Nation and World
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Va. Tech families offered settlement of $100,000 each
Mar 24, 2008 11:00 pm - RICHMOND, Va. -- Families of those killed in the Virginia Tech massacre would receive $100,000 each under a settlement the state is proposing to prevent lawsuits, accord...
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Clinton campaign says she 'misspoke' in account of Bosnia trip
Mar 24, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said she "misspoke" last week when saying she had landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia as first lady in March...
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Shuttle heads home from space stationMar 24, 2008 11:00 pm - HOUSTON -- Space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station on Monday to begin its return to Earth after delivering part of Japan's ambitious space ...
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Remains of 2 kidnapped U.S. contractors in Iraq recovered
Mar 24, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Authorities have recovered the remains of two U.S. contractors who were kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago, the FBI said Monday. The men were among six...
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Seeing Iraq from the chaplains' point of view
Mar 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Chaplain Kevin Wainwright was preparing his Easter Sunday sermon in Iraq when there was a knock on his door. The news was grim: 1st Lt. Phillip Neel was dead. The young ...
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Coast Guard searches for crew member in boat accident that killed 4
Mar 23, 2008 11:00 pm - ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The Coast Guard searched through the night for one crew member missing from a fishing vessel that sank off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, killing the ca...
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Mom, 4 kids murdered in Iowa City; father likely found dead in van
Mar 23, 2008 11:00 pm - IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A woman and her four children were found dead in their home Monday morning, and police later found a sixth body in a burning, wrecked van owned by the...
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Detroit mayor, former aide, charged in text-messaging sex scandal
Mar 23, 2008 11:00 pm - DETROIT -- Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and Detroit's youngest elected leader, was charged today with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit ...
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Other schools got chance to fix error that's keeping girl out of Spelling Bee
Mar 23, 2008 11:00 pm - KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A 12-year-old girl is being kept out of the Scripps National Spelling Bee because of one word -- "district" -- and not because she got it wrong. Morg...
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'Flutie effect' is real, study says
Mar 23, 2008 11:00 pm - RICHMOND, Va. -- Turns out there's some basis for the long-held belief among college admissions officials that the better their schools' teams do in high-profile sportin...