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• Rangers dismiss staffer for tweeting 'Fire Charlie'

  03-10-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Rangers have dismissed a social media staffer who accidentally tweeted on the team's official account that Texas football coach Charlie Strong should be fired.
  
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• Two Dozen Hurt After Truck Slams Into High School

  03-10-2015 23:47 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Students were at North Iredell High School in Olin for a band competition and for SAT testing at the time of the crash Saturday.
  
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• Angels score 5 in 9th, beat Rangers 11-10

  03-10-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels rallied for five runs in the ninth inning, taking their playoff hopes into the final day of the regular season with an 11-10 win over Texas on Saturday that again kept the Rangers from clinching the AL West title.
  
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• Cameron says could re-examine diesel subsidies

  03-10-2015 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said Volkswagen was wrong for cheating diesel emissions tests and that he did not rule out re-examining subsidies for diesel cars, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported. In his strongest comment to date on the crisis at the German car maker, Cameron was quoted as saying in an interview that Volkswagen "was wrong to break the rules" over emissions. ...
  
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• Survivor: Gunman spared 'lucky one' to give police message

  03-10-2015 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — The 26-year-old killer who gunned down classmates inside an Oregon college spared a student and gave the "lucky one" something to deliver to authorities, according to the mother of a student who witnessed the rampage.
  
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• At least 12 students hurt when truck causes awning to fall

  03-10-2015 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OLIN, N.C. (AP) — At least a dozen students were hurt when a box truck struck a concrete support for an awning at a North Carolina high school and part of the overhang collapsed Saturday, authorities said.
  
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• Authorities investigate freeway shooting in Phoenix suburb

  03-10-2015 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the possible shooting of a vehicle on a metro Phoenix freeway.
  
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• Pirates to start ace Gerrit Cole in wild-card game vs Cubs

  03-10-2015 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Gerrit Cole isn't going to miss the NL wild-card game this time around.
  
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• Mormons select 3 new leaders; all from Utah

  03-10-2015 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church has chosen three new members for a top governing body that sets policy and runs the faith's business operations — all are from Utah.
  
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• Two Harbaughs on sideline for Michigan vs Maryland

  03-10-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh was joined on the Michigan sideline Saturday by his brother John, who offered advice and cheered for the Wolverines in a 28-0 win over Maryland.
  
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• Hope fading, rescuers dig for survivors in Guatemala landslide

  03-10-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sofia Menchu SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala (Reuters) - Rescue workers scrabbled through earth and rubble on Saturday in search of survivors of a massive landslide in Guatemala that killed at least 59 people, even as hopes began to fade for hundreds of others still missing. Diggers plowed into the mounds of earth that destroyed homes in Santa Catarina Pinula on the southeastern flank of Guatemala City looking for about 350 people who authorities said were still unaccounted for after Thursda
  
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• Search covers broad area for ship lost in Hurricane Joaquin

  03-10-2015 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — An intensive search was under way Saturday in the waters of the southeastern Bahamas for a cargo ship with 33 people on board that lost power and began taking on water during Hurricane Joaquin and has not been heard from since.
  
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• Guatemalan mudslide death toll reaches 56, hundreds missing

  03-10-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala (AP) — Rescue workers using shovels and pickaxes recovered more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed hillside on the outskirts of Guatemala City Saturday as officials said the death toll had risen to 56 with another 350 people believed missing.
  
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• Father of Oregon campus shooter asks how he got so many guns

  03-10-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The father of the Oregon college gunman said on Saturday he "has to have some kind of issue" with his mental health to have killed nine people execution-style and wondered how he amassed such a large cache of weapons. "How on earth could he compile 13 guns?", Ian Mercer told CNN during a televised interview two days after his son Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, killed himself after opening fire in a classroom at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.
  
