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1. A tornado as wide as two football fields carved a devastating path through eastern Colorado. Initial report said five homes were destroyed and dozens were severely damaged. 2. Senate Democrats ignored a veto threat and pushed through a bill requi

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1. In Alabama, residents are taking stock of what's left their homes and their high school. Many of them lost their homes and livelihoods. Eight students died when a killer tornado razed through the school. 2. President Bush toured the damage in Ala

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1. After getting a firsthand look at the devastation, Alabama's governor defended administrators at Enterprise High School. Questions have been raised about why school officials didn't evacuate the school before a tornado ripped through the building

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1. Iraq's Shiite vice president escaped an apparent assassination attempt after a bomb exploded in a building where he was making a speech. The force of the blast knocked him to the ground and left at least 10 people dead. 2. A Florida appeals court

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1. Officials in Manatee County, Florida have issued an arrest warrant for a suspect wanted in the kidnapping of a teenager. Deputies say Vicente Ignacio Beltran Moreno abducted the teen at gunpoint and tied him to a tree. The teen used a safety pin

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1. The 18-year-old who went on a shooting spree in a Utah mall had several rounds of ammunition and 2 guns. He killed 5 and wounded 4 others before police shot and killed him. Authorities are trying to figure out what sparked the rampage. 2. A power

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1. President Bush says the federal government will offer all possible assistance it can to states affected by the latest round of severe weather. Tornadoes and storms are being blamed for at least 23 deaths in three states including at least 14 in Mi

AP 2011-04-20

1. The confirmed death toll from wild storms in North Carolina has risen to more than 20. In Bladen County alone, 82 homes were damaged and 25 destroyed. At least 43 people died in three days of tornadoes from Oklahoma to Virginia. 2. New work rules

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1.In New Hampshire turnout appears brisk for the nation's first primary. All the presidential candidates are vying for the independent vote, making up almost half of voters in the state. Polls give the lead to John McCain on the Republican side and

AP 2011-03-03

1. High winds and heavy rains pounded sections of the Midwest. Several tornadoes touched down in Indiana. Flooding threatened residence across Ohio. And storms in Tennessee brought down power lines and trees. 2. Protesters continuing today in Yemen.

AP 2012-06-13

1. Spectators and hundreds of graduates made a dash for cover after a severe thunderstorm swept through a high school graduation in New Jersey Thursday evening. Amateur video shows what witnesses feared was a tornado, but the National Weather Service

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1. Residents are left taking up pieces of former homes after a string of tornadoes battered several small communities in rural Texas. At least five people are now dead, and scores of others were from the storm. 2. The mother of a man accused of fatal

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