http://www.mynorthwest.com MyNorthwest.com delivers up-to-the-minute local news and information for Seattle and the greater Puget Sound area. en-us 15 144 21 http://www.mynorthwest.com http://www.mynorthwest.com/img/lg_mynw_144x21.gif http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=15&sid=297818 BARTOW, Fla. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:37:32 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=15&sid=297777 WASHINGTON (AP) - America is springing forward. Most Americans trade an hours sleep this weekend for more evening sunshine to enjoy after work. Officially the change to daylight saving time occurs at 2 a.m. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:18:33 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=15&sid=297803 WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a reputed Ku Klux Klan member accused in the kidnapping of two black men who were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi in 1964. In a two-to-one ruling, the panel of judges said the evidence in the case against James Ford Seale was sufficient for the jury conviction in the 2007 trial. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:51:17 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=15&sid=295630 By P. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:39:02 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=15&sid=290868 POWAY, Calif. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:23:32 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=15&sid=297647 By EDITH M. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:23:21 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=15&sid=295196 By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) - Investigators are confronted with a series of nagging questions as they try to unravel the case of a California real estate agent who said his Toyota Prius turned into a runaway death trap after the gas pedal became stuck. Why didnt the driver simply throw the transmission into neutral as officers urged him to do? Why didnt a safety mechanism activate that was supposed to cut power to the engine in such situations? And could he have made the story up in pursuit of fame and money? Each question is getting scrutiny from the Internet-consuming public as they question the motives of the driver, a 61-year-old real estate agent named James Sikes. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:43:21 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=15&sid=297680 By SARA KUGLER Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday. At least 1.8 million trips were wrongly charged at the suburban rate, which is double the rate within city limits, the commission said. The city has about 48,300 licensed cabbies, and data shows that 35,558 have illegally charged a rider at least once, the city said. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:43:05 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=15&sid=220487 By WEATHER UNDERGROUND For The Associated Press (AP) - The East was expected to remain quite active on Saturday as a complex of low pressure systems rotated through the area. These storms were to carry a significant amount of moisture that was to translate to widespread precipitation from the Upper Mississippi Valley through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:14:55 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=15&sid=296698 By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Writer HADDONFIELD, N.J. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:09:48 PST