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U.S. Top News: Three die in shooting, fiery crash on Las Vegas Strip

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02/22/2013
Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between
Three die in shooting, fiery crash on Las Vegas Strip
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Three people died in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip early on Thursday when one or more gunmen in a Range Rover sport utility vehicle opened fire on a Maserati, killing the driver and touching off a fiery multi-car crash.
Major snowstorm blankets Midwest, heads toward New England
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A major winter storm headed northeast into the U.S. Great Lakes on Friday and threatened New England after blanketing states from Minnesota to Ohio with blinding snow, sleet and freezing rain.
Georgia, Texas execute inmates for 1990s' murders
AUSTIN, Texas/ATLANTA (Reuters) - A man convicted of killing his former girlfriend by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire was put to death by lethal injection in Texas on Thursday, the state's first execution of the year.
Arkansas House approves bill banning abortions at 20 weeks
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled Arkansas House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday to ban abortions at 20 weeks into a pregnancy and a separate measure that, if it becomes law, would be the stiffest abortion restriction in the country.
Prosecution depicts woman accused of Arizona murder as jealous liar
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Thursday portrayed an Arizona woman on trial on capital murder charges as a jealous liar who gave conflicting evidence about her lover's allegedly abusive behavior before his violent death.
N.Y. man who died on way to late wife's memorial buried beside her
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An upstate New York man who died on the way to his late wife's wake was buried in a plot beside her on Wednesday, after a dual funeral service that capped a 66-year marriage, their daughter said on Thursday.
Goldfish influx threatens to cloud pristine Lake Tahoe waters
VALLEJO, California (Reuters) - Giant goldfish have mysteriously found their way into the famously crystalline waters of Lake Tahoe, the nation's second-deepest lake, alarming researchers and raising questions about the invasive species' long-term effects.
Trial in Ireland delays U.S. plans to pursue "Jihad Jane" case
DETROIT (Reuters) - The phone call from Ireland to Michigan lasted only five minutes. But what was said - and the criminal charge that followed - continue to complicate U.S. plans to prosecute an Algerian man at the vortex of the so-called Jihad Jane terrorism conspiracy.
California parents sue over grade school yoga
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The parents of two California grade school students have sued to block the teaching of yoga classes they complain promote eastern religions, saying children who exercise their choice to opt out of the popular program face bullying and teasing.
Ending long break, White House and Republicans renew budget talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After weeks without talks on the U.S. budget crisis, President Barack Obama called Republican leaders on Thursday to discuss the harsh "sequestration" cuts to government spending due to begin in just over a week.
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