. mall

Investigators asked for help as they searched for a man seen in a mall in Littleton, Colorado shortly before what they described as a possible attempt to bomb the shopping center.

CNN

Bomb, propane tanks found in Colo. mall

YouTube

From Hannibal Lecter to Bernie Madoff

A team of FBI agents, the same ones who specialize in helping local police track down serial killers like Gary Ridgway, are using their expertise in behavioral profiling to target white collar criminals like Madoff.

Reuters

Texas wildfires burn ‘border to border,’ cold front lifts hopes

Texas wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres in just a few days, jumping firebreaks and threatening cities, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Christian Science Monitor

Texas wildfires: crews fight statewide blaze

National Geographic

POLITICS

Boehner calls on Obama to explain ‘pace’ of Afghan withdrawal

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner wrapped up a trip to Afghanistan by asking President Barack Obama how the “pace and scope” of a planned U.S. withdrawal will not undermine security gains.

CNN

Blog:

Obama jabs ‘climate change deniers’

(The Hill)

E2 Wire

Obama visits Facebook headquarters, mixing politics, budget arguments

President Barack Obama was in Palo Alto, Calif., answering questions in person and online during a town hall at the home base of the popular social networking site.

Star Tribune

HEALTH

Celebrating green: as color, as concept, as cause

Spring is far enough along in parts of the country that it seems appropriate to talk about the color of the season: green.

NPR

Oral pill trial to halt HIV in women is stopped due to poor results

A trial of an oral pill aimed at preventing HIV infection in African women has been halted due to poor results, the trial operator Family Health International announced this.

Khaleej Times

ENVIRONMENT

One glacier range found to contribute 10 percent of world’s melting ice

A glacier range the size of the state of New York contributes, surprisingly, 10 percent of the world’s melting ice, making it a primary contributor to rising sea levels.

LiveScience

Are we in an age of great earthquakes?

A number of devastating quakes have struck across the globe in recent years — from Japan to Chile to Haiti — sparking fears that our planet is due to experience even more catastrophic temblors soon.

LiveScience

Mercury climbing in food chain, new study shows

Levels of mercury have risen dramatically in some Pacific seabirds in the past 120 years, suggesting that industrial emissions containing the poisonous metal may be climbing the food chain.

San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

Studies find ‘easy’ material may not be easy to learn

Emerging research suggests that, contrary to what students may think, material that’s easy to understand is not always easy to learn, and that working harder can help them hold on to what they’ve learned.

Education Week

Rahm Emanuel plans big changes for Chicago schools

Change is in the air in schools across Chicago. As Rahm Emanuel prepares to officially take over as mayor, sweeping reforms are already occurring.

Huffington Post

Academic Freedom Act put on hold

Tennessee Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, took his Academic Freedom Act off notice, saying he may wait until 2012 to push the legislation that has drawn fire from critics.

Chattanooga Times Free Press

SPORTS

Bud Selig says MLB will run Dodgers

Major League Baseball is taking the extraordinary step of assuming control of the LA Dodgers, a team increasingly paralyzed by the bitter divorce of owners Frank and Jamie McCourt.

ESPN

Caps’ big rally puts Rangers in 3-1 hole

Jason Chimera scored 12:36 into the second overtime and the Washington Capitals completed a stunning three-goal comeback to beat the Rangers 4-3 and push New York to the brink of elimination.

NBCSports

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GOOD NEWS

Pennsylvania teen helps deliver surprise sister

With help from 911 dispatcher Shawn Pistorius, the 13-year-old boy helped his mom through the birth of his new sister.

AOL News

Genetic breakthrough may stop mosquitoes spreading malaria

Scientists have figured out a way to block the spread of malaria using genetically-modified mosquitoes that carry synthetic genes to curb the transmission of the blood parasite.

The Independent

Mich. college student‘s compassion put patients’ families at ease

In the nearly 500 hours of volunteering she performed at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Mich., KaiLi Cage became intimately involved in some of the most difficult moments in a family’s life.

MLive.com

WORLD

Japan bans entry into Fukushima evacuation zone