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NAIROBI, Kenya - Peace graffiti has taken over Nairobi's battered Kibera slum.
March 12, 2008
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By HEIDI VOGT
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
ROBERT LEE, Texas - Fire officials kept watch Tuesday on a wildfire threatening this town of 1,500 people, but evacuated residents were allowed to return.
March 12, 2008
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The Associated Press
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National
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan has arrested a suspected al-Qaida militant who slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto named before her death as one of those involved in an attempt on her life in October, a senior government official said Tuesday.
March 12, 2008
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By SADAQAT JAN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
TINLEY PARK, Ill. - Police have released 37 seconds of a 911 call made from a suburban Chicago Lane Bryant store, hoping someone will recognize the voice of the man who shot to death five women during a botched robbery.
March 12, 2008
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The Associated Press
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National
PHOENIX - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was handed over to Arizona authorities Tuesday to face charges alleging he arranged the marriages of two teenage girls to older men.
March 12, 2008
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By AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press Writer
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National
NEWARK, N.J. - Jury selection began Tuesday for the first of two federal corruption trials facing former Mayor Sharpe James.
March 12, 2008
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By JANET FRANKSTON LORIN
Associated Press Writer
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National
CAMDEN, N.J. - New Jersey has become the last state where intravenous drug users can legally get clean needles, but two of the state's three needle exchanges are struggling to get clients.
March 12, 2008
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By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Associated Press Writer
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National
PHILADELPHIA - Antoine Rosenbaum, shot in the back by a stranger and paralyzed from the chest down, carries a heavy load for someone just 25.
March 12, 2008
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By JOANN LOVIGLIO
Associated Press Writer
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National
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The nation's drive toward alternative fuels carries a danger many communities have been to slow to recognize: Ethanol fires are harder to put out than gasoline ones and require a special type of firefighting foam.
March 12, 2008
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By CHRIS BLANK
Associated Press Writer
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National
CINCINNATI - Republican John McCain quickly denounced the comments of a radio talk show host who while warming up a campaign crowd referred repeatedly to Barack Hussein Obama and called the Democratic presidential candidate a ''hack, Chicago-style'' politician.
March 12, 2008
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By LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press Writer
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Campaign 2008
MIAMI - Florida's largest utility shut down a nuclear reactor south of Miami Tuesday, causing sporadic power outages affecting more than 3 million people across the southern end of the state. Authorities did not specify the cause of the shutdown but say there were no safety concerns.
March 12, 2008
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The Associated Press
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National
TEMPE, Ariz. - US Airways Group Inc. said Tuesday it will start charging fliers $25 to check in a second bag, the latest effort by the company to raise revenue and deal with rising costs.
March 12, 2008
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By CHRIS KAHN
AP Business Writer
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National
WASHINGTON - Gen. George Casey, the Army's chief of staff, said Tuesday he has no reason to doubt Barack Obama's recent account by an Army captain that a rifle platoon in Afghanistan didn't have enough soldiers or weapons.
March 12, 2008
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By ANNE FLAHERTY
Associated Press Writer
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Campaign 2008
WASHINGTON - President Bush predicted Monday that voters will replace him with a Republican president who will ''keep up the fight'' in Iraq.
March 12, 2008
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By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer
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Campaign 2008
While I was searching for a deal featuring Marilyn Johnson, a three-time world champion who died last year, I found two interesting defensive plays from the 1978 Spingold Knockout Teams in Toronto.
March 12, 2008
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By PHILLIP ALDER
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Coffee Break
