Police: Student shot, another in custody in Washington state
CNN
(CNN) -- One student was wounded and another was in custody Wednesday after a shooting at an elementary school in Bremerton, Washington, authorities said. An 8-year-old girl suffered a gunshot wound at Armin Jahr Elementary School, said Bremerton ...
Washington girl, 8, shot in stomach; 3rd-grade classmate detainedSan Jose Mercury News
Washington state third grader shoots classmateChicago Tribune
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Va. senator to kill amended bill on pre-abortion ultrasounds
USA TODAY
By Michael Winter, USA TODAY After Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said he opposed requiring women to undergo an invasive ultrasound before having an abortion, the state House today passed a revised measure that still mandates an ultrasound but makes the ...
Virginia governor backs off requiring ultrasound before abortionLos Angeles Times
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Lawmakers receive threatening letters -- officials
CBS News
A handful of lawmakers have received threatening letters in the last few days with an unidentified white powdery substance and more may be on the way, law enforcement officials told CBS News Wednesday. At least one lawmaker from Wisconsin and a senator ...
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Obama Unveils Proposal to Cut Corporate Tax Rate
New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama asked Congress on Wednesday to scrub the corporate tax code of dozens of loopholes and subsidies to reduce the top rate to 28 percent, from 35 percent, while giving preferences to manufacturers that would set their maximum ...
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Romney and Santorum seek edge in 20th debate
Boston.com
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum reacts while shaking hand during a campaign rally at the El-Zaribah Shrine Auditorium, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) By David Espo AP Special ...
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GOP's big investors: Who's really running for president?Christian Science Monitor
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Argentine commuter train crashes, killing 49 people
Reuters
By Hilary Burke and Magdalena Morales | BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A packed commuter train plowed into the buffers at a Buenos Aires station during Wednesday's morning rush hour, killing at least 49 people and injuring more than 600 in Argentina's worst ...
CCTV of Buenos Aires train crashTelegraph.co.uk
Crash at Buenos Aires rail terminus leaves 49 dead, 550 injuredThe Australian
Argentina train crash kills 49, injures 600Herald Sun
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Santorum, under fire for Satan comments, recalls Reagan's 'courage'
Los Angeles Times
By Mitchell Landsberg Nearly 30 years after President Reagan first spoke about the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," Rick Santorum brought it up Wednesday -- in apparent reference to a flurry of attention being given remarks he made four years ago ...
Dowd: Just how far back does Santorum want to drag the country?Anchorage Daily News
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Assad forces bomb Syria's Homs |
Reuters
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Angus MacSwan | AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more ...
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Supt. Deasy orders new look at LA's teacher misconduct reports
Los Angeles Times
LA schools Supt. John Deasy has ordered his staff to submit or re-submit reports to the state credentialing commission on hundreds of teachers accused of misconduct over the last four years. Deasy announced the step Wednesday after a Times story in ...
LA teacher accused of sex abuse believed to be at large in MexicoFox News
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Ash Wednesday services held in metro Detroit
Detroit Free Press
By Niraj Warikoo With his right thumb, the Rev. Steven Kelly smudged ashes in the shape of a cross on the foreheads of worshipers knelt before a wooden table in St. John's Episcopal Church in Detroit. As he performed the traditional Ash Wednesday ...
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