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China: No signs of life in mine landslide 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 08:01 PM PDT
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, earthmovers remove rocks and mud on the scene where a landslide hit a mining area in Maizhokunggar County of Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on Friday, March 29, 2013. The large landslide trapped dozens of workers in the gold mining area, state media reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chogo) NO SALESChinese media says rescuers are searching for 83 buried workers.
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Pope leads Good Friday rite at Rome Colosseum 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 07:25 PM PDT
Pope Francis leads the Via Crucis procession during Good Friday at the Colosseum in RomeThousands of people holding candles turned out at Rome's Colosseum to see Pope Francis mark the first Good Friday of his pontificate with a traditional "Way of the Cross" procession around the ancient amphitheatre. Francis, who was elected on March 13, sat under a red canopy on Rome's Palatine Hill as representatives of the faithful from around the world alternated carrying a wooden cross on the day Christians commemorated Jesus's death by crucifixion. ...
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N. Korea claims a 'state of war' with S. Korea 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 09:07 PM PDT
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un watches soldiers of the Korean People's Army (KPA) taking part in landing and anti-landing drills in the eastern sector of the front and the east coastal areaNorth Korea said on Saturday it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in a continuing escalation of angry rhetoric directed at Seoul and Washington, but the South brushed off the statement as little more than tough talk. The two Koreas have been technically in a state of war for six decades under an armistice that ended their 1950-53 conflict. Despite its threats few people see any indication Pyongyang will risk a near-certain defeat by re-starting full-scale war. ...
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Three dozen indicted in Atlanta cheating scandal 
Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 12:15 AM PDT
FILE - In this June 13, 2011 file photo, outgoing schools superintendent, Dr. Beverly Hall, center, arrives for her last Atlanta school board meeting at the Atlanta Public Schools headquarters in Atlanta. Hall and nearly three dozen other administrators, teachers, principals and other educators were indicted Friday, March 29, 2013, in one of the nation's largest cheating scandals. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUTJuwanna Guffie was sitting in her fifth-grade classroom taking a standardized test when, authorities say, the teacher came around offering information and asking the students to rewrite their answers ...
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Oklahoma to allow horses to be slaughtered for meat 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 07:22 PM PDT
National Governors Association Executive Committee Vice Chair and Oklahoma Governor Fallin speaks to the media after meeting with U.S. President Obama in WashingtonThe governor signed a bill that permits the practice, but processing plants must first be authorized by the federal government.
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Kansas couple: Indoor gardening prompted pot raid 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 06:32 PM PDT
Bob Harte stands next to his now shut down indoor garden in the basement of his home in Leawood, Kan., Friday, March 29, 2013. Harte and his wife Adlynn, who are former CIA employees, sued this week to get more information about why sheriff's deputies searched their home in the upscale Kansas City suburb last April 20 as part of Operation Constant Gardener — a sweep conducted by agencies in Kansas and Missouri that netted marijuana plants, processed marijuana, guns, growing paraphernalia and cash from several other locations. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana claim they were illegally targeted.
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Confederate flag comes down at old N.C. capitol 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 07:12 PM PDT
A Confederate flag is seen on display at the old Capitol, which houses the governor's office and still hosts numerous government events, Thursday, March 28, 2013, in Raleigh, N.C. State Historic Sites Director Keith Hardison says the flag raised last week inside the House chamber is part of a historical display replicating how the antebellum building appeared in 1863. (AP Photo/Michael Biesecker)The battle flag is being taken down after civil rights leaders raised concerns.
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Zumba teacher could get jail in prostitution case 
Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 12:12 AM PDT
Alexis Wright appears with her attorney, Sarah Churchill, Friday, March 29, 2013 in Cumberland County Court, in Portland, Maine. Wright, a dance instructor accused of using her Zumba fitness studio as a front for prostitution pleaded guilty Friday to 20 counts in a scandal that captivated a quiet seaside town. (AP Photo/Portland Press Herald, John Ewing, Pool)The dance instructor who used her Zumba fitness studio as a front for prostitution could face up to 10 months in prison after pleading guilty Friday ...
