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Teen dies after being pushed into traffic
12:20 PM on 03/18/2010
VIDEO - Family and friends are remembering the St. Paul teen killed Tuesday after being struck by a city truck it St. Paul, Minnesota...
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Obama signs jobs bill: 'By no means enough'
12:15 PM on 03/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama has signed into law a package of tax breaks and spending designed to give the U.S. a jobs boost...
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Children help mother deliver fourth child
11:55 AM on 03/18/2010
VIDEO - Because she realized at the very last second she was about to give birth to her fourth child, new mom Alana Sanders said she didn't have time to panic...
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'South Park' season premiere: Tiger Woods got golf-clubbed
11:15 AM on 03/18/2010
The South Park boys enjoyed a new video game last night, a new Tiger Woods game in which players can make Woods' wife beat him with a golf club...
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Sainthood sought for African-American priest
10:34 AM on 03/18/2010
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Cardinal Francis George says the nation's first known black Roman Catholic priest should become a saint...
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House Dems on track for vote on $940 billion health bill
10:20 AM on 03/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The bill delivers on President Obama's top domestic priority by providing coverage to more than 30 million people now uninsured...
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Ed Secretary: Ban NCAA teams with low grad rates
9:15 AM on 03/18/2010
Arne Duncan pushed a proposal Wednesday to bar men's college basketball teams from postseason play if they fail to graduate 40 percent of their players...
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Missing woman's body found stuffed into bedframe
9:11 AM on 03/18/2010
VIDEO - Family members said the way 28-year-old Sony Millbrook died feels like a blow to the stomach that will not go away...
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Senate votes to change cocaine sentencing rules
9:10 AM on 03/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation approved by the Senate would significantly reduce the disparity in sentences handed out to those convicted of crack and powder cocaine charges...
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A symbol of the slave trade joins US and Cuba
8:50 AM on 03/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Amistad, a U.S.-flagged vessel headed for largely forbidden Cuban waters is a symbol of both a dark 19th-century past and modern public diplomacy...
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Lawmakers fight to finish health reform
8:36 AM on 03/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pushing toward a history-making vote, Democrats struggled to eliminate lingering complications standing in the way of House action this weekend...
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'All black people' asked to leave Wal-Mart
5:34 PM on 03/17/2010
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (AP) - On Sunday evening at the store, a male voice calmly announced: "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now."...
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Coach on coke: Rangers' Ron Washington tests positive for drugs
5:26 PM on 03/17/2010
SURPRISE, Arizona (AP) - Washington apologized for his mistake and told team management it was a one-time transgression...
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First collection of mixed race Barbie dolls hits the UK
5:08 PM on 03/17/2010
It seems Barbie has some new friends to add to her circle and they come in the shape of four mixed race girls named Jayla, Kara, Trichelle and Chandra...
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Tiger's return may be most watched golf event ever
4:52 PM on 03/17/2010
VIDEO - Four months after his pristine image was shattered in a late night car crash and ensuing sex scandal, Woods' much anticipated comeback is being carefully crafted...
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DMX sentenced to six months in Phoenix jail
2:26 PM on 03/17/2010
PHOENIX (AP) - A judge has ordered rapper DMX to spend six months in a Phoenix jail for violating probation and to undergo a mental health evaluation...
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Paterson's press secretary resigns amid scandal
1:05 PM on 03/17/2010
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gov. David Paterson's press secretary is resigning, making her the fourth top staffer to resign amid scandals that threaten the administration...
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How do you disenfranchise one of every eight black men?
12:18 PM on 03/17/2010
State laws that ban convicted felons from voting are having the unintentional (or is it intentional?) effect of disenfranchising one in eight African-American men...
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Is FEMA forcing people to buy flood insurance?
11:57 AM on 03/17/2010
VIDEO - Is the agency trying to balance the books by soaking the public?...
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Between 'smart' and 'ghetto' can we all be black?
11:36 AM on 03/17/2010
From Clutch Magazine - When it comes to the African-American community, the divisions between the "noble" and "commoners" are well-documented...
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