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US soldier charged in Afghan shooting rampage
By News on Mar 23, 2012
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was charged on Friday with 17 counts of premeditated murder, a capital offense that could lead to the death penalty in the massacre of Afghan civilians, the U.S. military said....Santorum calls Florida teenager's death 'horrible'
By News on Mar 23, 2012
WEST MONROE, La. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says the shooting of an unarmed teenager in an Orlando, Fla., suburb was "horrible" and that the case is, in his words, a "chilling example of the horrible decisions made by people in this process."...
In Fla., Biden claims GOP jeopardizes Medicare
By News on Mar 23, 2012
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COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says the changes to Medicare Republicans are proposing would jeopardize guaranteed health care for millions of older Americans....Arrest demands grow in Fla. teen's shooting death
By News on Mar 23, 2012
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The investigation into last month's shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in an Orlando suburb is out of the hands of the beleaguered police chief and the county prosecutor with the Justice Department looking at possible civil rights violations and a grand jury perhaps considering charges....
Obama says shooting death of Fla. teen a 'tragedy'
By News on Mar 23, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama spoke in unusually personal terms Friday about the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, a case that has roiled civil rights activists and a suburban Orlando community. "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," Obama said, vowing to "get to the bottom of what happened."...
