An autopsy has concluded that a rural teacher was killed by animals, and the head of the Alaska State Troopers says wolves are the likely suspect. (feeds.boston.com)

The autopsy on Corey Haim revealed the actor's heart was enlarged and his lungs were filled with water when he died, Haim's manager said. (rss.cnn.com)

Russ Ortiz pitched three scoreless innings, and Andre Ethier and Casey Blake homered as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Kansas City Royals 6-4 on Thursday. (www.newsvine.com)

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Top Democrats are fighting to attach the proposed overhaul of student loan programs to health care reform. (feeds.nytimes.com)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said he chose a former top state judge to oversee probes into whether Governor David Paterson wrongly accepted World Series baseball tickets or the state police had tried to quash a domestic violence charge against an aide to the governor. (feeds.reuters.com)

A mayor loyal to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered the expropriation of property owned by the country's largest food producer. (www.newsvine.com)

Cole Aldrich had 12 points and 18 rebounds, and No. 1 Kansas become the third team to reach 2,000 wins by pulling out an 80-68 victory over scrappy Texas Tech on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 tournament. (www.newsvine.com)

Chris Wright scored 27 points and No. 22 Georgetown sailed past No. 3 Syracuse with an impressive second-half surge, beating the top-seeded Orange 91-84 in the quartefinals of the Big East tournament Thursday. (www.newsvine.com)

Lawmakers are moving closer to stopping the tradition of renaming the Connecticut National Guard training camp with each new governor. (feeds.boston.com)

Sarah Palin's new memoir is hardly the first to stir controversy ... (feeds.digg.com)

The most remarkable thing Lauren Johnson did Wednesday morning was — nothing. (www.newsvine.com)

The Louisiana Municipal Police Employees Retirement System wants a federal judge in Pittsburgh to stop FirstEnergy's proposed $4.7 billion takeover of the western Pennsylvania electric company. (feeds.boston.com)

Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by the Nielsen Co. for the week of March 1-7. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses: (www.newsvine.com)

Southwest Airlines says it will be starting new daily nonstop flights between Connecticut's Bradley International Airport and Denver. (feeds.boston.com)

For five days, Alexis Moore carefully planned how she would take her own life. She's not a violent person, so she knew handguns were out. She settled on vodka instead, to be followed by a bottle of Xanax. (rss.cnn.com)

Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, jumping past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the first person from a developing nation to top the list, according to Forbes magazine. (feeds.wsjonline.com)

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Six years after Nomar Garciaparra left the Red Sox under a dark cloud, Pat Pink still tenderly dusts an autographed picture of him on her bedroom dresser, still dons a Garciaparra No. 5 jersey when she goes to Fenway Park. (feeds.boston.com)

New York magazine and The New Yorker dominated this year's nominations for the National Magazine Awards with 10 apiece, followed by National Geographic with seven. Each is up for a coveted general excellence award in its circulation category. While New York is independent -- owned by a fund of... (www.nypost.com)

For many California areas, unemployment rates moved persistently higher in January, indicating that the national economic recovery hasn't yet translated into jobs for the Golden State. The state's jobless rate of 12.5% in January was its worst on record and fifth-highest in the nation, but for eight counties it is over 20%. (feeds.digg.com)

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Wendell Preadom scored 22 points and hit the go-ahead basket to lead Houston Baptist to an 80-77 victory over Chicago State in the first round of the Great West Conference tournament Wednesday. (www.newsvine.com)

Ashton Mitchell scored 20 points to lead top-seeded Sam Houston State to a 62-57 victory over Nicholls State in the first round of the Southland Conference tournament Wednesday. (www.newsvine.com)