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  • Florida judge strikes down Obama health care overhaul

    MELISSA NELSON Associated Press

    Fla. judge strikes down Obama health care overhaul PENSACOLA, Fla. — A federal judge declared the Obama administration's health care overhaul unconstitutional Monday, siding with 26 states that argued people cannot be required to buy health insurance. Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson agreed with the states that the new law violates people's rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 or face penalties. He went a step further than a previous ruling against the law, declaring the entire thing u...

  • Fla. judge strikes down Obama health care overhaul

    MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press

    Fla. judge strikes down Obama health care overhaul MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla. — A federal judge declared the Obama administration's health care overhaul unconstitutional Monday, siding with 26 states that argued people cannot be required to buy health insurance. Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson agreed with the states that the new law violates people's rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 or face penalties. He went a step further than a previous ruling against the law, d...

  • Florida judge strikes down Obama health care overhaul

    MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press

    Fla. judge strikes down Obama health care overhaul MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla. — A federal judge declared the Obama administration's health care overhaul unconstitutional Monday, siding with 26 states that argued people cannot be required to buy health insurance. Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson agreed with the states that the new law violates people's rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 or face penalties. He went a step further than a previous ruling against the law, d...

  • South is getting rare winter storm

    MELISSA NELSON Associated Press Writer PENSACOLA, Fla.

    Schools were shuttered and flights canceled across the South on today as snow began falling, bringing a rare white landscape that could stretch into areas that haven't seen snow in a decade — or longer. Winter storm warnings spanned the Gulf Coast states early this morning as the snow crawled east out of Texas, where it left the Dallas area with more than a foot of snow, nearly 200 traffic accidents and hundreds of canceled flights. Snow, ice and sleet closed parts of Interstate 49 in central Louisiana early Friday. Areas o...

  • BP admits unprepared for Gulf spill; pipe awaits cut

    ADAM GELLER MELISSA NELSON Associated Press Writers PENSACOLA, Fla.

    BP's top executive acknowledged this morning the global oil giant was unprepared to fight a catastrophic deepwater oil spill as engineers were forced yet again to reconfigure plans for executing their latest gambit to control the Gulf of Mexico gusher. BP PLC planned to use giant shears to cut a pipe a mile below the sea after a diamondtipped saw became stuck halfway through the job, another frustrating delay in six weeks of failed efforts to stop or at least curtail the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The government's...