SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. – Rescuers working late into the night freed 19 manatees who were stuck in a storm drain in central Florida. Capt. Jay Dragon of the Satellite Beach Fire Department said early Tuesday that the 19 manatees were all alive and were returned to the Indian River Lagoon …

POCATELLO, Idaho – An eastern Idaho couple now has nine new puppies after they saved a pregnant dog that had been shot and left to die on the side of the highway. Beth Stenberg saw the brown and white border collie lying in the grass on the side of Interstate …

LOS ANGELES – A mountain lion that’s a local celebrity has moved in under a Los Angeles home but authorities hope to dislodge him. Jason Archinaco, who owns a home in the hilly Los Feliz area, says workers installing a home security system encountered the cougar around noon Monday. Archinaco …

SLIDELL, La. – Firefighters in Louisiana have rescued a duck lodged in a fireplace. WVUE-TV (http://bit.ly/1yKz37O) reports firefighters in St. Tammany Parish responded to an unusual call Sunday from a home in Slidell outside New Orleans. When firefighters arrived, they discovered a large duck trapped in the fireplace with its …

10:55 a.m. The jury in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) has been shown two photographs of him as a child. The photos were displayed Wednesday during the testimony of the son of the family’s landlord in Cambridge. Sam Lipson described Tsarnaev as a “very sweet” …

Roman Polanski |David Gest |Spector CaseSuicide?|Mel Gibson|Far From Heaven Shocker: Polanski Papers Published As usual,thesmokinggun.comhas scored a coup. They’ve published the 1977 grand jury deposition of the 13-year-old girl who director Roman Polanski was convicted of raping. The interrogation of Samantha Gailey (now Geimer) is so unbelievably, insanely awful that …

BERLIN – It wasn’t the world’s best-hidden marijuana plantation. Berlin police say they were were called to a subway station Monday morning by a street cleaner who reported finding “numerous small plants that seemed suspicious to him.” Officers found 700 small cannabis plants growing among weeds on a traffic island …

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To watch “The Talking Points Memo” in the Screening Room click here. In some high schools around the country, students can getcondoms (search)without the permission of their parents. The thinking is that if a student is going to have sex, it’s the school’s obligation to protect him or her. This, …

The Reagan movie is shifted to Showtime. That is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. On TuesdayCBS (search)issued this statement, “Although the mini-series features impressive production values and acting performances, and although the producers have sources to verify each scene in the script, we believe it does not …