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• The Latest: UN chief condemns deadly Kunduz hospital bombing

  03-10-2015 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The latest developments from Afghanistan, where the international charity Doctors Without Borders says that at least 19 people were killed when its clinic came under "sustained bombing" as government and international forces continue to battle Taliban fighters in the northern city of Kunduz (all times local):
  
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• MSF survivor recounts suspected US air strike on Afghan hospital – latest

  03-10-2015 22:50 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  At least 19 killed by strike, including three childrenMSF: bombing continued for 30 minutes after warning
  US forces ‘should have known’ location of hospitalUS military: strike on Taliban may have caused ‘collateral’9.50pm BSTThe air strike was likely not pre-planned, write fellow Micah Zenko and Amelia Wolf of the Council of Foreign Relations in a post about the details of the incident. According to an anonymous U.S. official, the attack was by an AC-130 gunship at the re
  
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• Gunman in Oregon massacre committed suicide: authorities

  03-10-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Courtney Sherwood and Emily Flitter ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - The gunman who killed his English professor and eight others at an Oregon community college committed suicide after a shootout with police who were on the scene within five minutes and exchanged fire with him almost immediately, authorities said. Investigators had previously said the 26-year-old shooter was killed by the officers who raced to the rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, which ranks as the deadliest among d
  
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• 19 Dead After Charity Hospital Hit by Apparent U.S. Airstrike

  03-10-2015 22:48 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Twelve Doctors Without Borders staff were killed and 37 other people were seriously wounded after an apparent U.S. airstrike hit a hospital in Afghanistan.
  
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• Bus crash in Coventry leaves at least three seriously injured

  03-10-2015 22:39 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  At least three people seriously injured after double-decker bus collides with Sainsbury’s supermarketAt least eight people have been injured, three seriously, after a double-decker bus ploughed into a Sainsbury’s supermarket. Several people were trapped on the top deck while others were rushed to hospital after the crash in a busy high street in Coventry.Continue reading...
  
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• Families Hold Out Hope For 28 Americans Missing at Sea

  03-10-2015 22:36 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A cargo ship with 28 Americans on board that vanished during Hurricane Joaquin remained missing early Saturday.
  
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• Oregon community college gunman killed himself, says sheriff

  03-10-2015 22:35 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Chris Harper-Mercer shot dead nine at Umpqua Community CollegeGrandmother of student wounded: gunman gave package for authoritiesThe gunman responsible for Oregon’s worst mass shooting killed himself as police closed in, it has emerged.Related: Roseburg prepares to bury dead as chilling accounts of shooting emergeContinue reading...
  
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• The Latest: Family of Oregon gunman 'deeply saddened'

  03-10-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — The latest on the deadly shooting at a community college in Oregon (all times local):
  
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• Oregon gunman's family 'shocked and deeply saddened': statement

  03-10-2015 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The family of the Oregon college massacre suspect said they shocked and deeply saddened by the slaughter that left 10 dead including the gunman, according to a brief statement released on their behalf on Saturday by Oregon state police. It did not name the gunman, nor the family members who issued the statement.
  
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• Bombed Afghan hospital staff helpless as patients burned in wards

  03-10-2015 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Krista Mahr KABUL (Reuters) - When the bombing started at 2:08 a.m. on Saturday morning at the Medecins Sans Frontieres compound in the Afghan city of Kunduz, the hospital staff was doing what they have been doing there for years: saving lives. Earlier, a large group of passengers injured in a road accident had arrived at the compound's wide gates, according to Abdul Rauf, a logistics specialist who was on duty at the hospital. "The bombs hit and then we heard the plane circle round," said He
  
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• Chinese gene-modified micropig pets with £1,000 price spark animal rights outrage

  03-10-2015 22:17 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Animals may suffer ‘horrific impairments’ as a result of genetic editing techniques developed at Beijing genomics insititute, claims RSPCATiny pigs, created by genetic editing techniques pioneered at a Chinese science centre, are to be sold as pets in the near future. The prospect has triggered a furious row between animal rights groups and scientists.Some say the creation of pet micro-pigs could cause considerable pain to the animals. Others say the use of gene editing techniques wo
  
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• Stop being so anti-EU, transport secretary tells fellow ministers

  03-10-2015 22:13 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Patrick McLoughlin claims government needs to make a positive case for EU membership, rather than ‘always looking on the negative side’Tory divisions over Europe will explode into the open as a senior cabinet minister demands that the government and media do more to make the positive case for EU membership rather than “always looking on the negative side”.In an interview with the Observer on the eve of the Conservative conference, which opens in Manchester on Sunday, the
  
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• No. 15 Oklahoma beats No. 23 West Virginia 44-24

  03-10-2015 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Baker Mayfield passed for 320 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 15 Oklahoma defeated No. 23 West Virginia 44-24 Saturday in the Big 12 opener for both teams.
  
