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Last Haditha defendant seeks to dismiss charges
AP
(22 March 02:16) |
| AP - Eight Marines were charged in the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops to arise from the Iraq war. Six have had charges dismissed, and one was acquitted. |
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Floods recede in Fargo but other hazards linger
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(22 March 01:22) |
| AP - As the Red River slowly started to recede Monday and fears of major flooding diminished, Fargo residents were left to deal with another problem: environmental hazards that linger long a... |
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Tens of thousands rally for immigration reform
AP
(22 March 05:46) |
| AP - Frustrated with the lack of action to overhaul the country's immigration system, tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied on the National Mall and marched through the streets of the c... |
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Flood fears recede in Fargo as river hits crest
AP
(22 March 05:37) |
| AP - The good news was all about things that didn't happen: No floodwaters pushing aside hastily built sandbag walls, no neighborhoods evacuated, no panicked residents wondering if they'd ev... |
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No injuries in emergency landing at OHare
AP
(22 March 01:53) |
| AP - Chicago officials say there were no injuries after an emergency landing at O'Hare International Airport. |
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Obama vows commitment to immigration reform
AP
(22 March 01:52) |
| AP - President Barack Obama is reassuring immigration reform advocates that he is committed to working with Congress on a comprehensive bill to fix a "broken immigration system." |
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Red River hits crest begins to recede in Fargo
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(22 March 01:40) |
| AP - The crest of the Red River was met Sunday with more shrugs than white knuckles, as flood fears receded and Fargo residents walked their dogs and went to church instead of sandbagging an... |
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Thousands rally for immigration reform in DC
AP
(22 March 12:26) |
| AP - Immigrant rights supporters from around the country are rallying for immigration reform on the National Mall. |
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More snow falling in Okla Ark spring blizzard
AP
(21 March 11:49) |
| AP - More snow was falling Sunday as part of a powerful storm blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first weekend of spring. |
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Giant bluestone sculpture for sale in Catskills
AP
(21 March 11:05) |
| AP - Harvey Fite spent 37 years turning an abandoned bluestone quarry in the Catskill Mountains into a strange and striking landscape sculpture. Visitors to Opus 40 walk through rock-wall ma... |
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Snowmobiles ATVs lobster boats used for census
AP
(21 March 10:54) |
| AP - Census workers are using snowmobiles, airplanes, all-terrain vehicles — even lobster boats — to visit the most far-flung, hidden-away dwellings when counting the nation's po... |
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Enviros growers agree on farmland reuse for solar
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(21 March 10:15) |
| AP - Cash-strapped farmers in California's agricultural heartland and environmentalists at odds over water rights and wildlife protections finally agree on something: that thousands of acres... |
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Toyota shareholders sue over fallen stock price
AP
(21 March 08:44) |
| AP - Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker's stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and ... |
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More snow expected in Okla Ark spring blizzard
AP
(21 March 07:29) |
| AP - More snow is expected as part of a powerful storm blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the weekend of spring. |
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Fargos fight against flooding nears its climax
AP
(21 March 12:54) |
| AP - A weeklong fight against flooding neared its climax in Fargo on Sunday, with miles of sandbags and clay dikes expected to hold back the bloated Red River at its crest with room to spare... |
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2 Baltimore officers shot during traffic stop
AP
(21 March 11:23) |
| AP - Baltimore police say two officers have been shot during a traffic stop and they are in serious but stable condition. The suspected shooter was killed by return fire. |
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Struggling town turns out to bury fallen soldier
AP
(21 March 09:16) |
| AP - Residents from the small communities just outside the mountains of Glacier National Park buried one of their own Saturday, a young soldier from Hungry Horse killed by Afghan insurgents ... |
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Thousands rally to pull troops from 2 war zones
AP
(21 March 05:00) |
| AP - Thousands of protesters — many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama — marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troop... |
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3 deaths reported as snow storm strikes Plains
AP
(21 March 04:45) |
| AP - A powerful storm began blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first day of spring Saturday, bringing heavy snow and strong winds a day after temperatures reached into t... |
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3 killed after small planes collide over Fla
AP
(21 March 03:55) |
| AP - A single-engine plane and a kit-built aircraft collided in clear, sunny skies Saturday over central Florida, killing three people, authorities said. |
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Fargo calm confident as Red River completes rise
AP
(21 March 03:52) |
| AP - They passed out cigars in Fargo on Saturday, but no matches just yet, as a flood-weary city that's spent the last week getting ready to hold back the Red River cautiously prepared to ce... |
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Black support high for Obamas race-neutral stance
AP
(21 March 03:16) |
| AP - In this banking center walloped by the Great Recession, where unemployment just hit a 20-year high and as many as one in three black people are out of work, blacks could easily be frust... |
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Police Boy 16 made racial comment at NJ Walmart
AP
(21 March 01:39) |
| AP - A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in the southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, ... |
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Lawmakers wnt to limit txt msgs and e-mails
AP
(21 March 01:17) |
| AP - Open government in the heart of Silicon Valley is starting to mean turn off, tune out, power down. |
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Report 2 die after small planes collide over Fla
AP
(21 March 12:58) |
| AP - Authorities are saying that two small planes have collided over central Florida and two people have been killed. |
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Tight for cash governments raise traffic fees
