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Gay Air Force Sergeant Discharged After Police Out Her

43 minutes ago |AP

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(March 13) -- Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tel ...

Colorado Woman Held in Terror Probe, Parents Say

9 hours 13 minutes ago |AP

DENVER (March 13) -- Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was a ...

NYC Taxi Drivers Overcharged Passengers $8.3M

1 hour 54 minutes ago |AP

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NEW YORK (March 13) -- Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used ...

Miracle Baby Undergoes Hypothermia, Cheats Death

22 hours 10 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 12) -- Bronson Staker was only 17 months old when he was pronounced dead in a Utah hospital. But he's full of life today, thanks to an experimental procedure. Bronson's remarkable ordeal start ...

Mom Seeks Answers in Daughter's Disappearance

6 hours 35 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 13) -- Nearly a year and a half after Christine Lindsey Walters vanished, police have no idea what happened to her. But her mother is determined to find the truth and says she won't stop until ...

Why Health Care End Game Is Hijacking Washington

1 day 1 hour ago |AOL News

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(March 12) -- Health care reform or bust. After stalemate followed stalemate for roughly a year of lawmaking and politics, the fight to change national health care rules and insure millions more Ame ...

Texas Yanks Thomas Jefferson From Teaching Standard

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(March 12) -- Widely regarded as one of the most important of all the founding fathers of the United States, Thomas Jefferson received a demotion of sorts Friday thanks to the Texas Board of Educatio ...

Virginia Man Collects $200M Lottery Prize, Finally

1 day ago |AOL News / AP

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HARRISONBURG, Va. (March 12) -- For five months, Virginia carpenter Steve Williams lived with a secret worth millions. Williams, from Shenandoah in northern Virginia, won a $200 million Mega Millions ...

Man Charged in Brutal New York Bar Beating

8 hours 33 minutes ago |AP

NEW YORK (March 12) -- A construction worker from Pennsylvania was charged Friday with brutally beating and attempting to rape a woman in a restroom at a New York City bar after she rejected his adva ...

Court Rules Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism

23 hours 33 minutes ago |AP

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WASHINGTON (March 12) -- The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection. While ex ...

Alabama Shooting Suspect's Home Searched for Bombs

1 day ago |AOL News

(March 12) -- Police sent a remote-controlled bomb squad robot into the home of University of Alabama shooting suspect Amy Bishop this afternoon and detonated a suspicious but ultimately harmless pip ...

Police Reports Reveal New Details of Woods Crash

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(March 12) -- Florida Highway Patrol records released Friday reveal that Tiger Woods' wife, Elin, told paramedics that he had taken prescription painkillers the night of his car accident that led to ...