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• Hospital bombing follows pattern of deadly foreign errors in Afghanistan

  03-10-2015 22:08 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  As anger grows toward US and Afghan forces, airstrike deaths have long been a factor in turning Afghan sentiment against foreign troops The attack that killed at least 19 people at an Afghan hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is the latest in a long line of bloody misjudgments by foreign forces in Afghanistan. Related: Kunduz charity hospital bombing 'violates international law'Continue reading...
  
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• Oregon College Shooter Died of Suicide: Police

  03-10-2015 22:05 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Mercer was a student at Umpqua and was enrolled in the class where he opened fire, according to authorities.
  
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• Polish priest with Vatican ties sacked after revealing he is gay

  03-10-2015 22:03 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Father Krzystof Charamsa has urged the Catholic church to change its “backwards” attitude to homosexualityA Polish priest who has worked for the Vatican for more than a decade has been sacked after he revealed he was gay and had a partner.Father Krzystof Charamsa, 43, who held a post in the Vatican’s branch for protecting Catholic dogma, urged the Catholic church to change its “backwards” attitude to homosexuality. Continue reading...
  
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• Vatican fury as top priest comes out on eve of bishops meet

  03-10-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Vatican reacted furiously on Saturday after a Polish priest employed as a senior official publicly declared his homosexuality on the eve of a bishops' synod set to touch on the divisive issue of the Catholic Church's relationship to gay believers. In a statement, a Vatican spokesman said Krzystof Charamsa's action had been "very serious and irresponsible", and that the priest would be automatically kicked out of his post as a theologian in the Vatican. Charamsa, flanked by his Catalan boyfri
  
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• No. 22 Michigan smothers Maryland 28-0 in Big Ten opener

  03-10-2015 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Desmond Morgan had nine tackles and an interception, part of a dominating defensive performance by No. 22 Michigan in a 28-0 rout of Maryland on Saturday.
  
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• Boykin throws 5 TDs, No. 4 TCU blows out Texas 50-7

  03-10-2015 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Trevone Boykin threw five touchdown passes, including four to freshman KaVontae Turpin, and No. 4 TCU rode a 30-point first quarter to a 50-7 rout of Texas on Saturday.
  
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• River ran through life of Oregon professor slain by student

  03-10-2015 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Flitter GLIDE, Ore. (Reuters) - Lawrence Levine, the Oregon college professor slain by one of his students in a mass shooting, would often sit on the steep bank of the river below his house, contemplating the paradise he had found. Levine was one of nine people shot to death on Thursday on the campus of Umpqua Community College in the former timber town of Roseburg, in the bloodiest U.S. mass shooting in the past two years. Longtime friend and former English instructor, Cheryl Allen, de
  
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• Oregon school shooter committed suicide: police

  03-10-2015 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Roseburg (United States) (AFP) - The 26-year-old gunman behind a mass shooting at a college in Oregon that left nine people dead committed suicide after a shootout with police, authorities said Saturday.
  
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• The Latest: Sheriff says gunman committed suicide

  03-10-2015 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — The latest on the deadly shooting at a community college in Oregon (all times local):
  
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• Steelers punt kicker Scobee over Ravens loss

  03-10-2015 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Josh Scobee has paid the price for missing two fourth quarter field goals in last Thursday's overtime defeat to the Baltimore Ravens, released by the club on Saturday in favour of free agent Chris Boswell. Boswell tried out for the Steelers on Friday after Scobee's nightmare display against the Ravens, who scraped home with a 23-20 victory in overtime.
  
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• Obama declares state of emergency in South Carolina over floods

  03-10-2015 21:39 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Hurricane Joaquin may be less of a threat than was feared, but South Carolina could see an entire autumn’s worth of rainfall in a ‘slow-motion disaster’President Barack Obama on Saturday declared a state of emergency in South Carolina after severe storms caused widespread flooding, the White House said in a statement. Obama ordered federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts and authorized federal agencies to coordinate disaster relief efforts, the statement said
  
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• Medical examiner finds Oregon campus shooter died by suicide

  03-10-2015 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The cause of death of the gunman who killed nine people in the Oregon college massacre was suicide, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said on Saturday. Two days after the rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said at a press conference that the Oregon medical examiner determined the gunman had killed himself.
  
