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Nation, world go green for St. Patrick's Day
NEW YORK (AP) -- All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish, or at least Irish for the day, as revelers marked St. Patrick's Day with bagpipes, dancing, emerald lights and green body paint in a flurry of celebration....
First lady: Diet is key to children's productivity
WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama says her fight against childhood obesity isn't about appearance but about whether kids have enough energy to be productive at school....
Kids, teens key to flood fighting effort in Fargo
FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- Some children lugged sandbags that weighed more than they did. Determined teens showed up just after dawn with groups of friends, ready and willing to shovel. New groups of kids arrived by the busloads, all ready to join the race to protect their city from the rising Red River....
Beach jogger killed by plane likely never heard it
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) -- The kit-built single-engine plane was gliding quietly as it came down for an emergency landing on a beach. Pharmaceutical salesman Robert Gary Jones, listening to his iPod while jogging, likely never saw or heard it before the aircraft hit him from behind Monday evening and killed him....
Judge rejects request to delay Blagojevich trial
CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal judge refused Wednesday to postpone the June start of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial, brushing aside defense attorneys' claims that they won't have enough time to prepare....
Montana man spends 4 days stuck in car in snowbank
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A 67-year-old country musician from Montana who spent four days in his car stuck on a remote mountain road was weak and losing hope when an Idaho couple out for a drive in their four-wheel-drive vehicle came upon his car....
Broken drive shaft likely caused Texas bus crash
CAMPBELLTON, Texas (AP) -- A broken drive shaft likely caused a Mexico-bound bus to veer wildly on a Texas highway before flipping over, killing two passengers and injuring 40 others on board, investigators said Wednesday....
Paterson breaks silence on top aide's accuser
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Gov. David Paterson broke his silence Wednesday, saying that he didn't try to persuade a woman to drop a domestic violence complaint against a top aide and that his appointee to the U.S. Senate threw him "under the bus."...
Group decries textbooks on Islam as inflammatory
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A series of children's textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as inherently violent and deserving of suspicion, according to a Muslim civil liberties group....
Cornell, campus of gorges, fights suicide stigma
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) -- Cornell University, an Ivy League school known for its spectacular gorges and haunted by a reputation for suicides, took the extraordinary step of posting lookouts on bridges and going door-to-door to check on students after three undergrads plunged to their deaths in the past month....
