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Sandbags on hand, Red River area waits for flood
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Schoolchildren, parents and hundreds of residents have spent days packing and stacking sandbags to protect their cities against the rising Red River. The National Guard is in place, keeping watch over the water. Dike builders are finishing last-minute work.
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Police say man fatally shoots wife at Wash. church
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Police in Washington state say a man who accompanied his wife to a church for a counseling session shot the woman several times at the church, killing her.
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Texas polygamist guilty of child sexual assault
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Prosecutors say a member of a polygamist group whose sprawling West Texas ranch was raided in 2008 has been found guilty of sexual assault of a child.
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Girl critically injured in beating at Fla. school
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Authorities say a 15-year-old girl was savagely beaten by a teenage boy while waiting for her bus outside a Florida middle school.
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Landmark exoneration in NC almost never happened
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Nearly two years ago, North Carolina’s groundbreaking innocence panel received the evidence it needed to free a man who spent 16 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted of murdering a prostitute.
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Nation, world go green for St. Patrick’s Day
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All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish, or at least Irish for the day, as revelers marked St. Patrick’s Day with bagpipes, dancing, emerald lights and green body paint in a flurry of celebration.
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Traps for police prompt raid on bikers in West
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Three booby-trap attacks on an anti-gang task force in Southern California prompted the arrests of about 30 members of California’s largest motorcycle gang, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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NY senator sworn in, replaces expelled predecessor
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The New York state Senate’s newest member has taken office, ending a lengthy saga in the chamber after his expelled predecessor was convicted of assault.
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Suspect arrested in cinema thermometer stabbing
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Detectives in Los Angeles County have arrested a man on suspicion of stabbing a moviegoer in the neck with a meat thermometer during a screening of the film "Shutter Island" last month.
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NYC prof who reported noose loses suit over firing
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A black former college professor who reported finding a noose on her New York City office door has lost one of her three lawsuits surrounding plagiarism accusations that got her fired.
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Antonio Banderas appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador
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Spanish actor Antonio Banderas has been named a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for the fight against poverty, the United Nations Development Program announced Wednesday.
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Lawyer: Man drunk during fire at 9/11 remains site
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A defense lawyer says a Harvard Law School graduate accused of setting a fire at a New York City chapel that temporarily housed the remains of Sept. 11 victims was so drunk he barely remembers being there.
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Search for Washington state mom and son resumes
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Authorities in Washington state on Wednesday resumed their search for a woman who appears to have abandoned a van on a remote Puget Sound beach over the weekend and disappeared with her 8-year-old son.
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Report alleges Afghan contractor shot Ind. Marine
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The U.S. Marine Corps’ investigation of the February death of an Indiana Marine in Afghanistan concludes that he was fatally shot when an Afghan security contractor fired shots at a group of Marines.
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Group decries textbooks on Islam as inflammatory
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A series of children’s textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as inherently violent and deserving of suspicion, according to a Muslim civil liberties group.
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Leprechaun-garbed holdup suspect among 2 shot dead
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Two bank robbery suspects, including one dressed in a green leprechaun costume, were shot dead after a St. Patrick’s Day chase and shootout with police in Tennessee, authorities said.
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Idaho high court: No new trials for 6 on death row
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The Idaho Supreme Court has denied requests from six death row inmates who said they were entitled to new trials because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made after their convictions called on juries, not judges, to impose the death penalty.
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Indictment says Ky. man threatened Obama in poem
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A Louisville man has been indicted on a charge of threatening to kill President Barack Obama in a poem posted on a white supremacist Web site.
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Was Ala. snack food heir’s death tied to business?
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An angry letter and a bag of Golden Flake chips were taped inside Major Bashinsky’s abandoned car when it was found near downtown Birmingham.
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Black people must leave, NJ Walmart announcer says
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An announcement at a Walmart store in New Jersey ordering black people to leave brought chagrin and apologies Wednesday from leaders of the company, which has built a fragile trust among minority communities.
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Sheriff: Man sold his wife for sex on Craigslist
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A woman feared she’d never see her young child again unless she complied with her husband’s scheme to sell her sexual services on Craigslist, authorities said Wednesday.
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APNewsBreak: Lawsuit prompts prison warden switch
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The Corrections Corporation of America is replacing the top two officials at Idaho’s only private prison after the American Civil Liberties Union sued over claims of brutal inmate-on-inmate violence, state corrections officials said Wednesday.
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44 of 172 Detroit schools slated to close in June
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Doors are expected to shut on more than a quarter of Detroit’s 172 public schools in June as the district fights through steadily declining enrollment and a budget deficit of more than $219 million, an emergency financial manager said Wednesday.
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Labor Dept to help crime victims get special visas
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Immigrants who have been victims of crimes and help authorities prosecute perpetrators can now get help from the U.S. Labor Department with their applications for a special type of visa.
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Episcopal church approves 2nd gay bishop
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The Episcopal Church has approved the election of a lesbian assistant bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles, making her the second openly gay bishop in the Anglican global fellowship, diocese officials said Wednesday.
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