Wednesday, March 27, 2013

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Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 05:28 PM PDT
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Analysis: Court energizes gay rights cause 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 05:28 PM PDT
Supporters of gay marriage hold rainbow-colored flags as they rally in front of the Supreme Court in WashingtonThe constitutional landscape may not change, but justices have provided a rallying point.
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Washington island landslide affects 34 homes 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 08:36 PM PDT
In this aerial photo, a house sits near the edge of a landslide, near Coupeville, Wash. on Whidbey Island, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. The slide severely damaged one home and isolated or threatened more than 30 on the island, about 50 miles north of Seattle in Puget Sound. No one was reported injured in the slide, which happened at about 4 a.m. Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)Some residents evacuated from hillside homes on Washington state's Whidbey Island after a large landslide are being told they can return, now that geologists have taken a preliminary look at the area.
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Senators working on immigration bill visit border patrol 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 06:48 PM PDT
Senators working on immigration bill visit border patrolFour of the U.S. senators leading the charge on immigration reform got more than they expected today when they came to Nogales, Ariz., to check on border security.
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Historic expulsion vote pending in Nevada Assembly 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 08:32 PM PDT
File-This file photo released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Nevada state Assembly member Steven Brooks after a Feb. 10, 2013 arrest on charges that he physically attacked a family member and grabbed for a police officer's weapon. Members of the Nevada Legislature are, for the first time since 1867, considering ousting one of their own: Assemblyman Steven Brooks. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, File)Members of the Nevada Assembly are poised for a historic vote on whether to oust one of their own.
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Train hauling Canadian oil derails in Minnesota 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 08:44 PM PDT
Handout of crews working to recover an estimated 30, 000 gallons of crude oil from tankers in derailment near Parkers PrairieA mile-long train hauling oil from Canada derailed, spilling 30,000 gallons of crude in western Minnesota.
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Documents: Ariz.gunman's father had taken away shotgun 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 07:02 PM PDT
FILE - This photo provided on Feb. 22, 2011, by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Jared Lee Loughner. Loughner, who pleaded guilty in the Arizona shooting rampage, will be sentenced Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, for the attack that left six people dead and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as well as 12 others. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshal's Office, File)The release of the records comes just more than four months after Jared Lee Loughner was sentenced to life in prison.
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Ashley Judd says she won't seek Senate seat 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 04:08 PM PDT
Ashley Judd says she won't seek Senate seat"My responsibilities and energy at this time need to be focused on my family," she said.
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Lawyers for James Holmes offer guilty plea 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 05:06 PM PDT
Accused Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes listens at his arraignment in CentennialThe deal would spare Holmes the death penalty in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
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Edwards' eldest daughter speaks on father's affair 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 07:30 PM PDT
Rielle Hunter: On The Presidential Campaign TrailThe eldest daughter of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards says it was difficult to watch the experience her parents went through after he revealed that he'd had an extramarital affair.
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Iowa governor asked to reduce killer's sentence 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 06:27 PM PDT
This Nov. 1, 2012 photo provided by the Iowa Department of Corrections shows Rasberry Williams who is serving a life sentence for fatally shooting an acquaintance over a $30 debt outside a Waterloo, Iowa, pool hall in 1974. After two governors have declined to grant Williams' commutation despite broad support since 2005, Gov. Terry Branstad is again considering the Iowa Board of Parole's recommendation that Williams' sentence be commuted. (AP Photo/Iowa Department of Corrections)Supporters of an inmate serving life in prison for a 1974 murder urged Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad on Wednesday to commute the sentence.
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Stumbles of S. Korean leader distract month into job 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 07:21 PM PDT
CORRECTS DATE - South Korean President Park Geun-hye delivers a speech during the third anniversary of the sinking of a South Korean naval war ship "Cheonan," at the National Cemetery in Daejeon, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. An explosion ripped apart the 1,200-ton warship, killing 46 sailors near the maritime border with North Korea in 2010. (AP Photo/Kim Jae-hwan, Pool)South Korean President Park Geun-hye's honeymoon was over before it even began.
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Texas man found guilty in wrongful conviction case 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 07:41 PM PDT
FILE - This Nov. 9, 2011, file booking photo provided by the Williamson County Sheriff's Office shows Mark Alan Norwood. A West Texas jury on Wednesday convicted Norwood, 58, for the murder of an Austin woman whose husband was wrongfully convicted of her slaying and spent nearly 25 years in prison before being exonerated. (AP Photo/Williamson County Sheriff's Office, File)A West Texas jury on Wednesday convicted a man for the murder of an Austin woman whose husband was wrongfully convicted of her slaying and spent nearly 25 years in prison before being exonerated.
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Cyprus banks reopen with strict restrictions 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 06:19 PM PDT
An European Union flag is seen ablaze during an anti-bailout rally outside the presidential palace in NicosiaBy Karolina Tagaris and Michele Kambas NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriots are expected to descend in their thousands on Thursday on banks, which reopen with tight controls imposed on transactions to prevent fleeing depositors from cleaning out the vaults in a catastrophic bank run. The east Mediterranean island fears a stampede at banks almost two weeks after they were shut by the government as it negotiated a 10 billion euro ($12.78 billion) bailout package with the European Union to escape financial meltdown. ...
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Striking Guantanamo prisoners say water denied 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 08:05 PM PDT
Prisoners taking part in an expanding hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay leveled new complaints about their military jailers Wednesday.
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Teen indicted in Ga. baby slaying and 2nd shooting 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 06:48 PM PDT
A Georgia teenager shot a 13-month-old baby in the face while trying to rob the child's mother, according to an indictment returned Wednesday that also charged the suspect with shooting another person in an unrelated robbery attempt earlier this month.
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N.J. boy, 4, found with dead mom was living on sugar 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 08:02 PM PDT
A naked, malnourished 4-year-old boy found inside an apartment with the body of his mother, dead for days, had resorted to eating from a bag of sugar and weighed only 26 pounds, well below normal, police said Wednesday as adoption offers poured in from around the world.
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1 of FBI's most wanted surrenders 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 04:10 PM PDT
In this photo provided by the FBI Denver Special Agents escort Rivera Gracias, one of the FBI's DENVER (AP) — One of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives has voluntarily returned from El Salvador to Colorado to face a first-degree murder charge in a 2011 slaying, the FBI said Wednesday.
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Wealthy woes: Billionaire cries foul in fine wine sale 
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 05:47 PM PDT
Florida energy magnate William Koch, right, arrives at Manhattan federal court, Wednesday, March 27, 2013, in New York. Koch alleges in a federal lawsuit that California businessman Eric Greenberg sold him $300,000 in vintage wine, some of it supposedly dated to 1805, that turned out to be phony. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)William Koch claims he spent $320,000 on bottles of wine that turned out to be duds.
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