points on thursday, making it the best day of 2011 so far. wisconsin plans layoff notices today for 1,500 state workers. that's because the legislature has not approved governor scott walker's budget repair bill. walker says that a curb on collective bargaining rights will ease the deficit but every democratic senator left the state to block a vote on that bill. indiana's following wisconsin's lead and fining its missing lawmakers. the penalty $250 a day for each absent democrat, 35 house democrats left the state, stahling a measure to restrict collective bargaining for state workers. libyans spilled into the streets after friday prayers today demanding that moammar gadhafi step down. protests are reported in several cities. gadhafi forces confronted