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Thousands in NYC living in hotels after Sandy 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 08:50 PM PDT
More than 2,000 people displaced by Superstorm Sandy are still living in New York City hotels five months after the storm.
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Two fifth-graders face trial in alleged Washington murder plot 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 07:46 PM PDT
Two Washington state fifth-grade boys, accused in a foiled plot to rape and kill a girl and kill or harm six other classmates, will stand trial as juveniles, a prosecutor said on Friday. Stevens County Prosecutor Tim Rasmussen said the boys, 11 and 10, pleaded not guilty during an arraignment on Friday over the alleged murder-rape plot that also targeted other children in Colville, Washington, about 215 miles east of Seattle. One of the boys wanted the girl dead because "she's rude and always made fun of me and my friends," according to court documents. ...
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N.C. police: 3 dead after shooting, police standoff 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 08:44 PM PDT
Authorities in a Charlotte suburb say a man suspected of shooting two neighbors has committed suicide after a six-hour police standoff.
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Homes evacuated after Ark. oil pipeline ruptures 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 08:06 PM PDT
Authorities are working to clean up an oil spill in central Arkansas after a pipeline ruptured.
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Death toll in Tanzania building collapse rises to 17 
Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 12:17 AM PDT
An aerial view shows bystanders watching rescuers search for survivors amongst the rubble of a collapsed building in the Kariakoo district of central Dar es SalaamThe death toll from the collapse of a building in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam has climbed to 17, a senior government official said on Saturday. ...
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Pope's foot-wash a final straw for traditionalists 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 07:35 PM PDT
Pope Francis celebrates the Passion of Christ Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Friday, March 29, 2013. Pope Francis began the Good Friday service at the Vatican with the Passion of Christ Mass and hours later will go to the ancient Colosseum in Rome for the traditional Way of the Cross procession. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)Pope Francis has won over many hearts and minds with his simple style and focus on serving the world's poorest, but he has devastated traditionalist Catholics who adored his predecessor, Benedict XVI, for restoring much of the traditional pomp to the papacy.
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NYC to resume search for remains from September 11 attacks 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 03:48 PM PDT
People walk by the World Trade Center site before ceremonies marking the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center at Ground Zero in New YorkThe medical examiner's office tells families of the dead about a new operation.
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State asks Sandy Hook charities how money is spent 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 02:55 PM PDT
Connecticut's top law enforcement official is asking charitable groups raising money around the Newtown school shooting to disclose more information, an unprecedented step suggesting the state has questions about how contributors' money is being spent. At least 69 groups are raising money around the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year, where 20 small [...]
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Navy SEAL killed in parachute accident 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 06:04 PM PDT
A member of the elite U.S. Navy SEALs died and another was injured in a parachute training accident in Arizona, military officials said on Friday.
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Fire destroys Newtown home of shooting survivors 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 08:40 AM PDT
This Thursday, March 28, 2013 photo shows a house belonging to the Barth family on Berkshire Road in Newtown, Conn., the day after it was destroyed by fire. The fire left Hans and Audra Barth and their three children homeless. Two of the children attended Sandy Hook Elementary School, including a first-grader in teacher Kaitlin Roig's classroom. Roig barricaded her students in a bathroom as Adam Lanza shot 26 people dead in the school in December. (AP Photo/The News-Times, Tyler Sizemore) MANDATORY CREDIT: THE NEWS-TIMES, TYLER SIZEMORENEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A Newtown home destroyed by a fire this week was owned by a couple whose children survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December.
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Argentina offers to pay debts with cash, bonds 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 10:17 PM PDT
FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2012 file photo, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez speaks at an event marking the 158 anniversary of the stock exchange in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The South American country has until midnight Friday, March 29, 2013 to propose how it would satisfy a $1.4 billion judgment won by plaintiffs in U.S. courts who have insisted for a decade on getting full payment in cash, plus interest and penalties, on sovereign debt that the country hasn't paid since its world-record default in 2002. Fernandez's government is reportedly preparing a response that analysts say could lead the country into another catastrophic default. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia, File)Argentina is offering a creative way out of its debt showdown in a U.S. appellate court.
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