AP
(21 March 12:30) |
| AP - Shomari Jennings was willing to pay the $70 ticket he received for driving without a seatbelt, but not the slew of tacked-on fees and penalties that ballooned the cost more than tenfold... |
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Former Interior Secretary Udall dies at age 90
AP
(21 March 12:21) |
| AP - Stewart Udall, who sowed the seeds of the modern environmental movement as secretary of the interior during the 1960s and later became a crusader for victims of radiation exposure from ... |
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Snow storm strikes Plains on first day of spring
AP
(21 March 12:20) |
| AP - A powerful storm is blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first day of spring, bringing heavy snow and strong winds. |
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Boy Scouts sex abuse files now evidence in lawsuit
AP
(21 March 12:09) |
| AP - The Boy Scouts of America call them "perversion files," internal documents used to track Scout leaders suspected of sexually abusing young boys, and they have became part of the public ... |
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Teen charged in NJ Walmart racial comment case
AP
(20 March 11:40) |
| AP - A 16-year-old boy patronizing a Walmart store in southern New Jersey took over the public-address system and ordered black people to leave, angering customers and prompting company lead... |
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Ore town uses geothermal energy to stay warm
AP
(20 March 11:26) |
| AP - When snow falls on this downtown of brick buildings and glass storefronts in southern Oregon, it piles up everywhere but the sidewalks. It's the first sign that this timber and ranching... |
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Former press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson dies
AP
(20 March 11:12) |
| AP - Liz Carpenter, an author and former press secretary to first lady Lady Bird Johnson, has died. She was 89. |
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Thousands rally on anniversary of invasion of Iraq
AP
(20 March 10:11) |
| AP - Thousands are protesting in the nation's capital on the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, carrying signs reading "Indict Bush Now" and flag-draped cardboard coffins. |
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Fargo officials Dont celebrate flood victory yet
AP
(20 March 10:07) |
| AP - A city used to fighting floods was confident Saturday that it had done enough to hold back the swelling Red River — even as the water inched higher — but officials stressed ... |
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New threat puts Calif police on heightened alert
AP
(20 March 09:19) |
| AP - The tense atmosphere surrounding a California police department plagued by booby trap attacks has been stepped up a notch following the latest threat against officers. |
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Study Lesser-known bug a bigger hospital threat
AP
(20 March 06:42) |
| AP - As one superbug seems to be fading as a threat in hospitals, another is on the rise, a new study suggests. |
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New threat puts Hemet officers on heightened alert
AP
(20 March 01:46) |
| AP - The tense atmosphere surrounding a California police department plagued by booby trap attacks has been stepped up a notch following the latest threat against officers. |
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Boy Scouts sex files now evidence in Ore lawsuit
AP
(20 March 01:44) |
| AP - The Boy Scouts of America call them "perversion files," internal documents used to track Scout leaders suspected of sexually abuse young boys. On Friday they became part of the public r... |
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Man wanted for Detroit slayings nabbed near LA
AP
(20 March 01:43) |
| AP - U.S. Marshals using information from Detroit police have arrested in California a man wanted in a double slaying reported by the 8-year-old daughter of one of the victims. |
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Bloated lake haunts North Dakota town again
AP
(20 March 01:31) |
| AP - Almost a year after worried authorities went door to door warning residents to flee as water carved through a nearby dam, this tiny North Dakota town is facing the possibility of having... |
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Judge $575M settlement rejected for 911 heroes
AP
(20 March 01:31) |
| AP - A federal judge rejected a multimillion dollar settlement for people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal to compensate 10,000 police officers, firefigh... |
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Police Arrest in NJ Walmart racial comment case
AP
(20 March 12:09) |
| AP - Police say they have made an arrest in the case of a racial comment being made over the public-address system at a Walmart store in southern New Jersey. |
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New threat rankles Hemet Calif police
AP
(20 March 11:56) |
| AP - A Southern California police department plagued by booby trap attacks against its officers went on heightened alert Friday following yet another threat. |
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Medical examiner Boy found on Wash beach drowned
AP
(20 March 09:25) |
| AP - A day after a boy's body was found on an island beach in Puget Sound, authorities searched unsuccessfully for his missing mother. |
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Member of Texas polygamist sect sentenced 75 years
AP
(20 March 08:26) |
| AP - The latest member of a polygamist group whose sprawling West Texas ranch was raided in 2008 has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for sexual assault of a child. |
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Arizona state employee fired over jaguar capture
AP
(20 March 08:06) |
| AP - The Arizona Game and Fish Department has fired an employee based on results of an internal investigation into the capture and death of what was the only known wild jaguar in the U.S. |
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Chief SD Police followed rules in AF sgts outing
AP
(20 March 06:21) |
| AP - The Rapid City, S.D., police chief said in a report released Friday that he regrets his department's outing of a lesbian Air Force sergeant led to her military discharge, but that his o... |
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Texas gov gives copy of pardon to mans family
AP
(20 March 06:00) |
| AP - The family of a Texas man who died while imprisoned for a rape he didn't commit cried and hugged at his graveside Friday with a framed copy of the state's first posthumous pardon &mdash... |
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Report Nurse assistants rehired after misconduct
AP
(20 March 05:52) |
| AP - A state Senate report released Friday said nurse assistants who lost their certification over abuse, negligence or theft in nursing homes were able to go to work as caregivers in assist... |
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Evidence found rotting in closed police department
AP
(20 March 05:33) |
| AP - A suburban police department left behind a roomful of evidence when it closed two years ago — including a moldy sexual assault kit that authorities said linked a man to the 2006 r... |
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