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nwNews[nwCount][2][0] = new Array('20120212/D9SS256O0', 'Whitney Houston\'s death overshadows Grammys', ' LOS ANGELES (AP) - With the death of Whitney Houston just hours earlier, it\'s hard to focus on the matter of crowning the best in recorded music - but Sunday night\'s Grammy Awards are going to try. Music\'s biggest...', 'Feb 12,  3:35 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'US Grammys');
nwNews[nwCount][2][1] = new Array('20120212/D9SS257O0', 'Houston recalled as happy in days before death', ' LOS ANGELES (AP) - Whitney Houston\'s last days were spent surrounded by family, catching up with old friends and doing a bit of what she was best known for: singing. Her death Saturday afternoon in a Beverly Hills...', 'Feb 12,  3:35 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'US Whitney Houston Last Days');
nwNews[nwCount][2][2] = new Array('20120212/D9SS25982', 'In complicating move, al-Qaida backs Syrian revolt', ' BEIRUT (AP) - Al-Qaida\'s leader has called for the ouster of Syria\'s "pernicious, cancerous regime," raising fears that Islamic extremists will try to exploit an uprising against President Bashar Assad that began with...', 'Feb 12,  3:35 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'ML Al Qaida Syria');
nwNews[nwCount][2][3] = new Array('20120212/D9SS25B80', 'Top Republican wants vote on birth control mandate', ' WASHINGTON (AP) - Conservatives said Sunday the flap surrounding President Barack Obama\'s birth control mandate was far from over, with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell saying he\'ll push to overturn the...', 'Feb 12,  3:36 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'US Birth Control Politics');
nwNews[nwCount][2][4] = new Array('20120212/D9SS25BG0', 'Santorum plans aggressive strategy against Romney', ' PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A day after Mitt Romney regained some momentum in the Republican presidential contest, his rival Rick Santorum went on the attack, calling the front-runner "desperate" while promising to compete...', 'Feb 12,  3:36 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'US GOP Campaign');
nwNews[nwCount][2][5] = new Array('20120212/D9SS2N400', 'Rioting engulfs Athens, buildings burn before vote', ' ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Fireballs lit up the night sky in Greece\'s capital as buildings were set ablaze late Sunday amid widespread rioting and looting before a historic parliamentary vote expected to approve harsh...', 'Feb 12,  4:13 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'EU Greece Financial Crisis');
nwNews[nwCount][2][6] = new Array('20120212/D9SS2N9O0', 'The fight begins: Obama\'s budget going to Congress', ' WASHINGTON (AP) - The new budget that President Barack Obama is sending to Congress aims to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade by restraining government spending and raising taxes on the...', 'Feb 12,  4:14 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'US Obama Budget');
nwNews[nwCount][2][7] = new Array('20120212/D9SS2NB80', 'SPIN METER: Romney backed earmarks as governor', ' WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney takes a hard line against congressional earmarks, but the GOP presidential front-runner had a more favorable view of federal pork-barrel spending when he was governor of Massachusetts....', 'Feb 12,  4:14 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'US Romney Earmark Past');
nwNews[nwCount][2][8] = new Array('20120212/D9SS2ND80', 'AP IMPACT: USAID contractor work in Cuba detailed', ' WASHINGTON (AP) - Piece by piece, in backpacks and carry-on bags, American aid contractor Alan Gross made sure laptops, smartphones, hard drives and networking equipment were secreted into Cuba. The most sensitive...', 'Feb 12,  4:14 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'US Cuba Imprisoned American');
nwNews[nwCount][2][9] = new Array('20120212/D9SS2NE80', 'Man to face Alabama trial in wife\'s diving death', ' BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A dream honeymoon to scuba dive on Australia\'s Great Barrier Reef turned into a terrible nightmare, and the horror is about to play out years later in a courtroom in Alabama. An Alabama man who...', 'Feb 12,  4:14 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'US Honeymoon Death');
nwNews[nwCount][2][10] = new Array('20120212/D9SS1F4G0', '9 die in Kosovo avalanche; child pulled out alive', ' RESTELICA, Kosovo (AP) - Rescuers have pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both her parents and at least seven of her relatives in a remote mountain...', 'Feb 12,  2:48 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'EU Europe Weather');
nwNews[nwCount][2][11] = new Array('20120212/D9SS1HV80', 'Arab League wants UN peacekeepers in Syria', ' CAIRO (AP) - The Arab League called Sunday for the U.N. Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria, the latest effort by the regional group to end the 11-month old crisis that has killed more than...', 'Feb 12,  2:54 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'ML Syria');
nwNews[nwCount][2][12] = new Array('20120212/D9SS1EKG3', 'Love beats action as \'The Vow\' bows with $41.7M', ' LOS ANGELES (AP) - Love triumphed over action at the weekend box office with a No. 1 debut for the romantic drama "The Vow." Studio estimates Sunday show that the love story starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum...', 'Feb 12,  2:47 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'US Box Office');
nwNews[nwCount][2][13] = new Array('20120212/D9SRT8O00', 'UK gov\'t: Press must face tougher penalties', ' LONDON (AP) - Britain\'s press must face tougher penalties for breaches of standards in the wake of the tabloid phone-hacking scandal, the government minister responsible for the media said Sunday. Culture Secretary...', 'Feb 12, 10:01 AM (ET)', '', '', '', 'EU Britain Phone Hacking');
nwNews[nwCount][2][14] = new Array('20120212/D9SRVRE83', 'Injured boomers beware: Know when to see doctor', ' CHICAGO (AP) - It happened to nurse Jane Byron years after an in-line skating fall, business owner Haralee Weintraub while doing "men\'s" push-ups, and avid cyclist Gene Wilberg while lifting a heavy box. "It" is that...', 'Feb 12, 12:58 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'US MED Aging America Boomer Sports Injuries');
nwNews[nwCount][2][15] = new Array('20120212/D9SRQR600', 'Lin, Knicks rally for 5th straight, beat Wolves', ' MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - In his first three starts, Jeremy Lin\'s out-of-nowhere emergence all but saved the New York Knicks\' season. In his fourth, his teammates returned the favor. Lin hit a free throw with 4.9 seconds left...', 'Feb 12,  7:16 AM (ET)', '', '', '', 'BKN Knicks Timberwolves');
nwNews[nwCount][2][16] = new Array('20120212/D9SRV0O01', 'Whitney Houston: Brilliant, troubled pop star dies', ' LOS ANGELES (AP) - A year ago, Clive Davis\' glittery pre-Grammy showcase was winding down after a number of electric performances when the grandest name of all, Whitney Houston, walked on stage to close the evening...', 'Feb 12, 12:01 PM (ET)', '', '', '', 'US Obit Whitney Houston');
nwNews[nwCount][2][17] = new Array('20120212/D9SRQR100', 'More remains found in Calif. with killer\'s help', ' SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Authorities searching with the help of a convicted serial killer found more human remains Saturday - the first bones discovered at an abandoned well on a cattle ranch where a death row inmate...', 'Feb 12,  7:16 AM (ET)', '', '', '', 'US Speed Freak Killers');