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Idaho first to sign law aimed at health care plan (AP)

Idaho Gov. C.L. 'Butch' Otter addresses the media during a news conference on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 inside his office at the Idaho statehouse in Boise, Idaho. On Wednesday Otter signed a piece of legislation that will require the state of Idaho to sue the federal government upon passage of health care reform which comes as Democrats in Congress hope to pass healthcare reform this weekend. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield)AP – Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.


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Idaho first to sign law against health care reform (AP)

Idaho Gov. C.L. 'Butch' Otter speaks to reporters during a news conference on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 inside his office at the Idaho statehouse in Boise, Idaho. On Wednesday, Otter signed a measure that will require the state of Idaho to sue Congress if it passes health reforms that force residents to buy insurance. The move comes as Democrats in Congress hope to pass healthcare reform this weekend. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield)AP – Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter on Wednesday became the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue Congress if it passes health reforms that force residents to buy insurance. Similar legislation is pending in 37 other states nationwide.


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Reuters: Judge to release Idaho missionaries in Haiti

Kidnap fears spark Haiti ‘children’s emergency’
The head of UNICEF warns that people may still be trying to smuggle children out of Haiti.

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‘Helping Haiti’ hit smashes records
DOWNLOAD: SUN’s Helping Haiti single is outselling rest of the Top Ten by two to one

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Damaged Haiti market collapses with people inside
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – Rescuers searching for scavengers trapped inside a half-destroyed supermarket when it totally collapsed found no signs of life on Wednesday, as casualties continued to mount from Haiti’s January 12 earthquake.

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U.B. Students Help “Map Out” Road to Future for Haiti
Students at U.B. are participating in a global effort to help and enhance the recovery effort in Haiti.

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Reuters: Judge to release Idaho missionaries in Haiti
The source said the missionaries, who have been in jail since they were stopped at Haiti’s border with the Dominican Republic on January 29, could be released as early as Thursday.

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Idaho pastor defends church members held in Haiti (AP)

American citizen Laura Silsby, 40, of Boise, Idaho, right, speaks as Nicole Lankford, 18, of Middleton, Idaho, left, and Carla Thompson, 53, of Meridien, Idaho, center, look on during an interview with the Associated Press at police headquarters at the international airport in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP – An Idaho pastor condemned child trafficking as a ‘wicked and evil practice,’ defending members of his congregation detained in Haiti after they tried to bus 33 children into the Dominican Republic.


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