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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

U.S. Top News: Romney survives in Michigan, eyes on Super Tuesday

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02/29/2012
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Romney survives in Michigan, eyes on Super Tuesday
NOVI, Michigan (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney headed back onto the campaign trail on Wednesday hoping to re-energize his campaign after narrowly avoiding a humiliating defeat by rival Rick Santorum in his home state.
One dead, 3 missing in Coast Guard helicopter crash
MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - One U.S. Coast Guard crewmember is dead and three remain missing following a helicopter crash off Alabama's coast on Tuesday night, officials said.
Suspect told police he killed randomly in Ohio school
CHARDON, Ohio (Reuters) - A 17-year-old student suspected of a shooting rampage at an Ohio high school that killed three teenagers and wounded two others has confessed to opening fire on students he chose at random, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Coach who yelled "hey" at school shooter does not feel like hero
CHARDON, Ohio (Reuters) - "Hey!" yelled Coach Frank Hall when a student gunman opened fire on classmates in the Chardon, Ohio high school cafeteria on Monday. The startled shooter retreated, with the hulking football coach giving chase, in an act of bravery that may have saved lives.
At least one killed as tornadoes strike Missouri, Kansas
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and more than a dozen injured when powerful tornadoes ripped through Missouri and Kansas late Tuesday, damaging homes, churches and buildings across the area, authorities said.
Virginia Senate passes ultrasound law minus vaginal probe
PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (Reuters) - The Virginia state Senate on Tuesday approved a law forcing a woman to have an ultrasound before an abortion but left out a provision harshly criticized by women's rights groups that might have required a more intrusive vaginal probe.
Some September 11 dead's remains ended in landfill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Partial remains from some people killed in the September 11 attacks in 2001 ended up in a landfill, according to a Pentagon-commissioned report released on Tuesday that revealed previously undisclosed blunders at the U.S. military's main mortuary.
Students in Washington state town evacuated over threat
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Authorities evacuated some 900 students from a three-school compound in a small town in central Washington state and shut down a highway on Tuesday after a bomb threat was found on a computer at the high school.
Alabama legislators cool to bankrupt county's woes
(Reuters) - On a recent unseasonably warm workday in Birmingham, Alabama, the line to get car-license plates filled two long marbled halls in Jefferson County's downtown courthouse and wound 150 feet into a park.
Virginia repeals one-a-month limit on handgun purchases
PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (Reuters) - Virginia repealed a one-per-month limit on handgun purchases on Tuesday, less than five years after a mentally-deranged student used handguns to massacre 32 people at Virginia Tech University in the worst single act of gun violence in U.S. history.
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