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• After VW, Germany needs EU friends to join its party

  03-10-2015 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alastair Macdonald, Barbara Lewis and Tom Körkemeier BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nazi swastikas billowing under the triumphal arch that overlooks Brussels' European Union district drew the odd gasp from guests of Berlin's EU mission at an evening to celebrate 25 years since German reunification. Today's rows, over refugees, austerity or Volkswagen cars, are a world away from Europe's bloody 20th century.
  
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• IS group claims pair of deadly Baghdad suicide bombings

  03-10-2015 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a pair of suicide bombings Saturday in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, which killed at least 18 people, according to a monitoring group that tracks Islamic militants.
  
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• No. 2 Michigan State holds off Purdue 24-21

  03-10-2015 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — LJ Scott ran for 146 yards and two touchdowns, and No. 2 Michigan State held on through a lackluster second half to beat Purdue 24-21 on Saturday.
  
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• Iowa forces 4 turnovers, tops No. 19 Wisconsin 10-6

  03-10-2015 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jordan Canzeri ran for 125 yards and Iowa took advantage of four turnovers by Wisconsin quarterback Joel Stave to upset the 19th-ranked Badgers 10-6 on Saturday.
  
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• Death toll climbs to 32 in Guatemala landslide

  03-10-2015 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 32 people are dead as rescuers resumed a desperate search Saturday for several hundred people believed missing after a landslide buried a village on the outskirts of Guatemala's capital. Thursday night, waterlogged earth and debris tore through the village of El Cambray II, in the municipality of Santa Catarina Pinula, destroying or damaging 125 homes. "We can't live here anymore," Carlos Hernandez, an electrician who survived the landslide lamented as he stepped between rescuers with h
  
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• Largest labor union in US endorses Hillary Clinton in nod to 'strong leader'

  03-10-2015 21:25 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The union has 3 million members and announcement caps a week in which Bernie Sanders gained in the Democratic primary money raceHillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Saturday picked up the endorsement of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the US. Related: Hillary Clinton praises LGBT activists for changing minds – 'including mine'Continue reading...
  
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• Jimmie Johnson hopes for Dover dominance in 500th start

  03-10-2015 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson was still only a prospect in NASCAR's developmental series when he tried to work up the nerve to talk to Jeff Gordon.
  
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• U.S. says conducted air strike near Afghan hospital, MSF says 19 killed

  03-10-2015 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Hamid Shalizi and Andrew MacAskill KABUL (Reuters) - An air strike, probably carried out by U.S.-led coalition forces, killed 19 staff and patients, including three children on Saturday, in a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the northern city of Kunduz, the aid group said. The U.S. military said it may have hit the hospital as it targeted Taliban insurgents who were directly firing on U.S. military personnel and an investigation into the incident had begun. U.N. Human Rights
  
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• Clinton wins endorsement of National Education Association

  03-10-2015 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed Saturday by the National Education Association, the nation's largest labor union, giving her campaign a boost in an increasingly competitive Democratic primary race.
  
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• Clinton gets endorsement of largest U.S. labor union

  03-10-2015 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, who has been vying with challenger Bernie Sanders for the support of organized labor, scored a win on Saturday with an endorsement from the National Education Association, a huge teachers union. The move makes the NEA, the largest U.S. labor union with 3 million members, the latest in a string of unions to support Clinton, including the American Federation of Teachers and the machinists' union. Clinton's lead in opinion polls has been na
  
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• Paris’s first attempt at car-free day brings big drop in air and noise pollution

  03-10-2015 21:16 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Vehicle ban, applied to just 30% of French capital, showed encouraging results – but new report says nation has far to go Paris’s “day without cars” last week led to such a dramatic drop in both air and noise pollution that the mayor’s office is now planning more vehicle-free days in the French capital.Airparif, which measures city pollution levels, said levels of nitrogen dioxide dropped by up to 40% in parts of the city on Sunday 27 September.Continue reading...
  
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