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A federal judge refused Monday to allow a lengthy delay in the sentencing of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, even though lawyers for both sides said the move could jeopardize a federal corruption investigation involving Congress and the Bush administration. Abramoff attorney Abbe Lowell warned that the defense would disclose information about the ongoing corruption investigation to demonstrate the level of Abramoff's cooperation, something that could affect his sentence in the fraud case. "We will name names," Lowell said by telephone at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck. "That is not a good thing for law enforcement." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030601437.html

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Guards at the Department of Homeland Security say the agency mishandled a potential anthrax attack on its headquarters, one of several incidents that led two senators to request an investigation of the agency's own security. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/14028467.htm

Dana Reeve, who won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her "Superman" husband, Christopher Reeve, through his decade of near-total paralysis, has died of lung cancer at the age of 44. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11709546/

Beloved Puckett left us all smiling. Hard not to admire star who got the most out of a flawed body. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11704741/

ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff has made major progress in the last 48 hours - he is starting to talk, speaking with his family and doctors, and beginning to walk. http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1695338

That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.

Finally,
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. -- A 75-year-old woman accused of robbing a bank with an unloaded pistol was arrested after a tow truck driver blocked her in after a short chase, police said. Marilyn Divine of Baldwin said after her arrest that she acted "to help people who are starving to death and nobody cares about them." She didn't specify to whom she was referring. Police said the robber walked up to the National City Bank inside the Shop n' Save supermarket in West Mifflin at about 10:30 a.m. Monday and demanded money from two tellers, brandishing a 9mm handgun. She was wearing a gray sweat suit, a Steelers tassel cap, and had a scarf pulled around her face, police said. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ELDERLY_ROBBER?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME
She's been charged under a special criminal code called, 'Granny, What The Hell Were You Thinking?'

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