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A top NYPD Mounted Unit supervisor and his girlfriend got a no-jail deal today for conspiring to phoney-up her $2 million bid to board retired police horses. Detective Richard DePamphilis, 51 -- quartermaster for the unit -- and his horsey gal pal, Victoria Nanninga, 58, admitted to a judge that... (www.nypost.com)

Researchers have been trying to catalog the effects of daylight saving time for years, with conflicting results.Researchers have been trying to catalog the effects of daylight saving time for years, with conflicting results.Tick Tock]]> (www.aolnews.com)

Two stabbings between students took place today at two separate city high schools, authorities said. One stabbing occurred at Newtown HS in Queens at 11:25 a.m., where a 13-year-old boy was stabbed once in the back with a steak knife, police said. The student was taken to Elmhurst... (www.nypost.com)

Optimer Pharmaceuticals Inc. narrowed its loss in the fourth quarter as expenses declined, the company said. (www.newsvine.com)

New York Times' chairman and CEO received big increases in their 2009 compensation despite weakness in advertising markets. (feeds.wsjonline.com)

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Convicts in Georgia can now serve their time working for the Georgian Orthodox Church. Clerics and prosecutors have struck a deal allowing criminals convicted of minor crimes to serve their sentences in the monasteries of the impoverished Caucasus Mountain nation. (feeds.boston.com)

Fish and wildlife officials are reminding Vermonters to take down their bird feeders to keep away bears. (feeds.boston.com)

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Two veteran Time staffers are moving up the magazine's masthead. International Editor Michael Elliott will become the new deputy managing editor, second in command to Managing Editor Rick Stengel, while Nancy Gibbs, a prolific cover story writer, moves into the No. 3 slot as executive editor. Gibbs, a Time... (www.nypost.com)

Brian Pothier scored at 23 of overtime to give the Carolina Hurricanes a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night. (www.newsvine.com)

March 11: Rachel Maddow talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about when to expect a vote in the House on health reform and how seriously she takes the threat by Congressman Bart Stupak to vote against the bill if it doesn't accommodate his anti-abortion language.  (msnbc.com) (maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com)

Five same-sex couples make history in Mexico City as they wed under Latin America's first law that explicitly approves gay marriage. (pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)

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The U.S. government is asking a New York court for more time to decide whether to pursue or drop its case against a Canadian doctor's assistant accused of smuggling human growth hormone into the United States. (www.newsvine.com)

Red carpet regular Tinsley Mortimer is jumping from the New York City social circuit to the national spotlight with her own reality television show. (www.newsvine.com)

What do humans and bonobos have in common? (news.bbc.co.uk)

Time-lapse satellite views of a West Virginia coal mine show how long-term mountaintop mining can wipe out swaths of forest. (feeds.nationalgeographic.com)